Choose picture Intent causes nullpointer exception

From your log it looks like you are trying to pick an image from Picasa folder dat=content://com.android.sec.gallery3d.provider/picasa/item/5147009501910019474, and these must be handled differently, because data in MediaStore.Images.Media.DATA column will be null for them. You can see how to handle picking images from Picasa correctly at this link:

http://dimitar.me/how-to-get-picasa-images-using-the-image-picker-on-android-devices-running-any-os-version/

Only you also need to handle URIs that start with "content://com.sec.android.gallery3d" (I see this on Samsung S3) so change

if (selectedImage.toString().startsWith("content://com.google.android.gallery3d")) 

to

if (_selectedImage.toString().startsWith("content://com.google.android.gallery3d") || selectedImage.toString().startsWith("content://com.sec.android.gallery3d")) 

I'm not sure if there are any more special cases (probably yes).

I ran into this same problem and tried implementing this based on the website user1682516 recommended. I was banging my head against the wall because my Picasa content URLs didn't quite match: mine looked like "com.sec.android.gallery3d.provider" and not "com.android.gallery3d.provider" but didn't seem to work whether I altered the URL or not.

Then I felt dumb when I eventually realized that the library I use to load remote images for ImageViews in my app, https://github.com/nostra13/Android-Universal-Image-Loader, takes care of this for me. I can just call ImageLoader.getInstance().loadImage() with the appropriate parameters and get a Bitmap in the callback. I don't need to worry about whether it is a local image, a remote Picasa image, or an ordinary remote image--that's taken care of for me. Wish I had figured that out hours ago!

Tested on Samsung SM-A520F. Works if you want to pick only local images from your gallery:

fun uploadpicture(view: View?) { val intent = Intent() intent.type = "image/*" intent.action = Intent.ACTION_GET_CONTENT intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_LOCAL_ONLY, true) // Restrict choice startActivityForResult(Intent.createChooser(intent, "Select Picture"), SELECT_PICTURE) } 

Tested Code here

public class SelectPhotoActivity extends Activity { private static final int SELECT_PICTURE = 1; private String selectedImagePath=""; @Override public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); Intent intent = new Intent(); intent.setType("image/*"); intent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_GET_CONTENT); intent.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_OPENABLE); intent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP); startActivityForResult(intent, SELECT_PICTURE); } public String getPath(Uri uri) { String[] projection = { MediaStore.Images.Media.DATA }; Cursor cursor = managedQuery(uri, projection, null, null, null); int column_index = cursor .getColumnIndexOrThrow(MediaStore.Images.Media.DATA); cursor.moveToFirst(); return cursor.getString(column_index); } @Override public void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) { if (resultCode == RESULT_OK) { if (requestCode == SELECT_PICTURE) { Uri selectedImageUri = data.getData(); selectedImagePath = getPath(selectedImageUri); // here you can set the image } } } }