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it might be that the biking app is not calling MediaScanner after taking the picture.
by 0x006A 7y ago
it might be that the biking app is not calling MediaScanner after taking the picture.
- izacus 7y agoThis does sound like the app doesn't register photos correctly in the MediaStore. Or perhaps the phone didn't start the maintenance window to start the uploads - Android (like iOS) doesn't continiously scan filesystems since that would destroy the battery.
- qwertox 7y agoThe biking app isn't calling MediaScanner at all. The thing is that once Google Photos is opened, it scans all the directories which it is supposed to watch. Then it also does find photos, you can see it getting populated with the new images one after another, but it always misses some. That's what I'm referring to. In this context, you can't blame any third party app.
- 0x006A 6y agoI was working on a video recording app and without calling MediaScanner, recorded videos would not show up in file managers or media apps. Android has a cache layer for file system access that needs poking if you create new or change files.