Android save camera picture to local storage

Question

Today I have to deal with a difficult thing.

I start the camera and want so save the taken image directly to my internal storage, without moving it into it.

    File targetDir = new File(getApplicationContext().getFilesDir()+File.separator+"PROJECTMAIN"+File.separator+"SUBFORDER");
    targetDir.mkdirs(); //create the folder if they don't exist

    File externalFile = new File(targetDir, "picturename.jpg");
    Uri imageURI = Uri.fromFile(externalFile);

    Intent takePictureIntent = new Intent(MediaStore.ACTION_IMAGE_CAPTURE);
    takePictureIntent.putExtra(MediaStore.EXTRA_OUTPUT, imageURI);
    startActivityForResult(takePictureIntent, actionCode);

It seems that if I try to save them directly into the internal storage, the camera ignores my click on the "ok"-button after I take the picture. I think there is something wrong with the "internal" URI, because if I use Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory() instead of getApplicationContext().getFilesDir() for extra_output, everything works fine, but then I have to move the file afterwards into the internal storage (the movement process works fine to "getApplicationContext().getFilesDir()")

The camera just doesn't do anything when I take a picture and press the ok button to continue with the internal URI... I can't believe that is that difficult with storage in Android.

Any ideas? maybe the camera just allows to save pictures to the external storage?

Answer 1

Try following code

File dir= context.getDir("dirname", Context.MODE_PRIVATE); //Creates Dir inside internal memory
File file= new File(dir, "filename");  //It has directory details and file name
FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(file);