Question

I’m using andengine in my Android application and would like to display images from device’s gallery. How I can get images path?
Please note, I do not want to use something like this:

Intent intent = new Intent();
intent.setType("image/*");
intent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_GET_CONTENT);
startActivityForResult(Intent.createChooser(intent, "Select Picture"),1);

What I need, is just the path of images. Would you please help me?

Answer 1

Try this code without using intent,

private void FillPhotoList()
{
    // initialize the list!
    ArrayList<String> GalleryList = new ArrayList<String>();
    String[] projection = {MediaStore.Images.ImageColumns.DATA};
    // intialize the Uri and the Cursor, and the current expected size.
    Cursor c = null;
    Uri u = MediaStore.Images.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI;
    //
    // Query the Uri to get the data path.  Only if the Uri is valid.
    if (u != null)
    {
        c = managedQuery(u, projection, null, null, null);
    }
    // If we found the cursor and found a record in it (we also have the id).
    if ((c != null) && (c.moveToFirst()))
    {
        do
        {
            // Loop each and add to the list.
            GalleryList.add(c.getString(0));
        }
        while (c.moveToNext());
    }
}