Download picture on android

You come across a photo that you really want saved on your device. Pull down your notification shade to find the download notification. Either click that notification or head over to your gallery app. If downloaded correctly, the photo has been saved to your device!

Still having trouble? Head to the comments and we will do our best to help you out! If there is anything you would like to suggest to AndroidGuys or to any other readers, feel free to use the comment section below! Ive tried double click and long click with same result. Phone is a Motorola defy. I tried long press, double tap.. What else can i do? What do I do? Hello, i have a basic LG straight talk Android i bought from Walmart. I cant figure out how to download pics from anything. I tried to press and hold down on the pics like you suggested…and nothing.

I would tremendously appreciate your help. The only way i can store any picture is if i take a picture with camera on phone…. Pleeeeease help. At one time my phone use to let me download pictures, but now I gets nothing. Can somebody explain to me why this happened. It stopped working after I applied screen protector. This creates a new file in your gallery instead of deleting the existing image with the same title as the one you want to download.

This is a slight inconvenience caused by the Chrome app. Automatically downloads and calls it images 2. On my old phone it never did this until recently. Can you help me in finding a solution to this please? I would very much appreciate it. Thank you for reading. This is a problem with the Google App that happens with all phones. I am using New Samsung galaxy j7. I used to do the same process in my old Android phone. Step 1 Open Google Photos on your phone.

Select the photo you want to download to Gallery. Step 2 Tap the three dot icon on the top and select Save to the device. The picture will be downloaded to Gallery. If you want to download all photos from Google Photos to phone, you can make use of Google Drive. Step 2 Select the pictures that you want to get from Google Photos.

If you don't use Google Drive, you can also restore all your photos backed up to Google Photo to device in these steps. It is important to back up precious photos, videos on the Android phone. However, Google Photos can be very confusing:.

Instead of backing up your photos to unstable and complicated Google Photos, why not switch to a more straight-forward method: backing up the photos to PC? It is easy to back up and restore. Step 2 Click Device Data Backup and choose to back up photos, videos only. Tick Encrypted backup to encrypt the backup. Click Start. A backup file will be saved in a chosen folder. Select the backup of your Android photos. If you have encrypted the backup, you'll need to enter the password. Backing up photos to PC is much simpler than backing up the photos to Google.

What do you think? I have included examples for progressive JPEG's and animated images into the sample project. Conclusion - "I have learned about the great stuff, what should I use now? If your app saves images or other files as a result of a user or an automated action and you don't need the images to be displayed often, use the Android DownloadManager.

And here's the BasicImageDownloader. Bitmap; import android. BitmapFactory; import android. AsyncTask; import android. NonNull; import android. Log; import java. BufferedInputStream; import java. ByteArrayOutputStream; import java.

File; import java. FileOutputStream; import java. IOException; import java. InputStream; import java. URL; import java. URLConnection; import java. HashSet; import java. The URL is probably not pointing to a file". Improve this answer. What about the onPictureTaken callback which gives the picture as byte[], can one get a URL to that picture, straight from the camera?

Or is basic old outputStream the only way in Android to save a picture which was taken by a camera without using the built in intent? That seems strange, because the natural thing to do after onPictureTaken is of course to save it. Is there no particular support for doing that? Tombola Hi! This post is about downloading a picture from the web. But to answer your question as far as I've understood it : the common way of saving a camera picture is getting its path from the Cursor in the onActivityResult method , then creating a Bitmap using that path.

BartBurg this question is about downloading and saving an image. But you're right at some point, since there's a write method, there also should be a read method for the sake of completeness. I will add it in the next update to this post soon. Can you please provide an example using this BasicImageDownloader?

JaydevKalivarapu please check the demo app on GitHub source class containing example — Droidman. Show 2 more comments. JPEG, 90, out ; out. Venkat Kotra 9, 3 3 gold badges 42 42 silver badges 49 49 bronze badges. Nasz Njoka Sr. Note : while this example could generally work, it does not provide any error handling and also lacks some basic understanding of AsyncTask 's advantages proper use of parametrization, parallel execution..

Please refer to my examples below for details. Yes Droidman, I agree with you. This piece of code should be taken as a tamplate and one has to complete it on his own, including error handling.

By the way, your code lacks error handling too. What will happened to your connection and streams in case of IOException? Androider please take a closer look at my download method, particularly the doInBackground method of the task that I use. An IOException would land in the catch Throwable e block, resulting in an ImageError being returned and the onError callback being triggered.

The ImageError object will contain the original stack trace and the cause of the occurred Exception — Droidman. Yes, but your connection will not be disconnected and your streams will not be closed — Androider.

Androider ah, I see your point. Though I never noticed any suspicious leaks on my test devices, this behavior might be different on other devices. Thanks for the hint - I have updated the code — Droidman. Show 1 more comment. Request downloadUri ; request. No, really. DarkCygnus 6, 3 3 gold badges 34 34 silver badges 53 53 bronze badges.

Your code work perfect for one image! I get a message saying file damaged! How do we know whether it is downloaded successfully or failed — Prabs. Ajay Ajay 1, 11 11 silver badges 28 28 bronze badges. Here are the steps to follow: 1. PNG, , foStream ; foStream. If you want further steps such as load the image you can follow these extra steps: 4.