Android get image, audio , video file list quickly

Android have inbuilt functions to retrive list.

Following is demo for Image list. for audio , video and even for other types of file you can use similar functions.

/**

* Used to get images from whole phone

*/

public void get_all_image_folders() {

// 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

 };

Uri images = MediaStore.Images.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI;

// Make the query.

String sortOrder = MediaStore.Images.Media.DATE_TAKEN + " Desc";

Cursor cur = getContentResolver().query(images, projection, null,null, sortOrder);

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());

}

}