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Delete Image Permanently from Trashbin in Phimpme App

In the Phimpme Android application, users can perform various operations on the images including renaming an image, sharing images, deleting images from the storage etc. However, with the implementation of the Trash Bin feature in the app, the user is now provided with the option to restore back the deleted images. Whenever the delete operation is performed, the selected images are moved to the Trash Bin and the user has the option to either delete the photos permanently or restoring back the deleted photos by navigating to the Trash bin section. So in this post, I’d be discussing the implementation of permanently deleting image/images from the Trashbin.

Step 1

Firstly, we need to add permanent delete option in the popup menu provided in the itemview in the TrashView section. Every item in the Trashbin section displays a popup menu with two options-restore and delete permanently. The permanent delete option has been implemented in the itemview by adding the following lines of code.

<?xml version=“1.0” encoding=“utf-8”?>
<menu xmlns:android=“http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android” xmlns:app=“http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto”>

 <item
     android:id=“@+id/delete_permanently”
     android:title=“@string/delete_permanently”
     app:showAsAction=“never” />
</menu>

Step 2

Now when the user opts to permanently delete any photo from the bin, a function deletePermanent would be invoked passing-in the trashbin object corresponding to the selected item as the parameter. Inside the deletePermanent method, a check is performed to determine whether the corresponding image file exists or not using the .exists method of the File class and if the result is true the file is deleted permanently using the .delete method of the File class. The method deletePermanent returns a boolean value depending on whether the image file is deleted permanently from the storage or not. The code snippets used to implement the deletePermanent method is provided below.

private boolean deletePermanent(TrashBinRealmModel trashBinRealmModel){
   boolean succ = false;
   String path = trashBinRealmModel.getTrashbinpath();
   File file = new File(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory() + “/” + “.nomedia”);
   //File file = new File(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory() + “/” + “TrashBin”);
   if(file.exists()){
       File file1 = new File(path);
       if(file1.exists()){
           succ = file1.delete();
       }
   }
   return succ;
}

Step 3

The function deletePermanent used implemented in the previous step returns a boolean value which will be used in this step. So if the deletePermanent method returns true indicating that the image has been deleted from the trashbin, first a method deleteFromRealm is invoked passing-in the path of the image in the Trashbin to delete the corresponding image’s record from the realm database. Thereafter, that particular trashbin item is removed from the ArrayList<TrashbinRealmModel> populating the TrashBin adapter to display the items in the TrashBin Activity and the adapter is notified of this change by the use of NotifyItemRemoved and NotifyItemRangeChanged methods of the RecyclerView adapter class passing-in the position of the item as parameter to the former and position along with the size of the updated list as parameters to the latter function. After the adapter is updated about the change in the dataset, the adapter re-populates the recyclerview thus displaying the remaining items in the trashbin section. The code snippets implementing the above-mentioned operations are provided below.

if(deletePermanent(trashBinRealmModel)){
   deleteFromRealm(trashItemsList.get(position).getTrashbinpath());
   trashItemsList.remove(position);
   notifyItemRemoved(position);
   notifyItemRangeChanged(position, trashItemsList.size());
}
private void deleteFromRealm(final String path){
   Realm realm = Realm.getDefaultInstance();
   realm.executeTransaction(new Realm.Transaction() {
       @Override public void execute(Realm realm) {
           RealmResults<TrashBinRealmModel> trashBinRealmModels = realm.where(TrashBinRealmModel.class).equalTo
                   (“trashbinpath”, path).findAll();
           trashBinRealmModels.deleteAllFromRealm();
       }
   });
}

This is how we have implemented the functionality to permanently delete an image from the Trashbin section 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 documentation –https://developer.android.com/reference/java/io/File
  2. Github-Phimpme Android Repository – https://github.com/fossasia/phimpme-android/
  3. Realm database operations Android – https://www.androidhive.info/2016/05/android-working-with-realm-database-replacing-sqlite-core-data/
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Implementing Undo Operation in Phimpme Android application

In the Phimpme Android application, users can perform various operations on the images available including renaming an image, sharing images, deleting images from the storage etc. However, there might occur a scenario where the user accidentally or in a rush performs some action and would want to undo it the very next second, so in such cases the undo action feature comes in pretty handy. So in this blog post, I will be discussing the undo operation option implemented for the delete image feature in Phimpme Android app.

Step 1

Firstly, we need to add an “Undo” action button in the Snackbar that displays the success operation message. With this addition, the user would have time to undo an operation until the snackbar message is being displayed on the screen. The undo action button can be added to the Snackbar by the use of the setAction method of the Snackbar class. The code snippets used to implement the button is provided below

Snackbar snackbar = SnackBarHandler.showWithBottomMargin2(mDrawerLayout, String.valueOf(no) + ” “ + getString(R.string
               .trashbin_move_onefile),
       navigationView.getHeight
               (), Snackbar.LENGTH_SHORT);
snackbar.setAction(“UNDO”, new View.OnClickListener() {
   @Override
   public void onClick(View view) {
       getAlbum().moveAllMedia(getApplicationContext(), getAlbum().getPath(), media1);
       refreshListener.onRefresh();
   }
});
snackbar.show();

Step 2

When the user performs the delete operation, first the photos are moved to the trashbin and the user have the option to delete them from there. Now, if the user opts for undo operation, on clicking the undo button the function moveallMedia will be invoked passing-in context, the path of the current album and an ArrayList<Media> containing the deleted media on which the undo operation is to be performed upon, as parameters. Here the ArrayList<Media> passed as a parameter contains the trashbin paths of the images deleted by the previous action. A method storeDeletedFilesTemporarily has been used that returns the list containing the deleted images trashbin paths. The implementation of the method storeDeletedFilesTemporarily has been provided below.

private ArrayList<Media> storeDeletedFilesTemporarily(){
ArrayList<Media> deletedImages = new ArrayList<>();
if(!all_photos && !fav_photos && editMode){
for(Media m: getAlbum().getSelectedMedia()){
String name = m.getPath().substring(m.getPath().lastIndexOf(“/”) + 1);
deletedImages.add(new Media(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory() + “/” + “.nomedia” + “/” + name));
}
} else if(all_photos && !fav_photos && editMode){
for(Media m: selectedMedias){
String name = m.getPath().substring(m.getPath().lastIndexOf(“/”) + 1);
deletedImages.add(new Media(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory() + “/” + “.nomedia” + “/” + name));
}
}
return deletedImages;
}

Step 3

Now in the final step, I’d discuss the implementation of the moveAllMedia method that actually completes the undo operation. As I mentioned earlier that on performing the delete operation the images are moved to the bin folder(which is hidden from the other applications), so the moveAllMedia method here will again move the images from the trashbin folder to the current folder. With this operation deleted images would be stored back to their original folder and their trashbin record would be simultaneously deleted from the Realm database. The code implementation of the moveAllMedia method is provided below.

public int moveAllMedia(Context context, String targetDir, ArrayList<Media> albummedia){
  int n = 0;
  try
  {
     int index=-1;
     for(int i =0;i<albummedia.size(); i++)
     {
        String s = albummedia.get(i).getPath();
        int indexOfLastSlash = s.lastIndexOf(“/”);
        String fileName = s.substring(indexOfLastSlash + 1);

        if(!albummedia.get(i).getPath().equals(targetDir+“/”+fileName)){
           index=-1;
        }else{
           index=i;
           break;

        }
     }
     if(index!=-1)
     {
        n = –1;
     }else{
        for (int i = 0; i < albummedia.size(); i++) {

           if (moveMedia(context, albummedia.get(i).getPath(), targetDir)) {
              String from = albummedia.get(i).getPath();
              scanFile(context, new String[]{ from, StringUtils.getPhotoPathMoved(albummedia.get(i).getPath(),
                    targetDir) },
                    new MediaScannerConnection.OnScanCompletedListener() {
                       @Override
                       public void onScanCompleted(String s, Uri uri) {
                          Log.d(“scanFile”, “onScanCompleted: “ + s);
                       }
                    });
              media.remove(albummedia.get(i));
              n++;
           }
        }
        setCount(media.size());
     }
  } catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); }
  return n;

}

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

Resources

  1. Android Developer documentation –https://developer.android.com/reference/java/io/File
  2. MediaScanner Tutorial – https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9414955/trigger-mediascanner-on-specific-path-folder-how-to/25086535

 

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Implementing Trash Bin in Phimpme Android Application

In the Phimpme Android application, users can perform various operations/actions on the photos available, some of the important operations involve renaming an image, sharing an image, deleting image etc. However, when the user performs delete operation for image/images the images are permanently deleted from the storage and there is no option to restore/recover the deleted image. Now imagine a situation where the user accidentally or in a rush deletes photo/photos, and now there is no possible way for the user to recover those accidentally deleted photos, so in such circumstances, the Trash Bin feature could prove to be a breather for the user. So, in this blog post, I will be discussing the implementation of the Trash Bin feature.

Step 1

Firstly, we need to implement the functionality to move the images to bin folder whenever the delete operation is performed. For this, we’d programmatically create a folder naming it .nomedia, so that this folder is not picked up by any other similar application while scanning folders. Now when the user deletes images, a check would be performed first to determine whether the bin folder already exists or not and actions would be performed accordingly(a folder would be created if it doesn’t already exist and the selected photos for deletion would be moved to the bin folder or the deleted photos would be moved directly to the bin folder if its there). Code snippets used to implement the bin folder is provided below.

private boolean addToTrash(){
   int no = 0;
   boolean succ = false;
   File file = new File(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory() + “/” + “.nomedia”);
   if(file.exists() && file.isDirectory()){
       if(!all_photos && !fav_photos && editMode){
           no = getAlbum().moveSelectedMedia(getApplicationContext(), file.getAbsolutePath());
       }else if(all_photos && !fav_photos && editMode){
           no = getAlbum().moveAllMedia(getApplicationContext(), file.getAbsolutePath(), selectedMedias);
       }else if(!editMode && !all_photos && !fav_photos){
           no = getAlbum().moveAllMedia(getApplicationContext(), file.getAbsolutePath(), getAlbum().getMedia());
       }
   else{
       if(file.mkdir()){
           if(!all_photos && !fav_photos && editMode){
               no = getAlbum().moveSelectedMedia(getApplicationContext(), file.getAbsolutePath());
           }else if(all_photos && !fav_photos && editMode){
               no = getAlbum().moveAllMedia(getApplicationContext(), file.getAbsolutePath(), selectedMedias);
           }else if(!editMode && !all_photos && !fav_photos){
               no = getAlbum().moveAllMedia(getApplicationContext(), file.getAbsolutePath(), getAlbum().getMedia());
           }
          // no = getAlbum().moveSelectedMedia(getApplicationContext(), file.getAbsolutePath());
        }
  // clearSelectedPhotos();
   return succ;
}

Step 2

Now if all the photos(selected by the user for deletion) are successfully moved to the bin folder, realm objects corresponding to those image files would be created and added to the realm database. The corresponding Realm object would consist of attributes namely oldpath, trashbinpath, time of delete and duration. The realm objects would be used at the time of implementing restore functionality for the trash bin images. The realm model class representing the Trash bin object is provided below.

public class TrashBinRealmModel extends RealmObject {

   @PrimaryKey
   private String trashbinpath;
   private String oldpath;
   private String datetime;
   private String timeperiod;

   public TrashBinRealmModel(){

   }

   public TrashBinRealmModel(String oldpath, String newpath, String datetime, String timeperiod){
       this.oldpath = oldpath;
       this.trashbinpath = newpath;
       this.datetime = datetime;
       this.timeperiod = timeperiod;
   }

   public void setTrashbinpath(String trashbinpath){
       this.trashbinpath = trashbinpath;
   }

   public String getTrashbinpath(){
       return trashbinpath;
   }
   public void setDatetime(String datetime){
       this.datetime = datetime;
   }

   public String getDatetime(){
       return datetime;
   }

   public void setOldpath(String oldpath){
       this.oldpath = oldpath;
   }

   public String getOldpath(){
       return oldpath;
   }

   public void setTimeperiod(String timeperiod){
       this.timeperiod = timeperiod;
   }

   public String getTimeperiod(){
       return timeperiod;
   }
}

The implementation for the function to add trash bin objects to Realm database is provided below.

for(int i = 0; i < media.size(); i++){
   int index = media.get(i).getPath().lastIndexOf(“/”);
   String name = media.get(i).getPath().substring(index + 1);
   realm.beginTransaction();
   String trashpath = trashbinpath + “/” + name;
   TrashBinRealmModel trashBinRealmModel =   realm.createObject(TrashBinRealmModel.class, trashpath);
   trashBinRealmModel.setOldpath(media.get(i).getPath());
   trashBinRealmModel.setDatetime(new SimpleDateFormat(“dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm:ss”).format(new Date()));
   trashBinRealmModel.setTimeperiod(“null”);
   realm.commitTransaction();
}

Step 3

Now we need to provide an option to the user to navigate to the Trash bin section to perform the delete(permanently) or restore option. So for the aforementioned action, we’d be adding an option in the navigation drawer menu titled “Trash Bin” clicking on which the Trash Bin section would be displayed to the user. The XML code changes committed to implementing the option has been provided below.

<LinearLayout xmlns:android=“http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android”
             android:id=“@+id/ll_drawer_trashbin”
             android:layout_width=“match_parent”
             android:layout_height=“wrap_content”
             android:background=“@drawable/ripple”
             android:clickable=“true”
             android:orientation=“horizontal”>

   <com.mikepenz.iconics.view.IconicsImageView
       android:id=“@+id/Drawer_trash_Icon”
       android:layout_width=“@dimen/icon_width_height”
       android:layout_height=“@dimen/icon_width_height”
       android:layout_gravity=“center_vertical”
       android:layout_marginLeft=“@dimen/big_spacing”
       android:layout_marginRight=“@dimen/big_spacing”
       app:iiv_icon=“gmd-file-upload”/>

   <TextView
       android:id=“@+id/Drawer_trash_Item”
       android:layout_width=“wrap_content”
       android:layout_height=“wrap_content”
       android:paddingBottom=“16dp”
       android:paddingTop=“16dp”
       android:text=“Trash Bin”
       android:textColor=“@color/md_dark_background”
       android:textSize=“16sp”/>
</LinearLayout>

This is how we have implemented the functionality to rename an image 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 documentation –https://developer.android.com/reference/java/io/File

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

3. Realm for Android tutorial –https://www.androidhive.info/2016/05/android-working-with-realm-database-replacing-sqlite-core-data/

4. Hiding directories using .nomedia file –http://www.easycodeway.com/2016/08/hide-files-in-android-using-nomedia-file.html

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