how to hide images from android gallery

android android-sdcard android-gallery
PPShein picture PPShein · Jul 23, 2013 · Viewed 15.8k times · Source

One part of my current project is downloading images from URL then saving to SDCard. But the problem is all of saved images in sdcard is displayed in android gallery page. What I want is "I don't want all of my saved images in android gallery."

Answer

ozbek picture ozbek · Jul 23, 2013

  1. Add ".nomedia" file. Did not work? Try the second option.

  2. Save your files to a folder that starts with ".", e.g., /sdcard/.myimages/

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