I have a Bitmap image that I want to save and have it show up in my gallery, unfortunately I am having a lot of issues trying to complete this task. Since yesterday I've probably tried a dozen different code snippets to do just this. I think what's happening is that these code snippets are working, but they're saving it in the application's data and not in the shared storage/gallery.
How do I re-adapt this code to have it store images in a folder that any gallery application or file manager can access and not just in the application's data?
private fun saveToGallery(bitmap: Bitmap) {
Toast.makeText(applicationContext,"Saving image!", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show()
var outputStream: FileOutputStream? = null
val file = Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory()
val dir = File(file.absolutePath.toString() + "/MyPics")
dir.mkdirs()
val filename = String.format("%d.png", System.currentTimeMillis())
val outFile = File(dir, filename)
try {
outputStream = FileOutputStream(outFile)
} catch (e: Exception) {
e.printStackTrace()
}
bitmap.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.PNG, 100, outputStream)
try {
outputStream!!.flush()
} catch (e: Exception) {
e.printStackTrace()
}
try {
outputStream!!.close()
} catch (e: Exception) {
e.printStackTrace()
}
}
