2. startActivityForResult and proceed accordingly or Use ActivityResult API which is recommended way

Using ActivityResultContracts.PickVisualMedia/PickMultipleVisualMedia

• It provides a public companion function called isPhotoPickerAvailable() that helps us to check the availability of the Photo picker API
• Here is the code for this method:

As you can see it first check if the SDK version is ≥13if not than it checks the SDKExtension versionswhich helps developers to use it for older devices

@JvmStatic
fun isPhotoPickerAvailable(): Boolean {
    return if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.TIRAMISU) {
        true
    } else if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.R) {
        // getExtension is seen as part of Android Tiramisu only while the SdkExtensions
        // have been added on Android R
        getExtensionVersion(Build.VERSION_CODES.R) >= 2
    } else {
        false
    }
}

• Using this method to check the availability of the PhotoPicker

fun isPhotoPickerAvailable(): Boolean = 
              ActivityResultContracts.PickVisualMedia.isPhotoPickerAvailable()

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Starting from Activity version 1.7.0-alpha04

• We got a new version of isPhotoPickerAvailable(context:Context) which has the additional check to see if the device has support for the photo picker by checking the running Android version, the SDK extension version or the picker provided by Google Play services

fun isPhotoPickerAvailable(context: Context): Boolean {
    return ActivityResultContracts.PickVisualMedia.isPhotoPickerAvailable(context = context)
}

Composable to pick an image 🌅

@Composable
fun PhotoPickerResultComposable() {
    val context = LocalContext.current

    var result by rememberSaveable { mutableStateOf<Uri?>(null) }

    val pickMedia = rememberLauncherForActivityResult(ActivityResultContracts.PickVisualMedia()) { uri ->
        // Callback is invoked after the user selects a media item or closes the
        // photo picker.
        when {
            uri != null -> {
                Log.d(TAG, "PhotoPickerResultComposable:$uri")
                result = uri
            }

            else -> {
                Log.d(TAG, "No image 🌅 selected")
            }
        }
    }

    Column(
        verticalArrangement = Arrangement.Center,
        horizontalAlignment = Alignment.CenterHorizontally,
    ) {
        OpenPhotoPicker(
            openLauncher = {
                when {
                    ActivityResultContracts.PickVisualMedia.isPhotoPickerAvailable(context = context) -> pickMedia.launch(
                        PickVisualMediaRequest(
                            ActivityResultContracts.PickVisualMedia.ImageOnly,
                        ),
                    )

                    else -> Toast.makeText(context, "Photo picker not available", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show()
                }
            },
        )

        AsyncImage(
            model = result,
            contentDescription = "Image from photo picker",
            contentScale = ContentScale.Crop,
            modifier = Modifier
                .size(200.dp, 200.dp)
                .clip(CircleShape),
        )
    }
}