Getting an image from Gallery on from the Picasa//Google + synced folders doesn't work

Question

I am trying to get an image from the gallery app from one of the folders from the Google+ synced photos. After selecting the image, the Uri is being passed back correctly. B

Answer 1

I faced the same problem about year ago.. I show you my solution (code is quite messy, please refactor it). So, you have the image URI which was returned from gallery:

    ImageInfo getImage(URI imageUri) {

        ImageInfo result = null;

        final String[] cursorColumns = {MediaStore.Images.Media.DATA, MediaStore.Images.Media.ORIENTATION};

        // some devices (OS versions return an URI of com.android instead of com.google.android
        if (imageUri.toString().startsWith("content://com.android.gallery3d.provider"))  {
            // use the com.google provider, not the com.android provider.
            imageUri = Uri.parse(imageUri.toString().replace("com.android.gallery3d","com.google.android.gallery3d"));
        }

        Cursor cursor = App.getContext().getContentResolver().query(imageUri, cursorColumns, null, null, null);
        if (cursor != null) {

            int dataColumnIndex = cursor.getColumnIndex(MediaStore.Images.ImageColumns.DATA);
            int orientationColumnIndex = cursor.getColumnIndex(MediaStore.Images.ImageColumns.ORIENTATION);

            cursor.moveToFirst();

            // if it is a picasa image on newer devices with OS 3.0 and up
            if (imageUri.toString().startsWith("content://com.google.android.gallery3d")) {

                result = new ImageInfo(downloadImage(imageUri), "0");                       

            } else { // it is a regular local image file

                result = new ImageInfo(cursor.getString(dataColumnIndex), cursor.getString(orientationColumnIndex));

            }

            cursor.close();

        } else {
            result = new ImageInfo(downloadImage(imageUri), "0");
        }

        return result;                      
}

And now we need function to download image:

private String downloadImage(URI imageUri) {

    File cacheDir;
    // if the device has an SD card
    if (android.os.Environment.getExternalStorageState().equals(android.os.Environment.MEDIA_MOUNTED)) {
        cacheDir = new File(android.os.Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory(),".OCFL311");
    } else {
        // it does not have an SD card
        cacheDir = App.getContext().getCacheDir();
    }

    if(!cacheDir.exists()) cacheDir.mkdirs();
    File f = new File(cacheDir, PUT_HERE_FILE_NAME_TO_STORE_IMAGE);

    try {

        InputStream is = null;
        if (imageUri.toString().startsWith("content://com.google.android.gallery3d")) {
            is = App.getContext().getContentResolver().openInputStream(imageUri);
        } else {
            is = new URL(imageUri.toString()).openStream();
        }

        OutputStream os = new FileOutputStream(f);
        Utils.InputToOutputStream(is, os);

        return f.getAbsolutePath();
    } catch (Exception ex) {
        Log.d(this.getClass().getName(), "Exception: " + ex.getMessage());
        // something went wrong
        ex.printStackTrace();
        return null;
    }
}

ImageInfo is my class to store path to image and its orientation.

public static class ImageInfo {
    public final String filePath;
    public final String imageOrientation;

    public ImageInfo(String filePath, String imageOrientation) {
        this.filePath = filePath;

        if (imageOrientation == null) imageOrientation = "0";
        this.imageOrientation = imageOrientation;           
    }
}