Get list of photo galleries on Android

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I'm looking for: A list of the existing photo gallery names (hopefully their top thumbnail as well) The contents of the gallery (I can then load thumbnails and full size as needed) How would I go about getting a list of the "Galleries" (don't know if that's the proper term in android for the groupings of images visible in the Gallery app...) and their contents? I need access to the gallery in it's structure without using the existing gallery display (I'm creating a totally new one, not an over layer to the photo requestor etc.) I assume MediaStore.Images is where I need to be but I don't see anything that will give me the groupings... android image gallery mediastore share|improve this question asked Nov 16 '10 at 15:18 ima747 99411028

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Groupings are defined by MediaStore.Images.Media.BUCKET_DISPLAY_NAME. Here is the sample code to list the images and log their bucket name and date_taken:     // 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.     Cursor cur = managedQuery(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());     } share|improve this answer answered Nov 16 '10 at 16:27 Peter Knego 54k74986

AH! it works like a raw database query. perfect example code thank you! –  ima747 Nov 16 '10 at 18:46