# DroidNinja/Android-FilePicker

Photopicker and document picker for android

Repository: https://github.com/DroidNinja/Android-FilePicker
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/android-filepicker
Homepage: https://arunsharma.me/blog/integrate-android-file-picker-photopicker-document-picker-android/
Language: Kotlin
License Family: other
Topics: photopicker, android-filepicker, demo, videopicker, video, android, whatsapp-like-picker
Last push: 2023-08-27T05:36:17+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3685, "days_push": 1102, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2701, forks 552 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:11.461795+00:00)

## What it is
An Android library providing a photo, video, and document picker with flexible multi-selection, similar to WhatsApp's attachment picker. It is built on AndroidX and the MediaStore API.

## Use cases
- let users pick multiple photos and videos in an android app
- select documents by file type in android
- build a whatsapp-like media attachment picker
- get file paths from content uris in kotlin
- add image and video selection to an android app

## When to choose
- you need a ready-made multi-select media/document picker for an Android app targeting SDK 28 or below
- you want a lightweight library with a simple builder API

## When to avoid
- your app targets Android 11+ (API 30) with scoped storage, since the document picker breaks
- you need a maintained library - it depends on deprecated jCenter and has no license

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: file-upload, ui-components
- domain: mobile-development, android-tools, files
- platform: jvm
- tags: file-picker, photo-picker, video-picker, document-picker, mediastore, androidx, android

## Member repositories
- DroidNinja/Android-FilePicker (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:11.461795+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:15:58.028898+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/DroidNinja/Android-FilePicker (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:11.461795+00:00, sha 4d1a37f445fe)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.