I am trying to receive an image from the Android Gallery via an ACTION_SEND intent. I have set the proper intent filters and the Gallery opens my app. Now I want to know how to get at the image data. I can't find any examples on the internet of how this is done. I figure the path is somewhere in intent.getData() but how exactly do I pull that image from the gallery?
Found this in the Picasa source. It gives the proper path of the image.
Intent intent = getIntent();
if (Intent.ACTION_SEND.equals(intent.getAction())) {
Bundle extras = intent.getExtras();
if (extras.containsKey(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM)) {
Uri uri = (Uri) extras.getParcelable(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM);
String scheme = uri.getScheme();
if (scheme.equals("content")) {
String mimeType = intent.getType();
ContentResolver contentResolver = getContentResolver();
Cursor cursor = contentResolver.query(uri, null, null, null, null);
cursor.moveToFirst();
String filePath = cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndexOrThrow(Images.Media.DATA));
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