Hi,

I have successfully used
android.provider.MediaStore.Images.Media.insertImage() to insert
images, which then turn up in the picture viewer after a few seconds,
see -

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/provider/MediaStore.Images.Media.html

Maybe also have a look at -

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/media/MediaScannerConnection.html

Regards

On Feb 10, 5:12 pm, Freddy <f...@charter.net> wrote:
> ok, thanks, I got the picture viewer to spawn but it doesn't display
> any new pictures since the viewer was run the first time.  If I reset
> the phone (i.e. the picture viewer is forced to restart and rescan
> pictures) and launch the viewer again then the new pictures are
> displayed as expected (so this is a caching issue).
>
> Does anyone know how to force the picture viewer to rescan photos when
> it's being brought back to the front view?  Some sort of Intent flag
> maybe?
>
> Thanks.
>
> On Feb 9, 12:25 pm, Mateo Aeon Ortega <peli...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > The Activity I think you are looking for is:
> > com.android.camera.ImageGallery2
>
> > On Feb 9, 12:09 pm, Freddy <f...@charter.net> wrote:
>
> > > I don't want to re-inventthe wheel and would like to use the existing
> > > android picture viewer.  I've found some intents to launch built-in
> > > android app such as the dialer
>
> > >                         Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_MAIN);
> > >                         intent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
> > >                         intent.setClassName(this,
> > > "com.android.phone.Dialer");
> > >                         startActivity(intent);
>
> > > but have not found one for launching the picture viewer.  How do I
> > > launch the android built-in picture viewer app?
>
> > > Thanks!- Hide quoted text -
>
> > - Show quoted text -
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