How to view photos from the photo gallery of the same smartphone in the smartphone browser?

Question

Browsers

From the Internet (from an external server) a page opens in the smartphone browser.
Is it possible to do this (write such code) so that photos from a smartphone would be displayed on it?
They were not uploaded to the Internet, and they were not sent to the evil pinocchio for perversions ...
I.e. everything happens within the device - a smartphone user views his own photo gallery on his device (but not in the program, but in the browser).

Answer 1

Usually, directly, the browser (they are different, for example, based on WebView, you can probably build what you need, but it will be YOUR application and not a standard browser) in android does not have access to the file system, only through the file open dialog, i.e. . This process cannot be called convenient.

Answer 2

Create a page with links of this kind "file:///sdcard/_folder with photo_/1.jpg", I don't know how in new versions of androyd, in old ones - specifying the full path to the photo in the address bar - opens the file.