Android How to use MediaScannerConnection scanFile

Question

Im adding images to a folder on the SDCARD. Since the images and my folder is not immediately visible in the Gallery im trying to get the MediaScannerConnection to update an

Answer 1

Do not do the sendBroadcast if you only want one image to appear in the gallery. That'd be a huge waste of resources. You'll need to make a MediaScannerConnectionClient and then call connect() on the MediaScannerConnection you make from it to scan the file. Here's an example:

private MediaScannerConnectionClient mediaScannerConnectionClient = 
    new MediaScannerConnectionClient() {

    @Override
    public void onMediaScannerConnected() {
        mediaScannerConnection.scanFile("pathToImage/someImage.jpg", null);
    }

    @Override
    public void onScanCompleted(String path, Uri uri) {
        if(path.equals("pathToImage/someImage.jpg"))
            mediaScannerConnection.disconnect();
    }
};
new MediaScannerConnection(context, mediaScannerConnectionClient).connect();