Nomedia

g(x) labs

Contains ads

About this app

✨ Core features of this App
1) 🔍 Media Scanner: automatically scan all folders to find out all the media files, including those not in the media store.
☞ On Android 11 and above, You need to manually add the folders to be scanned.
2) 📁 Create or delete the ".nomedia" file in any folders: "ON" means to create a .nomedia file in a folder, "OFF" means to delete the .nomedia file from a folder.

💫 There are two view modes to manage, viewing media files and .nomedia files
1) Folder list mode: more convenient, the default mode.
2) File browser mode: advanced mode, works like a file manger.

ℹ️※ What can it do?
📁 1. Create ".nomedia" file in the containing directory signaling the media scanner to ignore media, so as to hiding useless and redundant media file(image/photo, music, video) in Gallery, Music Player, Video Player and other APP base on media store.
🔍 2. Use as a media scanner, find out all the media file(image/photo, music, video) on your device, and update to the media store, so you can view the media file in Gallery, Music Player, Video Player and other APP base on media store.

ℹ️※ What is this:
This APP can help you to create or remove a file called .nomedia in a
folder contains media files easily. And refresh MediaStore immediately!
ℹ️※ What is a .nomedia file?
.nomedia file signaling the media scanner to ignore media in the containing directory and its subdirectories. This prevents media scanner from reading your media files(image, video, audio) and providing them to other apps(Gallery, Music Player, Video Player etc.) through the MediaStore content provider.

If you want to scan all the photo/image/music/video on your device;
If the Gallery, Media Player always load some pictures, videos or audios which you do think are useless, redundant.
Then this APP may be what you need.

📌Note:
The main purpose of this app is let the junk media files(which we do think) don't show in some APP(such as the Gallery, Play Music) based on MediaStore. It is not a tool to hide files and protect your privacy, as files may be show in file manager APPs.

ℹ️※ How to use:
1. The application will scan picture, video, audio files from the MediaStore and file system, and then categorizes them by folder.
2. When a folder is set to "ON," means that media files in this folder will NOT be scanned by MediaStore, otherwise will be scanned.
3. In the list view, click the folder preview to view folder detail.
4. In the grid view, click the file preview can play the media file.

⚠️ Warning: This APP may NOT work on SOME devices. It may cause files to be deleted automatically on SOME Samsung devices. Anyway you can try it out. It's a good idea to try it on unimportant folders/files firstly.

Ratings and reviews

Does what it is supposed to do. However, 95% of my screen is blocked by an ad. Sometimes when I open the app, the whole screen is blocked by an ad. This is the type of ad that usually sits at the very bottom the of screen. Instead, this hovers around the top and has a bunch of black space below it. EDIT: Ok, I can live with the ads if they don't change. I have to rotate my phone and then the ad drops to the bottom, and it then gives me the option to close it. Then I can rotate back and use it.

As crazy as this sounds, this app deleted the media files from one of the folders I used it on. I checked in multiple file managers, with hidden files shown, and via my computer, and they are literally just deleted. So that's nice. (edited a few years later: This was on an old Android 6 device. I believe the files it deleted had obscured file names themselves, such as starting with a dot. I think it deleted them when I tried to disable .nomedia for that folder.)

Having ads in the free version is fine. I have no issues with that. But you need to offer an ad free paid version otherwise it's just a really anoying app. I would have paid for a adless full version, but that's not an option so. I ended up making my a .nomedia file and copying it manually where I wanted it to do the trick. Bad user experience overall

What's new

1) Try to fix some unclear issue of some devices