Re: [android-developers] Re: What does the mediascanner do?

2012-04-12 Thread Mark Murphy
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 1:13 AM, Nathan nathan.d.mel...@gmail.com wrote: It is possible that if an app makes lots and lots and lots of small files Umm - possibly guilty. But those files don't have media extensions. MediaScanner scans all files, particularly on Android 3.0+. -- Mark Murphy (a

[android-developers] Re: What does the mediascanner do?

2012-04-11 Thread Nathan
On Apr 11, 5:43 pm, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: The media scanner just scans through all of the files on external storage, collecting meta-data about them to populate the media database you so can do queries on them. A crash in the media scanner would be a bug in the media