Android Prevent Gallery from Reading Application Images

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My Application is filling the SD card with Images that are used by the app. I want to prevent the gallery from reading those Images programmaticly.. Is that possible?

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 09 '12 at 12:22

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It's possible adding a empty .nomedia file to the folder that don't want to be scanned by the Gallery.

answered Nov 09 '12 at 12:22

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score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:12

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If you want to prevent Gallery from showing images from your app's folder, you can put a file named .nomedia in that folder.

Source: https://stackoverflow.com/a/6713863/450534

edited May 23 '17 at 12:12

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answered Nov 09 '12 at 12:24

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@Naskov: Glad to have been of help. :-) – Siddharth Lele Nov 14 '12 at 09:54

Android Prevent Gallery from Reading Application Images

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