android: how to hide folder from appearing in the Gallery

Question

I have an application that creates a folder in the sd-card. After that, I do several operations which may result in storing different media files, graphics in my folder. The

Answer 1

For people who are on android version 5.1.1 some of you cant do this but what you can do is change the extention of that file, for example image.png change ".png" to something like ".txt" or something that way it doesnt show up in your gallery