Allow User to Select Camera or Gallery For Image

Allow user to select camera or gallery for image

You'll have to create your own chooser dialog merging both intent resolution results.

To do this, you will need to query the PackageManager with PackageManager.queryIntentActivities() for both original intents and create the final list of possible Intents with one new Intent for each retrieved activity like this:

List<Intent> yourIntentsList = new ArrayList<Intent>();

List<ResolveInfo> listCam = packageManager.queryIntentActivities(camIntent, 0);
for (ResolveInfo res : listCam) {
    final Intent finalIntent = new Intent(camIntent);
    finalIntent.setComponent(new ComponentName(res.activityInfo.packageName, res.activityInfo.name));
    yourIntentsList.add(finalIntent);
}

List<ResolveInfo> listGall = packageManager.queryIntentActivities(gallIntent, 0);
for (ResolveInfo res : listGall) {
    final Intent finalIntent = new Intent(gallIntent);
    finalIntent.setComponent(new ComponentName(res.activityInfo.packageName, res.activityInfo.name));
    yourIntentsList.add(finalIntent);
}

(I wrote this directly here so this may not compile)

Then, for more info on creating a custom dialog from a list see https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/dialogs.html#AlertDialog

Choosing between camera and gallery for image selection

You should do this logic within your app. Picking image from gallery and taking picture using camera are using different intent.

I suggest you use button (or whatever UI it is to make a user select an action) and creates two separate method for both actions. Let's say, you've created two buttons named btnPickGallery and btnTakePicture.

Both buttons fire their own action, say onBtnPickGallery and onBtnTakePicture.

public void onBtnPickGallery() {
    Intent intent = new Intent();
    intent.setType("image/*");
    intent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_GET_CONTENT);
    startActivityForResult(Intent.createChooser(intent, "Select Picture"), GALLERY_REQUEST_CODE);
}

public void onBtnTakePicture() {
    Intent cameraIntent = new Intent(MediaStore.ACTION_IMAGE_CAPTURE);
    File photo = new File(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory(), "dir/pic.jpg");

    Uri outputFileUri = Uri.fromFile(photo);

    cameraIntent.putExtra(MediaStore.EXTRA_OUTPUT, outputFileUri);
    startActivityForResult(cameraIntent, CAMERA_REQUEST_CODE);
}

And then you can grab the result using onActivityResult() method.

How to make Select Image From Gallery or Camera in Android

Same problem happened with me. I am not able to see captured images on Samsung and MI devices mostly.

By using this library I have solved my issue.

https://github.com/coomar2841/android-multipicker-library

Dialog to pick image from gallery or from camera

The code below can be used for taking a photo and for picking a photo. Just show a dialog with two options and upon selection, use the appropriate code.

To take picture from camera:

Intent takePicture = new Intent(MediaStore.ACTION_IMAGE_CAPTURE);
startActivityForResult(takePicture, 0);//zero can be replaced with any action code (called requestCode)

To pick photo from gallery:

Intent pickPhoto = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_PICK,
           android.provider.MediaStore.Images.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI);
startActivityForResult(pickPhoto , 1);//one can be replaced with any action code

onActivityResult code:

protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent imageReturnedIntent) { 
    super.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, imageReturnedIntent); 
    switch(requestCode) {
    case 0:
        if(resultCode == RESULT_OK){  
            Uri selectedImage = imageReturnedIntent.getData();
            imageview.setImageURI(selectedImage);
        }

    break; 
    case 1:
        if(resultCode == RESULT_OK){  
            Uri selectedImage = imageReturnedIntent.getData();
            imageview.setImageURI(selectedImage);
        }
    break;
    }
}

Finally add this permission in the manifest file:

 <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />

How to allow user to pick the image with Swift?

If you just want let the user choose image with UIImagePickerController use this code:

import UIKit


class ViewController: UIViewController, UINavigationControllerDelegate, UIImagePickerControllerDelegate {

    @IBOutlet var imageView: UIImageView!
    @IBOutlet var chooseBuuton: UIButton!
    var imagePicker = UIImagePickerController()

    @IBAction func btnClicked() {

        if UIImagePickerController.isSourceTypeAvailable(.savedPhotosAlbum){
            print("Button capture")

            imagePicker.delegate = self
            imagePicker.sourceType = .savedPhotosAlbum
            imagePicker.allowsEditing = false

            present(imagePicker, animated: true, completion: nil)
        }
    }

    func imagePickerController(picker: UIImagePickerController!, didFinishPickingImage image: UIImage!, editingInfo: NSDictionary!){
        self.dismiss(animated: true, completion: { () -> Void in

        })

        imageView.image = image
    }
}

Single intent to let user take picture OR pick image from gallery in Android

UPDATE: The other answer, using EXTRA_INITIAL_INTENTS, is a better one at this point. At the time I wrote my answer, EXTRA_INITIAL_INTENTS did not yet exist, as it was added in API Level 5.

So is there a way to combine both or
am I going to have to offer a menu to
do one or the other from within my
application?

Write your own gallery that has the features you desire.

I would think a menu would be simpler.

Seems like it would be a common use
case...surely I'm missing something?

The developer next to you will think the gallery should allow you to pick from the local gallery or else hop out to Flickr to make a selection from there. Another developer will think the camera should not only allow to "take a picture" via the camera but to "take a picture" via choosing something from the gallery, inverting things from the way you envision it. Yet another developer will think that the gallery should allow picking from the local gallery, or Flickr, or the camera, or a network-attached webcam. Still another developer will think that the gallery is stupid and users should just pick files via a file explorer. And so on.

All of this in an environment (mobile phones) where flash for the OS is at a premium.

Hence, IMHO, it is not completely shocking that the core Android team elected to provide building blocks for you to assemble as you see fit, rather than trying to accommodate every possible pattern.

Android SDK: Let user choose picture from gallery or camera?

Use the below code to put chooser for gallery and Camera together. I really dont know if this will work with startActivityForResult. Give it a try

    Intent galleryintent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_GET_CONTENT, null);
    galleryintent.setType("image/*");        

    Intent cameraIntent = new Intent(android.provider.MediaStore.ACTION_IMAGE_CAPTURE);

    Intent chooser = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_CHOOSER);
    chooser.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_INTENT, galleryintent);      
    chooser.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TITLE, "title");

    Intent[] intentArray =  {cameraIntent}; 
    chooser.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_INITIAL_INTENTS, intentArray);
    startActivity(chooser);

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