I am trying to open inbuilt gallery app pressing a button in my app.
I am trying out on Android 2.3 and above phones. The phones/tablet that I have are
Samsung S (Android 2.3.5) LG phone (Android 2.3.3) Nexus One (Android 2.3.6) Android Tablet (Android 4.0.3) Galaxy Nexus (Android 4.3)
I tried the following:
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, null);
intent.setType("image/*");
startActivity(intent);
above code works fine on Android tablet (4.0.3) and my Nexus phone too.. but if run the same app on any phone which is below 3.0 (gives me error)
08-24 11:47:53.628: E/AndroidRuntime(787): at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1651)
08-24 11:47:53.628: E/AndroidRuntime(787): at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1667)
08-24 11:47:53.628: E/AndroidRuntime(787): at android.app.ActivityThread.access$1500(ActivityThread.java:117)
08-24 11:47:53.628: E/AndroidRuntime(787): at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:935)
08-24 11:47:53.628: E/AndroidRuntime(787): at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
08-24 11:47:53.628: E/AndroidRuntime(787): at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:130)
08-24 11:47:53.628: E/AndroidRuntime(787): at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:3687)
08-24 11:47:53.628: E/AndroidRuntime(787): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
08-24 11:47:53.628: E/AndroidRuntime(787): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:507)
08-24 11:47:53.628: E/AndroidRuntime(787): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:842)
08-24 11:47:53.628: E/AndroidRuntime(787): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:600)
08-24 11:47:53.628: E/AndroidRuntime(787): at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
08-24 11:47:53.628: E/AndroidRuntime(787): Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
08-24 11:47:53.628: E/AndroidRuntime(787): at com.cooliris.media.Gallery.onCreate(Gallery.java:323)
08-24 11:47:53.628: E/AndroidRuntime(787): at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1047)
08-24 11:47:53.628: E/AndroidRuntime(787): at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1615)
08-24 11:47:53.628: E/AndroidRuntime(787): ... 11 more
So I tried the following:
Intent intent1= new Intent("android.intent.action.MAIN", null);
intent1.addCategory("android.intent.category.APP_GALLERY");
Intent intent2 = Intent.createChooser(intent1, "Gallery");
startActivity(intent2);
Again this works just fine with phones that are above/equalto 4.0 version. On 4.0 below phones it gives alert notification by saying:
"No application can perform this action"
Can somebody help me out with opening the Gallery from pressing a button from my app?