Thanks Anton. It sounds like too much extra work for so simple and basic operation. But, I guess this is only approach which would work for android. Slightly disappointing though... __ Alex
On Feb 19, 4:23 am, Streets Of Boston <[email protected]> wrote: > No. You have to do this all yourself :( > > 1. Query from the mediastore all the info for your originalimage, > including its file-path (DATA column). > 2. Query from the thumbnail mediastore the info of all the thumbnails > (can have more than one) for the givenimage. > > 3.Copyyourimage-file to another location. Remember this location > for the new DATA column of your newimage. > > 4. Insert into the mediastore all the data obtained from point (1.) > but set your DATA to the new file-path of your newimage(from point > 3.). > 5. Insert into the thumbnail mediastore the thumbnails of this newimage. Use > the data from point (2.), but update the IMAGE_ID with the > newimage-id from point (4.) and make also copies of each thumbnail > file (DATA column). > > On Feb 17, 9:19 pm, benderillo <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hi everybody, > > > Here is the problem: > > I'm trying to figure out the bestwaytocopyexisitng jpegimageon > > SD card from one folder to another with MediaStore database properly > > updated. > > > First approach I tried: > > 1) Open IN and OUT streams; 2)Copyfile to a new location as byte > > stream; 3) Use MediaScannerConnection.scanFile() to update MediaStore > > DB. > > Thiswayworks fine except one problem:imagethumbnail is not > > generated (MediaStore.Images.Thumbnails is empty). I looked inside > > "scanFile" method; it doesn't seem to have any code for thumbnail > > generation. > > > Second approach: > > Try to use Images.Media.insertImage() - with this approach I don't > > know how to chose the physical location of the new file. You can't > > control this. You just get an Uri to acopyof theimagewhich is > > copied (re-encoded) to some place but not the folder you need it to be > > in. > > > In other words, my question is: Isthereanywayto give MediaStore an > >imagefile and say "Please, take this file and fill up your database > > with all the information it should have, including thumbnail"?- Hide quoted > > text - > > - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
