[APP][4.0+][2016/10/05 2.90]Photo Frame&Grid Widget

itandy · Aug 28, 2012

** Formerly known as Photo Grid/Frame Widget. Due to complaint of infringement for the trademark "PHOTOGRID", I had to rename it to Photo Frame&Grid Widget. Hopefully, it doesn't infringe any other trademarks. **

Besides, please uninstall any versions older than 2.83 before installing the new version (2.83) because a new package name is assigned and your Android device will treat it as a separate app.

This is my first Android app. Basically I want to replicate the grid-style photo widget from HTC so it can be used by other phones or in AOSP ROM.

I developed the widget and tested it on my HTC Incredible S. If you're interested, please install it in other phones of different brand and screen size. If you encounter any issues, please feel free to report here or give me a PM. Or if you have any request for new features, I'll also consider in future versions.

Features:

Resizable & scrollable grid view / photo frame mode / stack mode
Support lockscreen widget in JellyBean (Android 4.2 and up)
Configurable slideshow interval for frame mode
Supports JPG, GIF, PNG, BMP, MPO, JPS for image files
Support 3GP, MP4, TS, WEBM, MKV for video files (http://developer.android.com/guide/appendix/media-formats.html)
Configurable file types & filename filter
Selectable photo album from internal/external storage
Individual file selection
Can choose a specific installed app to launch for full screen image view or video playback
Image file details in preview mode (Filename, image dimension, file size and video duration)
Tween animation in frame mode (fade / slide) ** even better slide effect if navigation arrows are hidden **
Support different settings in multiple widget instances
Two different image styles - Scale whole image / Crop to fit
User define image border width and color
Thumbnail size options
Display order options
Limit the maximum no of photo files to show. Default is 50.
App to change widget settings on the fly
Tasker integration
Requires ICS (Android 4.0) or above

Permissions

WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE - store thumbnails for grid view to improve performance
READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE - read thumbnails for grid view
RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED - restart services for auto refresh and register alarm manager for slideshow
WAKE_LOCK - keep phone awake during background thumbnail generation
VIBRATE - vibrate when thumbnail is selected

Outstanding issues:

Due to a bug in Android 4.2.1 SDK, if you remove the widget in lockscreen, you need to remove its settings in the app as well manually. Fixed in 4.2.2 SDK.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gzplanet.photoframegridwidget

itandy · Aug 28, 2012

Change log

Code:

2.90
- New option to limit the maximum no of photo files to show (under Album Photo Files options screen). Default is 50.

2.87
- Fix issue that image files are incorrectly treated as video files in CM12/CM13

2.86
- Add support for esdfs in Moto X devices

2.85
- Fix slideshow issue when interval is less than 1 minute on Android 4.4 or higher

2.84
- Fix widget UI unable to launch on Lollipop

2.83
- Change package name to com.gzplanet.photoframegridwidget. Please uninstall any previous version. Otherwise, you'll end up having 2 separate apps on your device.

2.82
- Fix issue that external SD/OTG cannot be found in Samsung S5

2.81
- Fix issue that external storage not available in some Huawei (4.2.2) devices

2.80
- Improve Auto Refresh on File Change function to make it much more reliable

2.72
- Fix issue that external SD/OTG cannot be found in some Android 4.4 devices

2.71
- Always show Apply buttons in action bar which might be hidden in menu for some devices

2.70
- New option to adjust thumbnail rotation in stack mode

2.60
- Photo in preview/frame mode will be automatically re-rendered to correct size on phone orientation change.

2.50
- New option to auto hide frame/preview mode UI components (filename, dimension, file size...) in 5s. Auto hide feature currently doesn't work with animation.

2.40
- New option to show hidden folder (action bar menu) in Album Folders.
- Allow manual input of border color by hex code or color name in frame/stack mode.
- New option to skip to next photo in frame mode when screen is turned on.

2.32
- Add support for exFAT SD card in Android 4.3

2.31
- Improve animation performance in album folder selection

2.30
- Fix the issue that external storage is not available in Android 2.3
- Bug fixes

2.22
- Fix the issue that widget cannot show images after a reboot for Samsung Galaxy S4

2.21
- Improve mount/unmount event for devices with multiple external storages

2.20
- Add support for individual file seletion

2.14
- Add support for Android 2.3 FEATURE_APP_WIDGETS permission and restricted profile environment

2.13
- New grid thumbnail size for Sony Xperia
- Bug fix

2.12
- New Slide animation (Vertical)

2.11
- Bug fix that the widget is not refreshed when a new video is added

2.10
- Tasker integration
  * Change settings (album folder / display order)
  * Skip to next/previous photo (frame mode only)

** Changing Album Folder action does not trigger the cache files generation. Thumbnails will be generated on-the-fly when they're displayed and once all thumbnails are generated for the first time, the performance will be the same. However, if you have previously generated thumbnail files, they will be used so there'll be no performance impact. **

2.00
- Now supports video files
- Supports core Android video formats (3GP,MP4,TS,WEBM,MKV). http://developer.android.com/guide/appendix/media-formats.html
- New option to select video player app

** Please use the new Reset file types function (under Album photo files section) first. Otherwise, video files will not be shown **

1.91
- Improve widget list and album picker performance
- Improve photo preview performance in album picker
- Stack mode now supports auto refresh
- Reduce auto refresh performance impact on JB
- Improve preview/frame image scaling (now supports stock launcher and Nova 2.1 and Apex 2.0.1)
- Other optimizations and bug fixes

1.90
- New stack mode!
  - select stack mode in display mode and find more customization options in thumbnail section
  - reduce max dimension if widget/launcher crash especially in tablet
- New options to select image border width & color
- New tween animation in frame mode (fade / slide)
  - even better slide effect if navigation arrows are hidden
- Bug fixes

1.81
- New set of thumbnail sizes for Samsung Galaxy Note2
- Fix FC when selected album folder has no photo files

1.80
- New background thumbnail generation - if the selected album folders contain more than 30 photo files, system will generate the thumbnails in the background so you can continue using the phone. Check the progress on the status bar.
- You can now also use Auto Refresh for photo frame mode
- Several improvements on photo album selection UI
- You can now choose to retain existing album folder selections before changing album folders
- Further fine-tuned preview/frame photo dimension calculation on JB

1.75
- Bug fix for preview/frame photo crashes on JB for some devices

1.74
- Slideshow interval can now be set to 0 to disable slideshow

1.73
- Better support for screen off triggered by 3rd party apps

1.72
- Properly handle slideshow interval after screen on
- Restart services when package is upgraded

1.71
- Fix navigation arrows not responding in frame mode
- Generate thumbnails only for grid mode
- Fine tune preview/frame image dimension calculation for ICS

1.70
- Dynamically scale preview/frame image when widget is resized (JB only)
- New preview/frame image style option (crop/scale)
- New preview/frame image maximum dimension option (reduce it if the widget or your launcher crash, ICS only since JB has better memory management, at least it doesn't crash on me)
- New option to disable EXIF orientation detection for preview/frame image
- New option to force filtering for thumbnail
- New option to set thumbnail JPEG quality
- Reduce battery drain in frame mode (slideshow) when screen is off (service is required and thus needs more memory)
- Re-organize config menu
- Bug fixes

1.61
- Fix FC when no external viewer app is found

1.60
- JB 4.2 lockscreen support
- New set of layouts for lockscreen
- New option to show next photo instead of launching viewer app when tapping preview/frame photo
* Due to a bug in Android 4.2 SDK, if you remove the widget in  lockscreen. You need to remove its settings in the app manually.

1.50
- Multiple folder support
- Implemented fragment animation
- Option to toggle preview items individually
- Bug fixes

1.41
- Fix FC for some users upgrading from old versions 

1.40
- New photo frame mode (configurable slideshow interval)
- Configurable file types to include
- Configurable filename filter with wildcard support
- Random order (useful for photo frame slideshow)
- New option to hide information in preview mode (File info and prev/next buttons will be hidden)
- Bug fixes

1.32
- Fix problem with Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean)

1.31
- New option to set background opacity of appwidget
- Spacing between grid items is now aligned evenly for a more tidy look

1.30
- New config application to change widget settings on the fly. (Find the new app shortcut in app drawer)
- UI revamp to make use of ICS features. (Click the icon on upper right corner to confirm instead of pressing the Back button when adding new widgets)
- Reduced package size

1.20
- Photo preview in album selection screen
- New option to refresh widget automatically when there is a change of image files in the selected folder (service is required)
- Widget now behaves properly when external storage is unmounted
- Bug fixes

1.12
- Add support for MPO and JPS image files
- Images with EXIF orientation tag will be rotated properly

1.10 (Please re-add your widgets)
- New option to choose thumbnail sizes (some optimized for HTC launcher)
- Changed thumbnail dimension to square instead of portrait
- New option to choose display order
- You can now use different thumbnail style, size and other settings for different widget instances independently
- Bug fixes and performance optimization

1.01
- New option to skip preview image and launch external viewer directly
- Unified external storage and album folder selections into a single option
- Adjust preview image size for large screen devices

1.0
- Published to Play store

Beta 4 (build 09040937)
- Correct typo "Chop to fix" to "Crop to fit"
- Fixed issues that thumbnail files are not closed properly during creation

Beta 3 (build 09021624)
- Fixed thumbnail for images of some aspect ratio cannot be generated
- Show file position in preview mode
- New prev/next buttons in preview mode
- New app icon
- Automatically apply filter to preview image if it's upscaled to reduce pixelation

Beta 2 (build 08301200)
- Support devices with non standard external storage
- Support devices with multiple external storage
- Support devices with un-mountable internal storage (e.g. Asus Transformer internal SD)
- Fixed thumbnail generation issue for square size images
- Proper exception handling during thumbnail generation so issue of individual file will not crash the whole widget

Nezys · Aug 28, 2012

Very nice widget,it works great on my Galaxy S with JB 4.1.1
The only problem(which not depends on your widget) is that external storage on CM10 where I have most of my pictures is located in a folder that I can't select with this widget

If you(in a next release) can allow users to do a manual selection of the folder my "problem" will be solved xD
However,it's really a beautiful photo widget man,thanks

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TheMorpheus · Aug 28, 2012

Works good Galaxy Nexus, Cm10, Nova Launcher!

itandy · Aug 28, 2012

Nezys said:
Very nice widget,it works great on my Galaxy S with JB 4.1.1
The only problem(which not depends on your widget) is that external storage on CM10 where I have most of my pictures is located in a folder that I can't select with this widget
If you(in a next release) can allow users to do a manual selection of the folder my "problem" will be solved xD
However,it's really a beautiful photo widget man,thanks

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Do you mean Galaxy S has multiple external storage? Can you give me the complete paths of these storage. (e.g. /mnt/sdcard/) I'll see what I can do.

MiDiANx360 · Aug 28, 2012

I tried your widget, but unfortunately i can't get it to work on my phone (Galaxy Nexus). I can install it, and get to the settings screen.
After pressing back the Thumbnail-Generation starts and during that, the app just closes. With some folders it closes right away, with others it closes later on. But it always stops at the same time if i select the same folder. I.e. when i choose folder A it will always close at 15/30 Images. If i select Folder B it always closes at 1/34. So i guess it might be an issue with certain pictures.

Update:
I finally found one folder with 6 pictures that does work and would like to suggest two additional settings:I would like to be able to change the spacing between the pictures (in fact i would like to be able to remove the spacing). Which would give the widget the same look as the one from HTC and i would like to be able to access the settings of the widget so i don't have to remove and add it back to change the settings.

Thank you for your work!

itandy · Aug 28, 2012

MiDiANx360 said:
I tried your widget, but unfortunately i can't get it to work on my phone (Galaxy Nexus). I can install it, and get to the settings screen.
After pressing back the Thumbnail-Generation starts and during that, the app just closes. With some folders it closes right away, with others it closes later on. But it always stops at the same time if i select the same folder. I.e. when i choose folder A it will always close at 15/30 Images. If i select Folder B it always closes at 1/34. So i guess it might be an issue with certain pictures.

Update:
I finally found one folder with 6 pictures that does work and would like to suggest two additional settings:I would like to be able to change the spacing between the pictures (in fact i would like to be able to remove the spacing). Which would give the widget the same look as the one from HTC and i would like to be able to access the settings of the widget so i don't have to remove and add it back to change the settings.

Thank you for your work!

Thanks for testing my widget!

Can you give me a logcat so I can locate the source of the issue? I believe the widget is unable to generate a thumbnail for some of your images. It might be a program bug or a corrupted image. You can create a logcat using aLogcat app or adb command as below (let me know if you need more instructions):

Code:

adb logcat > logcat.txt

I'll add the spacing issue to my todo list. But currently I cannot think of a solution since unlike HTC widget, my widget is resizable and target for different devices so these spacing is added automatically to fill up the entire area of the widget as well as to handle devices of different screen density and launchers (they actually display widgets differently!).

Also, I'll see if I can add the setting button in this version.

Nezys · Aug 28, 2012

itandy said:
Do you mean Galaxy S has multiple external storage? Can you give me the complete paths of these storage. (e.g. /mnt/sdcard/) I'll see what I can do.

Galaxy S with stock rom has these paths:

mnt/sdcard (internal storage)
mnt/sdcard/external sd (ext-sd card)

With AOSP roms(CM7-CM9-CM10-AOKP-MIUI) these paths change in:

mnt/sdcard
mnt/emmc (ext-sd card)

As you can see,I can't access external sd card from mnt/sdcard with a NON-samsung rom..this is why I can't use pictures on ext- sd

I hope is clear!

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MiDiANx360 · Aug 28, 2012

itandy said:
Thanks for testing my widget!

Can you give me a logcat so I can locate the source of the issue? I believe the widget is unable to generate a thumbnail for some of your images. It might be a program bug or a corrupted image. You can create a logcat using aLogcat app or adb command as below (let me know if you need more instructions):

Code:

adb logcat > logcat.txt

I'll add the spacing issue to my todo list. But currently I cannot think of a solution since unlike HTC widget, my widget is resizable and target for different devices so these spacing is added automatically to fill up the entire area of the widget as well as to handle devices of different screen density and launchers (they actually display widgets differently!).

Also, I'll see if I can add the setting button in this version.

I never used alogcat but i gave it a try, either i'm doing it wrong or there is nothing happening that gets logged. I started aLogCat, cleared everything that was in it, and pressed the Play-button. I then forced the widget to "crash" and went back into aLogCat, and there is nothing new in there. Do I have to change any settings?

itandy · Aug 28, 2012

MiDiANx360 said:
I never used alogcat but i gave it a try, either i'm doing it wrong or there is nothing happening that gets logged. I started aLogCat, cleared everything that was in it, and pressed the Play-button. I then forced the widget to "crash" and went back into aLogCat, and there is nothing new in there. Do I have to change any settings?

Can you check in the preference, the value for Level is Verbose? If running correctly, you should see new entries coming in constantly even if you do nothing.

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itandy · Aug 28, 2012

Nezys said:
Galaxy S with stock rom has these paths:

mnt/sdcard (internal storage)
mnt/sdcard/external sd (ext-sd card)

With AOSP roms(CM7-CM9-CM10-AOKP-MIUI) these paths change in:

mnt/sdcard
mnt/emmc (ext-sd card)

As you can see,I can't access external sd card from mnt/sdcard with a NON-samsung rom..this is why I can't use pictures on ext- sd

I hope is clear!

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I guess I found some generic ways to get all external storage locations for different devices. I'll try to implement it in next version.

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NEO130 · Aug 28, 2012

If the widget open, you see the picture. Maybe you can improve a button to switch to next picture - forward - backword. Thanks, is a very usefull widget.

itandy · Aug 28, 2012

NEO130 said:
If the widget open, you see the picture. Maybe you can improve a button to switch to next picture - forward - backword. Thanks, is a very usefull widget.

Actually I thought about this too. Added to the todo list already.

NEO130 · Aug 28, 2012

Another idea. I resize the widget not to fill the full screen on launcher, but when I clicked the picture, it is so small, as the resized widget. Maybe, you can do this making bigger.

itandy · Aug 29, 2012

NEO130 said:
Another idea. I resize the widget not to fill the full screen on launcher, but when I clicked the picture, it is so small, as the resized widget. Maybe, you can do this making bigger.

Can you give me a screenshot of that? This way I can get a better idea. Thx!

Metallijim · Aug 29, 2012

Working nice on my Xperia arc s with latest firmware
Even loaded 200 plus photos!

Sent from my metalliArc S

itandy · Aug 29, 2012

Beta 2 is up

A new test build has just been uploaded. Please feedback if devices with non standard or multiple external storage work. Thanks!

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=30808879&postcount=2

ironjon · Aug 29, 2012

Working in a HTC Desire with Jelly Beam rom

Fantastic work!

Baeki92 · Aug 29, 2012

Working great with HTC One V running CM10

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NEO130 · Aug 29, 2012

itandy said:
Can you give me a screenshot of that? This way I can get a better idea. Thx!

Here are the screenshot. I hope you know what I mean. Or you make a direktlink to the intern picturebrowser to open the file. Both is a thinking.

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