Introduction The android media viewer adding RecyclerView tutorial series describes how to add the RecyclerView to the android application. The RecyclerView will be the mechanism for laying out the thumbnails on the display. The RecyclerView will also be using a GridLayoutManager to displaying the images in a grid layout.  The MediaStoreAdapter will also have to be […]

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Introduction The android media viewer cursor loader tutorial series describes how to implement android cursor loaders to the app. A cursor loader is a convenient way to query the MediaStore and have a Cursor returned while running in a background thread. Get Code The code can be found on github from the following instructions below https://github.com/mobapptuts/media-thumbnail-viewer.git Tag media-viewer-cursor-loader […]

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Introduction The android media viewer adapter cursor tutorial describes how to add cursor support in the RecyclerView adapter. Get Code The code can be found on github from the following instructions below https://github.com/mobapptuts/media-thumbnail-viewer.git Tag media-store-adapter-cursor or you can run this command git clone https://github.com/mobapptuts/media-thumbnail-viewer.git –branch media-store-adapter-cursor This video describes how to import the code from github […]

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Introduction The android media viewer recyclerview adapter tutorial series describes how to create the adapter which will provide the mediastore thumbnail images to the recyclerview. This tutorial will just describe creating the bare implementation of the RecyclerView adapter. Get Code The code can be found on github from the following instructions below https://github.com/mobapptuts/media-thumbnail-viewer.git Tag media-viewer-adapter or you […]

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Introduction The Android media viewer read permission tutorial series describes how to implement permission to access external read storage for both marshmallow devices and older. Get Code The code can be found on github from the following instructions below https://github.com/mobapptuts/media-thumbnail-viewer.git Tag media-viewer-permissions or you can run this command git clone https://github.com/mobapptuts/media-thumbnail-viewer.git –branch media-viewer-permissions This video describes how […]

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