android- open gallery and choose image and video

Question

In my project I want to open a gallery on a button click and should be able to pick image or video to get path of them.

Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_PICK, android.provider.MediaStore.Images.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI);

startActivityForResult(i, RESULT_LOAD_IMAGE);

From above code i am able to open gallery but in this case i am only able to choose image. So, please help me in choosing video also. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You can use the next snippet:

Intent mediaChooser = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_GET_CONTENT);
//comma-separated MIME types
mediaChooser.setType("video/*, image/*");
startActivityForResult(mediaChooser, RESULT_LOAD_IMAGE);

But I think that it only work on ICS or bigger

Answer 2

You need use the following as picking Intent

Intent photoLibraryIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_PICK, android.provider.MediaStore.Images.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI);
photoLibraryIntent.setType("image/* video/*");

Answer 3

On Android 6.0 and above using "video/* image/" or "image/ video/*" type doesn't work, it only recognizes the first filter you specify. I solved the problem using this code:

Intent photoPickerIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_PICK);
photoPickerIntent.setType("*/*");
photoPickerIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_MIME_TYPES, new String[] {"image/*", "video/*"});
startActivityForResult(photoPickerIntent, Constants.SELECT_PHOTO);

Although this will ask the user which app they want to use to select the image/video.

Answer 4

Below code solved my problem

  final Intent galleryIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_GET_CONTENT);
                        galleryIntent.setType("*/*");
                        startActivityForResult(galleryIntent, RESULT_LOAD_IMAGE);

Answer 5

This is the best i known...... Try this for once....

 final CharSequence[] options = {"Images", "Videos", "Cancel"};
            AlertDialog.Builder builder = new AlertDialog.Builder(OpenGallery.this);
            builder.setTitle("Select From...");
            builder.setItems(options, new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
                @Override
                public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int item) {
                    if (options[item].equals("Images")) {
                        Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_PICK, android.provider.MediaStore.Images.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI);
                        intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_ALLOW_MULTIPLE, true);
                        startActivityForResult(intent, 1);
                    } else if (options[item].equals("Videos")) {
                        Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_PICK, android.provider.MediaStore.Video.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI);
                        intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_ALLOW_MULTIPLE, true);
                        startActivityForResult(intent, 1);
                    } else if (options[item].equals("Cancel")) {
                        dialog.dismiss();
                    }
                    dialog.dismiss();
                }
            });
            builder.show();

Answer 6

Change your Intent to this:

Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_PICK,
android.provider.MediaStore.Video.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI);

When trying to get videos you need to state to mediaStore that video is in order and not images as you wrote.