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I think Android does/ can do just that? There's a native photo picking intent, and the app just gets back a photo. Whether it was from the camera, the gallery,
by sk0g 7y ago
I think Android does/ can do just that? There's a native photo picking intent, and the app just gets back a photo. Whether it was from the camera, the gallery, etc, who cares?
In practice, most apps would rather have their own in-app photo grid. Nothing to do with wanting to violate your privacy, I'm sure :)
- baroffoos 7y agoI know it certainly has a photopicker but I don't know if you have to have filesystem access to pick one or if you can save photos.
- londons_explore 7y agoThe photo picking intent leads to a confusing UI - it's common for phones to have many photo picking intents, so a typical flow would be: * User clicks "attach photo" * Phone asks, do you want to use "Photos", "Gallery", "Google Photos", "Camera". * User wants to share a screenshot - so they don't know which to pick. They choose "Gallery". * The built in gallery app doesn't show images apart from those taken with the camera. User goes back. * User picks "Google Photos" * Google photos only shows screenshots under a confusingly named "device folders" link in a hidden-by-default side menu. User doesn't find that. * User tries "Photos". * That turns out to be an alias of Google Photos put there by the phone manufacturer. * User tries "Camera". That lets them take a picture, or to scroll through another list of past camera photos. * User gives up. And we wonder why apps don't use that feature of the platform...
- jclardy 7y agoiOS does as well. An app can use the system photo picker to allow the user to select a single/multiple photos without having "Photos" permission. The problem is that granting full save permission also grants read permission, it would be more ideal if those were split.