Photo/Video Picker

Use the rememberLauncherForActivityResult(ActivityResultContracts.PickVisualMedia()) method to create a launcher for image picker. Alternatively, you can replace the result contracts with PickMultipleVisualMedia() to allow the user to select more than one image.

1. Create launcher

• Example decode image via BitmapFactory

val pickMedia =
    rememberLauncherForActivityResult(ActivityResultContracts.PickVisualMedia())
    { uri ->
        uri?.let { uri ->
            bitmap = context.contentResolver.openInputStream(uri)?.let {
                BitmapFactory.decodeStream(it)
            }
        }
    }

• Decode the image using ImageDecoder (better practice for large images).

val pickMedia =
    rememberLauncherForActivityResult(ActivityResultContracts.PickVisualMedia())
    { uri ->
        uri?.let { uri ->
            val source = ImageDecoder.createSource(context.contentResolver, uri)
            bitmap = ImageDecoder.decodeBitmap(source)
        }
    }

2. Launch the application and specify the type of media you want to play (Image, Video, or both)

pickMedia.launch(PickVisualMediaRequest(ActivityResultContracts.PickVisualMedia.ImageOnly))

File Picker

Similar to the previous example, but it allows you to select all files, not just images or videos

val filePicker = rememberLauncherForActivityResult(ActivityResultContracts.GetContent()) {
    it?.let { uri ->
        bitmap = context.contentResolver.openInputStream(uri)?.let {
          inputStream ->
              BitmapFactory.decodeStream(inputStream)
        }
    }
}

Specify the file type of the selection via the launcher.

If you use the image/* selection type on newer operating systems, you’ll get the same photo/video picker as shown above.

filePicker.launch("image/*")