Thanks (belatedly) for your reply. For the time being I've stuck with manually writing my images to /sdcard/DCIM/AppName, which may or may not be the best solution. I haven't yet checked to see if getContentProvider().insert allows you to specify the DCIM subdirectory, but my guess is no. (Which is disappointing if my guess is right, because the directory hierarchy and the Gallery app both seem to be purpose-built for exactly that.)
I'm quite happy writing my image files manually, provided that: - this is not strongly frowned upon, and - i can figure out a way to force gallery to refresh from the filesystem (this may be the sticking point) Any thoughts? On Jun 21, 7:18 pm, Streets Of Boston <[email protected]> wrote: > Compress (Bitmap.compress) the image yourself into a file. > Then use the > getContentProvider().insert(MediaStore.Images.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI, > ....) > to insert your image into the database/content-provider. > > When inserting, you can create a ContentValues name-value pair with > MediaStore.MediaColumns.DATA for the name and the fully qualified file- > path to the image for the value. > > On Jun 20, 11:16 pm, Julian <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > So from what I can tell Media.insertImage is locked to heavy > > compression on all images. This includes when passing in the path to a > > photo in the filesystem. As a test I used a 3000x2000 pixel jpg which > > had been previously saved at maximum quality and was ~6MB. After > > passing the path to Media.insertImage, the resultant copy (still > > 3000x2000) is 623KB. > > > I passed in another copy of the 3000x2000 image, this one compressed > > down to 393KB. After Media.insertImage, the image filesize is 492KB. > > > I'm wondering if there's a way to specify the compression when images > > are saved by insertImage. > > > I'm also wondering why this is recompressing jpgs, rather than simply > > copying them intoDCIM. A side-effect of opening and re-compressing > > these images is that it imposes a rather low VM cap on what > > insertImage can handle. I'm getting out-of-memory errors when trying > > to pass the path of a 10 megapixel image. > > > As an aside: are there any problems with a developer creating their > > own file/folder structure underDCIM? Is this frowned upon? > > > Thanks for any thoughts, > > > Julian -- 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
