Question

We are making an application and in it, we want the ability to save an image. It works great and saves the image automagically on my friends phone which is a samsung galaxy II. But on my Galaxy Nexus it just returns the bitmap data.

The problem is that we are using a function to get the last image path and since Galaxy Nexus won’t save the file it just takes the last photo taken with the normal camera application.

This is our code before on result:

private void takePhoto() {
    i = new Intent(android.provider.MediaStore.ACTION_IMAGE_CAPTURE);
    startActivityForResult(i, cameraData);
}

So what I want is the know-how to save the image on the sdcard so we can use it later.

Answer 1

The following code should tell the camera to save the image to /sdcard/file.jpg:

Intent intent = new Intent(MediaStore.ACTION_IMAGE_CAPTURE);
Uri mImageCaptureUri = Uri.fromFile(new File(Environment
    .getExternalStorageDirectory(), "file.jpg"));
intent.putExtra(android.provider.MediaStore.EXTRA_OUTPUT,
    mImageCaptureUri);
intent.putExtra("return-data", true);
startActivityForResult(intent, 0);