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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The android video app time lapse tutorial describes how to add record video in time lapse format. In the android camera2 api video application we will be implementing a long click listener to be used for the time-lapse mode. Stopping time-lapse recording will be the same as recording, by just pressing the record button. Get Code The […]

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The android video app recording audio tutorial describes how to add audio to the video for the recording camera capture session. Get Code The code to start this tutorial is on github here https://github.com/mobapptuts/android_camera2_api_video_app.git Tag camera2-video-audio or you can run this command git clone https://github.com/mobapptuts/android_camera2_api_video_app.git –branch camera2-video-audio Steps Add record audio permission to the AndroidManifest file <?xml version="1.0" […]

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The android video app still capture recording tutorial describes the how to take a photo or photos while recording a video. Get Code The code to start this tutorial is on github here https://github.com/mobapptuts/android_camera2_api_video_app.git Tag camera2-video-still-record or you can run this command git clone https://github.com/mobapptuts/android_camera2_api_video_app.git –branch camera2-video-still-record Steps  Add record capture session & record capture session members private […]

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The android video app still capture session tutorial describes the setup of the camera capture session for capturing  a still image once the autofocus has locked. Get Code The code to start this tutorial is on github here https://github.com/mobapptuts/android_camera2_api_video_app.git Tag camera2-video-still-preview or you can run this command git clone https://github.com/mobapptuts/android_camera2_api_video_app.git –branch camera2-video-still-preview Steps Add members for the image folder […]

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The android video app still image setup tutorial describes the steps involved for setting up the still image part of android video app. Get Code The code to start this tutorial is on github here https://github.com/mobapptuts/android_camera2_api_video_app.git Tag camera2-video-still-setup or you can run this command git clone https://github.com/mobapptuts/android_camera2_api_video_app.git –branch camera2-video-still-setup Steps Setup members for the image size and image reader […]

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