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Hello,
I'm hoping to find users that will help me test an app that I created recently.
In this app you can rate the pictures of people with 1 to 5 stars, depending on how much you like it.
I tried to make it an easy-to-use and fast app by using a minimalistic ICS-like user interface, pre-loading of images etc.
I'm using the camera intent and Media Store to allow people to upload their own pictures and it seems like this may behave differently depending on the Android version you use (custom Camera apps etc.).
So I hope some beta testers might clear the situation.
The app has no ads and it's permissions only ask for "full internet access" (to load images, store ratings) and "SD card access" (sadly you need this to retrieve pictures from the gallery intent).
Download link (or use the attached file): http://pollr.org/rmp
Best regards
Florian
I installed and it and used it for a bit. I'll use it more once more pictures are uploaded I started seeing duplicates. Hopefully I will be able to add pics from my picasa gallery. It just FC's now.
But good start.
App works very well, fairly fast and looks great. Lots of duplicates but that's something that would be fixed over time. Have yet to upload my picture but be prepared for alot of 5 star ratings lol
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No option to choose which sex you want to rate?
Edit: had no trouble uploading a photo from QuickPic on my SGN.
Thanks for your feedback guys
Regarding the gallery problem I've redone the whole thing (not using a "select image and crop" intent but a "select image" followed by a crop intent) and it should reduce force closes and problems with incompatible gallery apps.
It would be great if you could try again (especially Knether) – I just need to know if you can select a photo and if you can crop it (or if it just appears as a preview without cropping), you don't have to upload it
I updated the app in the first post ( http://pollr.org/rmp )
Duplicate pictures shouldn't appear until you've seen all pictures (then you'll see random duplicates), I fixed that!
And @WiredPirate: You're right, I will implement an option to only rate men/women
Sorry for double posting, but there's a new version with gender selection.
First post or http://pollr.org/rmp
Also there have been quite some picture uploads today (more than yesterday) and no complains here, so I'm hoping it works
Thanks again!
Can I ask how come you haven't released it on the market?
Great looking app! Good luck with it!
WhiteGorilla said:
Can I ask how come you haven't released it on the market?
Great looking app! Good luck with it!
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I didn't release it on the Market because at first I wanted to make sure there aren't any major bugs (hence this thread).
But it is on the market now: https://market.android.com/details?id=de.fheft.ratemypicture
Sadly, all the testing is useless against irrational 1 star ratings: "Bad This is a fake app , same photos"
lauslein said:
But it is on the market now: https://market.android.com/details?id=de.fheft.ratemypicture
Sadly, all the testing is useless against irrational 1 star ratings: "Bad This is a fake app , same photos"
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Man, that sucks (and drives me nuts) when people 1-star an app thats free! Especially when an app is as nice looking and functional as yours, usually just because they dont understand something. I downloaded the app and left a 5-star review, hopefully that'll help balance it out. By the way, my bit of feedback in the meantime:
After selecting which gender to choose, it goes away and I cant select it unless I restart the app (Edit: I realized I can hit the stock menu button, but please see suggestion 3)
I get some "failed to load connection" and "failed to upload photo" notices even though everything worked fine
In the spirit of ICS design, I would remove the Info button from the top right, and replace it with the ActionBar menu button, and add a few options (Choose gender, Info, Report, etc.) under that dropdown.
I know this may not be 100% right, but I strongly think you should populate the photos with 500-1,000 more attractive (but not professional) men and women. It's cheating a little but it will be very hard to create a userbase from limited photos which currently has a lot of not-so-attractive people (I would know, I'm not-so-attractive myself).
I hope thats useful and wish you best of luck with the app (you can always re-release it so dont fret too much). And if you have a moment, it would help me greatly if you can rate my free app to offset 1-star reviews like "great but cant convert negative temp" or "cant use comma only decimal"). I swear, paid users are always more satisfied than free ones..
Thanks a lot for your reply! I will definitely think about how to implement your suggestions, they're great!
And you're right, the free users seem to be the ones that don't read descriptions or think about ANYTHING before doing it/rating an app...
I wanted to have a look at your app as well, but the Market website tells me it's not compatible with any of my devices (Galaxy S2, Nexus One, both 2.3.x)... although the description says it's >2.2?
This is my first app (long time java dev, first time android dev) so I'm excited to get some XDA feedback =c) Hope I'm posting correctly. Also apparently I can't do links yet so sorry about that.
Why?
I got sick of composing a new email every time I wanted to send myself a note. I looked around, but couldn't find anything that did everything I wanted (at most I found one that used intents to pre-populate the "to" field). So I wrote mynderMail.
?id=com.uxiomatic.mynderMail
Elevator Pitch
The app will let you **send an email to yourself** as soon as you can type it out! First line of the message will become the subject of the email, and the rest will become the body.
**Material-ish Design!** I tried. I'm sure I didn't hit every guideline, but I feel like I got close.
There are **no ads** (though I am planning on a Pro version next year). This app is currently in beta - so let me know if you encounter any issues.
Demo Video is on Google Play - my first try at this kind of video (or any kind really.)
Demo Music Track: “Reckless” (by Azureflux), available on SoundCloud
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Q: So all this does is send an email to myself? Can’t I just do it myself through my email app?
A: Yes and yes. But if you’re like me and you send yourself notes all the time, time savings of 50% make this app very useful. Sending from your email takes longer because you need to:
Open the email app (which takes longer to launch).
You have to hit compose.
Select yourself as recipient.
Type the subject.
Type the body.
Tap Send
Where as with mynderMail you just:
Open mynderMail.
Type your whole note in one textarea (including the subject).
Tap Send
Q: Can't I just use Evernote, Google Keep, Google Now, <insert your note taking app>...
A: You could. If you always go back and check your notes, sure. But sometimes you just need to get something somewhere where you know you'll see it and then sort it into the appropriate app. Some things end up in Evernote, or in an issue tracker (work or personal), sometimes it's a phone call, sometimes it's a follow up email, etc... Think of it as sticking a quick post it on your front door or somewhere else where you'll be sure to see it vs writing out a note and filing properly.
Q: I have an idea for a feature. Can you have the app do X?
A: Probably, though the Free version is fairly complete. Most of the new features will be added to the Pro version when it is released. You can send/post suggestions to me, and if it’s not already on the list and the suggestion makes it into the app, I’ll gift you a Pro version.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.uxiomatic.mynderMail
Thanks much android404
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The app is great. Makes sense and works perfectly. But I think the app would benefit immensely from a widget wherein I can type the text directly and hit send. That way I dont even have to open the app. Can do it right from the lockcreen/homescreen. Alternatively, a permanent notification can also serve the same purpose, but I prefer the widget.
Makes me think of BlitzMail. Maybe that one will give you inspiration for new features, who knows, have a look: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.grobox.blitzmail.lite
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The app is great. Makes sense and works perfectly. But I think the app would benefit immensely from a widget wherein I can type the text directly and hit send. That way I dont even have to open the app. Can do it right from the lockcreen/homescreen. Alternatively, a permanent notification can also serve the same purpose, but I prefer the widget.
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With a widget, I'd still have to open up some sort of activity since you can't type directly on the home screen, and since the app closes itself after send it amount to the same thing.
As far as a notification, I'm definitely considering it (also considering having a floating overlay a la "Snowball"/"Sloth Launcher" if i can figure out how to do it.) Currently I have it set up in my "Notification Toggle" which works out well
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Makes me think of BlitzMail. Maybe that one will give you inspiration for new features, who knows, have a look:
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Huh, missed this one when doing my research, thanks. Looks like with this one though you have to enter your own mail server which is a bit of a barrier for entry.
The mail queue is a good idea that I already had on my list, as is sharing with the app.
hzshak said:
The app is great. Makes sense and works perfectly. But I think the app would benefit immensely from a widget wherein I can type the text directly and hit send. That way I dont even have to open the app. Can do it right from the lockcreen/homescreen. Alternatively, a permanent notification can also serve the same purpose, but I prefer the widget.
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I've since added an option for permanent notifications, as well as an option to share with the app (you can set it to send automatically or allow editing of the text before sending).
Howdy! I'll start off by introducing myself: I'm NA (or Moon, your choice), and yes I'm pretty dang new around here. For a long time now I've been lurking around without an account, and I figure it's about time I make one.
So I'm glad to be here and hope to get involved and contribute as much as I can to this community in the future.
But for now... Moonkik.
Foreword:
This kik mod has been my precious project for a few weeks now. Before this, I'd never done anything with Smali and barely any android programming to start with. However, I'm an avid kik user and familiar with Pikik and Ghostkik, so naturally I got curious and ended up taking apart Ghostkik and meddling around. During this experience, I stumbled upon the potential for my original features, listed below.
Last week however, I started feeling guilty for piggybacking off Ghostkik and finally started over from scratch. After adding back all my favorite features (and some of my own), I turned my attention to theming. I'll admit, I'm guilty of color coordinating this with my personal phone's background colors and keyboard colors, but nonetheless I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. The theme isn't flawless yet but I'm still pretty proud.
Standard Mod Features:
-Fake camera
-"Delivered" verification prevention
-"Read" verification prevention
-"Is typing" disable
-Image forwarding prevention
-All emoticons
Original Features:
-Text Colors (only visible on my personal friends for now)
-Rainbow Text (must enable text colors too)
-Notification privacy options
- No user icon
- No user name
- No message content-Square Notification Option
-Easy Update Button
(More to come! )
Theme:
Dark Red
Tentatively Planned Future Updates:
- Custom text colors for each of your friends
- Multi-line notifications (can display long messages)
- Message history editing (iffy on this one. Could take a while)
- Message backup / restore (in case you need to log in to another device and want to be able to log back in to Moonkik and still have your messages)
And, yes, you can use this app side-by-side with stock kik.
Download:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/j2csm6814z2wsuo/moonkik8.apk?dl=0
Screenshots:
http://i.imgur.com/QqNbOVI.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/tn4WZ56.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/2OBDepJ.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/1QCInMB.jpg
If you guys need anything from me or have any questions feel free to ask. (kik is the best way to reach me!)
~Moon
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Welcome back! It's been quite a while since I first started out here! Things have changed very much for the better!
For starters, we're already up to Moonkik8 and a good number of the planned features have been added.
The catch is that some have been added to Moonkik and others have been added to... Matrik!
I've gotten the wonderful opportunity to head up their development now and I feel like that's where I'll be spending a large amount of my time in the future.
That being said, I'd like you to take notice that I'm only going to be releasing future updates when I just happen to have something to share, simply because the vast majority of my time is being focused on Matrik right now.
Be sure to check out #1matrik if you're interested.
Also, be warned, all mods made before early 2017 will have lost the ability to fake camera pictures, and unfortunately that includes Moonkik.
If you need anything, my PM is always open. <3
built in backup would be much appreciated
stickifingurs201 said:
built in backup would be much appreciated
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I'll be working on it this week. I can't promise anything; I'm not even sure if it's possible yet... But I can promise I'm gonna find out.
When I try to click on links (ex: Kik Points) it gives an error message, "No action associated with this content."
JoshJYo104 said:
When I try to click on links (ex: Kik Points) it gives an error message, "No action associated with this content."
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That's not necessarily a Moonkik issue, it's most likely some other factor. Perhaps a problem with your defaults? I only say this because my friend had the exact same problem with his stock kik.
I've had MoonKik installed for a while now but haven't had a chance to test it, but I finally got around to it this weekend. I find that the option to send gallery pictures from camera does show as camera in MoonKik but on the regular version of Kik it still shows gallery. Also, when I go into the Kik sites and search for some apps (like Chat Now) they do not show up, but they do show in the regular Kik.
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I've had MoonKik installed for a while now but haven't had a chance to test it, but I finally got around to it this weekend. I find that the option to send gallery pictures from camera does show as camera in MoonKik but on the regular version of Kik it still shows gallery. Also, when I go into the Kik sites and search for some apps (like Chat Now) they do not show up, but they do show in the regular Kik.
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Be sure to read the new update, the Fake Camera was patched by kik a while back. Unfortunately, all old versions of Kik now show "Gallery" when sending camera pics. Also, keep in mind that Moonkik is on an old update (like all other modded kiks), so some of the new features won't be compatible with it.
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Be sure to read the new update, the Fake Camera was patched by kik a while back. Unfortunately, all old versions of Kik now show "Gallery" when sending camera pics. Also, keep in mind that Moonkik is on an old update (like all other modded kiks), so some of the new features won't be compatible with it.
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Yeah, I saw that a couple days after I made the post. Thanks. I'm looking forward to a release with the Fake Camera working again!
hello
i just sent you a pm with my problem...hope you get back to me ASAP
EDIT: sooooos sorry for not reading the posts......i am looking forword for your fix...
any luck with the update.....i thought you said its just around the corner....hehehe
thank you very mush
Nice theme n set up but the gallery/camera doesn't work. even when i take a live it still says gallery.
darkoblade said:
any luck with the update.....i thought you said its just around the corner....hehehe
thank you very mush
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Yeahhh I did. But I'm only human, I got lazy and now school's back in session. I'll be sure to put it here when it's done, no worries <3
Hi Moon, I'm interested in doing a little theming on a Kik app. I don't mean to derail your thread but I'm very much a noob and have no idea where to start.. would you mind pointing me in the right direction? My Kik is Surj138 if you prefer to DM me. Thanks
Hey dude text moon on Kik at _trainzboy
_trainzboy
Never mind got it to work it's really hard to seen the emote icon
Edit: Just tried this on the pixel but I can't seem to open the UI for emotes in the chat either with or without the keyboard on
Great software
The only thing I would worry about it is people using the functionality for doing illegal stuff
Any chance of this ever being updated?
Sent from my LG V20 using XDA Labs
The_Keeper86 said:
Any chance of this ever being updated?
Sent from my LG V20 using XDA Labs
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The bad news is no, the good news is that's because I've joined up with matrik!
Check out matrik.pw for our latest work
What exactly does camera spoofing do? Super-curious... ?
Yes. I feel like I explain this quite a lot, actually. This app is old. Some parts don't work because of Kik's patches. I haven't touched it in more than a year, and don't plan to ever again.
Have you ever handed over your phone to someone just so they can see the latest meme or the cool picture you took? I have made a way to do this without being concerned what they will do on your phone. With this app, they will only be able to see what you select.
Get it on the Play Store
Get it on Labs
How to use:
1) Make sure that you have some kind of lock screen. Pin, Password, Fingerprint, whatever
2) Go to your gallery, select some photos or videos and tap share.
3) Select the Secure Photo Viewer
And you are done! As soon as you press your lock button, the photos will pop up. Your friends won't be able to get into your phone until you unlock it again.
If you have any questions of feedback feel free to contact me in any way!
XDA:DevDB Information
Secure Photo Viewer, App for the Apps & Games
Contributors
GreeTech
Version Information
Status: Stable
Current Stable Version: 1.0
Stable Release Date: 2017-10-30
Created 2017-11-07
Last Updated 2017-11-07
Tested it briefly yesterday and it does exactly what it says it does. No complaints here!
Nice.
GreeTech said:
Have you ever handed over your phone to someone just so they can see the latest meme or the cool picture you took? I have made a way to do this without being concerned what they will do on your phone. With this app, they will only be able to see what you select.
Get it on the Play Store
Get it on Labs
How to use:
1) Make sure that you have some kind of lock screen. Pin, Password, Fingerprint, whatever
2) Go to your gallery, select some photos or videos and tap share.
3) Select the Secure Photo Viewer
And you are done! As soon as you press your lock button, the photos will pop up. Your friends won't be able to get into your phone until you unlock it again.
If you have any questions of feedback feel free to contact me in any way!
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Great app! It's quite a nifty feature for the occasional need for it. Nice work!
awesome idea! love it
Such an awesome idea. Well executed.
nice app and does its job.. :good:
This is..... The bomb ?
I've been looking for an app like this for years!! Thank you. Google's pinning idea isn't wrong but you're still able to use the complete app like close picture and browse through all folders of the gallery.
Maybe it is possible to integrate this into gallery so it is possible to choose to lock the chosen picture or the folder it is in.
This is what I've been looking for forever. Thanks a lotttttttt
I will try it.
I love the icon.
Can I share a folder?
truemagic said:
Can I share a folder?
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Interesting question. As far as I can tell you cannot share a folder in android. Still, the app will accept multiple pictures. I think that your gallery might support sharing all photos in an album. If not, you can still go into a folder/album in your gallery or file manager app and select all files there and share them. Most apps offer a way to select all files in the current folder. It should work as long only pictures/Videos are selected. Good luck and I would love to hear if it worked out.
appsogreat said:
I love the icon.
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Thanks! As an artistically really ungifted person it often takes me hours to make one. Luckily there are a lot of great free assets.
truemagic said:
Can I share a folder?
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I have taken a better look at this. Some file managers indeed allow you to share a folder, but they first create a zip file, which you can share with others. But as it isn't a picture, it won't work. Simply opening the folder and pressing select all will allow you to share all the pictures with the app and it will work.
For example Google Photos on the other hand indeed doesn't allow this as far as I know. You can use the multi-select feature to quickly select images, but there is no option to share a whole album, so you have to multi-select each photo. Even though you just have to hold down your thumb on the bottom of the screen and it will continue scrolling on it's own, this might take quite some time.
So the answer really depends on what you are using. If you let me know, I can try to find a better way.
Also, thanks to all of you my app skyrocketed to over 2 000 installs within 4 days! This is amazing!
I've tried the app on 3 different devices (Samsung, THL and Asus; 2x 4.4.2, 1x 5.0). On all 3 the "folder sharing" worked fine when using each device's respective stock gallery app. I could even select multiple folders to share. (The only limitation seemed that the folder must not contain too many files. Folders with 300/500 (iirc) pictures could not be shared.)
When using Simple Gallery or QuickPic (old version) on the other hand, I could not find a way to share a folder.
Being able to quickly share a folder is really nice, I have to say. This would probably be my favorite usage scenario for this app.
One problem I do have tho, is that I find the app to be a bit too easy to dismiss. As soon as the home or back button is touched, it's back to the lockscreen. This could get a bit impractical, especially with not so tech-savvy people. If I hand the device to somebody who's not used to smartphones (yes, people like that still exist ) (or a kid) to view, let's say, 30 vacation pictures, it's almost guaranteed that at some point they'll accidentally touch home/return and thereby end SPV. Then they would have to hand the phone back to me, I'd have to unlock the phone, reselect pictures/folder, relock, and hand it back to them so they can view the rest of the pictures...
Imo it either should be a bit harder to leave SVP (like maybe having to double tap/long press home/return) or it needs an easier way back into the SVP-selected pics (without having to unlock).
Also I don't really get why there's an "or pin this app" option. Granted, I'm still mostly using Kitkat, so I'm not really that familiar with the pinning feature. But I was under the impression that your app is supposed to be a better alternative to pinning, so why include it??
(hope I didn't sound too negative here really no offense meant)
I can't even open mine
Fuxiz said:
I can't even open mine
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You need to go to your gallery and share a picture from there (or any other place that can share pictures). Besides facebook, whatsapp and so on there will be secure photo viewer.
GreeTech said:
You need to go to your gallery and share a picture from there (or any other place that can share pictures). Besides facebook, whatsapp and so on there will be secure photo viewer.
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Ah. Thanks
Krete said:
I've tried the app on 3 different devices (Samsung, THL and Asus; 2x 4.4.2, 1x 5.0). On all 3 the "folder sharing" worked fine when using each device's respective stock gallery app. I could even select multiple folders to share. (The only limitation seemed that the folder must not contain too many files. Folders with 300/500 (iirc) pictures could not be shared.)
When using Simple Gallery or QuickPic (old version) on the other hand, I could not find a way to share a folder.
Being able to quickly share a folder is really nice, I have to say. This would probably be my favorite usage scenario for this app.
One problem I do have tho, is that I find the app to be a bit too easy to dismiss. As soon as the home or back button is touched, it's back to the lockscreen. This could get a bit impractical, especially with not so tech-savvy people. If I hand the device to somebody who's not used to smartphones (yes, people like that still exist ) (or a kid) to view, let's say, 30 vacation pictures, it's almost guaranteed that at some point they'll accidentally touch home/return and thereby end SPV. Then they would have to hand the phone back to me, I'd have to unlock the phone, reselect pictures/folder, relock, and hand it back to them so they can view the rest of the pictures...
Imo it either should be a bit harder to leave SVP (like maybe having to double tap/long press home/return) or it needs an easier way back into the SVP-selected pics (without having to unlock).
Also I don't really get why there's an "or pin this app" option. Granted, I'm still mostly using Kitkat, so I'm not really that familiar with the pinning feature. But I was under the impression that your app is supposed to be a better alternative to pinning, so why include it??
(hope I didn't sound too negative here really no offense meant)
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I was away for a long time and also needed some time to look into the folder sharing, but I couldn't find a solution that works on newer versions on android. The home button also can't be overridden for security reasons, but there is definitely something I can do to make it relaunch after closing, or at least offer the user an option to do so.
App pinning solves this too, as a pinned app can't be closed by the home or back button. So if you pin an app, you basically can use only this app unless you unpin it and unlock the device. If you pin your gallery, others can still go back and look at other pictures because it's the same app (gallery). If you pin the SPV instead, they won't be able to see anything else as they can only access the SPV and it only shows the selected photos.
So, I just noticed something REALLY weird today and I don't know what to make of it...
I installed a new app on my phone (Lyft) and it asked me to setup a profile photo. Okay, no problem. I click the option to select photos from my existing collection and it takes me to the gallery to select a photo. I'm scrolling down, looking for a good photo when I suddenly come across photos that I did not take. There's about 30 of them and they look like they were taken at a Energy Conference in Beddington, UK on November 26th. I live in Washington State, USA and have not been anywhere near the UK and my phone has not gone missing or been out of my sight for the last few weeks. This is strange and creepy. How are someone else's photos on my phone?
I start doing a bit of investigation. I close the Lyft app and open my gallery app on my S9+. I scroll through all my photos, but these stranger's photos are not showing up no matter how I sort the display settings. I open up another app (Uber) and go to change my profile photo. I opt to choose from my gallery and there's the stranger's photos again. I notice that the file name, file size and date of the photo is provided in this view, so I connected my phone to the PC and ran a search for some of those file names and came up with nothing. I searched my phone using my file manager app and also found nothing.
Someone on Reddit recommended I try using my email app to send myself the image so I can investigate the details. This worked, but only deepens the mystery! It seems like the photos were taken with an Olympus Digital Camera (not even a smartphone!) and the date taken was from way back in 2006!?
At this point I'm out of ideas. I have no clue why these mystery photos are on my phone and can't find out how to find/delete them or how they got on my phone in the first place.
It's so freakin' weird! I'm sharing a few screenshots here in case it helps anyone else identify my issue. If anyone has thoughts, please share them.
P.S. My phone was purchased new over a year ago. If anyone cares, I posted this on Reddit before coming here seeking additional help. You can see the Reddit thread here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/GalaxyS9/comments/e5okh4/really_weird_gallery_issue_with_a_strangers/
wonder if they're embedded in the apps?
One possible reason is that it's just downloaded by some other app, e.g. Facebook downloading photos from a post that you came across. If you don't remember anything related, did you ever have anyone else using your phone?
The Samsung gallery is written by Samsung while the system file picker (called DocumentsUI) is mainly written by Google, so they might be having different strategies on what photos to hide, e.g. Samsung thinks Facebook photo download directory shouldn't be shown, while DocumentsUI doesn't, so it's entirely possible that you can only find the photo via picker.