share list of Images from gallery and any type of files from outside our application: - android-activity

Question

I'm trying to share a list of images from the gallery into my app to use it recycler view
or any thing else
<activity
android:icon="#mipmap/ic_launcher"
android:name=".MainActivity"
>
<intent-filter>
<category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
<action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
<action android:name="android.intent.action.SEND" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
<action android:name="android.intent.action.SEND"/>
<data android:mimeType="*/*"/>
</intent-filter>
</activity>

Answer 1

that works:-
1-specify these lines on the manifest
<activity
android:icon="#mipmap/ic_launcher"
android:name=".MainActivity"
>
<intent-filter>
<category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
<action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
<action android:name="android.intent.action.SEND" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
<action android:name="android.intent.action.SEND_MULTIPLE"/>
<data android:mimeType="*/*"/>
<data android:mimeType="image/jpeg" />
<data android:mimeType="image/png" />
<data android:mimeType="image/jpg" />
</intent-filter>
</activity>
2-Second get the action that opened your intent and check if its the one we registered for the activity and then the data is received as ArrayList of Uri
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
Intent intent = getIntent();
if (Intent.ACTION_SEND_MULTIPLE.equals(intent.getAction())) {
Bundle extras = intent.getExtras();
if (extras.containsKey(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM)) {
ArrayList<Uri> urisArrayList = extras.getParcelableArrayList(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM);
urisArrayList.forEach(i-> Log.d(TAG, "onCreate: "+i.toString()));
}
}}