BetterLive/android-filepicker

Selecting directories/files made a lot easier.

FilePicker

Android Library to select files/directories from Device Storage.

Developed by

Angad Singh (@angads25)

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Features

• Easy to Implement.
• No permissions required.
• Files, Directory Selection.
• Single or Multiple File selection.

Installation

• Library is also Available in MavenCentral, So just put this in your app dependencies:

    compile 'com.github.angads25:filepicker:1.0.2'

Usage

1. Start by creating an instance of DialogProperties.

       DialogProperties properties=new DialogProperties();

   Now 'DialogProperties' has certain parameters.

Parameter	Type	Function
selection_mode	int	Selection Mode defines whether a single of multiple Files/Directories have to be selected.
selection_type	int	Selection Type defines whether a File/Directory or both of these has to be selected.
root	File	The Parent/Root Directory. List of Files are populated from here. Can be set to any readable directory.
extensions	String[]	An Array of String containing extensions, Files with only that will be shown. Others will be ignored.

2. Assign values to each Dialog Property using DialogConfig class.

       properties.selection_mode=DialogConfigs.SINGLE_MODE;
       properties.selection_type=DialogConfigs.FILE_SELECT;
       properties.root=new File(DialogConfigs.DEFAULT_DIR);
       properties.extensions=null;

   Read more about DialogConfigs and other options from here.

3. Next create an instance of FilePickerDialog, and pass Context and DialogProperties references as parameters.

       FilePickerDialog dialog = new FilePickerDialog(MainActivity.this,properties);

4. Next, Attach DialogSelectionListener to FilePickerDialog as below,

       dialog.setDialogSelectionListener(new DialogSelectionListener() {
           @Override
           public void onSelectedFilePaths(String[] files) {
               //files is the array of the paths of files selected by the Application User.
           }
       });

   An array of paths is returned whenever user press the select button`.

5. Use dialog.show() method to show dialog.

   That's It. You are good to go further.

NOTE:

Marshmallow and further requests for the permission on runtime. You should override onRequestPermissionsResult of Activity/AppCompatActivity class and show the dialog only if permissions have been granted.

        //Add this method to show Dialog when the required permission has been granted to the app.
        @Override
        public void onRequestPermissionsResult(int requestCode,@NonNull String permissions[],@NonNull int[] grantResults) {
            switch (requestCode) {
                case FilePickerDialog.EXTERNAL_READ_PERMISSION_GRANT: {
                    if (grantResults.length > 0 && grantResults[0] == PackageManager.PERMISSION_GRANTED) {
                        if(dialog!=null)
                        {   //Show dialog if the read permission has been granted.
                            dialog.show();
                        }
                    }
                    else {
                        //Permission has not been granted. Notify the user.
                        Toast.makeText(MainActivity.this,"Permission is Required for getting list of files",Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                    }
                }
            }
        }

Screenshots

License

Copyright (C) 2016 Angad Singh

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.