The Media Store

Introduction
- The MediaStore class contains meta data for all available media on both internal and external storage devices.
- There are nested classes for the various types of media.
  - MediaStore.Audio for audio content.
  - MediaStore.Images for available images.
  - MediaStore.Video for videos
  - MediaStore.Files a table containing an index of all files in the media storage, including non-media files.
- The MediaStore.MediaColumns interface provides constants for common fields for most MediaProvider tables
- The MediaStore has a ContentProvider that can be queried using a ContentResolver.
The section on Content Providers contains more details and examples of this.