Get/pick an image from Android's built-in Gallery app programmatically

Question

I am trying to open an image / picture in the Gallery built-in app from inside my application.

I have a URI of the picture (the picture is located on the SD card).

Answer 1

Above Answers are correct. I faced an different issue where in HTC M8 my application crashes when selecting an image from gallery. I'm getting null value for image path. I fixed and optimized with the following solution. in onActivityResult method

protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {
    super.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, data);
    if ((requestCode == RESULT_LOAD_IMAGE) && (resultCode == RESULT_OK)) {
     if (data != null) {

            Uri selectedImageUri = null;
            selectedImageUri = data.getData();
            String[] filePathColumn = { MediaStore.Images.Media.DATA };

            Cursor imageCursor = mainActivity.getContentResolver().query(
                    selectedImageUri, filePathColumn, null, null, null);

            if (imageCursor == null) {
                return;
            }

            imageCursor.moveToFirst();
            int columnIndex = imageCursor.getColumnIndex(filePathColumn[0]);
            picturePath = imageCursor.getString(columnIndex);
            if (picturePath == null) {
                picturePath = selectedImageUri.getPath();
                String wholeID = DocumentsContract
                        .getDocumentId(selectedImage);

                // Split at colon, use second item in the array
                String id = wholeID.split(":")[1];

                String[] column = { MediaStore.Images.Media.DATA };

                // where id is equal to
                String sel = MediaStore.Images.Media._ID + "=?";

                Cursor cursor = mainActivity.getContentResolver().query(
                        MediaStore.Images.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI,
                        column, sel, new String[] { id }, null);

                columnIndex = cursor.getColumnIndex(column[0]);

                if (cursor.moveToFirst()) {
                    picturePath = cursor.getString(columnIndex);
                }

                cursor.close();
            }
            picturePathAbs = new File(picturePath).getAbsolutePath();
            imageCursor.close();
        }

}