Android - Image Picker From Gallery using ActivityResultContracts in Kotlin

Last Updated : 24 Apr, 2025

Android has deprecated the startActivityForResult() method and instead of this introduced ActivityResultContracts which is a more efficient way of handling the after-activity result.

Steps to implement image picker from gallery & camera in Kotlin

Create an empty activity Android project, select Kotlin as the language, and click finish.
Refer to How to Create/Start a New Project in Android Studio to know how to create an empty activity Android Studio Project.

Enable viewBinding by adding the below code in buide.gradle(app) file inside android {}

Kotlin

 viewBinding{
       enabled=true
   }

Getting started with building layout in activity_main.xml

The layout of the application includes one Image View to view the selected image and one button to open the image selector.
To implement the layout of the application, write the following code in the activity_main.xml file.

XML

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    tools:context=".MainActivity"
    android:orientation="vertical">

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/button"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"
        android:layout_marginTop="36dp"
        android:backgroundTint="@color/colorPrimary"
        android:text="SELECT IMAGE"
        android:textColor="@color/white"
        android:textSize="20sp" />

    <ImageView
        android:id="@+id/image"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="350dp"
        android:layout_marginStart="16dp"
        android:layout_marginTop="16dp"
        android:layout_marginEnd="16dp" />

</LinearLayout>

Writing the Kotlin code in the MainActivity Kotlin Class

Kotlin

package com.example.myapplication
import androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatActivity
import android.os.Bundle
import androidx.activity.result.contract.ActivityResultContracts
import com.example.myapplication.databinding.ActivityMainBinding

class MainActivity : AppCompatActivity() {
    lateinit var binding:ActivityMainBinding
    val galleryLauncher = registerForActivityResult(ActivityResultContracts.GetContent()) {
        val galleryUri = it
        try{
            binding.image.setImageURI(galleryUri)
        }catch(e:Exception){
            e.printStackTrace()
        }

    }
    override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)
        binding= ActivityMainBinding.inflate(layoutInflater)
        setContentView(binding.root)
        binding.button.setOnClickListener {
            galleryLauncher.launch("image/*")
        }
    }
}

Output:

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Android - Image Picker From Gallery using ActivityResultContracts in Kotlin

Steps to implement image picker from gallery & camera in Kotlin

Enable viewBinding by adding the below code in buide.gradle(app) file inside android {}

Getting started with building layout in activity_main.xml

Writing the Kotlin code in the MainActivity Kotlin Class

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