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Option to rename albums in the Phimpme Android Application

In the Phimpme Android application, users can perform various operations on the albums available such as creating a zip file of the album, hiding an album and many more. However, one another useful functionality that has been added to the Phimpme Android application is the option to rename albums. So in this post, I will be discussing the implementation of the renaming functionality.

Step 1

First we need to add an option in the overflow menu to rename an album while we long-select an album or we are viewing photos inside a particular album. The option in the overflow menu can be added by integrating the following lines of code in the menu_albums.xml file(this file contains the xml code for overflow menu options provided for albums).

<item
android:id=”@+id/renameAlbum”
android:title=”@string/rename”
app:showAsAction=”never” />

Step 2

Now after the user selects the option in the overflow menu to rename the current viewing album, an alertdialog with an edittext would be displayed to the user to enter the new name for the album. The alertdialog containing the edittext has been implemented with the following lines of code.

<android.support.v7.widget.CardView
xmlns:android=”http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android”
xmlns:app=”http://schemas.android.com/apk/vn.mbm.phimp.me”
android:layout_width=”match_parent”
android:layout_height=”wrap_content”
app:cardCornerRadius=”2dp”
android:id=”@+id/dialog_chose_provider_title”>
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width=”match_parent”
android:layout_height=”wrap_content”
android:orientation=”vertical”>
<TextView
android:id=”@+id/rename_title”
android:layout_width=”match_parent”
android:textColor=”@color/md_dark_primary_text”
android:layout_height=”wrap_content”
android:background=”@color/md_dark_appbar”
android:padding=”24dp”
android:text=”@string/rename_photo_action”
android:textSize=”18sp”
android:textStyle=”bold” />
<RelativeLayout
android:id=”@+id/container_edit_text”
android:layout_width=”match_parent”
android:layout_height=”match_parent”
android:orientation=”vertical”
android:padding=”24dp”/>
</LinearLayout>
</android.support.v7.widget.CardView>

The screenshot of the dialog to enter the new name is provided below.

Step 3

Finally, after retrieving the new name for the album entered by the user, the renameAlbum method is invoked by passing in the application context and new name as the parameters. Now inside the renameAlbum method, a new file path is created by the use of the getAlbumPathRenamed method of the StringUtils class and the current path of the album is changed to the new path generated earlier. Similarly path of each media inside the album is changed accordingly by the use of the method getPhotoPathRenamedAlbumChange of the StrinUtils class by looping through the media objects one by one. The lines of code implemented to perform the above-mentioned operations are provided below.

public boolean renameAlbum(final Context context, String newName) {
  found_id_album = false;
  boolean success;
  File newDir = new File(StringUtils.getAlbumPathRenamed(getPath(), newName));
  File oldDir = new File(getPath());
  success = oldDir.renameTo(newDir);
  if(success) {
     for (final Media m : media) {
        File from = new File(m.getPath());
        File to = new File(StringUtils.getPhotoPathRenamedAlbumChange(m.getPath(), newName));
        scanFile(context, new String[]{ from.getAbsolutePath() });
        scanFile(context, new String[]{ to.getAbsolutePath() }, new MediaScannerConnection.OnScanCompletedListener() {
           @Override
           public void onScanCompleted(String s, Uri uri) {
              if (!found_id_album) {
                 id = MediaStoreProvider.getAlbumId(context, s);
                 found_id_album = true;
              }
              Log.d(s, “onScanCompleted: “+s);
              m.setPath(s); m.setUri(uri.toString());
           }
        });
     }
     path = newDir.getAbsolutePath();
     name = newName;
  }
  return success;
}

This is how we have implemented the functionality to rename particular albums in the Phimpme Android application. To get the full source code, please refer to the Phimpme Android Github repository listed in the resource section below.

Resources

1.Android Developer Guide – https://developer.android.com/reference/android/media/MediaScannerConnection

2.Github-Phimpme Android Repository – https://github.com/fossasia/phimpme-android/

3.Media Scanner tutorial –https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13270789/how-to-run-media-scanner-in-android

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Option to secure particular albums in Phimpme Android Application

In the Phimpme Android application, users can perform various operations on the albums available such as creating a zip file of the album, rename an album and many more. However, one another useful functionality that has been added to the Phimpme Android application is the option to secure particular albums. So in this post, I will be discussing the implementation of this security feature.

Step 1

Firstly, a view item for providing the option to enable security for particular albums is required to be added to the security settings layout. The two-state toggle switch widget provided by the Android framework along with a textview has been added as the required view item. A screenshot depicting the layout change is provided below.

The code snippet representing the operation is provided below.

<TextView
   android:id=“@+id/security_body_apply_folders_title”
   android:layout_width=“wrap_content”
   android:layout_height=“wrap_content”
   android:text=“@string/local_folder”
   android:textColor=“@color/md_dark_background”
   android:textSize=“@dimen/medium_text” />

<android.support.v7.widget.SwitchCompat
   android:id=“@+id/security_body_apply_folder_switch”
   android:layout_width=“wrap_content”
   android:layout_height=“wrap_content”
   android:layout_alignParentEnd=“true”
   android:layout_centerVertical=“true”
   android:layout_gravity=“center_vertical”
   android:button=“@null”
   android:hapticFeedbackEnabled=“true” />

Step 2

Now we need to keep track of the albums selected by the user to secure. This can be done by storing the selected album/albums paths in an ArrayList<String> which can be referred later when required in the process.

The required code snippet to perform the above mentioned operation is provided below.

holder.foldercheckbox.setOnCheckedChangeListener(new CompoundButton.OnCheckedChangeListener() {
@Override public void onCheckedChanged(CompoundButton compoundButton, boolean b) {
if(b){
securedfol.add(a.getPath());
a.setsecured(true);
}else{
securedfol.remove(a.getPath());
a.setsecured(false);
}
}
});

Step 3

Now we need to store the selected albums preference in the SharedPreference so that the user’s security preference persists even when the user exits the application and the user doesn’t have to redo the securing operation the next time user launches the application. The ArrayList<String> object containing the path of the user choice albums are converted to JSON representation by the use of the Gson Java library and the string key denoting the JSON representation of the list is saved in the SharedPreference thereafter.

if(securedfol.size()>0){
   SharedPreferences.Editor editor = SP.getEditor();
   Gson gson = new Gson();
   String securedfolders = gson.toJson(securedfol);
   editor.putString(getString(R.string.preference_use_password_secured_local_folders), securedfolders);
   editor.commit();}

Now at the time of performing other operations on the secured folders, the list containing the secured folder paths is retrieved from SharedPreference and the choosen folder’s path is searched in the obtained list, then the user is asked to authenticate accordingly.

This is how we have implemented the functionality to secure particular albums in the Phimpme Android application. To get the full source code, please refer to the Phimpme Android Github repository listed in the resource section below.

Resources

1.Android Developer Guide –
https://developer.android.com/training/data-storage/shared-preferences

2.Github-Phimpme Android Repository – https://github.com/fossasia/phimpme-android/

3.Gson Java library tutorial –
http://www.vogella.com/tutorials/JavaLibrary-Gson/article.html

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Implementing Search Functionality in Phimpme Android Application.

In the Phimpme Android application, users are provided with options to perform various operations on the albums available such as move, creating a zip file of the album, rename an album and many more. However, one another useful functionality that has been added to the Phimpme Android application is the option to search albums. So in this post, I will be discussing the implementation of search functionality.

Step 1

Android framework provides developers with a search widget called SearchView that provides a user interface for the user to search a query and submit the request. So first setting up the widget in the action bar of the activity is required. The searchview widget can be added to the action bar as a menu item by adding the following lines in the XML menu resource file menu_albums.xml.

<item
   android:id=“@+id/search_action”
   android:title=“@string/search_menu”
   android:visible=“true”
   android:icon=“@drawable/ic_search_black_24dp”
   android:tint=“@color/white”
   app:actionViewClass=“android.support.v7.widget.SearchView”
   app:showAsAction=“always” />

Step 2

Now SearchView.OnQueryTextListener interface is used for initiating the search operation and listening to the callbacks for changes to the query text. For the purpose of listening to the querytext, two methods are used here both of which are listed below.

onQueryTextChanged(String Text) – This method is called every time the query text is changed by the user and returns a boolean value, false if SearchView should perform the default action of showing any suggestions and true if the action was handled by the listener.

onQueryTextSubmit(String query) – This method is called when the user submits a query which could be done with a key press on the keyboard or by pressing the submit button. It also returns a boolean value which is true if the query has been handled by the listener, otherwise false.

The code snippet for the implementation of the above mentioned interface is provided below.

searchView.setOnQueryTextListener(new SearchView.OnQueryTextListener() {
   @Override
   public boolean onQueryTextSubmit(String query) {
       return false;
   }

   @Override
   public boolean onQueryTextChange(String newText) {
       return searchTitle(newText);
   }
});

Step 3

In the final step, with the use of the onQueryTextChange method of the SearchView.onQueryTextListener interface the search operation and displaying the search results in the UI can be achieved. The onQueryTextChange method is called every time the search-query text changes. From the onQueryTextChange method, another method named searchTitle is invoked. Inside the searchTitle method the album names matching the search-query are searched from an Arraylist<Albums> containing all the albums displayed in the application. The albums obtained as a result of the search operation are then stored in another Arraylist<Album> which is thereafter passed as a parameter to the swapDataSet method of the AlbumsAdapter class to display the searched albums in the album view. The code snippet used for the above operations is provided below.

public boolean searchTitle(String newText) {
   if (!fromOnClick) {
       String queryText = newText;
       queryText = queryText.toLowerCase();
       final ArrayList<Album> newList = new ArrayList<>();
       for (Album album : albList) {
           String name = album.getName().toLowerCase();
           if (name.contains(queryText)) {
               newList.add(album);
           }
       }
       if(newList.isEmpty()){
           checkNoSearchResults(newText);
       }
       else{
           if(textView.getVisibility() == View.VISIBLE){
               textView.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);
           }
       }
       albumsAdapter.swapDataSet(newList);
   } else {
       fromOnClick = false;
   }
   return true;
}

This is how we have implemented the search functionality in the Phimpme Android application. To get the full source code, please refer to the Phimpme Android Github repository.

The screenshot for displaying the search result in album view is provided below.

Resources

1.Android Developer Guide – https://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/SearchView

2.Github-Phimpme Android Repository – https://github.com/fossasia/phimpme-android/

3.Creating a search interface in Android – https://medium.com/@yugandhardcs21/creating-a-search-interface-in-android-dc1fd6a53b4

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