Android development tutorial creating media thumbnail viewer - Part 8 displaying full screen image

In this android development tutorial series we will be creating a thumbnail viewer for the Mediastore. Which will display the thumbnails for both videos and images.

This tutorial series will introduce the viewers to android ContentProviders. Which in this example will be the MediaStore ContentProvider.

It will also cover android cursor loaders and the android RecyclerView.

Part 8 - Follows on from the previous tutorial and displays a full screen version of the thumbnail in a new activity.

Check the accompanying website tutorial here - http://goo.gl/jisjfh

Github details:

https://github.com/mobapptuts/media-thumbnail-viewer.git Tag

media-viewer-full-image

or you can run this command

git clone https://github.com/mobapptuts/media-thumbnail-viewer.git --branch

media-viewer-full-image


This video https://youtu.be/aCAxDS1c3qk describes how to import the code from github using android studio and also how to use git tags


In this tutorial we will cover:
- Creating a new activity to display the image in full screen format
- Adding an ImageView to the layout
- Getting the Uri for the image from the calling intent
- Using glide to load and display the image
- Creating an intent from the main activity and inserting the Uri of the image
- Starting the full screen activity with the intent


API's covered:
- Intent
- getIntent
- findViewById
- Intent.getData
- Glide.with
- Glide.load
- Glide.into
- startActivity


Youtube playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9jCwTXYWjDJ6o1uabT54z1YmYYBh9US6

Website series:
https://www.nigeapptuts.com/category/media-viewer/

For questions, training and consultancy support I can be contacted here https://www.codementor.io/mobapptuts

Disclaimer - The only support provided on this channel which includes questions, will be submission of suspect bugs that are reproducible on android Nexus hardware on the github code base.

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