Hi all
I am writing an application that uses the built-in camera activity for
taking pictures and sending them to a server along with some other
data.
Since our users will use this application in their jobs, I would like
the images taken, not to be available in the general gallery on the
phone.
I have tried some different approaches, with my currently implemented
solution is this:
Start the camera application using MediaStore.ACTION_IMAGE_CAPTURE
intent, and EXTRA_OUTPUT pointing to a an Uri on the SD card. The
following code is used:
imageUri = Uri.fromFile(new File(FotoDok.EXTERNALIMAGEDIR,
UUID.randomUUID() + ".jpg"));
Intent intent = new Intent(MediaStore.ACTION_IMAGE_CAPTURE);
intent.putExtra(MediaStore.EXTRA_OUTPUT, imageUri);
intent.putExtra(MediaStore.EXTRA_VIDEO_QUALITY, 1);
startActivityForResult(intent, CAPTURE_IMAGE_ACTIVITY_REQUEST_CODE);
In the folder the FotoDok.EXTERNALIMAGEDIR is pointing at, I have
placed a .nomedia file to disable media indexing.
The folder is placed at the sd card under Android/data/<myPackage>/images.
But the problem is that when using DDMS I can see that the camera
application leaves an identical image under e.g.
sdcard/DCIM/100MEDIA/IAMGE0283.jpg
And this image shows up in the gallery.
Are there any way to avoid images taken with the built-in camera
application showing up in the gallery. And here I would prefer a
general solution that works both on SE, HTC, Google, etc, devices.
I hope somebody out there have a solution for this.
Best regards
/Anders
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