How to Pick Image from Gallery in Android Studio using Kotlin?

In this tutorial, I am going to teach you “How to Pick Image from Gallery in Android Studio using Kotlin“. Okay, let’s move on to the article. I am going to use “registerForActivityResult” because “onActivityResult” is deprecated.

Pick Image from Gallery in Android Studio using Kotlin

activity_main.xml

I added a simple button to pick image from gallery and imageview to show the selected image.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    tools:context=".MainActivity">

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/selectImages"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="Select Images"
        app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintVertical_bias="0.361" />

    <ImageView
        android:id="@+id/imageView"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="@+id/selectImages"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="@+id/selectImages"
        app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="@+id/selectImages"
        android:layout_marginTop="50dp"
        tools:srcCompat="@tools:sample/avatars" />

</androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout>

MainActivity.kt

package com.example.pickimagekotlin

import android.net.Uri
import android.os.Bundle
import android.view.View
import android.widget.Button
import android.widget.ImageView
import androidx.activity.result.contract.ActivityResultContracts
import androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatActivity

class MainActivity : AppCompatActivity() {
    override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main)

        val selectImages = findViewById<Button>(R.id.selectImages)
        val imageView = findViewById<ImageView>(R.id.imageView)

        val chooseImage = registerForActivityResult<String, Uri>(ActivityResultContracts.GetContent()) { result: Uri? ->
            imageView.setImageURI(result)
        }

        selectImages.setOnClickListener {
            chooseImage.launch("image/*")
        }
    }
}

Output

Final Words

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