Show captured picture when activity opened again

Question

I have an activity that calls the camera intent to capture a picture and assign it as a profile picture. The activity works fine except that when I click back and then open the activity again the picture is not displayed anymore.

How can I make it show everytime the user opens this activity? Here's my code for that activity

public class MyAccountActivity extends Activity {

private static final int CAMERA_REQUEST = 1888;
private TextView name;
private TextView userId;
private TextView address;
private TextView email;
private TextView phone;
private ImageButton profilePicture;
private Bitmap bm;

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_my_account);
    setUpViews();
Log.v("test","this is test: "+LoginActivity.user.getName());
}

private void setUpViews() {
    //setting up views

    //calling user details from User [] instance 

}

public void ViewPicture(View v) {
    Intent intent = new Intent(
    android.provider.MediaStore.ACTION_IMAGE_CAPTURE);
    intent.putExtra(MediaStore.EXTRA_OUTPUT, 
            MediaStore.Images.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI.getPath()); 
            startActivityForResult(intent, CAMERA_REQUEST);
}

protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data)
{
        super.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, data);
                bm = (Bitmap) data.getExtras().get("data");
                profilePicture.setImageBitmap(bm);
                MediaStore.Images.Media.insertImage(getContentResolver(), bm, null, null);
                ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();  
                bm.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.JPEG, 100, baos); //bm is the bitmap object   
                byte[] b = baos.toByteArray();  
}

I have tried to call profilePicture.setImageBitmap(bm) onResume() but my app crashes. Any help is much appreciated.

try calling setupViews from onResume. You setup everything when you create the activity, but the activity isn't recreated when you come back to it, so I don't think the image is getting applied. what crash are you getting when you try to set the image? — toadzky, Oct 20 '12 at 05:26
thanks for the quick reply...ill test your suggestion right away and ill post a response. Regards — Saeed Joul, Oct 20 '12 at 05:29
@toadzky It didnt change anything. I think because I set profilePicture when getting result back from the intent. I was thinking if i can load the picture from its saved location from the phone? is that possible? Thanks again — Saeed Joul, Oct 20 '12 at 05:36

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 20 '12 at 05:37

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Save the captured image with some uri path

Uri uri = Uri.withAppendedPath(Uri.fromFile(context.getExternalFilesDir(null)), imageName.png);
Intent intent = new Intent(MediaStore.ACTION_IMAGE_CAPTURE);
    intent.putExtra(android.provider.MediaStore.EXTRA_OUTPUT, uri));

then whenever you want to display the image, use this uri

profilePicture.setImageUri(uri)

answered Oct 20 '12 at 05:37

Gaurav Vashisth

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The above code goes when calling the camera intent right? So basically in my ViewPicture() ? – Saeed Joul Oct 20 '12 at 05:38
it seems that this suggestion is the correct solution but unfortunately I cannot implement it properly. Regards – Saeed Joul Oct 20 '12 at 06:08
[link](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5661424/how-to-capture-the-image-and-save-it-in-sd-card) Another Solution. – Saeed Joul Oct 20 '12 at 06:36
hope you understood how to do it now, the link also gives the same solution – Gaurav Vashisth Oct 21 '12 at 11:05

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