Insert Video to gallery [Android Q]

Question

To record a SurfeceView I\'m using a 3rd-party library , this library requires a path where the output (the recorded video) saved in my case is savedVid

Answer 1

Here it is my solution - save photo/video to Gallery.

private fun saveMediaFile2(filePath: String?, isVideo: Boolean, fileName: String) {
filePath?.let {
    val context = MyApp.applicationContext
    val values = ContentValues().apply {
        val folderName = if (isVideo) {
            Environment.DIRECTORY_MOVIES
        } else {
            Environment.DIRECTORY_PICTURES
        }
        put(MediaStore.Images.Media.DISPLAY_NAME, fileName)
        put(MediaStore.Images.Media.MIME_TYPE, MimeUtils.guessMimeTypeFromExtension(getExtension(fileName)))
        put(MediaStore.Images.Media.RELATIVE_PATH, folderName + "/${context.getString(R.string.app_name)}/")
        put(MediaStore.Images.Media.IS_PENDING, 1)
    }

    val collection = if (isVideo) {
        MediaStore.Video.Media.getContentUri(MediaStore.VOLUME_EXTERNAL_PRIMARY)
    } else {
        MediaStore.Images.Media.getContentUri(MediaStore.VOLUME_EXTERNAL_PRIMARY)
    }
    val fileUri = context.contentResolver.insert(collection, values)

    fileUri?.let {
        if (isVideo) {
            context.contentResolver.openFileDescriptor(fileUri, "w").use { descriptor ->
                descriptor?.let {
                    FileOutputStream(descriptor.fileDescriptor).use { out ->
                        val videoFile = File(filePath)
                        FileInputStream(videoFile).use { inputStream ->
                            val buf = ByteArray(8192)
                            while (true) {
                                val sz = inputStream.read(buf)
                                if (sz <= 0) break
                                out.write(buf, 0, sz)
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        } else {
            context.contentResolver.openOutputStream(fileUri).use { out ->
                val bmOptions = BitmapFactory.Options()
                val bmp = BitmapFactory.decodeFile(filePath, bmOptions)
                bmp.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.JPEG, 90, out)
                bmp.recycle()
            }
        }
        values.clear()
        values.put(if (isVideo) MediaStore.Video.Media.IS_PENDING else MediaStore.Images.Media.IS_PENDING, 0)
        context.contentResolver.update(fileUri, values, null, null)
    }
}
}

Answer 2

You have to change the library to make it work with Android Q . If you cannot do this you could copy the video to the media gallery and then delete the old video created in getExternalFilesDir(). After this you have the uri of the video and can do what you want with the uri

If you have saved the video with getExternalFilesDir() you could use my example here : The media uri you get is "uriSavedVideo" . This is only an example. A large video should also be copied in the background.

Uri uriSavedVideo;
    File createdvideo = null;
    ContentResolver resolver = getContentResolver();
    
    

    String videoFileName = "video_" + System.currentTimeMillis() + ".mp4";

    ContentValues valuesvideos;
    valuesvideos = new ContentValues();


    if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= 29) {

        valuesvideos.put(MediaStore.Video.Media.RELATIVE_PATH, "Movies/" + "Folder");

        valuesvideos.put(MediaStore.Video.Media.TITLE, videoFileName);
        valuesvideos.put(MediaStore.Video.Media.DISPLAY_NAME, videoFileName);
        valuesvideos.put(MediaStore.Video.Media.MIME_TYPE, "video/mp4");
        valuesvideos.put(MediaStore.Video.Media.DATE_ADDED, System.currentTimeMillis() / 1000);

        Uri collection = MediaStore.Video.Media.getContentUri(MediaStore.VOLUME_EXTERNAL_PRIMARY);
        uriSavedVideo = resolver.insert(collection, valuesvideos);


    } else {

        String directory  = Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory().getAbsolutePath() + File.separator+ Environment.DIRECTORY_MOVIES + "/"+"YourFolder";

        createdvideo = new File(directory, videoFileName);

        valuesvideos.put(MediaStore.Video.Media.TITLE, videoFileName);
        valuesvideos.put(MediaStore.Video.Media.DISPLAY_NAME, videoFileName);
        valuesvideos.put(MediaStore.Video.Media.MIME_TYPE, "video/mp4");
        valuesvideos.put(MediaStore.Video.Media.DATE_ADDED, System.currentTimeMillis() / 1000);

        valuesvideos.put(MediaStore.Video.Media.DATA, createdvideo.getAbsolutePath());
        uriSavedVideo = getContentResolver().insert(MediaStore.Video.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI, valuesvideos);


    }


    if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= 29) {
        valuesvideos.put(MediaStore.Video.Media.DATE_TAKEN, System.currentTimeMillis());
        valuesvideos.put(MediaStore.Video.Media.IS_PENDING, 1);


    }


  
    
    
    ParcelFileDescriptor pfd;

    try {
        pfd = getContentResolver().openFileDescriptor(uriSavedVideo, "w");

        FileOutputStream out = new FileOutputStream(pfd.getFileDescriptor());

        // get the already saved video as fileinputstream

        // The Directory where your file is saved
        File storageDir = new File(getExternalFilesDir(Environment.DIRECTORY_MOVIES), "Folder");


        //Directory and the name of your video file to copy
        File videoFile = new File(storageDir, "Myvideo"); 

        FileInputStream in = new FileInputStream(videoFile);


        byte[] buf = new byte[8192];
        int len;
        while ((len = in.read(buf)) > 0) {

            out.write(buf, 0, len);
        }


        out.close();
        in.close();
        pfd.close();




    } catch (Exception e) {

        e.printStackTrace();
    }





    if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= 29) {
        valuesvideos.clear();
        valuesvideos.put(MediaStore.Video.Media.IS_PENDING, 0);
        getContentResolver().update(uriSavedVideo, valuesvideos, null, null);

    }