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    <p>I am trying to save an image from my application to the default gallery of my phone. The code below works perfectly if I have a SD card on the phone. The image saved appears in the phone's gallery and everything, as expected:</p> <pre><code>private Uri saveMediaEntry(File f, String title, String description, int orientation, Location loc) { ContentValues v = new ContentValues(); v.put(Images.Media.TITLE, title); v.put(Images.Media.DISPLAY_NAME, title); v.put(Images.Media.DESCRIPTION, description); v.put(Images.Media.ORIENTATION, orientation); String nameFile = f.getName(); File parent = f.getParentFile() ; String path = parent.toString().toLowerCase() ; String nameParent = parent.getName().toLowerCase() ; v.put(Images.ImageColumns.BUCKET_ID, path.hashCode()); v.put(Images.ImageColumns.BUCKET_DISPLAY_NAME, nameParent); v.put(Images.Media.SIZE,f.length()) ; if( nameFile.toLowerCase().contains(".png") ){ v.put(Images.Media.MIME_TYPE, "image/png"); }else if( nameFile.toLowerCase().contains(".jpg") || nameFile.toLowerCase().contains(".jpeg") ){ v.put(Images.Media.MIME_TYPE, "image/jpeg"); }else{ v.put(Images.Media.MIME_TYPE, "image/jpeg"); } String imagePath = f.getAbsolutePath(); v.put("_data", imagePath) ; ContentResolver c = getContentResolver() ; Uri uriOfSucessfulySavedImage = null; uriOfSucessfulySavedImage = c.insert(MediaStore.Images.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI, v); return uriOfSucessfulySavedImage; } </code></pre> <p>However, if I try to save the same image into the internal storage (for when the phone does not have a SD card), the image does not appear in the phone's gallery! To try to do that, I only change one line from the above code:</p> <pre><code>uriOfSucessfulySavedImage = c.insert(MediaStore.Images.Media.INTERNAL_CONTENT_URI, v); </code></pre> <p>The interesting thing about this, however, is that the variable <code>uriOfSucessfulySavedImage</code> is not null (it returns <code>content://media/internal/images/media/x</code>, where 'x' is a number). So, the image is being saved somewhere in the internal storage of the phone, but it is not getting displayed in the phone gallery's as when I use <code>MediaStore.Images.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI</code>.</p> <p>Does anybody have any clue what is going on? How can I save an image into the internal storage of the phone <em>and have that image in the phone's gallery</em>?</p> <h2>Update</h2> <p>I forgot one important information. The File "f" in the parameters of the method <em>"saveMediaEntry"</em> is coming from this other method for when the SD card is mounted (that is, for the first code):</p> <pre><code>public static File getCacheDirectory(String desiredNameOfTheDirectory){ File fileCacheDir = null; if (Environment.getExternalStorageState().equals(Environment.MEDIA_MOUNTED) ){ fileCacheDir = new File( Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory(), desiredNameOfTheDirectory ); } if(!fileCacheDir.exists()){ fileCacheDir.mkdirs(); } return fileCacheDir; } </code></pre> <p>and from the following code for when the SD card <strong>is not</strong> founded:</p> <pre><code>public static File getCacheDirectory(String desiredNameOfTheDirectory, Context context){ File fileCacheDir = null; fileCacheDir = context.getCacheDir(); if(!fileCacheDir.exists()){ fileCacheDir.mkdirs(); } return fileCacheDir; } </code></pre>
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    1. COpossible duplicate of [Image, saved to sdcard, doesn't appear in Android's Gallery app](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2170214/image-saved-to-sdcard-doesnt-appear-in-androids-gallery-app)
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