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.