Android - Taking photos and saving them with a custom name to a custom destination via Intent

Question

I have a program that opens the camera via Intent to take a photo. That much part works fine already. However, I want it to save to a certain folder with a certain file name

Answer 1

Here's the code that made it work:

//camera stuff
Intent imageIntent = new Intent(android.provider.MediaStore.ACTION_IMAGE_CAPTURE);
String timeStamp = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMdd_HHmmss").format(new Date());

//folder stuff
File imagesFolder = new File(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory(), "MyImages");
imagesFolder.mkdirs();

File image = new File(imagesFolder, "QR_" + timeStamp + ".png");
Uri uriSavedImage = Uri.fromFile(image);

imageIntent.putExtra(MediaStore.EXTRA_OUTPUT, uriSavedImage);
startActivityForResult(imageIntent, CAPTURE_IMAGE_ACTIVITY_REQUEST_CODE);

It opens the camera and takes exactly one shot (it goes back to the main activity after the user saves the image that was taken. It saves the image to the specified folder.