How to add an image to the emulator gallery in android studio

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I am developing an image filter app  But can t really try it if i don t have any images    I know that i can test it in the phone  but it s not the same  since I need the error messages and other stuff   I just want to access an image from the AVD s gallery so that I can test my app  How can I add one   I am using Android Studio  I saw some examples on how to do it in Eclipse  but i am not using that   So  how can I add an image to the emulator image gallery

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How to import images into the gallery of an Android Virtual Device using Android Studio: I'm using Android Studio 1.4.1 and a API 15 virtual device.

Warning: This is manual intensive so it is not a good solution for a large number of images.

Create a virtual device using Android's Device Manager (AVD), Menu /Tools/Android/AVD Manager.
Start this virtual device.
Start the Android Device monitor, Menu */Tools/Android/Android Device Monitor. In the Devices tab (upper left) you should see your device. It should be Online (see this screenshot)
On the right window is the File Explorer. Go there and select the /mnt/sdcard/Pictures directory. It should be highlighted (see this screenshot)
Add jpegs to this directory by clicking on the Push a file onto the device icon (the little phone icon I highlighted in the above screenshot. You can add only one photo at a time, dadburnit.
Go to your device and run the Dev Tools app.
Scroll down and select Media Provider.
Click on the Scan SD Card button. This should copy the images you added in step 5 to the gallery. Go to the gallery and look, they should be there.

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I went through the Android Device Monitor   Click on device Select Android Device Monitor s File Explorer tab   Select Pictures folder   path  data -  media -  0 -  Pictures   Click  Push folders on to device  icon   Select pic from computer and ok

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After trying to add an image via the Device Monitor or via drop  I could find it when exploring  but it was still not shown in the Gallery   For me  it helped to eject the  virtual  sdcard from Settings   Storage  amp  USB and reinserting it

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It s a very old question but I will answer this for future references   To add any file to emulator just drag and drop the file   The file will be copied to downloads folder of internal storage   To access the file  Go to settings  Click On Storage  amp  USB  Click On Internal Storage  Click On Explore  at the end   and you got it in the downloads folder   now you will get notification to setup virtual SD card  follow the setup  after the successful setup you will be able to see pictures in gallery

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Copy a file to the emulator  Open emulator and File Explorer  Finder in Mac  side by side  Choose the file you want to copy then Drag and Drop the file onto the emulator  The selected file will be copied to the Downloads folder of the emulator  How to view files in Android Studio  Android Studio has Device Explorer to explore emulator content  Earlier we used to have DDMS  which is deprecated in Studio 3    Goto View - gt  Tools Window - gt  Device File Explorer and you can see the explorer window  Goto Storage - gt  emulated - gt  0 - gt Download  if you don t see the file here  please restart the emulator and that s it  Note  You don t see Device Explorer if you have opened a Flutter project  You can also view the image files in Android Studio by double-clicking the file in the emulator

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Try using Device File Explorer    Start the Device Navigate to View- Tool Windows- Device File Explorer to open the Device File Explorer Click on sdcard and select the folder in which you want to save the file to   Right-click on the folder and select upload to select the file from your computer   Select the file and click ok to upload

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I d like to complement Mithilesh Izardar s answer   Indeed the best approach is simply to  Drag and Drop   which afterwards you can find the files in the emulator at Settings   Storage   Internal Storage   Explore   Download  API 25   The problem for me was that after following these steps the pics weren t appearing neither in the  Gallery  nor in the  Downloads   by simply clicking the  Downloads  icon    The reason for this is because by default everything in the emulator has no permissions   so all you gotta do is give the  Gallery  storage permission  Settings   Apps   Gallery   Permissions  API 25   Ps  If you just copied the pictures  the new ones won t show up right away  You should either restart the emulator  or remount the sdcard  at Settings   Storage unmount the sdcard by clicking the eject icon then remount it

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As of API 28 at least   Open Settings app in emulator Search for  quot Storage quot  select search result for it Select Photos  amp  Videos in Storage Select Images Drag an image onto the emulator  it won t immediately show up From the AVD Manager in Android Studio  cold boot the emulator  The photos you ve dragged in are now available

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I had the same problem too  I used this code   Intent photoPickerIntent   new Intent Intent ACTION GET CONTENT   photoPickerIntent setType  image      startActivityForResult photoPickerIntent  SELECT PHOTO     Using the ADM  add the images on the sdcard or anywhere   And when you are in your vm and the selection screen shows up  browse using the top left dropdown seen in the image below

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Workaround simple and quick  Upload file photo on cloud  from outside the emulator  and download with browser on the emulator

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Although you can have logat on a real device too  if you need to use an emulator try transferring the images through the Android Device Monitor  accessible from the toolbar in Android Studio  it s in eclipse too  of course    Once you select the device from ADM  you can see the folders tree and copy things inside

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