How to periodically scan SD card for files of a particular type?

Asked Jul 18 '13 at 06:13

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Hi I am pretty new to android and am working on an app that needs to scan the SD card for ppt and pdf files and upload them to Google Drive.

I have implemented a MediaScannerConnectionClient class (in a similar way to the code in this question How to scan SD card for particular extension of files in android?) that scans and returns the file once when scanFile is called.

However I need to be able to upload the files that are added to the SD card even after my app has been started and scanFile has been called.

Is there any way to do this besides calling scanFile continuously after a fixed time interval ?

Thanks in advance

edited May 23 '17 at 12:21

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asked Jul 18 '13 at 06:13

sej101

sending broadcast saying External storage mounted :/ – Charan Pai Jul 18 '13 at 06:16
Run that service after a constant interval e.g. using `AlarmManger`. – S.D. Aug 02 '13 at 07:53
That's what I ended up doing, thanks – sej101 Aug 02 '13 at 08:22

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