Managing media using the Android MediaStore

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I manage the media (images, sound) of my app directly, reading and saving to the SD card. Should I be using the MediaStore instead? I'm not quite sure what the MediaStore is for, and the javadoc is not very helpful.

When should an app use the MediaStore?

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