Question

My app allows a user to save an image to their SD card. But I’m not sure how to make it appear in the gallery until you unmount and remount the SD card. I have googled for a couple of days with this problem but am not sure how to make it appear automatically. I found
this link but I’m not sure how to use the class. This is what i use to save the file. At the bottom of the try catch block is where I want to scan the sd card for new media.

    FileOutputStream outStream = null;
    File file = new File(dirPath, fileName);
    try {
        outStream = new FileOutputStream(file);
        bm.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.JPEG, 100, outStream);
        outStream.flush();
        outStream.close();
    } catch {
         ...
    }

If anyone could point me in the right direction, I would appreciate.

Answer 1

Since the last answer I posted apparently wasn’t an appropriate method, I found another method here. You basically create a wrapper class, initialize it, and then call the scan() method. Very helpful post. Let me know if this isn’t appropriate either.