Hi everyone
I uploaded my new app to the Play store yesterday, but figured I'd post here too
Here's the link: Pictures Near Me
It does what it says on the tin really, shows pictures near your current location, and you can view a map showing where you are in relation to it. The main aim is it might be useful on vacation to find interesting or less obvious stuff to go visit.
I've tested on my Galaxy Nexus, and also the emulator under 2.3. A few friends have tried it on various handsets, but that's still not very representative. Please let me know if it breaks, or any features you'd like to see (I'm already thinking of adding Panoramio support and also a map-view for the 'index'
2013-02-12 1.9 released. Adds location search and picture saving.
2013-01-21 1.8 released. Performance improvements and Daydream screensaver
2012-11-27 1.7 released. Pan around Map search results to view photos in other locations
2012-10-29 1.5 released. Added pinman to map-search results.
2012-10-25 1.4 released. Added caching of search results to help performance.
2012-10-22 1.3 released. New Map View of search results
2012-07-30 1.2 released. Adds navigation button, larger thumbnails, and more columns on tablet devices.
2012-07-19 1.1 released, see http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=29020922&postcount=7
Works Ok once I put the search area up to maximum. Currently in South end on sea UK.
Using HTC One X.
Cheers
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Congrats, your app has crossed the Atlantic and reached your country's old colonies, haha. North Carolina, kind of middle of nowhere. Default settings had it show the same Pepsi truck twice; I set it to the max (32km?) and now a bunch of stuff is coming up.
This is really neat. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks , this is a sweet app.
Glad it seems to work - surprised at the lack of pictures coming up, in my little town there's quite a lot! But then we get a fair few tourists.
I've pushed version 1.1 live to the Play store.
This adds a few new features, specifically:
- share pictures you find with your friends via many of your other apps (Facebook, Twitter, Email etc.)
- picture descriptions now shown
- added an approximate address of the picture when viewing the map
- added warning when your location not found
- pinch-to-zoom when viewing picture full-size
I've just updated to 1.2.
This adds more thumbnail columns on tablets, and increases the size on phones. Also there's now a button to launch Google Navigation while viewing the photo
This is a great little app! I like it :good:
the_scotsman said:
This is a great little app! I like it :good:
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Thanks!
Pictures Near Me has been updated to 1.3 - now you get the option of viewing search results in a grid as before, or on a map to give a bit more context of what's around you.
The update should be live in the Play Store now.
Next version I'm looking at caching the search results and thumbnails to speed it up when you repeat search in a similar location to previously...
1.4 released today.
I've added caching so repeat searches in the same kinda area should be noticeably faster.
1.5 released. Small update to show Pinman on the map-search screen so you can see where all the results are in relation to you before tapping through to an individual picture
A few more updates have been rolled out- you can now pan around the map to view photos from other locations!
New update released!
Repeat searches in a location are now much faster as more information is cached
I've also added a "daydream" screensaver option!
this is indeed a nice little app.. thx!
iamelton said:
this is indeed a nice little app.. thx!
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Thanks! Do let me know of any bugs you find or feature ideas
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Thanks! Do let me know of any bugs you find or feature ideas
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a few ideas for ur consideration..
(1) put an option to show/hide the "cache" folder in/from other gallery apps (a .nomedia file trick maybe).. or to make it simpler just put a .nomedia file there as its a "cache" folder after all..
(normally the cache folder files are named cryptically and wont interfere with gallery app, however, i found out that there were a few properly-named files in the cache folder with a JPG extension.. they probably appeared after i have viewed the photo in the app.. and its those JPG files that showed up in my gallery app..)
(2) an export function to save a downloaded image to other locations..
iamelton said:
a few ideas for ur consideration..
(1) put an option to show/hide the "cache" folder in/from other gallery apps (a .nomedia file trick maybe).. or to make it simpler just put a .nomedia file there as its a "cache" folder after all..
(normally the cache folder files are named cryptically and wont interfere with gallery app, however, i found out that there were a few properly-named files in the cache folder with a JPG extension.. they probably appeared after i have viewed the photo in the app.. and its those JPG files that showed up in my gallery app..)
(2) an export function to save a downloaded image to other locations..
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Currently the cache images don't have the .jpg name. Adding this would be fairly easy, but the filenames bear no relation to the original image- they are actually from the hash of the URL the image came from. Changing this to be a more logical name would be non-trivial.
Adding an option in the picture details screen to simply save the current image to the gallery is possible though, so I'll add this for the next release. I'm also looking to add a location search option to the home-screen; as one user left a negative review in the Play store saying they couldn't search elsewhere (you can, you just need to pan around the map) - they also said the images were rubbish, and obviously didn't spot you can order by interestingness. Unfortunately the play store doesn't let me reply to comments
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Currently the cache images don't have the .jpg name. Adding this would be fairly easy, but the filenames bear no relation to the original image- they are actually from the hash of the URL the image came from. Changing this to be a more logical name would be non-trivial.
Adding an option in the picture details screen to simply save the current image to the gallery is possible though, so I'll add this for the next release. I'm also looking to add a location search option to the home-screen; as one user left a negative review in the Play store saying they couldn't search elsewhere (you can, you just need to pan around the map) - they also said the images were rubbish, and obviously didn't spot you can order by interestingness. Unfortunately the play store doesn't let me reply to comments
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for the JPG issue, i did find out that in the cache folder there was 1 JPG file (which was an image that i have viewed in details screen), and im fairly certain that this file was created by this app, and not any other apps as no app would mess with this app's cache folder..
i have viewed a number of images for details and only this one particular JPG file appeared.. i dunno why maybe u can investigate a little..
for negative comments in the play store, u can just ignore them as few users would admit that its their own problem not able to use an app.. most of the times they blamed the apps..
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all credits go to knox420 {http://forum.xda-developers.com/member.php?u=2608226 }
Inspired by this post on the blog I decided to ease up the exclusion of directories from the gallery/media database. Gallery Excluder does the job for me.
Here's why:
Many apps create folders on the sd-card and drop their stuff there. Often, they place images as well. Now that Android checks the sd-card for new media from time to time, these folders will be added to the media database and displayed in the stock Gallery app.
Here's how:
Gallery Excluder lists all direct subfolders of '/sdcard' respectively '/mnt/sdcard' and displays them in a list. If an item/folder gets checked there is a '.nomedia' placed in that folder. If the folder gets unchecked the '.nomedia' is removed.
Since it can take a while to have the gallery update you can force a manual update via options menu.
So please let me know if such a tool can be helpful for anyone except myself.
UPDATED VERSION:
I got a new version that supports subfolders (available at the 1st post)
Navigation:
- long press an item to dive into the subfolder
- back takes you up one level
Downside: there is no feedback when you selected a subfolder for its parent. E.g. when you excluded /mnt/sdcard/folder/subfolder/ you can't recognize it when viewing folder /mnt/sdcard/ (folder won't be selected).
Pre-Market release: Please check.
Updated:
- Select all/none
- Hint for 1st time users
pre-release http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3539119/GalleryExcluder_v1.0_pre.apk
really nice app! definitely go on and put it on the market
hdlineage said:
really nice app! definitely go on and put it on the market
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it's not mine. looks good so far. but it needs work yet.
I just use the app called Quich Pik. It loads faster and you can choose which galleries to hide and which ones you want hidden with password protection.
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I just use the app called Quich Pik. It loads faster and you can choose which galleries to hide and which ones you want hidden with password protection.
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https://market.android.com/details?id=com.alensw.PicFolder&feature=search_result looks nice. i was just trying to help out a fellow xda member. i'm going to try the quick pik as well. thanks.
.nomedia is good for hiding porn on the Gallery.
I want a gallery app that doesn't just clump every folder with pictures in it in to root gallery.
For example:
/album/pets/cat
/album/pets/dog
/album/pets/fish
In the stock app (and all others I've tried) will put cat, dog, fish right in the main gallery. I just want to see a subfolder called pets.
Looking at my photos and directory structure on a computer, my files are neat and well organized. In gallery it takes forever to find what I'm looking for.
I've tried just about every app out there, and even sent feature requests to several authors. The author of Quickpic said he'd consider it. Thats about the furthest I've got.
Any other suggestions?
You should check out JustPictures. It's in the market. I've been using it for a while, and it's great.
Or also QuickPics also in the market
I should of listed the ones I've tried. JustPictures and Quickpics behaves the same as the stock app regarding folder structure.
I actually emailed both devs about adding that feature..
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I should of listed the ones I've tried. JustPictures and Quickpics behaves the same as the stock app regarding folder structure.
I actually emailed both devs about adding that feature..
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Maybe it'll get added to QuickPic, I emailed the dev about that too - or at least a tag type of implementation where I could tag my folders and sort by the tags. QuickPic is still a great app.
EDIT: You can sort by path in QuickPic, but all of the folders are still on one screen. Example: If you have:
/colors, then
/colors/blue
/colors/green
/colors/red
-and-
/pets, then
/pets/cats
/pets/dogs
/pets/fish
The folders will show up in this order: blue, green, red, cats, dogs, fish. At least common folders will be grouped near the others in the same parent directory. I believe this feature was implemented in the latest update.
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Cool, I knew I couldnt be the only one that organizes by folders.
My real pain is I have a folder called work where I keep all my work related stuff. Theres a ton of stuff and all the subfoloders clutter up the main gallery view..
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Cool, I knew I couldnt be the only one that organizes by folders.
My real pain is I have a folder called work where I keep all my work related stuff. Theres a ton of stuff and all the subfoloders clutter up the main gallery view..
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If you use that folder more than any other, there's also an option to automatically open the app to the last opened folder when you launch the app. If you need a different folder, you just hit the back button.
The MIUI gallery is awesome because it has three views -Favorites, All Folders, and SD card - that are tabs at the top of the app. I use QuickPic for certain things, but the MIUI gallery is my default gallery because I put the 3-5 folders I use the most on the favorites tab, so usually that's all I need. If QuickPic could do something like this, it'd be my default.
EDIT: Just realized your problem is with the work folder's subfolders, not with having to go through everything to get to the work folder. You could exclude the work folder (and it's subfolders) in QuickPic, and use the stock gallery for work stuff. That way the work stuff doesn't get in the way with QuickPic. I'm still hoping for a folder-tree type of listing.
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EDIT: Just realized your problem is with the work folder's subfolders, not with having to go through everything to get to the work folder. You could exclude the work folder (and it's subfolders) in QuickPic, and use the stock gallery for work stuff. That way the work stuff doesn't get in the way with QuickPic. I'm still hoping for a folder-tree type of listing.
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Bingo
Hopefully others see this and email the author too. I even told him I'd be willing to donate. I really like QP the best, its small, fast, and efficient. Only that one feature is missing.
Anybody know if theres an app that will automagically move pictures taken in a geo location and move them to a folder or highlight them somehow? Every day after work I end up full of pictures that I need either deleted or archived on a daily basis
Any help is very much appreciated.
javiwankenobi said:
Anybody know if theres an app that will automagically move pictures taken in a geo location and move them to a folder or highlight them somehow? Every day after work I end up full of pictures that I need either deleted or archived on a daily basis
Any help is very much appreciated.
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The stock Gallery app does this.hit the menu button on top right and select 'Group by". You then have the option to set location as the sort method. I too have to delete boat loads of work photos and find this method a lot easier.
About
DeviantDown allows the user to save DeviantArt photos utilizing the "share deviation" button within the Official DeviantArt App.
History
I had recently got tired of the currently available DeviantArt browser applications on the Play Store. This was mainly due to the API limitation of the number of images that can be seen during a search. The Official DeviantArt application has no limitation but doesn't allow you to save the Deviant Art directly to your phone like other Unofficial DeviantArt browser applications. So I wrote this application to fix that.
How It Works
The application utilizes the DeviantArt Back-end REST API to return the image URL of the shared URL provided when the user presses the "share deviation" button.
Features
Adds "Save Deviant Art" to "Share deviation" menu.
Saves photos directly to phone gallery.
Prevents Non-photo share links from being saved into gallery.
Download - Version 1.2
Screenshots
Archived Download Links & Changelog
March 1, 2015 - Version 1.2 - Download
Clean Code & Added Comments
Change: Compress and Saves Artwork as (PNG) at 100% Quality
Change: Switch Media Scanner for Gallery Update to Intent
Add: Error Notifications in Key Areas of Application
Add: Screen Artwork Name for Unwanted Characters in File Name
February 28, 2015 - Version 1.1 - Download
Artwork now saves to the folder: /Pictures/DeviantArt/
Photo Metadata Time Fixed (No longer 1969/1970)
February 28, 2015 - Version 1.0 - Download
First Release
Great work !!
Can you specify the resolution in which the pics are saved ??
Future release? XD
At the moment it takes the full image from the site. Everything else seems to be a feature of the site itself.
We will see.
can you make it to download images in some deviantart directory. because saved files gave exif data of year 1970 creation date its hard to find
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can you make it to download images in some deviantart directory. because saved files gave exif data of year 1970 creation date its hard to find
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This app uses the android media store function and it simply adds it to the gallery.
Now I just checked but on my device the creation date data is correct. Are you using a custom ROM by chance?
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This app uses the android media store function and it simply adds it to the gallery.
Now I just checked but on my device the creation date data is correct. Are you using a custom ROM by chance?
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yes i am using custom rom, it simply store images in root of the Pictures folder
http://i.imgur.com/qoadLNh.png
sercankd said:
yes i am using custom rom, it simply store images in root of the Pictures folder.
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I'll look into the Time and Date. I don't know why it does that because if you look at the file creation date in the file explorer it has the proper date at least for me. Right now I'm using this command to add the media to the gallery, http://developer.android.com/reference/android/provider/MediaStore.Images.Media.html
It uses the least amount of code but doesn't have that many options but like I said I'll look into it. (Today)
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Great work !!
Can you specify the resolution in which the pics are saved ??
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@Camalio
If you could further explain what you mean that would be great. I can tell you that apart from the thumbnail image URL that the back-end provides the the full image URL.
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can you make it to download images in some deviantart directory. because saved files gave exif data of year 1970 creation date its hard to find
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Fixed now. Also photos now are saved into a sub-directory of Pictures.
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March 1, 2015 - Version 1.2 - Download
Clean Code & Added Comments
Change: Compress and Saves Artwork as (PNG) at 100% Quality
Change: Switch Media Scanner for Gallery Update to Intent
Add: Error Notifications in Key Areas of Application
Add: Screen Artwork Name for Unwanted Characters in File Name
[APP][4.1+] GIF Share Overlay - Search & share GIFs without leaving your favorite app
GIF Overlay
GIF Overlay provides an overlay that draws on top of other apps and lets you quickly search and share GIFs without leaving your favorite app.
Features
Search and share GIFs - Powered by GIPHY.
Overlay on top of other apps. Search and share without leaving your favorite app.
Multiple theme support.
Support for multiple window positions.
Safe: Only Internet and Draw on top permissions needed. No personal data collection.
Free, no in-app purchases.
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Get it on Google Play
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good app
Doesn't work for me. App themes work, but nothing shows in the gif window no matter what I search. Share button doesn't do anything either, but that could just be because there is nothing to share. Gif Overlay is set to be allowed to draw over other apps in my device btw.
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Doesn't work for me. App themes work, but nothing shows in the gif window no matter what I search. Share button doesn't do anything either, but that could just be because there is nothing to share. Gif Overlay is set to be allowed to draw over other apps in my device btw.
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That should only happen if there is an error contacting the server for the search or parsing the search response data.
Could you check adb logcat messages? You should see some error there.
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That should only happen if there is an error contacting the server for the search or parsing the search response data.
Could you check adb logcat messages? You should see some error there.
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Got it to work! For some reason it didn't work until I disabled my VPN. Then after a successful gif search I rebooted the device and it seemed to be working fine with my VPN. It works great now for most apps, but for the few that it doesn't, is it possible to maybe allow for the Gif to be somehow copied right into whatever text field you're in or is sharing to the app the only way? Great app though btw. Thank you!
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Got it to work! For some reason it didn't work until I disabled my VPN. Then after a successful gif search I rebooted the device and it seemed to be working fine with my VPN. It works great now for most apps, but for the few that it doesn't, is it possible to maybe allow for the Gif to be somehow copied right into whatever text field you're in or is sharing to the app the only way? Great app though btw. Thank you!
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I could copy the url to clipboard on long press a gif.
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I could copy the url to clipboard on long press a gif.
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That would be cool. I guess there's no way to really copy the image itself to clipboard is there? Only text? I've been looking for an app that does that myself for a long time.
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That would be cool. I guess there's no way to really copy the image itself to clipboard is there? Only text? I've been looking for an app that does that myself for a long time.
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As far as I know, you can copy the image to the clipboard. The problem is that the app where you are pasting will not understand you are pasting an image unless they have implemented that.
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As far as I know, you can copy the image to the clipboard. The problem is that the app where you are pasting will not understand you are pasting an image unless they have implemented that.
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Generally, when you touch and hold an image in an app you can share or download it and share it to wherever, but i don't think I've ever seen a "Copy to Clipboard" option except when copying text. I see what you mean about pasting the image though and maybe a gif would be even more complicated to do that with.
I wonder if it would be better if you set it the touch and hold the image function to download the gif instead. Then you could add it anywhere.
Changelog 1.4
Added button to download GIF.
Added button to copy GIF URL.
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Added button to download GIF.
Added button to copy GIF URL.
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Thank you! I tried it out and for some reason I'm still having connection problems. Even turning off my VPN doesn't seem to make it search. I noticed that sometimes when turning off my WiFi connection it will search right away, but not all the time. I wonder if I'm the only one having this issue. When it does search it does appear to download, but even when searching my entire sdcard for "gif" or ".gif" or even the name that it says it saved as afterwards I can't seem to find where it saves. It seems as if maybe it's not really saving, at least as a gif. Can't find it when opening the gallery either. Opening it in gallery from the download notification does show it, but it doesn't allow you to view any details on it either, nor does it let you share it when opening it like that. URL copy works fine, though maybe a toast message saying it's copied would help to let people know that it has copied, otherwise, unless you try to paste somewhere it appears as if it's done nothing. Share works fine as usual. Anyhow, I hope this helps. Thank you!
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Thank you! I tried it out and for some reason I'm still having connection problems. Even turning off my VPN doesn't seem to make it search. I noticed that sometimes when turning off my WiFi connection it will search right away, but not all the time. I wonder if I'm the only one having this issue. When it does search it does appear to download, but even when searching my entire sdcard for "gif" or ".gif" or even the name that it says it saved as afterwards I can't seem to find where it saves. It seems as if maybe it's not really saving, at least as a gif. Can't find it when opening the gallery either. Opening it in gallery from the download notification does show it, but it doesn't allow you to view any details on it either, nor does it let you share it when opening it like that. URL copy works fine, though maybe a toast message saying it's copied would help to let people know that it has copied, otherwise, unless you try to paste somewhere it appears as if it's done nothing. Share works fine as usual.
I've a attached a verbose log here for you to look at in case you need it. Had to zip it because apparently 2kb is too big for text on XDA? Anyhow, I hope this helps. Thank you!
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Can't see anything weird in the logs.
The download triggers the android downloadmanager so the file can go to some weird place like /data/data/com.android.providers.download. I could change it so it goes to the downloads folder but then I need to add an extra permission.
And yeah adding some sort of message or toast is a good idea.
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Can't see anything weird in the logs.
The download triggers the android downloadmanager so the file can go to some weird place like /data/data/com.android.providers.download. I could change it so it goes to the downloads folder but then I need to add an extra permission.
And yeah adding some sort of message or toast is a good idea.
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That would be great. I think I figured out that it goes to "/data/data/gif.overlay/cache/image_manager_disk_cache". The files in there were ".0" format, but when I changed it to ".gif" they showed the gifs I was trying to download. Assuming those aren't just the cached images from the search that is. Regardless you can't really access them or share them when they're outside of the sdcard.
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That would be great. I think I figured out that it goes to "/data/data/gif.overlay/cache/image_manager_disk_cache". The files in there were ".0" format, but when I changed it to ".gif" they showed the gifs I was trying to download. Assuming those aren't just the cached images from the search that is. Regardless you can't really access them or share them when they're outside of the sdcard.
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No the ones inside the gif.overlay folder are either cached images from the search (those are not the final version but downsampled images to make it faster) or files saved before sharing. The downloaded ones should end up as giphy.gif somewhere where the downloadmanager puts it (in my case /data/data/com.android.providers.download).
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No the ones inside the gif.overlay folder are either cached images from the search or files saved before sharing.
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Yeah. Just checked and you're right. The gifs do go to"/data/data/com.android.providers.download/cache/". Strange that they weren't showing up in my system wide search. Regardless, it would be cool if they could go to the "downloads" or "pictures" or a "/sdcard/Gif Overlay/" folder or something. Then there would be no end to the possibilities.
Now I just have to figure out why it's only connecting like half the time. Just tried again and it worked. Earlier though it wasn't. It must be something on my end. Not sure.
EDIT: Downloaded "Advanced Download Manager" from the Play Store and set it to auto incercept copied links for now, so that now I just have to click the copy function in the app and ADM asks me where I want to save it to. Clean flashed a new rom too and now I'm not having any more connection issues btw. Must've been something blocking it on my old configuration.
Changelog 1.5
* Added option to select window position.
* Bug fixing.