Re: [android-developers] How to retrieve images and other files on external memory from our app searching by name

2011-10-15 Thread gaurav kumbhat
can u help me out how to do that... can u tell me its coding?? On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 4:40 PM, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.comwrote: If you are limiting your search to media, use the MediaStore content provider. Otherwise, you will need to scan external storage yourself using standard

Re: [android-developers] How to retrieve images and other files on external memory from our app searching by name

2011-10-15 Thread Studio LFP
This group is mainly to help point you in the right diection and then let you figure the code out. You could start the process with the Java I/O like Mr. Murphy said here: http://developer.android.com/reference/java/io/File.html Steven Studio LFP http://www.studio-lfp.com On Saturday,

[android-developers] How to retrieve images and other files on external memory from our app searching by name

2011-10-12 Thread Gaurav
Hi, I am making an application in which i want to search files on external memory by name. In that application user will enter the name and the app will list all the files (including images,songs,videos etc) having that name from external memory. I want to know how can i implement this thing in my

Re: [android-developers] How to retrieve images and other files on external memory from our app searching by name

2011-10-12 Thread Mark Murphy
If you are limiting your search to media, use the MediaStore content provider. Otherwise, you will need to scan external storage yourself using standard Java I/O. On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 2:50 PM, Gaurav kumbhat.gau...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am making an application in which i want to search