Android 9 Development Cookbook - Third Edition

Taking a photo with the default camera app

If your application needs an image from the camera, but is not a camera replacement app, it may be better to allow the default camera app to take the picture. This also respects your user's preferred camera application.

When you take a photo, unless it is specific to your application, it's considered good practice to make the photo publicly available. (This allows it to be included in the user's photo gallery.) This recipe will demonstrate using the default photo application to click a picture, save it to the public folder, and display the image.