Where to save pictures on Android?

Question

My application uses quite a lot of pictures that are downloaded from the internet and cached locally on the Android phone. I am wondering, what is the correct way to save th

Answer 1

You can hide images from the MediaScanner if you put it in a hidden dir (i.e., with a dot prefixed) such as /sdcard/.donotscan/.

Update: As romainguy mentions on twitter this also works if you put a file named .nomedia into the dir.