MediaStore for Retrieving Video
As discussed in Chapter 1, Android provides a standard means for sharing data across applications. The ContentProvider class is the base class that enables this. Also as discussed, the classes that extend the concept of a ContentProvider for media are the various MediaStore classes. We previously looked at using the MediaStore for images and audio and their related metadata. The MediaStore for use with video behaves in much the same way.
MediaStore.Video is the nested class within the MediaStore class for use with video files in particular. Within MediaStore.Video is MediaStore.Video.Media, which contains the constants that specify the columns available in the MediaStore related to the video media itself, many ...
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