How do I use jetpack compose to select images from...
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Nthily
03/29/2021, 2:08 PMHow do I use jetpack compose to select images from my phone album to add to the user interface? (edited)
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Adam Powell
03/29/2021, 2:35 PMThe
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Nthily
03/29/2021, 2:36 PMthank you very much!!👍
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Nthily
03/29/2021, 3:39 PM@Adam Powell But this seems to only take photos, how do I get the photos in the album and apply them to the interface?
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Adam Powell
03/29/2021, 4:14 PMIt can perform any startActivityForResult operation on the system as well as request permissions. What kind of UI are you looking to implement? The approach will be different if you want to launch a system picker for the user to choose a photo (ACTION_GET_CONTENT, iirc) vs. show your own picker UI inline in the rest of your app (request storage/photos permissions and then read the media provider)
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sergio mongelat
03/29/2021, 4:14 PMuse
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Adam Powell
03/29/2021, 4:14 PMthe former is much easier to implement and doesn't require holding additional permissions that might make users nervous, the latter can be more seamless/customized within your app.
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Nthily
03/29/2021, 4:15 PMyes like twitter share, in bottom have some application to choice
Nthily
03/29/2021, 4:51 PMI've solved the problem, I need to learn the basics of intent @Adam Powell thank you very much for your help!
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Shakil Karim
03/29/2021, 4:53 PM@Adam Powell Will there be any image/video/document picking androidx lib at some point? because it's super common task, and 99 percent of StackOverflow solutions are wrong.
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Nthily
03/29/2021, 4:53 PMyes
Nthily
03/29/2021, 4:55 PMby the way, when do I create a LazyColumn item that can be reordered by drag and drop? Does jetpack compose develop?
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Adam Powell
03/29/2021, 5:01 PMI would start a new thread for the drag+drop question
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Nthily
03/29/2021, 5:01 PMok sir
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Adam Powell
03/29/2021, 5:02 PM@Shakil Karim it's a request we get a lot, but every time we start digging into specifics, everyone wants some pretty fine-grained control over the UI design itself 🙂
Adam Powell
03/29/2021, 5:02 PMdiscussions are underway and input definitely welcome, but no specific plans to share at this time
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Nthily
03/29/2021, 5:03 PMits ok, very good!
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Nthily
03/29/2021, 5:03 PMjetpack compose is very amazing
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Adam Powell
03/29/2021, 5:04 PMthank you 🙂 we anticipate many years of building onto the base functionality available today, and we're looking forward to a healthy ecosystem of community libraries in addition to our own
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Nthily
03/29/2021, 5:04 PMIts syntax is so much better than Dart
Nthily
03/29/2021, 5:04 PMLooking forward to it!
Nthily
03/29/2021, 5:08 PM@Adam Powell One more question, if what I want to share is an image, how can I make this interface an image to share to other apps via Intent? Is there any good way to do this?
Nthily
03/29/2021, 5:09 PMThis is an interface I developed using jetpack compose, what if I want to share the content as an image?
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Adam Powell
03/29/2021, 5:20 PMI think there are some other threads above around saving content to a bitmap
Adam Powell
03/29/2021, 5:20 PMonce you have that bitmap you can share it using a FileProvider or similar
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Nthily
03/29/2021, 5:20 PMok i check it
Nthily
03/29/2021, 5:20 PMvery thx
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Adam Powell
03/29/2021, 7:01 PMAdam Powell
03/29/2021, 7:02 PMyou can get a ContentResolver from a Context
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