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.
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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 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
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 have an application that creates a folder in the sd-card. After that, I do several operations which may result in storing different media files, graphics in my folder. The problem is that this folder is then visible in the Gallery section which is not appropriate. How can I hide the folder or the contents of my folder from appearing in the Gallery?
Looking forward for a response
Thanks
Put a file named .nomedia in the folder. This can be a zero-byte file if you want -- the name is what matters.
Go to My Files folder, then Pictures or create a folder and name it whatever you want. Go the newly created folder, add another folder again and name it .nomedia. Copy or move photos in the folder (not the .nomedia coz it won't show after creating it). Then you check in the gallery, and voila! Folder isn't shown!
PS: The pictures you have copied/moved can be viewed only in My Files folder, which is much safer.. ;)
PPS: This works on my samsung galaxy win.
Hope I had helped a little
Thanks.
You will start the name of the folder with a period (.). Example:
.asdhsj
Just start the folder name with period (.), it can be any name, but needs to start with period. After that the folder and it's files don't appear in gallery anymore :)
For people who are on android version 5.1.1 some of you cant do this but what you can do is change the extention of that file, for example image.png change ".png" to something like ".txt" or something that way it doesnt show up in your gallery
Happily album covers has a solution.
Here is the solution ;
Rename all album cover picture files to albumart.jpg
My detailed answer can be found here Stop images on sd card from showing up in gallery?
I keep some png files on the user's sd card. Some users report that these images are showing up in their gallery application. Sounds like the gallery implementation on some devices search out any image files they can find on the sd card and show it in the gallery. Is there a way to tell the system not to include these images in the gallery? It's just an annoyance to the users.
Thanks
You can hide individual files from the gallery with a . prefix. For example .myimage.png
I'm not sure what version dependencies the above has and it doesn`t work with some third-party picture tools like the Gallery.
You should add a file named .nomedia into the directory where your images are. You may need to eject and re-insert the SD card before the images disappear from gallery (or otherwise trigger the media scanner) after creating this file on a phone that the Gallery has already picked up the files in the Gallery.
I think the .nomedia option is the best solution, although again, third party tools may not respect the .nomedia flag.
Hiding your files from the Media
Scanner Include an empty file named
.nomedia in your external files
directory (note the dot prefix in the
filename). This will prevent Android's
media scanner from reading your media
files and including them in apps like
Gallery or Music.
In http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/data/data-storage.html#filesExternal
You may also consider saving those files as cache files or in the internal memory. More info in that link.
just keep the files in a folder and name the folder starting with a '.'
for example:
Pictures
Videos
.private--> will not be scanned for any media
Eboks
Along with these solutions using picasa is an alternative too... and .nomedia or .foldername suggestions are generally useful but...
Including accepted answer none of the solutions solve album covers problem.
A large number of android users are storing album covers inside the album folder and .dirname or .nomedia solutions are hiding all from both gallery and music player. The required functionality is hiding from gallery and showing in music player (else there is no reason for not deleting cover pics if we will not see them right? )
Here is the solution ;
Rename all album cover picture files to albumart.jpg
(or what picture you desire to hide from gallery)
This way gallery will not include them and music player will still use :)
Alternatively for any folder if you place a folder.jpg file in it that file will be ignored by gallery application.
As you can see we can only exclude max 2 files (pictures) from gallery application, not more :(
After you do this changes no need to clean caches of gallery and media scanner and reboot (still an option) just run an application that triggers scanning of media on every run. I prefer vaulty it refreshes media gallery on every run on photos, but there are lots of apps, maybe you already have one installed , just use it no need to install an application for just this media scan deal.
Knowledge source : http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=35879
While making external directory use something like this
File mediaStorageDir = new File(Environment.getExternalStoragePublicDirectory("YourDirectoryName"),"YourFolderName");
Instead of
File mediaStorageDir = new File(Environment.getExternalStoragePublicDirectory(Environment.DIRECTORY_PICTURES), "YourFolderName");
These files won't be detected by gallery for more reference check saving media files on this link
http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/media/camera.html#intent-receive
Neither Windows nor Android allow the creation of the file .nomedia
It's seen as a file extension without a name.
i tried everything but only this solution worked 100% you need to plug in your urb and format the sdcard check quick format box and press on restore defaults and then it will show everything in ur gallery just you need to move all your images again :)
You can easily create the folder in Windows using Powershell
New-Item -path 'C:\Users\Google Drive\Pictures\.nomedia' -itemtype directory