How to save to Media folder via Mediastore in CameraX?

Question

I am still new to android programming. I am trying to take a photo using CameraX API. However, the sample code at Google Codelabs only saves the photo on the app's private directory in compliance with Android's Scoped Storage. I am not still knowledgeable with Mediastore so can you please lead me to a documentation on how to integrate Mediastore to CameraX?

Answer 1

CameraX provides API for saving to MediaStore. Please take a look at the ImageCapture#takePicture API. Code sample:

val outputFileOptions = ImageCapture.OutputFileOptions.Builder(
    mContentResolver, 
    MediaStore.Images.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI,
    contentValues).build();
imageCapture.takePicture(outputFileOptions, ...