How do I choose from photos stored on my phone

[Mikeeeeee]

Hi!
How do I choose from photos stored on my phone?
For example, so do in messengers.

[IntruderExcluder]

Use FileDialog from platform module. Probably you need correct rights to acces photos from your app.

[Mikeeeeee]

But FileDialog shows all files and folders. How can I preview all photos in one window?

[jsulm]

@mikeeeeee You did not read the documentation, right?
For QML: https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qml-qtquick-dialogs-filedialog.html#nameFilters-prop
For Widgets: https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qfiledialog.html#setNameFilter (one of the possibilities)

"How can I preview all photos in one window?" - I don't think you can as on Android photos can be stored in different locations.

[Mikeeeeee]

But for example, Skype and other messengers display pictures from all over the phone. So it can be done. I wonder how it can be done?

[JonB]

@mikeeeeee
So if you/we do not know of a "phone system call" to do this, and QML/Qt does not offer anything for it, you have to look over the phone/in known locations to find the photos, and roll your own "file chooser" for it instead of FileDialog. Perhaps that is all Skype etc. are doing in code.

[IntruderExcluder]

To do this you will probably need to go deeper use phone OS native API.

[J.Hilk]

this, blog post is probably exactly what you're looking for, even has an example project, if I see that correctly

accroding to the poster, the example doesn't work out of the box for newer versions of android, you'll have to apply some fixes apparently.