Question

I’m currently doing a Widget in Android. It is on the market and it’s free.
I want to surprise the users by let them choose a picture they want to show in the widget.

Now…

If the widget is clicked, a PreferenceActivity appears. <– Works!

In this Activity the user should be able to choose a picture from the phone picture gallery. <– HOWTO?

After the User selected the prefered picture, the picture path or the drawable object should be stored in the SharedPreferences. <– Would be really nice!

Is there any solution?

Thx!

Answer 1

In order to get an image from the Gallery, you must send an intent to start up the Gallery for the user to choose an image as such

Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_GET_CONTENT);  
intent.setType("image/*");
startActivityForResult(intent, 10);

This will start the gallery and will call onActivityResult within your activity.