Posted by Yacine Rezgui – Developer Relations Engineer
Bettering privateness stays a high precedence on Android. We have been investing within the platform to offer customers extra management, improve transparency, and cut back the scope of entry to personal knowledge.
Final 12 months, we launched a brand new function to emphasise this technique: the Android picture picker. The picture picker is a browsable interface that presents the consumer with their media library, sorted by date from latest to oldest, and integrates properly together with your app’s expertise with out requiring media storage permissions!
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It permits customers to browse their picture gallery and grant entry to particular objects to an app. It’s a robust device permitting you to rapidly add a photograph choice function to your apps with out having to develop a posh in-house picker from scratch. It additionally eliminates the necessity to preserve complicated logic for dealing with permissions and querying MediaStore, enabling you to avoid wasting effort and time that will in any other case be spent on coding and debugging.
The picture picker is simple to implement, as you solely want to incorporate a number of traces of code with the help library. Moreover, it’s extremely configurable, so you possibly can customise the consumer expertise in keeping with your app’s particular wants.
What’s new?
Availability throughout all Android variations
One key piece of suggestions we’ve heard from builders is the shortage of help for older units, making upkeep pricey when it comes to improvement. We’re happy to announce that, as a part of the ActivityX 1.7.0 launch, the Photograph Picker help library will use a backported model supplied by Google Play companies on units operating Android KitKat (4.4) and later!
To allow the backported picture picker:
- Replace the ActivityX dependency to the model 1.7.0
- Add the next code snippet that provides the Google Play Providers module dependency in your AndroidManifest.xml. It instructs Google Play companies to arrange the backported picture picker module whereas putting in or updating your software (you possibly can learn extra within the documentation.
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Register an exercise outcome with PickVisualMedia or PickMultipleVisualMedia and launch the picture picker.
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And that’s it! In lower than 10 traces of code, you have got a permission-less picture picker with a pleasant UX that blends properly into your software, and you’ve got a single code path for sustaining the function’s performance for all Android variations operating KitKat and above.
GET_CONTENT takeover
Since our final weblog publish, we began rolling out help for the GET_CONTENT intent within the Android picture picker at any time when the desired MIME kind filter matches picture/* and/or video/*. Because the rollout will proceed within the upcoming months, be sure that to check your app as soon as your system has the function enabled:
adb shell device_config put storage_native_boot take_over_get_content true |
Later this 12 months, the picture picker will seamlessly help cloud storage suppliers like Google Pictures, permitting customers to pick out their distant content material with out having to depart your app, and with none code change on the builders facet.
You probably have any suggestions or ideas, submit tickets to our situation tracker.
