Android's Photo Picker is adding a search bar that helps you find specific images in your gallery, and it could also soon get a date scrubber.

With a few additions to the Java code for an Android app, you can retrieve the content of an image file on the user's file system.

A few years ago, Android introduced a built-in photo picker that lets you choose specifically which of your images a given app has access to. Prior to this change, uploading an image to an app ...