How To Pick An Image From Gallery In Xamarin Android App

Introduction

Xamarin is a platform to develop cross-platform and multi-platform apps (Ex. Windows phone, Android, iOS). In Xamarin, the code sharing concept is used. The Xamarin Studio is available in Visual Studio also.

Prerequisites

• Visual Studio 2015 update 3

The following steps are needed to be followed in order to pick an image from Gallery in an Android app.

Step 1

Open Visual Studio and go to File --> New--> Project, or click (Ctrl+Shift+N).



Step 2

Select Installed --> Templates --> Visual C# --> Android --> choose the Blank App (Android).



Next, give your Android app a name (Ex:sample) and give a path to your project. Finally, click OK.

Step 3

Go to the Solution Explorer and select Resource --> Layout --> double click to open Main.axml page. You can select either the code view or the designer view, based on your expertise.



Step 4

I have opened the page in designer view. Now, delete the default "hello world" button by going to the source panel and deleting its coding.

Also, go to the MainActivity.cs page and delete the C# button action code.



Step 5

Next, go to the toolbox window and scroll down. Spot the Button control and drag and drop it on the page design.



Step 6

Drag and drop the Image View.



Step 7

Next, go to the properties window and edit the Button text value and id value(Ex: android:text="Pick Image" android:id="@+id/MyButton" ).



Step 8

Edit the Image View properties or note the values.



Main.axml