Most robust way to fetch album art in Android

Question

Please note that I have already been through similar questions and their answers here and on other websites. I also have a solution that works on some devices (my G2X runnin

Answer 1

This below code snippet returns the uri for the album art cache present in the MediaStore. may be this will help.

            Cursor cursorAudio = managedQuery(MediaStore.Audio.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI, {MediaStore.Audio.Media.ALBUM_ID, MediaStore.Audio.Media.DATA}, MediaStore.Audio.Media.DATA+ " LIKE \"" + path+ "\"", null, null);if(cursorAudio != null  && cursorAudio.moveToFirst()){
        Long albumId = Long.valueOf(cursorAudio.getString(cursorAudio.getColumnIndex(MediaStore.Audio.Media.ALBUM_ID)));
        cursorAudio.close();
        Cursor cursorAlbum = managedQuery(MediaStore.Audio.Albums.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI, {MediaStore.Audio.Albums._ID, MediaStore.Audio.Albums.ALBUM_ART}, MediaStore.Audio.Albums._ID+ "=" + albumId, null, null);
        if(cursorAlbum != null  && cursorAlbum.moveToFirst()){
            String uri = cursorAlbum.getString(cursorAlbum.getColumnIndex(MediaStore.Audio.Albums.ALBUM_ART));
            cursorAlbum.close();
            if(uri != null){
                return Uri.parse(uri);
            }
        }