diff --git a/android/build.gradle b/android/build.gradle
index 48443cca5..6ad2e4316 100644
--- a/android/build.gradle
+++ b/android/build.gradle
@@ -18,9 +18,10 @@ android {
         abortOnError false
     }
 }
-
 dependencies {
     implementation 'com.facebook.react:react-native:+'
     implementation 'androidx.swiperefreshlayout:swiperefreshlayout:1.1.0'
     implementation 'com.github.yalantis:ucrop:2.2.6-native'
+    implementation 'androidx.activity:activity:1.9.2'
+    implementation "androidx.core:core:1.13.1"
 }
diff --git a/android/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties b/android/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
index 0f5c93fa2..ffed3a254 100644
--- a/android/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
+++ b/android/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
-#Tue May 17 14:28:43 CEST 2016
 distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-7.2-bin.zip
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-2.10-all.zip
diff --git a/android/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml b/android/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml
index 391f3037a..a08629b2c 100644
--- a/android/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml
+++ b/android/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml
@@ -25,6 +25,16 @@
         <activity
             android:name="com.yalantis.ucrop.UCropActivity"
             android:theme="@style/Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar" />
+
+
+        <!-- Prompt Google Play services to install the backported photo picker module -->
+        <service android:name="com.google.android.gms.metadata.ModuleDependencies" android:enabled="false" android:exported="false">
+            <intent-filter>
+                <action android:name="com.google.android.gms.metadata.MODULE_DEPENDENCIES" />
+            </intent-filter>
+
+            <meta-data android:name="photopicker_activity:0:required" android:value="" />
+        </service>
     </application>
 
 </manifest>
diff --git a/android/src/main/java/com/reactnative/ivpusic/imagepicker/PickerModule.java b/android/src/main/java/com/reactnative/ivpusic/imagepicker/PickerModule.java
index 00af623b8..c183fee6e 100644
--- a/android/src/main/java/com/reactnative/ivpusic/imagepicker/PickerModule.java
+++ b/android/src/main/java/com/reactnative/ivpusic/imagepicker/PickerModule.java
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
 import android.Manifest;
 import android.app.Activity;
 import android.content.ClipData;
-import android.content.Context;
 import android.content.ContentResolver;
+import android.content.Context;
 import android.content.Intent;
 import android.content.pm.PackageManager;
 import android.graphics.Bitmap;
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@
 import android.util.Base64;
 import android.util.Log;
 import android.webkit.MimeTypeMap;
+import androidx.activity.result.PickVisualMediaRequest;
+import androidx.activity.result.contract.ActivityResultContracts;
 
 import androidx.core.app.ActivityCompat;
 import androidx.core.content.FileProvider;
@@ -41,8 +43,8 @@
 import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
 import java.io.File;
 import java.io.FileInputStream;
-import java.io.FileOutputStream;
 import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
+import java.io.FileOutputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.io.OutputStream;
@@ -365,28 +367,32 @@ private void initiateCamera(Activity activity) {
 
     private void initiatePicker(final Activity activity) {
         try {
-            final Intent galleryIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_GET_CONTENT);
+            PickVisualMediaRequest.Builder builder = new PickVisualMediaRequest.Builder();
+            PickVisualMediaRequest request = new PickVisualMediaRequest();
 
             if (cropping || mediaType.equals("photo")) {
-                galleryIntent.setType("image/*");
+                request = builder.setMediaType(new ActivityResultContracts.PickVisualMedia.SingleMimeType("image/*")).build();
+            }
+            else{
                 if (cropping) {
-                    String[] mimetypes = {"image/jpeg", "image/png"};
-                    galleryIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_MIME_TYPES, mimetypes);
+                    request = builder.setMediaType(ActivityResultContracts.PickVisualMedia.ImageOnly.INSTANCE).build();
                 }
-            } else if (mediaType.equals("video")) {
-                galleryIntent.setType("video/*");
+             else if (mediaType.equals("video")) {
+                request = builder.setMediaType(ActivityResultContracts.PickVisualMedia.VideoOnly.INSTANCE).build();
             } else {
-                galleryIntent.setType("*/*");
-                String[] mimetypes = {"image/*", "video/*"};
-                galleryIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_MIME_TYPES, mimetypes);
+                    request = builder.setMediaType(ActivityResultContracts.PickVisualMedia.ImageAndVideo.INSTANCE).build();
+                }
             }
 
-            galleryIntent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP);
-            galleryIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_ALLOW_MULTIPLE, multiple);
-            galleryIntent.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_OPENABLE);
+            Intent intent;
 
-            final Intent chooserIntent = Intent.createChooser(galleryIntent, "Pick an image");
-            activity.startActivityForResult(chooserIntent, IMAGE_PICKER_REQUEST);
+            if (multiple) {
+                intent = new ActivityResultContracts.PickMultipleVisualMedia().createIntent(activity, request);
+            } else {
+                intent = new ActivityResultContracts.PickVisualMedia().createIntent(activity, request);
+            }
+
+            activity.startActivityForResult(intent, IMAGE_PICKER_REQUEST);
         } catch (Exception e) {
             resultCollector.notifyProblem(E_FAILED_TO_SHOW_PICKER, e);
         }
@@ -801,7 +807,17 @@ private void imagePickerResult(Activity activity, final int requestCode, final i
             } else {
                 Uri uri = data.getData();
 
+                // if the result comes in clipData format (which apparently it does in some cases)
                 if (uri == null) {
+                    ClipData clipData = data.getClipData();
+                    if (clipData != null && clipData.getItemCount() > 0) {
+                        ClipData.Item item = clipData.getItemAt(0);
+                        uri = item.getUri();
+                    }
+                }
+
+                // error out if uri is still null
+                if(uri == null) {
                     resultCollector.notifyProblem(E_NO_IMAGE_DATA_FOUND, "Cannot resolve image url");
                     return;
                 }