Protecting Gallery Images in Phimpme Android

Encrypting media is very important to ensure privacy and for this some users install apps to lock protect their images with a password or any other security method i.e Gallery lock. In Phimpme, along with the camera, accounts and gallery, we are providing an inbuilt encryption option in which user can set password to hide media and to protect from deletion of media. In this post I am explaining how we implemented the security feature in the Phimpme Android app.

Step-1

In Phimpme I created a SecurityHelper class which contains the user password information along with the details of where the user has applied for the protection.

public class SecurityHelper {
   private boolean activeSecurity;
   private String passwordValue;
   private Context context;
   public SecurityHelper(Context context){
       this.context = context;
       }
}

The dialog box to enter the password in Phimpme.

Step -2

Now in phimpme, we will ask the user to enter the password and it gets to be done using edittext and on click on submit the password gets stored in sharedPreferences in preference_use_password in Strings.xml.

Step – 3

The next step is to protect Phimpme gallery so we have to check before deleting any images using gallery it can be done using SecurityHelper.isActiveSecurity() method.

If security option is activated, we will provide the dialog box in which user have to enter the password and we will compare the password with the saved password in Sharedpreference, if it matches then we will allow the deletion of the selected media.

if (securityObj.isActiveSecurity()) {
AlertDialog passwordDialog = passwordDialogBuilder.create();
           passwordDialog.show();

           passwordDialog.getButton(AlertDialog.BUTTON_POSITIVE).setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
               @Override
               public void onClick(View v) {
                   // if password is correct, call DeletePhotos and perform deletion
                   if (securityObj.checkPassword(editTextPassword.getText().toString())) {
                       passwordDialog.dismiss();
                       new DeletePhotos();
                   }
                   // if password is incorrect, don't delete and notify user of incorrect password
                   else {
                       Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), R.string.wrong_password, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                       editTextPassword.getText().clear();
                       editTextPassword.requestFocus();
                   }
               }
           });
       } else new DeletePhotos().execute();
   }
});

This is how we are providing the inbuilt encryption to protect gallery in Phimpme-Android.

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