Open an image in Android's built-in Gallery app programmatically

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Published on 2010-01-30T22:11:43Z Indexed on 2010/04/14 10:23 UTC
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Hi all,

I am trying to open an image / picture in the Gallery built-in app from inside my application.

I have a URI of the picture (the picture is located on the SD card).

Do you have any suggestions?

Thank you in advance.

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