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Mahantesh M Ambi
Mahantesh M Ambi

Reputation: 796

how to hide photos from gallery and store it in my app

I am developing an android application where it will select some photos from the gallery and hide them,

i am able to select particular picture from gallery and store it in my app and delete it from gallery,but a person can see those pictures if he opens my app folder in sdcard ,so how do i store them such that even if a person checks my sdcard then he should not be able to detect those pictures ?

Upvotes: 9

Views: 15930

Answers (6)

Smit Modi - Android -Flutter
Smit Modi - Android -Flutter

Reputation: 181

If you want to prevent Gallery from showing images from your app's folder, you can put a file named .nomedia in that folder.

If you want to hide the folder from apperaring in say, a File Manager, then ensure your folder starts with a period (.). For example, if the folder is called myfolder, it should be created as .myfolder

File sdCard = Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory(); File dir = new File(sdCard.getAbsolutePath() + "/.myFolder" );

Upvotes: 1

Siddharth Lele
Siddharth Lele

Reputation: 27748

If you want to prevent Gallery from showing images from your app's folder, you can put a file named .nomedia in that folder.

Source: https://stackoverflow.com/a/6713863/450534

If you want to hide the folder from apperaring in say, a File Manager, then ensure your folder starts with a period (.). For example, if the folder is called myfolder, it should be created as .myfolder

Source: https://stackoverflow.com/a/5878270/450534

Please note, that a user can change the settings of the File Manager to show hidden files and folder. For that, there is no solution.

Upvotes: 8

Guykun
Guykun

Reputation: 2779

The only secure way to do this is to encrypt the image data yourself and remove the original files, leaving only your application able to decrypt the files.

Take a look at How to encrypt file from SD card using AES in Android? to see how this can be done.

As an additional step, you can also use any number of the other answers to hide the encrypted files

Upvotes: 11

Mohd Mufiz
Mohd Mufiz

Reputation: 2236

Use your sd card folder path as

Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory().toString()+context.getPackageName+"//data//data//"+"(.folderName)";

this will provide you maximum security to your images, if user phone is not rooted this path is safe from all aspects.

Upvotes: 0

Deepika
Deepika

Reputation: 591

If you want to hide folder just add '.' as prefix to folder name.

Upvotes: 2

Chintan Khetiya
Chintan Khetiya

Reputation: 16152

See this . that are perform with one step more. they are hiding data as well as folder also.

How to hide a folder in sdcard in android

Upvotes: 0

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