#Droid Image Picker

What you can complete with this instantly

Why

In iOS development, allow user to select an image w/wo crop to square is pretty simple: make an instance of UIImagePickerController and it'll handle the flow then give back the image and editoral information via delegate methods.

But on android this is not the case. You have to:

1. Start activities for (with proper extras) selecting image
2. Parse activity results with some strange rules, load bitmap/EXIF and rotate it accordingly
3. Start activity for cropping
4. Parse activity results to get the final bitmap

It's not super hard but it definitely will cost you some time longer than you want to spend.

So there should be a wrapper around this flow to simplify the developement.

Installation

put this line in you build.gradle dependency section:

compile 'com.egistli.droid-image-picker:droid-image-picker:0.0.2+'

And you're good to go.

Usage

In the actiivty you need to select image, do the following:

private void onSelectImageButtonClick() {
	imagePicker = new ImagePicker(this, this, 480);
	imagePicker.prompt();
}

@Override protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {
		// If image picker processes the result, don't go futher.
		if (imagePicker != null && imagePicker.handleActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, data)) {
            return;
        }

        super.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, data);
}

This is pretty much it can be, but there are some behaviour ImagePicker need to know, so you have to make the activity implment the ImagePickerDelegate like following:

@Override
public void imagePickerDidCancel(ImagePicker imagePicker) {
    Toast.makeText(this, "Image Picker is canceled", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
}

@Override
public void imagePickerDidSelectImage(ImagePicker imagePicker, Bitmap bitmap) {
    imageView.setImageBitmap(bitmap);
}

@Override
public void imagePickerDidFailToSelectImage(ImagePicker imagePicker, ImagePickerError error) {
	Toast.makeText(this, "Image Picker failed to select image canceled", 	Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
}

@Override
public boolean imagePickerShouldCrop(ImagePicker imagePicker) {
    return true;
}

@Override
public void imagePickerSetUpCropDetail(ImagePicker imagePicker, Crop crop) {
	// Setup crop as documented in android-crop
    crop.asSquare();
    crop.withMaxSize(480, 480);
}

This crop part is depending on android-crop project. If you want corpping, jut return true in imagePickerShouldCrop and set up Crop object in imagePickerSetUpCropDetail with the methods like crop.asSquare(), crop.with*().

Thanks/Reference

Without these informative posts I won't be able to create this wrapper and upload it to JCenter.

[Gist of ImagePicker] (https://gist.github.com/Mariovc/f06e70ebe8ca52fbbbe2) from Mariovc

How to distribute your own Android library through jCenter and Maven Central from Android Studio - The Cheese Factory Blog

License

Apache 2.0