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Take picture and name it afterwards

I want to take a picture with the standart system service
Intent takePictureIntent = new Intent(MediaStore.ACTION_IMAGE_CAPTURE);
startActivityForResult(takePictureIntent, REQUEST_IMAGE_CAPTURE);
and AFTERWARDS I want to give it a custom name and directory or path (which should happen in another activity after I've taken the photo with the camera activity)
The problem is that if I create a file with all the attributes (name, path) and give it to the intent I cant do it in the activity after having taken the photo instead I would need to determine its attributes before I open the Intent(take the photo).
(as suggested in the Google article:https://developer.android.com/training/camera/photobasics#TaskPath)
Should I just get the fullsize Bitmap then open the other activity and then save it and determine its attributes?
Is there a way to do it as suggested in the article but somehow the other way around?(create the File afterwards)
Let me know if you have any idea.
I apreceate any help.
Thank you!

I want to take a picture with the standart system service
Your code is launching any one of hundreds of possible camera apps. The specific app might have been pre-installed by a device manufacturer, or it might be an app that the user installed.
The problem is that if I create a file with all the attributes (name, path) and give it to the intent I cant do it in the activity after having taken the photo instead I would need to determine its attributes before I open the Intent(take the photo).
Correct.
Should I just get the fullsize Bitmap then open the other activity and then save it and determine its attributes?
There is no means of having ACTION_IMAGE_CAPTURE give you a "fullsize Bitmap" directly. You can either get a thumbnail-sized Bitmap or have it write a full-sized photo to a location of your choice.
Is there a way to do it as suggested in the article but somehow the other way around?(create the File afterwards)
No. However, there is nothing stopping you from opening the photo via its file in your activity, then modifying that photo and writing it back out. You could overwrite the original file, or you could write to some new location.
So, for example, if your concern is that you do not want the photo to be in a user-accessible location until your activity is done with it, you could pass a Uri to ACTION_IMAGE_CAPTURE that points to a private location in getCacheDir(), then have your activity write the final version of the photo to a file on external storage.

Bitmap and proper saving location

Hi everybody I've got the following problem with an adroid app: I want to read an image saved and perform some operations on it.
(I do not need to use this image to draw something on screen, I just have to check the color of some pixels)
I'm using the following code:
Bitmap bitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeFile("drawable-v24/ean13.bmp");
The fact is that the BitmapFactory returns null as a FileNotFoundException is thrown. (by now the file is saved inside res folder)
I don't really understand where I should put the image and how to give the path to the BitmapFactory to be able to get it properly.
(I guess the problem is due to the fact that the image actually is stored on my pc and not on the Android device but I can't understand how should I proceed)
Thank you in advance for the help! :)

If you are accessing image from resource drawable of mipmap. You should use BitmapFactory.decodeResource to get Bitmap.
Bitmap bitmap=BitmapFactory.decodeResource(getResources(),R.mipmap.ic_launcher);
Or another overloaded version .
public static Bitmap decodeResource(Resources res, int id, Options opts)
where getResources() is method of Activity.

Android Picasso - Clear cache but image remains

So at certain times I need to clear the Picasso cache within my application, however when I clear it, the image is the same. If the image URL changes, then it pulls the new image but if the image url is the same, then the old image remains.
Can anyone help me clear the cache so that the image is removed?
This is how I set Picasso up:
Cache picassoCache = new LruCache(MEMORY_CACHE_SIZE);
picassoCacheClearer = new PicassoCacheClearerImpl(picassoCache);
picasso = new Picasso.Builder(context)
.downloader(new OkHttpDownloader(context.getCacheDir(), IMAGE_CACHE_SIZE))
.memoryCache(picassoCache)
.build();
and then try and clear it by:
cache.clear();
Below is the code which actually loads the image:
picasso.load(carouselAction.getImageUrl())
.placeholder(R.drawable.ic_placeholder)
.into(viewHolder.plistImageView);
I can see that the Invalidate() method is now deprecated, so what else can i do?

I have had this same problem and I used this hacky method to get around it. To force it to refresh i would just change the url adding a version tag to it. This is used commonly in web development to make sure things aren't used from the cache.
For example i would load an image from example.com/mypic.png?version=1234
and since the url is different it wouldn't load it from cache.
String versionTag = "?version=" + new Date().getTime();
picasso.load(carouselAction.getImageUrl() + versionTag)
.placeholder(R.drawable.ic_placeholder)
.into(viewHolder.plistImageView);

So found out what the issue was. Turns out for this carousel it was using a different instance of Picasso.
I also had to extend OkHttpDownloader to expose the getClient() method in order to get the cache to delete.
I realised it was a different instance of Picasso by enabling the indicators which can be done by setting the following in the builder
.indicatorsEnabled(true);

How to load the original image from flickr?

I'm trying to change the link _m to _o but I am still unable to get the original flickr image. Is there any possible ways? I am able to provide the full code if needed. I took away the farm as it is unable to contain.
entry.setUrl("https://"".staticflickr.com/"+serverId+"/"+ photoId +"_"+secret+"_m.jpg");

I think u should have link to this foto with /sizes/o/
for example look here
https://www.flickr.com/photos/llnl/9403051123/sizes/o/
it gives orginal foto.

Take Screenshot of Android screen and save to SD card

There are a few questions here on SO about capturing screenshots of an android application. However, I haven't found a solid solution on how to take a screenshot programatically using the android SDK or any other method.
So I thought I would ask this question again in the hopes that I can find a good solution, hopefully one that will allow capturing full length images that I can save to the SD card or somewhere similar.
I appreicate any help

This is not possible directly on the device/emulator, unless it is rooted.
to honest all I need it for is the emulator as this is for a testing application on a PC
This sounds like a job for monkeyrunner.

monkeyrunner tool can do the job for you with bit of adb command, [python script]
from com.android.monkeyrunner import MonkeyRunner, MonkeyDevice
//waits for connection
device = MonkeyRunner.waitForConnection()
//take the current snapshot
device.takeSnapshot()
//stores the current snapshot in current dir in pc
device.writeToFile('current.png')\
//copy it to the sd card of device
os.subprocess.call('adb push current.png /sdcard/android/com.test.myapp/current.png')
Note: call this jython script file
monkeyrunner.bat <file name>

You will most likely not be happy with this answer, but the only ones that I have seen involve using native code, or executing native commands.
Edit:
I hadn't seen this one before. Have you tried it?:
http://code.google.com/p/android-screenshot-library/
Edit2: Checked that library, and it also is a bad solution. Requires that you start the service from a pc. So my initial answer still holds :)
Edit3: You should be able to save a view as an image by doing something similar to this. You might need to tweek it a bit so that you get the width/height of the view. (I'm inflating layouts, and specify the width/height when I layout the code)
View content = getView();
Bitmap bitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap(width, height, Config.ARGB_8888);
Canvas canvas = new Canvas(bitmap);
File file = new File(pathAndFilename);
file.createNewFile();
FileOutputStream ostream = new FileOutputStream(file);
bitmap.compress(CompressFormat.PNG, 100, ostream);
ostream.close();

You can look at http://codaset.com/jens-riboe/droidatscreen/wiki (with a write up at http://blog.ribomation.com/2010/01/droidscreen/): this is a Java library that uses adb to capture a screen shots. I've been able to (with a lot of elbow grease) modify the source to let me automatically capture a timed series of screen shots (which I use for demo videos).
You can see the class structure at http://pastebin.com/hX5rQsSR
EDIT: You'd invoke it (after bundling all the requirements) like this:
java -cp DroidScreen.jar --adb "" --device "" --prefix "" --interval