Image, saved to sdcard, doesn't appear in Android's Gallery app

A simpler solution is to use the static convenience method scanFile():

File imageFile = ...
MediaScannerConnection.scanFile(this, new String[] { imageFile.getPath() }, new String[] { "image/jpeg" }, null);

where this is your activity (or whatever context), the mime-type is only necessary if you are using non-standard file extensions and the null is for the optional callback (which we don't need for such a simple case).

The system scans the SD card when it is mounted to find any new image (and other) files. If you are programmatically adding a file, then you can use this class:

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/media/MediaScannerConnection.html

Here is the code for the MediaScannerConnection:

MyMediaConnectorClient client = new MyMediaConnectorClient(newfile);
MediaScannerConnection scanner = new MediaScannerConnection(context, client);
client.setScanner(scanner);
scanner.connect();

newfile is the File object of your new/saved file.

there is an app in the emulator that says - ' Dev Tools'

click on that and select ' Media Scanning'.. all the images ll get scanned

This will aslo solve your problem if your image in gallery are not showing instead they might showing a 404 type bitmap in midle. please add a the tags that are in my code with your image because there must some meta data in order to show image in gallery.

      String resultPath = getExternalFilesDir(Environment.DIRECTORY_PICTURES)+ 
      getString(R.string.directory) + System.currentTimeMillis() + ".jpg";

       new File(resultPath).getParentFile().mkdir();

        try {
            OutputStream fileOutputStream = new FileOutputStream(resultPath);
            savedBitmap.compress(CompressFormat.JPEG, 100, fileOutputStream);
            fileOutputStream.flush();
            fileOutputStream.close();
        } catch (IOException e2) {
            e2.printStackTrace();
        }
        savedBitmap.recycle();

        File file = new File(resultPath);
        ContentValues values = new ContentValues();
        values.put(MediaStore.Images.Media.TITLE, "Photo");
        values.put(MediaStore.Images.Media.DESCRIPTION, "Edited");
        values.put(MediaStore.Images.Media.MIME_TYPE, "image/jpeg");
        values.put(MediaStore.Images.Media.DATE_TAKEN, System.currentTimeMillis ());
        values.put(MediaStore.Images.Media.DATE_ADDED, System.currentTimeMillis());
        values.put(MediaStore.Images.ImageColumns.BUCKET_ID, file.toString().toLowerCase(Locale.US).hashCode());
        values.put(MediaStore.Images.ImageColumns.BUCKET_DISPLAY_NAME, file.getName().toLowerCase(Locale.US));
        values.put("_data", resultPath);

        ContentResolver cr = getContentResolver();
        cr.insert(MediaStore.Images.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI, values);




        return  resultPath;

Try this one, it will broadcast about a new image created, so your image visible. inside a gallery. photoFile replace with actual file path of the newly created image

private void galleryAddPicBroadCast() {
        Intent mediaScanIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_MEDIA_SCANNER_SCAN_FILE);
        Uri contentUri = Uri.fromFile(photoFile);
        mediaScanIntent.setData(contentUri);
        this.sendBroadcast(mediaScanIntent);
    }