On Monday, August 13, 2012 3:18:14 PM UTC-7, Kostya Vasilyev wrote:
> > The media scanner has a utility class in the framework: > > > http://developer.android.com/reference/android/media/MediaScannerConnection.html > > The easiest thing you can do is to call static > MediaScannerConnection.scanFile. > Well, that requires API 8. Could I call MediaScannerConnection conn = new MediaScannerConnection(this,null); conn.scanfile(filepath,mimetype); That appears to work all the way back to API 1 - but is that too easy? > If you need to know when the scanning completes, you can implement > MediaScannerConnection, call connect, then call scanFile... > Not as curious about that. > I have to say that making apps responsible for keeping the OS's data > structures up to date is quite a novel idea > I think it is silly too - but not your fault. > And does the .nomedia file matter? > > According to the docs, it makes the media scanner ignore the directory. > Not sure if it has an effect on the scans you initiate yourself... > So that is still a maybe. The documentation says that *media applications* ignore the directory. It doesn't say if the media scanner, which now scans all files, ignores it too. File explorer apps don't appear to ignore the path. Nathan -- 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
