How to Display Thumbnails of Images Stored in the SD Card

Using the following example we can display the thumbnails of images stored in the sd card. Here im displaying the thumbnails in the Grid view.
You should to add the folowing permission in the manifest xml file.
< uses-permission android:name="android.permission.MOUNT_UNMOUNT_FILESYSTEMS"/>
Sd card should be available with the emulator or real device.

ImageThumbnailsActivity is the main Activity.

AndroidManifest.xml
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
< manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
      package="image.Thumbnails" android:versionCode="1" android:versionName="1.0.0">
      < uses-permission android:name="android.permission.MOUNT_UNMOUNT_FILESYSTEMS" />
      < application android:icon="@drawable/icon" android:label="@string/app_name">
            < activity android:name=".ImageThumbnailsActivity"
                  android:label="@string/app_name">
                  < intent-filter>
                        < action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
                        < category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER"/>
                  </intent-filter>
            </activity>
            < activity android:name=".ViewImage">
                  < intent-filter>
                        < action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
                        < category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
                  </intent-filter>
            </activity>
      </application>
</manifest>

package image.Thumbnails;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Context;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.database.Cursor;
import android.net.Uri;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.provider.MediaStore;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;
import android.widget.AdapterView;
import android.widget.BaseAdapter;
import android.widget.GridView;
import android.widget.ImageView;
import android.widget.AdapterView.OnItemClickListener;

public class ImageThumbnailsActivity extends Activity {
      /** Called when the activity is first created. */
      private Cursor imagecursor, actualimagecursor;
      private int image_column_index, actual_image_column_index;
      GridView imagegrid;
      private int count;
      @Override
      public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
            super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
            setContentView(R.layout.main);
            init_phone_image_grid();
      }
      private void init_phone_image_grid() {
            String[] img = { MediaStore.Images.Thumbnails._ID };
            imagecursor = managedQuery(
MediaStore.Images.Thumbnails.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI, img, null,
null, MediaStore.Images.Thumbnails.IMAGE_ID + "");
            image_column_index = imagecursor
.getColumnIndexOrThrow(MediaStore.Images.Thumbnails._ID);
            count = imagecursor.getCount();
            imagegrid = (GridView) findViewById(R.id.PhoneImageGrid);
            imagegrid.setAdapter(new ImageAdapter(getApplicationContext()));
            imagegrid.setOnItemClickListener(new OnItemClickListener() {
                  public void onItemClick(AdapterView parent, View v,
int position, long id) {
                        System.gc();
                        String[] proj = { MediaStore.Images.Media.DATA };
                        actualimagecursor = managedQuery(
MediaStore.Images.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI, proj,
null, null, null);
                        actual_image_column_index = actualimagecursor
.getColumnIndexOrThrow(MediaStore.Images.Media.DATA);
                        actualimagecursor.moveToPosition(position);
                        String i = actualimagecursor.getString(actual_image_column_index);
                        System.gc();
                        Intent intent = new Intent(getApplicationContext(), ViewImage.class);
                        intent.putExtra("filename", i);
                        startActivity(intent);
                  }
            });
      }


      public class ImageAdapter extends BaseAdapter {
            private             Context mContext;
            public ImageAdapter(Context c) {
                  mContext = c;
            }
            public int getCount() {
                  return count;
            }
            public Object getItem(int position) {
                  return position;
            }
            public long getItemId(int position) {
                  return position;
            }
            public View getView(int position,View convertView,ViewGroup parent) {
                  System.gc();
                  ImageView i = new ImageView(mContext.getApplicationContext());
                  if (convertView == null) {
                        imagecursor.moveToPosition(position);
                        int id = imagecursor.getInt(image_column_index);
                        i.setImageURI(Uri.withAppendedPath(
MediaStore.Images.Thumbnails.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI, ""
+ id));
                        i.setScaleType(ImageView.ScaleType.CENTER_CROP);
                        i.setLayoutParams(new GridView.LayoutParams(92, 92));
                  }
                  else {
                        i = (ImageView) convertView;
                  }
                  return i;
            }
      }
}

// By selecting the thumbnails user can view the actual image.
package image.Thumbnails;

import android.os.Bundle;
import android.widget.ImageView;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.graphics.Bitmap;
import android.graphics.BitmapFactory;

public class ViewImage extends Activity {
      private String filename;
      @Override
      public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
            super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
            System.gc();
            Intent i = getIntent();
            Bundle extras = i.getExtras();
            BitmapFactory.Options bfo = new BitmapFactory.Options();
            bfo.inSampleSize = 2;
            filename = extras.getString("filename");
            ImageView iv = new ImageView(getApplicationContext());
            Bitmap bm = BitmapFactory.decodeFile(filename, bfo);
            iv.setImageBitmap(bm);
            setContentView(iv);
      }
}



//main.xml

< ?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
< LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="vertical" android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent">
< GridView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="@+id/PhoneImageGrid" android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:numColumns="auto_fit"
android:verticalSpacing="10dp" android:horizontalSpacing="10dp"
android:columnWidth="90dp" android:stretchMode="columnWidth"
android:gravity="center" />
< /LinearLayout>