Android: How to query a list of bucket name

Question

I want to retrieve only the name of the bucket (Albums). E.g. Camera, Download etc but not a list of Camera, Download etc from all the the photos so how do I retrieve one ro

Answer 1

You can query MediaStore.Images.Media.BUCKET_DISPLAY_NAME for it. Peter Knego sent a good example. It's a good example and you can update it using query() from a ContentResolver object rather than managedQuery() that is deprecated.

// which image properties are we querying
String[] projection = new String[]{
        MediaStore.Images.Media._ID,
        MediaStore.Images.Media.BUCKET_DISPLAY_NAME,
        MediaStore.Images.Media.DATE_TAKEN
};

// Get the base URI for the People table in the Contacts content provider.
Uri images = MediaStore.Images.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI;

// Make the query.
ContentResolver cr = getContentResolver();
Cursor cur = cr.query(images,
        projection, // Which columns to return
        "",         // Which rows to return (all rows)
        null,       // Selection arguments (none)
        ""          // Ordering
        );

Log.i("ListingImages"," query count="+cur.getCount());

if (cur.moveToFirst()) {
    String bucket;
    String date;
    int bucketColumn = cur.getColumnIndex(
        MediaStore.Images.Media.BUCKET_DISPLAY_NAME);

    int dateColumn = cur.getColumnIndex(
        MediaStore.Images.Media.DATE_TAKEN);

    do {
        // Get the field values
        bucket = cur.getString(bucketColumn);
        date = cur.getString(dateColumn);

        // Do something with the values.
        Log.i("ListingImages", " bucket=" + bucket 
               + "  date_taken=" + date);
    } while (cur.moveToNext());

}