Select a picture and upload android

Question

Here is the problem...

I'm trying to create an app that allows you to upload an image or sound recording to a database along with some information, The upload part isn't a problem, what I would like to do is have 3 options, take a photo, record a sound and select a file. I decided to tackle select a file first... Is it possible to be able to simply click a button which allows you to select a file then post that to my php script? and pointers on how to start the camera or sound recorder would also be appreciated greatly

Thanks

James

Answer 1

You could use a Dialog with a ListView for selecting your file. Once you've selected the file, you could check out this tutorial for uploading it to your web service:

http://www.anddev.org/upload_files_to_web_server-t443-s30.html

You can use an intent to start the camera:

Intent cameraIntent = new Intent(MediaStore.ACTION_IMAGE_CAPTURE);
startActivityForResult(cameraIntent, 1);

Which you can capture in:

@Override
protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data){
  // result code = 1
  // grab the image you took with the camera from data
}

* Update *

Regarding the dialog, you could check out these links for more information on it's creation:

is it possible to create listview inside dialog?

http://androidforums.com/application-development/53924-how-add-listview-dialog.html

Also you'll probably need to familiarize yourself with the ArrayAdapter for managing your ListView.

http://www.softwarepassion.com/android-series-custom-listview-items-and-adapters/