How To Get Image Uri By Intent Mediastore.action_image_capture In Android 10 And Above

FOR MODERATORS: I know there are already questions like this but all of those approaches endup giving bitmap through data.getExtra('data') which is actually just thumbnail. I want

Solution 1:

This approach worked for me

In Manifest file

<application><providerandroid:name="androidx.core.content.FileProvider"android:authorities="com.example.android.provider"android:exported="false"android:grantUriPermissions="true"><meta-dataandroid:name="android.support.FILE_PROVIDER_PATHS"android:resource="@xml/file_paths"></meta-data></provider>
     ...
     </application

created a file /res/xml/file_paths.xml and specified path in that

<pathsxmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"><external-files-pathname="my_images"path="Pictures" /></paths>

In my activity

created a global variable var cameraPhotoFilePath: Uri? = null

this is how I started Camera acitivity for results

val intent = Intent(MediaStore.ACTION_IMAGE_CAPTURE)
                val photoFile: File? = try {
                    createImageFileInAppDir()
                } catch (ex: IOException) {
                    // Error occurred while creating the Filenull
                }

                photoFile?.also { file ->
                    val photoURI: Uri = FileProvider.getUriForFile(
                        this,
                        "com.example.android.provider",
                        file
                    )
                    cameraPhotoFilePath = photoURI
                    intent.putExtra(MediaStore.EXTRA_OUTPUT, photoURI)
                }
                intent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_GRANT_READ_URI_PERMISSION or Intent.FLAG_GRANT_WRITE_URI_PERMISSION)
                startActivityForResult(intent, ACTION_REQUEST_CAMERA)

here is a helper function that i used in above code

@Throws(IOException::class)privatefuncreateImageFileInAppDir(): File {
        val timeStamp: String = SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMdd_HHmmss").format(Date())
        val imagePath = getExternalFilesDir(Environment.DIRECTORY_PICTURES)
        return   File(imagePath, "JPEG_${timeStamp}_" + ".jpg")
    }

At the end in onActivityResult thats how I got image Uri

if (resultCode == RESULT_OK && requestCode == ACTION_REQUEST_CAMERA) {
        cameraPhotoFilePath?.let { uri ->// here uri is image Uri that was captured by camera
        }
    }

Solution 2:

You should pass your own uri (path) to intent with action MediaStore.ACTION_IMAGE_CAPTURE

putExtra(MediaStore.EXTRA_OUTPUT, FileProvider.getUriForFile(
    applicationContext,
    "$packageName.your_file_provider",
    File("path/to")
))
addFlags(Intent.FLAG_GRANT_WRITE_URI_PERMISSION)

More info about FileProvider

Solution 3:

Android developer have good documentation about how to get full sized photos . You can also get the uri of full size image .Please visit this link Get full size image