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Adam Katz
Adam Katz

Reputation: 6962

Download images and save them but dont want them in the gallery

I have a chat app and I need to save the images that the user sends receives. For the images the user sends I am saving it to an image folder like so

private void imageDownload(final String url){

    Picasso.with(getContext())
            .load(url)
            .into(getTarget(url));

}

//target to save
private static Target getTarget(final String url){
    Target target = new Target(){

        @Override
        public void onBitmapLoaded(final Bitmap bitmap, Picasso.LoadedFrom from) {
            new Thread(new Runnable() {

                @Override
                public void run() {

                    File heyJudeFile = new File(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory().getPath() + "/Hey Jude");
                    if (!heyJudeFile.exists()){
                        heyJudeFile.mkdirs();
                    }

                            localProfilePictureAdress = Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory().getPath() + "/Hey Jude" + "/" + url.substring(url.lastIndexOf("/")+1);

                    File file = new File(localProfilePictureAdress);
                    try {
                        file.createNewFile();
                        FileOutputStream ostream = new FileOutputStream(file);
                        bitmap.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.JPEG, 80, ostream);
                        ostream.flush();
                        ostream.close();
                    } catch (IOException e) {
                        Log.e("IOException", e.getLocalizedMessage());
                    }
                }
            }).start();

        }

        @Override
        public void onBitmapFailed(Drawable errorDrawable) {

        }

        @Override
        public void onPrepareLoad(Drawable placeHolderDrawable) {

        }
    };
    return target;
}

But for images the user receives I want to save the images but I do not want the images to be viewable in the gallery how does that work?

Thanks

Upvotes: 1

Views: 118

Answers (2)

Mahesh Babariya
Mahesh Babariya

Reputation: 4570

Use below method to hide media from gallery

/* To Hide media file in gallery  */ 
public void createNoMedia(String myDir){

    File noMediaFile = new File(myDir, ".nomedia");
    if (!noMediaFile.exists()) {
        try { 
            noMediaFile.createNewFile();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } 
    } 
}

/* To use this */
dir = Environment.getExternalStoragePublicDirectory(Environment.DIRECTORY_PICTURES) + "/MyImages/";
File newDir = new File(dir);
newDir.mkdirs();
createNoMedia(dir);

and in manifest.xml You also need the WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission.

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />

Upvotes: 1

Amir Panahandeh
Amir Panahandeh

Reputation: 9039

you can do it by editing name of your file and adding an unknown format like ".example" then it doesn't appear in gallery

Upvotes: 0

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