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authors explore categories product news community how tos case studies events programs documentation android developers develop core areas app data and files photo picker stay organized with collections save and categorize content based on your preferences figure 1 the photo picker provides an intuitive ui for sharing photos with your app the photo picker provides a browsable interface that presents the user with their media library sorted by date from newest to oldest as shown in the privacy best practices codelab the photo picker provides a safe built in way for users to grant your app access to only selected images and videos instead of their entire media library users who have eligible cloud media providers on their device are also able to select from photos and videos stored remotely learn more about cloud media providers the tool updates automatically offering expanded functionality to your app s users over time without requiring any code changes use jetpack activity contracts to simplify photo picker integration include version 1 7 0 or higher of the androidx activity library use the following activity result contracts to launch the photo picker pickvisualmedia to select a single image or video pickmultiplevisualmedia to select multiple images or videos if the photo picker isn t available on a device the library automatically invokes the action_open_document intent action instead this intent is supported on devices that run android 4 4 api level 19 or higher you can verify whether the photo picker is available on a given device by calling isphotopickeravailable select a single media item to select a single media item use the pickvisualmedia activity result contract as shown in the following code snippet views registers a photo picker activity launcher in single select mode val pickmedia registerforactivityresult pickvisualmedia uri callback is invoked after the user selects a media item or closes the photo picker if uri null log d photopicker selected uri uri else log d photopicker no media selected include only one of the following calls to launch depending on the types of media that you want to let the user choose from launch the photo picker and let the user choose images and videos pickmedia launch pickvisualmediarequest pickvisualmedia imageandvideo launch the photo picker and let the user choose only images pickmedia launch pickvisualmediarequest pickvisualmedia imageonly launch the photo picker and let the user choose only videos pickmedia launch pickvisualmediarequest pickvisualmedia videoonly launch the photo picker and let the user choose only images videos of a specific mime type such as gifs val mimetype image gif pickmedia launch pickvisualmediarequest pickvisualmedia singlemimetype mimetype views registers a photo picker activity launcher in single select mode activityresultlauncher pickvisualmediarequest pickmedia registerforactivityresult new pickvisualmedia uri callback is invoked after the user selects a media item or closes the photo picker if uri null log d photopicker selected uri uri else log d photopicker no media selected include only one of the following calls to launch depending on the types of media that you want to let the user choose from launch the photo picker and let the user choose images and videos pickmedia launch new pickvisualmediarequest builder setmediatype pickvisualmedia imageandvideo instance build launch the photo picker and let the user choose only images pickmedia launch new pickvisualmediarequest builder setmediatype pickvisualmedia imageonly instance build launch the photo picker and let the user choose only videos pickmedia launch new pickvisualmediarequest builder setmediatype pickvisualmedia videoonly instance build launch the photo picker and let the user choose only images videos of a specific mime type such as gifs string mimetype image gif pickmedia launch new pickvisualmediarequest builder setmediatype new pickvisualmedia singlemimetype mimetype build compose registers a photo picker activity launcher in single select mode val pickmedia rememberlauncherforactivityresult pickvisualmedia uri callback is invoked after the user selects a media item or closes the photo picker if uri null log d photopicker selected uri uri else log d photopicker no media selected include only one of the following calls to launch depending on the types of media that you want to let the user choose from launch the photo picker and let the user choose images and videos pickmedia launch pickvisualmediarequest pickvisualmedia imageandvideo launch the photo picker and let the user choose only images pickmedia launch pickvisualmediarequest pickvisualmedia imageonly launch the photo picker and let the user choose only videos pickmedia launch pickvisualmediarequest pickvisualmedia videoonly launch the photo picker and let the user choose only images videos of a specific mime type such as gifs val mimetype image gif pickmedia launch pickvisualmediarequest pickvisualmedia singlemimetype mimetype note when using pickvisualmedia the photo picker opens in half screen mode select multiple media items to select multiple media items set a maximum number of selectable media files as shown in the following code snippet views registers a photo picker activity launcher in multi select mode in this example the app lets the user select up to 5 media files val pickmultiplemedia registerforactivityresult pickmultiplevisualmedia 5 uris callback is invoked after the user selects media items or closes the photo picker if uris isnotempty log d photopicker number of items selected uris size else log d photopicker no media selected for this example launch the photo picker and let the user choose images and videos if you want the user to select a specific type of media file use the overloaded versions of launch as shown in the section about how to select a single media item pickmultiplemedia launch pickvisualmediarequest pickvisualmedia imageandvideo views registers a photo picker activity launcher in multi select mode in this example the app lets the user select up to 5 media files activityresultlauncher pickvisualmediarequest pickmultiplemedia registerforactivityresult new pickmultiplevisualmedia 5 uris callback is invoked after the user selects media items or closes the photo picker if uris isempty log d photopicker number of items selected uris size else log d photopicker no media selected for this example launch the photo picker and let the user choose images and videos if you want the user to select a specific type of media file use the overloaded versions of launch as shown in the section about how to select a single media item pickmultiplemedia launch new pickvisualmediarequest builder setmediatype pickvisualmedia imageandvideo instance build compose registers a photo picker activity launcher in multi select mode in this example the app lets the user select up to 5 media files val pickmultiplemedia rememberlauncherforactivityresult pickmultiplevisualmedia 5 uris callback is invoked after the user selects media items or closes the photo picker if uris isnotempty log d photopicker number of items selected uris size else log d photopicker no media selected for this example launch the photo picker and let the user choose images and videos if you want the user to select a specific type of media file use the overloaded versions of launch as shown in the section about how to select a single media item pickmultiplemedia launch pickvisualmediarequest pickvisualmedia imageandvideo the platform limits the maximum number of files that you can ask the user to select in the photo picker to access this limit call getpickimagesmaxlimit on devices where the photo picker isn t supported this limit is ignored note if the photo picker isn t available and the support library invokes the action_open_document intent action the system ignores the specified maximum number of selectable media files device availability the photo picker is available on devices that meet the following criteria run android 11 api level 30 or higher receive changes to modular system components through google system updates older devices that run android 4 4 api level 19 through android 10 api level 29 and android go devices running android 11 or 12 that support google play services can install a backported version of the photo picker to enable the automatic installation of the backported photo picker module through google play services add the following entry to the application tag in your app s manifest file trigger google play services to install the backported photo picker module service android name com google android gms metadata moduledependencies android enabled false android exported false tools ignore missingclass intent filter action android name com google android gms metadata module_dependencies intent filter meta data android name photopicker_activity 0 required android value service persist media file access by default the 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