I have the following problem: I am working on an app where the user can take a picture (to attach to a post) and the picture is saved to external storage. I want this photo to show up in the pictures gallery as well and I am using a Media Scanner intent for that, but it does not seem to work. I was following the official Android developer guide when writing the code, so I don't know what's going wrong.
Parts of my code:
Intent for capturing an image:
private void dispatchTakePictureIntent() {
Intent takePictureIntent = new Intent(MediaStore.ACTION_IMAGE_CAPTURE);
// Ensure that there's a camera activity to handle the intent
if (takePictureIntent.resolveActivity(getActivity().getPackageManager()) != null) {
// Create the File where the photo should go
File photoFile = null;
try {
photoFile = createImageFile();
} catch (IOException ex) {
// Error occurred while creating the File
Toast.makeText(getActivity(), ex.getMessage(), Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
}
// Continue only if the File was successfully created
if (photoFile != null) {
takePictureIntent.putExtra(MediaStore.EXTRA_OUTPUT,
Uri.fromFile(photoFile));
startActivityForResult(takePictureIntent, REQUEST_IMAGE_CAPTURE);
}
}
}
Creating a file to save the image:
private File createImageFile() throws IOException {
// Create an image file name
String timeStamp = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMdd_HHmmss").format(new Date());
String imageFileName = "JPEG_" + timeStamp + "_";
File storageDir = Environment.getExternalStoragePublicDirectory(
Environment.DIRECTORY_PICTURES);
File image = File.createTempFile(
imageFileName, /* prefix */
".jpg", /* suffix */
storageDir /* directory */
);
// Save a file: path for use with ACTION_VIEW intents
mCurrentPhotoPath = image.getAbsolutePath();
return image;
}
Displaying the image in the view:
private void setPic() {
// Get the dimensions of the View
int targetW = 60;
int targetH = 100;
// Get the dimensions of the bitmap
BitmapFactory.Options bmOptions = new BitmapFactory.Options();
bmOptions.inJustDecodeBounds = true;
BitmapFactory.decodeFile(mCurrentPhotoPath, bmOptions);
int photoW = bmOptions.outWidth;
int photoH = bmOptions.outHeight;
// Determine how much to scale down the image
int scaleFactor = Math.min(photoW/targetW, photoH/targetH);
// Decode the image file into a Bitmap sized to fill the View
bmOptions.inJustDecodeBounds = false;
bmOptions.inSampleSize = scaleFactor;
bmOptions.inPurgeable = true;
Bitmap bitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeFile(mCurrentPhotoPath, bmOptions);
img_added.setImageBitmap(bitmap);
}
Broadcasting a Media Scanner intent to make the image show up in the gallery:
private void galleryAddPic() {
Intent mediaScanIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_MEDIA_SCANNER_SCAN_FILE);
File f = new File(mCurrentPhotoPath);
Uri contentUri = Uri.fromFile(f);
mediaScanIntent.setData(contentUri);
getActivity().sendBroadcast(mediaScanIntent);
}
Code to run after the Image Capture intent returned:
@Override
public void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {
if (requestCode == REQUEST_IMAGE_CAPTURE && resultCode == Activity.RESULT_OK) {
setPic();
galleryAddPic();
}
}
I have also tried to use Intent.ACTION_MEDIA_MOUNTED
instead of Intent.ACTION_MEDIA_SCANNER_SCAN_FILE
, but in that case I got a "permission denied" error. When I log the URI passed to the intent, I get file:///storage/emulated/0/Pictures/JPEG_20150803_104122_-1534770215.jpg
, which should be fine. Everything else works (capturing the image, saving it to external storage and displaying it in the view) except for this, so I really don't know what's going wrong. Does anyone have any idea? Thanks in advance!