When I load an image from the media gallery into a Bitmap, everything is working fine, except that pictures that were shot with the camera while holding the phone vertically, are rotated so that I always get a horizontal picture even though it appears vertical in the gallery. Why is that and how can I load it correctly?
Have you looked at the EXIF data of the images? It may know the orientation of the camera when the picture was taken.
So, as an example...
First you need to create an ExifInterface:
ExifInterface exif = new ExifInterface(filename);
You can then grab the orientation of the image:
orientation = exif.getAttributeInt(ExifInterface.TAG_ORIENTATION, 1);
Here's what the orientation values mean: http://sylvana.net/jpegcrop/exif_orientation.html
So, the most important values are 3, 6 and 8. If the orientation is 6, for example, you can rotate the image like this:
Matrix matrix = new Matrix();
matrix.postRotate(90);
rotatedBitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap(sourceBitmap, 0, 0, sourceBitmap.getWidth(), sourceBitmap.getHeight(), matrix, true);
That's just a quick example, though. I'm sure there are other ways of performing the actual rotation. But you will find those on StackOverflow as well.