Android: Drawing Image onto ImageView from a known path on SD Card

Question

I have a screen that contains an ImageView which is not visible to user. User would have to browse for a picture from their Gallery, in which I have successfully coded. I've used toast to ensure that the path to the Image selected is correct and have stored the path to a string. My problem is after selecting the image, how can I draw the selected image on the ImageView by using the path? Is it even possible?

Answer 1

Try the below code to set Bitmap images from a file stored inside a SD-Card.

File imgFile = new  File("/sdcard/Images/test_image.jpg");
if(imgFile.exists()){

    Bitmap myBitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeFile(imgFile.getAbsolutePath());

    ImageView myImage = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.imageviewTest);
    myImage.setImageBitmap(myBitmap);

}