```val getContent = registerForActivityResult(ActivityResultContracts.GetContent()) { viewModel....

# compose

[Nthily]

val getContent = registerForActivityResult(ActivityResultContracts.GetContent()) {
    viewModel.imageUriState.value = it
    // Handle the returned Uri
}

if (viewModel.imageUriState.value != null) {

    Log.d(TAG, "${viewModel.imageUriState.value}")
}
getContent.launch("image/*")

Hi, I got the Uri of the photo from the user's album using registerForActivityResult, how can I convert the Uri to ImageBitmap and store it in my room? i've searched a lot from StackOverflow, but there doesn't seem to be a very standard answer

[Nthily]

If you just want to display photos it's easy enough to use Glide in accompanist, but I want to save them to a database so I can use them permanently

[Scott Kruse]

Is there a reason do you need to store image data in Room? You could store the file locally in file system and save the paths in room?

[Scott Kruse]

this link suggests leveraging the blob data type in room: https://stackoverflow.com/a/46356934/14840704

[Nthily]

Oh yes, I forgot, but how do I store the local path?

[Nthily]

ok i check it thank you!

[alorma]

don't want to be a bad guy here... but there're #android and #room channels on here, #compose is not the best way to ask

[Ian Lake]

GetContent only gives you temporary access to the Uri and its contents. You'll need to create your own copy (say, in getFilesDir()) and persist the relative path of that file

[Nthily]

@Ian Lake Hi

[Nthily]

[Nthily]

I seem to have saved the absolute path to the image using this method, how should I next use jetpack compose's Image to display the image with this path?

[Ian Lake]

Note that there's a helpful copyTo method in the Kotlin Standard library which makes it easy to connect the InputStream to an OutputStream: https://kotlinlang.org/api/latest/jvm/stdlib/kotlin.io/java.io.-input-stream/copy-to.html

[Ian Lake]

You'd want to use Accompanist's Image loading libraries: https://github.com/google/accompanist#%EF%B8%8F-image-loading

[Nthily]

ahh yes GlideImage?

[Nthily]

thank you!