My Application is filling the SD card with Images that are used by the app. I want to prevent the gallery from reading those Images programmaticly.. Is that possible?
It's possible adding a empty .nomedia file to the folder that don't want to be scanned by the Gallery.
If you want to prevent Gallery from showing images from your app's folder, you can put a file named .nomedia in that folder.
Source: https://stackoverflow.com/a/6713863/450534
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I want to show Captured image in gallery as well as in my app.Now if image deleted from gallery image will deleted from app storage? I want to retain image and show in my app even after deleted from Gallery.How could I do this?
Create 2 folder to store image.
Create .nomedia file in one of the folder so that every media file that is inside of the folder will not be seen in the gallery.
Create 2 copy of the images one in .nomedia file folder and one in normal folder and use that folder to show files in your application.
My app saves images to a subfolder of the DCIM folder on the SD-card in the phone.
I do not wish these images to be shown in the androids gallery app.
How can I achive this?
add an empty file called .nomedia in the directory where you store the images
To hide your image file add . to file name for example sdcard/DEIM/yourapp/.yourimage.jpg
this will hide an Image.
If you want to hide one folder add . to the folder name sdcard/DEIM/.yourapp/image1.jpg
I found this solution: Stop saving photos using Android native camera
The idea is to check which files are in the gallery just before taking the picture and just after it, delete that one that is new.
It's not the cleanest solution but it works.
May It will helps you!
My app is saving some images on the SD Card, in the AppImages directory
The inbuilt gallery app is detecting these images and showing them on the gallery.
It is possible to hide these images and to be visible only for my app?
Thanks
Rename the directory from AppImages to .AppImages. The dot "hides" this folder from the system.
On an unrelated note, consider naming the folder something less generic to lessen the chance that it already exists.
You could stop the gallery from picking up your apps photos by putting a .nomedia file in the folder where they are stored. This will stop the gallery app from detecting your images, but a user still can open them in the gallery by using a file manager to navigate to the directory and selecting an image.
Hiding the images from both the user and the gallery is not possible, AFAIK.
No Need to hide the Picture.. just Rename the Extension like ".txt" it will show the pic like unsupported file
I'm building an application which download images from the web and store them into my SDCard, in order to make them invisible in the gallery I put this line to generate a .nomedia file:
FileWriter f = new FileWriter("/sdcard/Android/data/CopyImage/cache/.nomedia");
the application can successfully download the image and make the .nodata file on the same folder, but the thing is, the image is still appear on the gallery.
How could that be?
Can anybody provide me a solution?
Thank you very much
Add a "." to the beginning of folder name instead.
BTW which phone is giving u this issue. My guess is that ur seeing old cached files in the Gallery
The .nomedia file has to be the first file in a folder in order to ignore media there. If files are already indexed, just rename such folders forth and back (opening the Gallery in the middle) and there you go.
After you created the ".nomedia" file, you must reboot you phone and then the images of the folder will not appear on the gallery.
I there a way to get the entire pictures on you phone gallery, and load it into your app gallery?
Thanks.
Capiono,
AFAIK there is no intent to get EVERY image from the Gallery app
It might perhaps be easier just to do what the Gallery app does and troll your SD Card for directories with images in them. Don't forget to ignore directories with a file named .nomedia at the root.
Cheers