Tap imageview to open image in Gallery on Android

Question

I'm making an app, that is displaying an image in a single activity. Im using an json feed to get the url of the image, an it downloads the image via the lazyloader function, and then displays it in an ImageView What I need to create is that when you tap the imageView, The image gets displayed in the standard android image gallery.

How do i make this happen? I've tried various things with intents but i can't get it to work...

Pleasse help me guys!

Thanks

Standard gallery means default gallery in Device? – Abhi Sep 04 '12 at 17:25 — Abhi, Sep 04 '12 at 17:25
Yes... The default gallery to view images – Dennis van den Brom Sep 04 '12 at 17:29 — Dennis van den Brom, Sep 04 '12 at 17:29

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 04 '12 at 17:34

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You can use below code to launch a viewer for the image. Uri is the file uri which you want to launch

Intent intent = new Intent(); 
intent.setAction(android.content.Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
intent.setData(uri); 
activity.startActivity(intent);

answered Sep 04 '12 at 17:34

nandeesh

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Thanks for the answer. But how do I obtain the File URI? – Dennis van den Brom Sep 04 '12 at 18:12

Tap imageview to open image in Gallery on Android

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