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Adding Twitter Integration with MVP Architecture in Phimpme Android

The Account manager layout part of Phimpme is set. Now we need to start adding different account to make it functional. We first start with twitter. Twitter functionality is integrated with the help of Twitter Kit provided by Twitter itself. We followed the steps provided on the installation guide. Note: Before Starting this first go to apps.twitter.com and create new app, add the relevant information such as name, description, URL etc. How twitter works in Phimpme A dialog box appear when user selected the add account option in Account manager. Select Twitter option from it. Twitter guides to use custom TwitterLoginButton for sign in. But as we are using a common dialog box. How to initiate login from there? Using TwitterAuthClient Twitter Auth Client invoke the Twitter callback and popup the login window. On authorized the correct user it goes inside the onSuccess method and start a Twitter session which helps us to get the information which we want to store in database such as username, access token. client.authorize(getActivity(), new Callback<TwitterSession>() {   @Override   public void success(Result<TwitterSession> result) {       // Creating twitter session, after user authenticate       // in twitter popup       TwitterSession session = TwitterCore.getInstance()               .getSessionManager().getActiveSession();       TwitterAuthToken authToken = session.getAuthToken();       // Writing values in Realm database       account.setUsername(session.getUserName());       account.setToken(String.valueOf(session.getAuthToken()));   } Working with MVP architecture to show Twitter data to User in a recyclerView Finally after successful login from Twitter, we also need to show user that you are successfully logged in Phimpme app and also provide a sign out feature so that user can logout from Twitter anytime. Account manager has a recyclerView which takes data from the database and show it to the User. Steps: From the inspiration of Google MVP and Ribot Org architecture. I first created a Contract class under the account package. class AccountContract {   internal interface View : MvpView{       /**        * Setting up the recyclerView. The layout manager, decorator etc.        */       fun setUpRecyclerView()       /**        * Account Presenter calls this function after taking data from Database Helper Class        */       fun setUpAdapter(accountDetails: RealmResults<AccountDatabase>)       /**        * Shows the error log        */       fun showError()   }   internal interface Presenter {       /**        * function to load data from database, using Database Helper class        */       fun loadFromDatabase()       /**        * setting up the recyclerView adapter from here        */       fun handleResults(accountDetails: RealmResults<AccountDatabase>)   } } This class clearly show what functions are in View and what are in Presenter. The View interface extended to MvpView which actually holds some common functions such as onComplete() Implement View interface in AccountActivity class AccountActivity : ThemedActivity(), AccountContract.View And perform all the action which are happening on the View such as setting up the RecyclerView override fun setUpRecyclerView() {   val layoutManager = LinearLayoutManager(this)   accountsRecyclerView!!.setLayoutManager(layoutManager)   accountsRecyclerView!!.setAdapter(accountAdapter) } Main Business Logic should not be in Activity class That’s why using MVP we have very less number of lines of code in our Main Activity because it separate the work on different zones which help developer to easily work, maintain and other user to contribute. So like in our case I need to update the…

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Adding Image Editor in Phimpme Android app

Image editing is a core feature of our Phimpme Android Application. We are using this already existing components Image Editor. Currently our app flow is Gallery → Open images. Now we add an option menu in the top named “Edit” which redirect to the edit Image Activity with that image path. Perform the edit operations there and apply the changed and finally updated the album with new file. The task is to first get the image path pass to the EditImageActivity and then save the edited image in different folder after user finish with editing. Below are the high level architecture of how it is achieved with help of ImageEditor. Steps to integrate Editor: Get the selected Image URI Firstly, add the permission in manifest file <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" /> Get the local images in your internal or SD Card using Media Store content provider. Uri uri = MediaStore.Images.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI; String[] projection = { MediaStore.Images.Media._ID, MediaStore.Images.Media.BUCKET_ID,MediaStore.Images.Media.BUCKET_DISPLAY_NAME }; Cursor cursor = getContentResolver().query(uri, projection, null, null, null); After that you can iterate the cursor to end and get details. Create a separate folder where edited images will be saved. Now after editing we have to place the edited image into a seperate folder with a new name. You can create folder like this: File aviaryFolder = new File(baseDir, FOLDER_NAME); Generating new file which will be saved as edited image public static File getEmptyFile(String name) {  File folder = FileUtils.createFolders();  if (folder != null) {     if (folder.exists()) {        File file = new File(folder, name);        return file;     }  }  return null; } FileUtils.getEmptyFile("edited"     + System.currentTimeMillis() + ".png");   It will save new image as named edited<timeinmillis> so it will be unique. StartActivityforResult with the image URI and edit activity So firstly, when user open image and click on edit. We create an empty file using the above method. Getting the image uri and pass it into the editImageActivity. Other than Uri, also pass the output file path. And startActivityForResult with intent and request code. You can track the editing done by user and finally save if there is some edit done, like in Phimpme we keep a counter which increased on change of Bitmap. Update the Album by putting the image Media Store ContentValues values = new ContentValues(2); String extensionName = getExtensionName(dstPath); values.put(MediaStore.Images.Media.MIME_TYPE, "image/" + (TextUtils.isEmpty(extensionName) ? "jpeg" : extensionName)); values.put(MediaStore.Images.Media.DATA, dstPath); context.getContentResolver().insert(MediaStore.Images.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI, values); Please visit the whole code here: github.com/fossasia/phimpme-android Resources Image Editor: https://github.com/siwangqishiq/ImageEditor-Android Getting an result from Intent: https://developer.android.com/training/basics/intents/result.html Add native code: https://developer.android.com/studio/projects/add-native-code.html Getting started with NDK: https://developer.android.com/ndk/guides/index.html

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Using Activities with Bottom navigation view in Phimpme Android

Can we use Bottom Navigation View with activities? In the FOSSASIA Phimpme Project we integrated two big projects such as Open Camera and Leafpic. Both are activity based projects and not developed over fragment. The bottom navigation we use will work with fragment. In Leafpic as well as in Open Camera, there are a lot of Multi level inheritance which runs the app components. The problem faced to continue to work on activities. For theme management using base activity is necessary. The base activity extend to AppcompatActivity. The leafpic code hierarchy is very complex and depend on various activities. Better way is to shift to activities for using Bottom navigation view and  work with activity similar like fragments. Image source: https://storage.googleapis.com/material-design/ Solution: This is possible if we copy the bottom navigation item in each of the activity and setting the clicked state of it as per the menu item ID. Steps to Implement (How I did in Phimpme) Add a Base Activity which takes care of two thing Taking the layout element and setting in the activity. Set up the correct navigation menu item clicked Function selectBottomNavigationBarItem(int itemId) will take care of what item is currently active. Called this function in onStart(), getNavigationMenuItemId() function will return the menu id and selectBottomNavigagionBarItem update the bottom navigation view. public abstract class BaseActivity extends AppCompatActivity implements BottomNavigationView.OnNavigationItemSelectedListener private void updateNavigationBarState() {   int actionId = getNavigationMenuItemId();   selectBottomNavigationBarItem(actionId); } void selectBottomNavigationBarItem(int itemId) {   Menu menu = navigationView.getMenu();   for (int i = 0, size = menu.size(); i < size; i++) {       MenuItem item = menu.getItem(i);       boolean shouldBeChecked = item.getItemId() == itemId;       if (shouldBeChecked) {           item.setChecked(true);           break;       }   } } Add two abstract functions in the BaseActivity for above task public abstract int getContentViewId(); public abstract int getNavigationMenuItemId(); Extend every activity to the Base Activity For example I created a blank Activity: AccountsActivity and extend to BaseActivity public class AccountsActivity extends BaseActivity Implement the abstract function in the every activity and set the correct layout and menu item id. @Override public int getContentViewId() { return R.layout.content_accounts; } @Override public int getNavigationMenuItemId() {   return R.id.navigation_accounts; } Remove the setContentView(R.layout.activity_main); Add the onNavigationItemSelected in BaseActivity @Override public boolean onNavigationItemSelected(@NonNull final MenuItem item) {   switch (item.getItemId()) {       case R.id.navigation_home:    startActivity(new Intent(this, LFMainActivity.class));           Break;       case R.id.navigation_camera:           startActivity(new Intent(this, CameraActivity.class));           Break;       case R.id.navigation_accounts:           startActivity(new Intent(this, AccountsActivity.class));           Break;   }   finish();   return true; } Output: The transition is as smooth as we use bottom navigation views with Fragment. The bottom navigation also appear on above of the activity. Source: https://stackoverflow.com/a/42811144/2902518 Resources: BottomNavigation View Guidelines : https://material.io/guidelines/components/bottom-navigation.html# Bottom navigation view Documentation : https://developer.android.com/reference/android/support/design/widget/BottomNavigationView.html

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Phimpme: Merging several Android Projects into One Project

To speed up our development of the version 2 of the Phimpme Android app, we decided to use some existing Open Source libraries and projects such as Open Camera app for Camera features and Leafpic for the photo gallery. Integrating several big projects into one is a crucial step, and it is not difficult. Here are some points to ponder. Clone project separately. Build project and note down the features which you want to integrate. Explore the manifest file to know the Launcher, services and other permission app is taking. I explore the Leafpic app manifest file. Found out its Launcher class, and changed it with the our code. Looked at the permissions app required such as Camera, access fine location, write external storage. Follow Bottom Up approach while integrating. It makes life easier. By the bottom up approach I mean create a new branch and then start deleting the code which is not required. Always work in branch so that no code lost or messed up. Not everything is required at the moment. So I first integrate the whole leafpic app and then remove the splash screen. Also noted down the features needs to remove such as drawer, search bar etc. Remove and Commit, In a big project things are interlinked so removing one feature, actually made you remove most of the code. So my strategy is to focus on one feature and when it removed commit the code. This will help you in a reset hard your code anytime. Like a lot of times I use reset --hard in my code, because it messed up. Licensing: One thing which is most important in using open source code is their License. Always follow what is written in their License. This is the way we can give credit to their hard work. There are various types of licenses, three famous are Apache, MIT and GNU General Public License. All have their pros and cons. Apart of License there are some other condition as well. Like in leafpic which we are using in Phimpme has a condition to inform developers about the project in which we are using leafpic. Aware of File Duplication, sometimes many files have same name which results into file duplication. So refactor them already in the code. I refactor the MainActivity in leafpic to LFMainActivity to not to clash with the existing. Resolve package name. This is also one of the tedious task. Android Studio already do a lot of refactoring but some part left. Make sure your manifest file contains correct name. The best way to refactor your package name in xml file is to ctrl+Shift+f in Ubuntu or Edit → Find → Find in path in Android Studio. Then search old package name and replace it with new. You can use alt+ j for multi cursor as well. Clean and rebuild project. Run app at each step so that you can catch the error at a point. Also use debugger for debugging. Resources Migrate to Android Studio:…

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Remove redundancy of images while uploading it from the Phimpme photo app

Uploading images is an important feature for the Phimpme Photo App. While uploading images in the Phimpme application, there was a high probability that the user uploaded redundant images since there was no check on the upload. Therefore to tackle this problem, images should be hashed so that no two same images gets uploaded. To generate a hash of the file, the md5 algorithm and the sha1 algorithm is used. What is MD5 algorithm? The MD5 hashing algorithm is a one-way cryptographic function that accepts a message of any length as input and returns as output a fixed-length digest value to be used for authenticating the original message. It produces a 128 bit hash value.  - WhatIs.com What is SHA1 algorithm? SHA-1 (Secure Hash Algorithm 1) is a cryptographic hash function designed by the United States National Security Agency and is a U.S. Federal Information Processing Standard published by the United States NIST. SHA-1 produces a 160-bit (20-byte) hash value known as a message digest. A SHA-1 hash value is typically rendered as a hexadecimal number, 40 digits long.    - Wikipedia Reason for using MD5 + SHA1 instead of SHA256 The file becomes highly secured while maintaining its integrity. The algorithm MD5 + SHA1 is faster in hashing than SHA256. Implementation Create a separate Utils class named FileUtils.java. The class contains the static function to get the hash of any file in general. The message digest class is being used in both the algorithms. The hash is the combination of the md5 hash string along with the SHA1 hash string. The message digest takes up algorithm as its argument to specify which hashing function would be used. The fileinputstream takes up the input file for initialization and the message digest is updated with the data bytes of the file. The StringBuffer class is then used to generate the fixed length hexadecimal value from the message digest since the string is going to be mutable in nature. The string value of the generated string buffer object is returned. public class FileUtils { //The utility method to get the hash of the file public static String getHash(final File file) throws NoSuchAlgorithmException, IOException {  return md5(file) + "_" + sha1(file); } //The md5 alogorithm public static String md5(final File file) throws NoSuchAlgorithmException, IOException { MessageDigest md = MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5");  FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(file);  byte[] dataBytes = new byte[1024];  int nread = 0;  while ((nread = fis.read(dataBytes)) != -1) {   md.update(dataBytes, 0, nread);  }  //convert the byte to hex format  StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer("");  for (byte mdbyte: md.digest()) {   sb.append(Integer.toString((mdbyte & 0xff) + 0x100, 16).substring(1));  }  fis.close();  md.reset();  return sb.toString(); } //The SHA1 algorithm public static String sha1(final File file) throws NoSuchAlgorithmException, IOException {  MessageDigest md = MessageDigest.getInstance("SHA1");  FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(file);  byte[] dataBytes = new byte[1024];  int nread = 0;  while ((nread = fis.read(dataBytes)) != -1) {   md.update(dataBytes, 0, nread);  }  //convert the byte to hex format  StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer("");  for (byte mdbyte: md.digest()) {   sb.append(Integer.toString((mdbyte & 0xff)…

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Use of SwipeRefreshLayout in Phimpme

In an image application, the first thing we want is to get a list of all images from the users device at the start of the application in the splash screen. But what if the number of images in the device is altered by deleting or copying any other images to the device when the application is running. This is where the swipe refresh layout helps us to obtain the real-time list of images from our device by just swiping vertically downwards. In the Phimpme application, we have made use of the swipe refresh layout to update the image according to the latest data. In this post, I will be discussing how we achieved this in the Phimpme application with the help of some code examples. Steps to implement the SwipeRefreshLayout: The first thing we need to do is add the support library to our project build.gradle file. dependencies { compile 'com.android.support:recyclerview-v7:25.3.1' compile 'com.android.support:support-v4:25.3.1' } 2. Now add the SwipeRefreshLayout in Activity.xml file where you want to implement the SwipeRefreshLayout with the recyclerView and the child view should match the parent layout. This can be done using the line of code below: <android.support.v4.widget.SwipeRefreshLayout   android:id="@+id/swipeRefreshLayout"   android:layout_width="match_parent"   android:layout_height="match_parent"   android:paddingBottom="@dimen/height_bottombar" > <android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView   android:id="@+id/grid_albums" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="match_parent" android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"  android:scrollbarThumbVertical="@drawable/ic_scrollbar" android:scrollbars="vertical" /> </android.support.v4.widget.SwipeRefreshLayout> 3. Now we have to implement the onRefreshListener which handles the refresh operation when a vertical swipe is performed. Activity.java SwipeRefreshLayout swipeRefreshLayout = (SwipeRefreshLayout)findViewById(R.id.sr); swipeRefreshLayout.setOnRefreshListener(new SwipeRefreshLayout.OnRefreshListener() {   @Override   public void onRefresh() {   } });   Now we can do anything in onRefresh method which we want to do when user swipes vertically. For example, we want to refresh the recyclerView with latest images and display the content so this should be done in a background thread. So we will use AsyncTask to update the data.  @Override  public void onRefresh() { new AsyncTask().execute(); //  This will execute the AsyncTask   } }); AsyncTask.java private class AsyncTask extends AsyncTask<Void, Integer, Void> {   @Override   protected void onPreExecute() {       swipeRefreshLayout.setRefreshing(true);       super.onPreExecute();   }   @Override   protected Void doInBackground(Void... arg0) {       // refresh the content of recyclerView here       return null;   }   @Override   protected void onPostExecute(Void result) {    swipeRefreshLayout.setRefreshing(false);   } }   When the user swipes up vertically the progress bar is shown to screen and which can be done by swipeRefreshLayout.setRefreshing(true) in onPreExecute() method. In doInBackground() method we have to load the content of RecyclerView through an adapter. Once the data is loaded and set to recyclerView onPostExecute() method is called and now we have to dismiss the loading progress bar by     swipeRefreshLayout.setRefreshing(false); This is how SwipeRefreshLayout works. The above code helps us to reload the album content in the gallery. For more details refer here in the Phimpme project for SwipeRefreshLayout. https://github.com/fossasia/phimpme-android/blob/development/app/src/main/java/vn/mbm/phimp/me/leafpic/activities/LFMainActivity.java Resources : https://developer.android.com/reference/android/support/v4/widget/SwipeRefreshLayout.html https://developer.android.com/training/swipe/add-swipe-interface.html

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Creating a basic Gallery in Phimpme Android

In the process of optimizing our Phimpme Android photo application, I had to change the implementation of the gallery in the application, as its loading time and smoothness is not satisfactory. How did I implement it? In any gallery application, the primary necessity is having a details’ list of all available images on the device. For creating such a list, it is not necessary to iterate in all folders of the device storage for images. It is very time consuming task if we perform every time the app opens. Instead we can use database created by Android system for storing details of all available media on the device which can be accessed by any application. If we query the database with proper arguments, we get a cursor pointing to our target, using which we can form a list for our need. Querying the mediastore for images can be implemented as shown below Uri uri; Cursor cursor; int column_index; String path = null,sortOrder; ArrayList<String> imageList = new ArrayList<>(); uri = android.provider.MediaStore.Images.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI; String[] projection = { MediaStore.MediaColumns.DATA }; //DATA is the path to the corresponding image. We only need this for loading //image into a recyclerview sortOrder = MediaStore.Images.ImageColumns.DATE_ADDED + “ DESC”; //This sorts all images such that recent ones appear first cursor = getContentResolver().query(uri, projection, null,null, sortOrder); try {       if (null != cursor) {            column_index = cursor.getColumnIndexOrThrow(MediaStore.MediaColumns.DATA);            while (cursor.moveToNext()) {                 path = cursor.getString(column_index_data);                 imageList.add(path);            }            cursor.close(); //imageList gets populated with paths to images by here       } }catch (Exception e){       e.printStackTrace(); } As we now have the list of paths to all images, we can proceed with displaying images using image file path. We can use RecyclerView for displaying grid of images as it is more optimized that default GridView. The whole process of displaying images can be summarized in following simple steps. Add RecyclerView widget to main layout and create a layout for gallery item. Create an adapter for populating RecyclerView. Initialize adapter with imageList and attach it to the recyclerView. Setting Layout:  Add the below code to the layout resource for your activity(activity_main.xml). <android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView android:layout_width=”match_parent” android:layout_height=”match_parent” android:id=”@+id/gallery_grid”/> Inorder to use RecyclerView in the project, the following dependency for recyclerView has to be added in the build.gradle file compile "com.android.support:recyclerview-v7:$supportLibVer" //change supportLibVer to its corresponding value.   Now create a layout for item in the gallery. For this, you can create something like below. gallery_item.xml <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"              android:layout_width="match_parent"              android:layout_height="match_parent">    <ImageView        android:layout_width="match_parent"        android:layout_height="match_parent"        android:scaleType="centerCrop"        android:id="@+id/image"/> </RelativeLayout> Setting the Adapter: Adapter populates the recyclerView with the list of resources given to it. For displaying images in RecyclerView, if we use normal method for setting image i.e imageview.setImageDrawable(xyz); the recyclerView would load extremely slow everytime we open the app. So, we can use an open-source image caching library Glide, for this purpose. It caches the images on its first load and lazy loads images into imageView giving a smooth experience. It can be used only if the following dependency…

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Sharing the Phimpme Android App using Firebase deep-linking

The share feature in the Android application is really important for the growth of your Android application and to increase the user base. In the Phimpme Android application, we have made use of the Firebase deep link to share the application as it is the most recommended way to do it. In this tutorial, I am discussing two ways to share your Android application with the help of code snippets below. The following are: Generate the APK and share: Sharing the APK of the application directly can be achieved very easily but it is the least recommended way to do this. To share the APK of the application via bluetooth or other applications, we can make use of the package manager to generate the apk and pass it to the share intent to get things done smoothly. The following code snippet will be used to generate the apk and to pass it on to the share intent. PackageManager pm = getPackageManager(); ApplicationInfo ai = pm.getApplicationInfo(getPackageName(), 0); File srcFile = new File(ai.publicSourceDir); Intent share = new Intent(); share.setAction(Intent.ACTION_SEND); share.setType("application/vnd.android.package-archive"); share.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, Uri.fromFile(srcFile)); startActivity(Intent.createChooser(share, "APK")); Sharing the application’s apk directly is not the most recommended way to do it as sometimes the apk generated by the PackageManager might not install properly in another device. Using the Firebase Deep links: The best thing about this is that it can behave differently when clicked on different devices. For example, you have Phimpme Android application installed in your mobile phone and someone else might send you the invitation link to download it again. So when you click on the deep link, rather than opening play store or any other storage from where you can download the apk, it will open up the Phimpme Application directly. Due to these advantages, in the Phimpme Application, we have made use of this service to share the application. In this tutorial, I will discuss on how to achieve this step by step: Step 1: Sign in to your google account and go the Firebase console then click on the Add project button and fill in the Project name and your country and press Create Project button to proceed. Step 2: Click on Add firebase to your Android application button and fill in the your Android application’s package name and the SHA-1 key. You can generate this key very easily with the help of Android studio. For this, import and open your Android application in Android studio and then press the Gradle button at the right hand side of your screen. It will open up the screen like that mentioned in the screenshot below: Go to app>android> and double click on the signingReport and wait for the build to complete. On successful completion of the build, the SHA-1 key will be displayed on the Gradle console below. Step 3: Click on the register application button below to proceed. It will provide an option to download googleServices.json file but you can skip that as it is not necessary for sharing the application.…

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Combining multiple images into one image in the Phimpme Android Application

The Phimpme app comes with a lot of image editing functionalities. One such fascinating feature Phimpme provides is to combine two or more multiple images into one with just a button click. To do this in the Phimpme Application, long click two or more medias and click the affix button to combine them into one from the menu options. This is how two images when affixed looks like:   In this post, I will talk about how to achieve this functionality in any Android application with some code snippets. Here is the step by step tutorial on how to achieve this: Step 1: The first step is to reduce the bitmap of the selected images to a smaller size to avoid the OutOFMemory Exception while affixing images. As by affixing the images we will be making the images smaller, we don’t need the high quality bitmaps for it. To reduce the bitmaps use the function provided below: private Bitmap getBitmap(String path) { Uri uri = Uri.fromFile(new File(path)); InputStream in = null; try { final int IMAGE_MAX_SIZE = 1200000; // 1.2MP in = getContentResolver().openInputStream(uri); // Decode image size BitmapFactory.Options o = new BitmapFactory.Options(); o.inJustDecodeBounds = true; BitmapFactory.decodeStream(in, null, o); in.close(); int scale = 1; while ((o.outWidth * o.outHeight) * (1 / Math.pow(scale, 2)) > IMAGE_MAX_SIZE) { scale++; } Bitmap bitmap = null; in = getContentResolver().openInputStream(uri); if (scale > 1) { scale--; // scale to max possible inSampleSize that still yields an image // larger than target o = new BitmapFactory.Options(); o.inSampleSize = scale; bitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(in, null, o); // resize to desired dimensions int height = bitmap.getHeight(); int width = bitmap.getWidth(); double y = Math.sqrt(IMAGE_MAX_SIZE / (((double) width) / height)); double x = (y / height) * width; Bitmap scaledBitmap = Bitmap.createScaledBitmap(bitmap, (int) x, (int) y, true); bitmap.recycle(); bitmap = scaledBitmap; System.gc(); } else { bitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(in); } in.close(); Log.d(TAG, "bitmap size - width: " +bitmap.getWidth() + ", height: " + bitmap.getHeight()); return bitmap; } catch (IOException e) { Log.e(TAG, e.getMessage(),e); return null; } } Step 2: Create a bitmap array of the selected images using the following snippet: for (int i = 0; i < selectedMedias.size(); i++) { bitmapArray.add(getBitmap(selectedMedias.get(i).getPath())); } Here the selectedMedias is the ArrayList<Media> files which is used to create a bitmap array of reduced pixels using the function getBitmap we created in the first step. Step 3: Create a union bitmap of the two images of particular width and height and then draw your bitmaps into a canvas using the Android Canvas class : unionBitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap(getBitmapsWidth(bitmapArray), getMaxBitmapHeight(bitmapArray), Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888); Canvas comboImage = new Canvas(unionBitmap); Step 4: The last step is to combine the two images and get the affixed Canvas as the result. This can be done using the function given below which takes the Canvas and ArrayList of bitmaps as a parameter and returns a Canvas of images. private static Canvas combineBitmap(Canvas cs, ArrayList bpmList){ int width = bpmList.get(0).getWidth(); cs.drawBitmap(bpmList.get(0), 0f, 0f, null); for (int i = 1; i < bpmList.size(); i++) { cs.drawBitmap(bpmList.get(i), width,…

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Implementing Travis for Testing Phimpme Android

What is Travis CI? It’s importance in Android Testing. Travis CI is continuous integration service which is hosted online and makes it easy for developers to automate any kinds of test on their Github projects. In an open source project, there are many developers from around the world working together and the repository experiences many new commits in a single day. Their might be a chance that while making the changes, they have broken something in the application. In the first blog, I discussed how to add Espresso UI tests. After this the question arises is how to use these tests to check the stability at each push or a pull request. How I ran Espresso Tests in Phimpme using Travis? After adding the Espresso Tests in the application, we  need to configure .travis.yml file to run the tests on each push in the repository. This can be achieved by following the steps below: Step 1: In the .travis.yml file of the repository, check whether the existing configuration exists to check for gradle build of the application. Create one in case it is not their and add the configurations to do a build check. You can take help from the official site of Travis or from the .travis.yml file in the Phimpme repository. Step 2: Now in the before script part of the file add the following codes which will start the emulator in the Travis to run the Espresso Tests.     Before_script:     - echo no | android create avd --force -n test -t android-19 - -abi armeabi-v7a     - emulator -avd test -no-audio -no-window &      - sleep 300      - adb shell input keyevent 82 & The sleep 300 is used to wait for a specified time so that the emulator starts perfectly before running the test. Step 3: In the script part of the file, run the Espresso test written in the application by adding the following line of codes. Script: ./gradlew connectedAndroidTest After adding these, make a test commit on your repository. Login to your Travis account to check the status of the test. For the complete code of how to implement Travis test, refer to this Pull request in the Phimpme Android repository. In this Pull request, I did not make use of the sleep 300, due to which sometimes the test was failing without any broken UI. Hence, make sure to add this line of script for better results. Resources: https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/languages/android/ https://github.com/fossasia/phimpme-android

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