Custom Save Location

[puppykickr]

General information

• App version:
  F-Droid, version 1.6.2
• System:
  ZTE 558VL, 7.1.1

Description

It would be nice to have user control over where the memes are to be saved.
It would be even nicer if the SD card was included as an option.

Log

N/A

[gsantner]

I thought thats already implemented, but is not :D

[puppykickr]

This would be a nice help for me, and a great help for another user I am aquainted with through another app.

Thank you in advance.

[kdhalbert13]

I can take this one if you still need help.

[gsantner]

@kdhalbert13
Sure, go for it :).

Please use the FilesystemViewerDialog from here for folder selection, you can copy over all required files.
You can lookup how it works by Markor's SettingsActivity, preference.xml and AppSettings.

[gsantner]

@kdhalbert13
Thanks!

Please make a pull request as soon as you start, that makes it easier to detect bigger issues and you don't do certain things multiple times :).

[gsantner]

Ok I'm sad to see that no work was done 😞

[woeisme]

I've noticed that MemeTastic doesn't honor the 'change storage' app management option from within Android 10.
This would be the most common way users have to move it to SD storage.

[puppykickr]

@woeisme
That would do nothing for those of us not running Android 10.

[gsantner]

As Android restricts "public"/"external storage" write & read with every Android release more and more, probably this will happen:

• When < Android 10, stays as is, Pictures folder
• When >= Android 10, app storage (that one can always be accessed & written), with easy methods of sharing pictures.

[SebiderSushi]

What is planned for the "Save Meme" feature on android 10 and above?
Are there any plans to play along with MediaStore at all? If so, how much is the gap from storing single memes via MediaStore to managing a templates folder in the internal shared storage?

Apart from MediaStore support, i think keeping the templates folder within MemeTastics private app storage should be acceptable. When offering an import/export feature that accepts or returns a zip file with template images it would sound intuitive enough from my perspective.

[gsantner]

What is planned for the "Save Meme" feature on android 10 and above?

There is no code contributor since years and I myself don't plan to waste too much time on this issue on this project. Google intentionally breaks file access - with such a small project I don't have the willingness to migrate year for year to the new favourite special document access Google wishes for that year.

To come back to the question, exactly what I said above - (private) app storage.

[SebiderSushi]

Fair enough. Thank you for breaking it down for us!