Intent to get photo from different sources: Camera, Gallery, Browser. From https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20327213/getting-path-of-captured-image-in-android-using-camera-intent
// first
Intent intent = new Intent(this);
startActivityForResult(intent, REQ_CAMERA_IMAGE);
// then
protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {
if (requestCode == CAMERA_REQUEST && resultCode == RESULT_OK) {
// this returns thumbnail of the taken image
Bitmap photo = (Bitmap) data.getExtras().get("data");
imageView.setImageBitmap(photo);
knop.setVisibility(Button.VISIBLE);
// CALL THIS METHOD TO GET THE URI FROM THE BITMAP
Uri tempUri = getImageUri(getApplicationContext(), photo);
// CALL THIS METHOD TO GET THE ACTUAL PATH
File finalFile = new File(getRealPathFromURI(tempUri));
System.out.println(mImageCaptureUri);
}
}
public Uri getImageUri(Context inContext, Bitmap inImage) {
ByteArrayOutputStream bytes = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
inImage.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.JPEG, 100, bytes);
String path = Images.Media.insertImage(inContext.getContentResolver(), inImage, "Title", null);
return Uri.parse(path);
}
public String getRealPathFromURI(Uri uri) {
Cursor cursor = getContentResolver().query(uri, null, null, null, null);
cursor.moveToFirst();
int idx = cursor.getColumnIndex(MediaStore.Images.ImageColumns.DATA);
return cursor.getString(idx);
}