Android: Camera Images Loaded Via Gallery Don't Show Up In ImageView

Question

In short, I've got an app that I'm working on that needs to be able to take images and upload them. Before uploading them I want to show them on screen. Ideally, I should be able to load images from the phone's storage using the gallery, OR take a picture and upload it directly.

I can take a picture and show it in an ImageView without issue. I can load images from the gallery, but only those images that were downloaded from some external source seem to show up in the ImageView. For example, if I took a picture with the camera last week and wanted to choose it with the gallery, it won't load; the ImageView is just blank with no errors. This is the case for every single image I've taken with the camera; if I try to load it using the gallery it doesn't work, but if I load other images using the gallery they work. I can't figure out why this would be the case, so I'll present some relevant code here and hope someone can help me out.

Intent pickPhoto = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_PICK,
                    android.provider.MediaStore.Images.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI);
startActivityForResult(pickPhoto , 1);

And the code within onActivityResult where it's loading the image and attempting to display it:

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

            Cursor cursor = getContentResolver().query(selectedImage,
                    filePathColumn, null, null, null);
            cursor.moveToFirst();

            int columnIndex = cursor.getColumnIndex(filePathColumn[0]);
            String picturePath = cursor.getString(columnIndex);
            cursor.close();

            Bitmap imageBitmap = (Bitmap) BitmapFactory.decodeFile(picturePath);

            imageview.setImageBitmap(imageBitmap);

Answer 1

private void chooseImageFromGalery() {
    Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_PICK, android.provider.MediaStore.Images.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI);
    intent.setType("image/*");
    startActivityForResult(Intent.createChooser(intent, "Choose Image"), 101);
}

if (requestCode == 101 && resultCode == Activity.RESULT_OK) {
        Uri selectedImageUri = data.getData();
        try {
            photoFile = createImageFile();
        } catch (IOException e1) {
            e1.printStackTrace();
        }
        try {
            copyFile(new File(getRealPathFromURI(data.getData())), photoFile);
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        refreshFragmentData();
    }
private void copyFile(File sourceFile, File destFile) throws IOException {
    if (!sourceFile.exists()) {
        return;
    }

    FileChannel source = null;
    FileChannel destination = null;
    source = new FileInputStream(sourceFile).getChannel();
    destination = new FileOutputStream(destFile).getChannel();
    if (destination != null && source != null) {
        destination.transferFrom(source, 0, source.size());
    }
    if (source != null) {
        source.close();
    }
    if (destination != null) {
        destination.close();
    }

}

private String getRealPathFromURI(Uri contentUri) {
    String[] proj = { MediaStore.Video.Media.DATA };
    Cursor cursor = getActivity().managedQuery(contentUri, proj, null, null, null);
    int column_index = cursor.getColumnIndexOrThrow(MediaStore.Images.Media.DATA);
    cursor.moveToFirst();
    return cursor.getString(column_index);
}

private File createImageFile() throws IOException {
    // Create an image file name
    String timeStamp = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMdd_HHmmss").format(new Date());
    String imageFileName = "JPEG_" + timeStamp + "_";
    File storageDir = new File(CommonParams.MASTER_STORAGE_PATH + "/" + CommonParams.categorySelected);
    File image = File.createTempFile(imageFileName, /* prefix */
            ".jpg", /* suffix */
            storageDir /* directory */
    );

    // Save a file: path for use with ACTION_VIEW intents
    mCurrentPhotoPath = "file:" + image.getAbsolutePath();
    return image;
}

Hope this can help you.

Answer 2

                Intent pickPhoto = new Intent(
                                Intent.ACTION_PICK,
                                android.provider.MediaStore.Images.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI);
                        pickPhoto.setType("image/*");
                        startActivityForResult(pickPhoto, 1);

And the code within onActivityResult where it's loading the image and attempting to display it:

              Intent imageReturnedIntent;
            Uri selectedImage = data.getData();
            String[] filePathColumn = { MediaColumns.DATA };
            Cursor cursor = getContentResolver().query(selectedImage,
                    filePathColumn, null, null, null);
            cursor.moveToFirst();
            int columnIndex = cursor.getColumnIndex(filePathColumn[0]);
            String filePath = cursor.getString(columnIndex);
            File mFile = new File(filePath);
            cursor.close();
            BitmapFactory.Options options = new BitmapFactory.Options();
             options.inSampleSize = 2;
           Bitmap bp = BitmapFactory.decodeFile(filePath, options);