Android Capturing Images from Camera or Gallery as Bitmaps

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Capturing images using a camera and using it in your Android applications can be tricky at times but the process is quite simple.

So in this story, I will teach you to get images from the gallery or capture images using a camera and then getting those images as bitmaps in our applications.

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So lets’ Start

So firstly create a new Android studio project and select Java as the programming language. For Kotlin click here.

Layout

Now in the activity_main.xml file place an ImageView widget