Grab image from gallery

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I have a screenshot script that takes a picture from the camera and saves it to the gallery.

I would like to add a menu that pulls the image just taken from the gallery, displays it on a plane, and gives you an option to delete it. I also need to be able to add it to an email, but will probably buy one of the social media plugins for that, so now I’d just like to grab the image from the gallery and allow the user to view it and delete it…

At the moment I threw together a hacked up version that takes a screenshot and makes a new texture that uses readpixels to take a screenshot at the same time it takes a photo from the camera, and it throws the screenshot onto a plane so you can see what you just shot, but it’s separate from the picture taken so could be slightly different, but it kinda works. But it would be better to be able to grab the image from the gallery path…I just don’t quite get how you do that on mobile…I saw a way for pc using file:// but how to do on android?

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Hi lee2

I developed a plugin that can do what you need. This is the link to Asset Store: Unity Asset Store - The Best Assets for Game Making.

Let me know if this solved your problem.

Thanks

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You will need to make a Java plug-in to be able to access the files on the device. More info on Java plug-ins can be found here: Unity - Manual: Create and use plug-ins in Android

This most may also be of use to you:

Sorry I can’t be of much more use as I have only dabbled in the Java plugin side of Unity.

I hope this helps and I will try to answer any questions you might have.