Adding taken picture into the picture content provider

coding_android · by **coding_android** » Sun Oct 05, 2008 10:50 am

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// Add some parameters to the image that will be stored in the Image ContentProvider
int UNIQUE_BUCKET_ID = 1337;
ContentValues values = new ContentValues(7);
values.put(MediaStore.Images.Media.DISPLAY_NAME,"name of the picture");
values.put(MediaStore.Images.Media.TITLE,"Thats the title of the image");
values.put(MediaStore.Images.Media.DESCRIPTION, "Some description");
values.put(MediaStore.Images.Media.BUCKET_DISPLAY_NAME,"Album name"); 
values.put(MediaStore.Images.Media.BUCKET_ID,UNIQUE_BUCKET_ID);
values.put(MediaStore.Images.Media.DATE_TAKEN,System.currentTimeMillis());
values.put(MediaStore.Images.Media.MIME_TYPE, "image/jpeg");
                
// Inserting the image meta data inside the content provider
Uri uri = getContentResolver().insert(MediaStore.Images.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI, values);
 
// Filling the real data returned by the picture callback function into the content provider
try {
        OutputStream outStream = getContentResolver().openOutputStream(uri);
        outStream.write(buffer); // buffer is the data stream returned by the picture callback
        outStream.close();
      }catch (Exception e) {
        Log.e(TAG, "Exception while writing image", e);
      }
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ninor · by **ninor** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 8:12 am

2 questions: :oops:

What's the picture content provider?
Where do the images get stored?

Artur79 · by **Artur79** » Sun Nov 23, 2008 2:18 pm

could you put full working example, please.

MrSnowflake · by **MrSnowflake** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 11:22 pm

[s]How could one play a media file from a ContentProvider, as it only returns an OutputStream and MediaPlayer doesn't take OutputStream.

You could manually write the outputstream to a temp file, but that's just bogus...[/s]

Well apparently ContentProvider has a openFileDescriptor(Uri, String), which returns a ParcelableFileDescriptor, which in part has a method called getFileDescriptor(), wich can be used with MediaPlayer!

doubleslash · by **doubleslash** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 7:35 am

Is the picture saved in the app's local directory? It doesn't show up in Pictures. How to make it show up there?

MrSnowflake · by **MrSnowflake** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 1:32 pm

You probably can't as the pictures are probably saved to the files directory of the ContentProvider's directory, which, probably, is private.

Adding taken picture into the picture content provider

Adding taken picture into the picture content provider

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