Android: Refreshing the Gallery after saving new images

Question

So in my application I at one point save a bunch of images to a temporary folder, and I want them to show up immediately in the Gallery. Off of a reboot, they do, but otherw

Answer 1

Implement MediaScannerConnectionClient and add the below code.Works perfectly in 4.4 :)

MediaScannerConnection conn;

public void startScan(String url) {
    imagepath = url;
    if (conn != null)
        conn.disconnect();
    conn = new MediaScannerConnection(activity.this, activity.this);
    conn.connect();
}

@Override
public void onMediaScannerConnected() {
    try {
        conn.scanFile(imagepath, getMimeType(imagepath));
    } catch (java.lang.IllegalStateException e) {
        //Do something
    }
}

@Override
public void onScanCompleted(String path, Uri uri) {
    conn.disconnect();
}