Is there anything in log cat related to MediaStore?

On Friday, August 2, 2013 2:43:17 PM UTC-5, eli wrote:
>
> Thanks for your answer, I just entered hard coded values there to make the 
> code more clear, this is not the issue.
>
> Eli
> On Aug 2, 2013 10:29 PM, "Nobu Games" <[email protected] <javascript:>> 
> wrote:
>
>> Sorry Eli,
>>
>> I should have read your code more carefully. You're hard-coding file 
>> paths in that insert request which is bad practice. You cannot assume that 
>> there paths like "/sdcard/..." on all Android devices. They can be named 
>> completely differently depending on device / manufacturer and especially on 
>> Jelly Bean there's  something like a "virtual file system" for supporting 
>> multiple user accounts and these file paths look totally different.
>>
>> You should make use of the context.getExternalStorage(...) and related 
>> methods (also look into the Environment class).
>>
>> Maybe the hard-coded file path is the problem there?
>>
>> On Friday, August 2, 2013 2:20:50 PM UTC-5, eli wrote:
>>>
>>> It always return null on 4.3, and works perfectly on all other versions.
>>> On Aug 2, 2013 10:13 PM, "Nobu Games" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I just had a quick peek at the API level 14 source code and it looks 
>>>> like there are two possible reasons for that problem:
>>>>
>>>> 1. The actual ContentProvider the ContentResolver connected to returns 
>>>> null on insert (for whatever reason, that is a mystery)
>>>> 2. A RemoteException was thrown during the insert operation. The 
>>>> exception is caught by the ContentResolver and it returns just null 
>>>> instead. The reason for that is (according to the source code comment) 
>>>> that 
>>>> the process / app is about to die anyway.
>>>>
>>>> Other ContentResolver methods behave exactly the same. Also the query 
>>>> methods. It can - without a warning - just return null, even though it 
>>>> works in your tests a million times.
>>>>
>>>> You therefore need to check the result for null and come up with a 
>>>> strategy for coping with that problem, like scheduling a re-query or 
>>>> checking if your activity is about to be finished.
>>>>
>>>> On Friday, August 2, 2013 12:29:31 PM UTC-5, eli wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> This code works on all Android versions except on 4.3:
>>>>>
>>>>>                            ContentValues content = new 
>>>>> ContentValues(4);
>>>>>             content.put(Video.**VideoColumn**s.TITLE, "vid.mp4");
>>>>>             content.put(Video.**VideoColumn**s.DATE_ADDED,
>>>>>             System.currentTimeMillis() / 1000);
>>>>>             content.put(Video.Media.MIME_****TYPE, "video/mp4");
>>>>>             content.put(MediaStore.Video.****Media.DATA, 
>>>>> "/sdcard/vid.mp4");
>>>>>             ContentResolver resolver = getContentResolver();
>>>>>            * Uri uri = resolver.insert(MediaStore.Vid
>>>>> eo.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI,*
>>>>> *            content);*
>>>>>
>>>>> On 4.3 *uri *is null.
>>>>> Can someone help?
>>>>>
>>>>>  Thanks,
>>>>> Eli
>>>>>
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