Android - Simple Image Viewer

Oltons · 2025-02-26T16:47:38+0000

Operating System

Android

In this tutorial we will try to create a Simple Image Viewer using Android. This simple app can use for viewing some images in a convenient way. Android is open source to developers who has an interest in developing mobile apps. It is available to any devices such as TV, phones, watches etc. So let's now do the coding.

Getting Started:

First you will have to download & install the Android Development IDE (Android Studio or Eclipse). Android Studio is an open source development feel free to develop your things.

Here's the link for the Android Studio https://developer.android.com/studio/index.html.

Layout Design

We will now create the design for the application, first to do is to create a resource that we will be using to display the image. To create a resource, go to drawable folder then import all the image that you will you use to this folder.

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Now that we're done with the image resource, first locate the layout file called activity_main.xml, this is the default name when you create a new activity. Then write these codes inside your layout file.

<?

xml version=

"1.0"

encoding=

"utf-8"

?>
<

RelativeLayout xmlns:

android=

"http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:

app=

"http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
xmlns:

tools=

"http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:

layout_width=

"match_parent"
android:

layout_height=

"match_parent"
tools:

context=

"com.razormist.simpleimageviewer.MainActivity"

>
<

ImageView
android:

id=

"@+id/iv_display"
android:

layout_width=

"wrap_content"
android:

layout_height=

"wrap_content"
android:

layout_alignParentTop=

"true"
android:

scaleType=

"fitXY"
app:

srcCompat=

"@drawable/img1"
android:

layout_marginBottom=

"30dp"
android:

layout_above=

"@+id/btn_right"

/>
<

Button
android:

id=

"@+id/btn_right"
android:

layout_width=

"wrap_content"
android:

layout_height=

"wrap_content"
android:

text=

"RIGHT"
android:

layout_marginRight=

"42dp"
android:

layout_marginEnd=

"42dp"
android:

layout_alignBaseline=

"@+id/btn_left"
android:

layout_alignBottom=

"@+id/btn_left"
android:

layout_alignParentRight=

"true"
android:

layout_alignParentEnd=

"true"

/>
<

Button
android:

id=

"@+id/btn_left"
android:

layout_width=

"wrap_content"
android:

layout_height=

"wrap_content"
android:

layout_alignParentBottom=

"true"
android:

layout_alignParentLeft=

"true"
android:

layout_alignParentStart=

"true"
android:

layout_marginBottom=

"33dp"
android:

layout_marginLeft=

"43dp"
android:

layout_marginStart=

"43dp"
android:

text=

"LEFT"

/>
</

RelativeLayout>

Android Manifest File

The Android Manifest file provides essential information about your app to the Android system in which the system must required before running the code. It describe the overall information about the application. It contains some libraries that needed to access the several method within the app.

<?

xml version=

"1.0"

encoding=

"utf-8"

?>
<

manifest xmlns:

android=

"http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
package

=

"com.razormist.simpleimageviewer"

>
<

application
android:

allowBackup=

"true"
android:

icon=

"@mipmap/ic_launcher"
android:

label=

"@string/app_name"
android:

roundIcon=

"@mipmap/ic_launcher_round"
android:

supportsRtl=

"true"
android:

theme=

"@Style/AppTheme"

>
<

activity android:

name=

".MainActivity"
android:

configChanges=

"orientation"
android:

screenOrientation=

"portrait"

>
<

intent-

filter>
<

action android:

name=

"android.intent.action.MAIN"

/>
<

category android:

name=

"android.intent.category.LAUNCHER"

/>
</

intent-

filter>
</

activity>
</

application>
</

manifest>

The Main Function

This code contains the main function of the application. This code will allow you to select image based on the button interaction. To start with first locate your MainActivity java file and open it, then write these some important variables inside the MainActivity class.

private

ImageView iv_display;
private

Button

btn_right, btn_left;
private

int

current_image_index;
private

int

[

]

images =

{

R.drawable

.img1

, R.drawable

.img2

, R.drawable

.img3

, R.drawable

.img4

, R.drawable

.img5

}

;

Then write these several method inside the activity class to make the apps work properly.

void

DisplayImage(

)

{
iv_display =

(

ImageView)

findViewById(

R.id

.iv_display

)

;
}
void

SwitchButton(

)

{
btn_right =

(

Button

)

findViewById(

R.id

.btn_right

)

;
btn_left =

(

Button

)

findViewById(

R.id

.btn_left

)

;
btn_right.setOnClickListener

(

new

View

.OnClickListener

(

)

{
@Override
public

void

onClick(

View

v)

{
current_image_index++;
current_image_index =

current_image_index %

images.length

;
iv_display.setImageResource

(

images[

current_image_index]

)

;
}
}

)

;
btn_left.setOnClickListener

(

new

View

.OnClickListener

(

)

{
@Override
public

void

onClick(

View

v)

{
current_image_index--;
if

(

current_image_index <

0

)

{
current_image_index =

images.length

-

1

;
}
iv_display.setImageResource

(

images[

current_image_index]

)

;
}
}

)

;
}

Finally, initialize all the methods inside the onCreate method to run the application.

DisplayImage(

)

;
SwitchButton(

)

Try to run the app and see if it worked.

There you have it we have created a Simple Image Viewer using Android. I hope that this tutorial help you to what you are looking for. For more updates and tutorials just kindly visit this site. Enjoy Coding!!!

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