Cant save image to gallery

Question

I am trying to save bitmap as an image to the phone storage with MediaStore like this:

 MediaStore.Images.Media.insertImage(contentResolver, bitmap, "title" , "description")

The image was not saved inside the device storage, I have checked on both emulator and physical devices.

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What I did so far:

• Checked that the bitmap that I am passing is my wanted bitmap:

  For this, I have checked its value with the help of the debugger like this:

  1) Put a breakpoint on the line that supposed to save the image and check what bitmap I am passing, the bitmap was the same bitmap that I wanted to save:

  

  2) This is how the bitmap looks like:

• Made sure that the permission for writing files to the external storage (the line below) was granted from the user
  
  <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />
  
  

• Made sure that the image was not saved at the end of the gallery or in any other place inside the device storage

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I know that I can probably save the image without using MediaStore as mentioned in this thread but I want to know what I am doing wrong here and why I can't save the bitmap as an image inside the device storage.

Answer 1

For some reason even after WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE was granted, after looking a bit on the logs I have noticed that I am getting this error:

Permission Denial: writing com.android.providers.media.MediaProvider uri content://media/external/images/media from pid=11218, uid=10079 requires android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE, or grantUriPermission()

It looked weird to me because I have checked that this permission got granted before saving the image to the gallery.

What solved it for me was to delete the app and reinstall it again