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I am new to xamarin. I want to build a xamarin forms application to take picture and save it in the gallery. I built the app to take photo and display it by using the following article.

https://xamarinhelp.com/use-camera-take-photo-xamarin-forms/

But I don't know how to save the image in the gallery in xamarin forms.Can anyone help me to save the image using dependency service in xamarin forms?

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The article you shared uses MediaPlugin by jamesmontemagno. It has its own comprehensive getting-started docs, that I would recommend to go through.

In order to save picture to gallery, you can use SaveToAlbum in StoreCameraMediaOptions. 

var photo = await CrossMedia.Current.TakePhotoAsync( new StoreCameraMediaOptions { SaveToAlbum = true });
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How to save an image to gallery which is in the in the display or in the drawable folder?
I haven't tried it myself. But I would imagine you should be able to get an input stream for that resource and then use File or similar option to save it to storage.

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