MediaFacer

An android library for the structured querying of the MediaStore to get media files in the simplest way possible taking in account both storage mediums on device

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To include MediaFacer in your project, your project should have minSdkVersion 19 and above.

You can download a jar from GitHub's releases page.

Or use Gradle: Add it in your your projects root build.gradle file

 allprojects {
		repositories {
			...
			maven { url 'https://jitpack.io' }
		}
	}

Add the dependency in the app level build.gradle file

dependencies {
	   implementation 'com.github.CodeBoy722:MediaFacer:1.0.3'
	}

Usage

The MediaFacer library already contains a set of classes for holding audio,video and image file data and each time a query is executed to get media files, the results always come in anyone of these classes.

videoContent :this class holds data for a specific video file.

audioContent : this class holds data for a specific audio file.

pictureContent : this class holds data for a specific image file.

audioAlbumContent : this class holds all audio files and data which are related to the same music album.

audioArtistContent : this class holds all audio files and data related to the same music Artist.

audioFolderContent : this class holds all audio files found in the same folder on the storage mediums.

pictureFolderContent : this class holds all image files found in the same folder on the storage mediums.

videoFolderContent : this class holds all video files found in the same folder on the storage mediums.

Getting audio files from the MediaStore

get all audio files

ArrayList<audioContent> audioContents;
audioContents = MediaFacer
                .withAudioContex(mContext)
                .getAllAudioContent(AudioGet.externalContentUri);

setting and playing audio in MediaPlayer object from audioContent class

Uri content = Uri.parse(audioContent.getAssetFileStringUri());
try {
            AssetFileDescriptor file = getActivity().getContentResolver().openAssetFileDescriptor(content, "r");
            if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.N) {
                player.setDataSource(file);
            }else {
                player.setDataSource(audioContent.getFilePath());
            }
            player.setLooping(false);
            player.prepare();
            player.start();
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
}

get all audio files with similar albums

ArrayList<audioAlbumContent>  allAlbums;
    allAlbums = MediaFacer
                .withAudioContex(mContext)
                .getAllAlbums(AudioGet.externalContentUri);

get all audio files with similar artists

ArrayList<audioArtistContent> allArtists;
    
    ArrayList<String> ids = MediaFacer
                            .withAudioContex(mContext)
                            .getAllArtistIds(AudioGet.externalContentUri);
			    
    allArtists = MediaFacer
                 .withAudioContex(mContext)
                 .getAllArtists(ids,AudioGet.externalContentUri);

get all audio files in same folders

 ArrayList<audioFolderContent> buckets;
 buckets = MediaFacer
           .withAudioContex(mContext)
           .getAllAudioFolderContent();

Getting images from the MediaStore

get all images in the MediaStore.

ArrayList<pictureContent> allPhotos;

  allPhotos = MediaFacer
              .withPictureContex(mContext)
              .getAllPictureContents(PictureGet.externalContentUri);

loading and displaying images from pictureContent class, you can use Glide for this

ImageView picture = findViewById(R.id.picture);
Glide.with(mContext)
                    .load(Uri.parse(pictureContent.getAssertFileStringUri()))
                    .apply(new RequestOptions().centerCrop())
                    .into(picture);

get all folders containing pictures

ArrayList<pictureFolderContent> pictureFolders = new ArrayList<>();
      
      pictureFolders.addAll(MediaFacer.withPictureContex(mContext).getPictureFolders());
	
//now load images for the first pictureFolderContent object
	pictureFolders.get(0)
	.setPhotos(MediaFacer
	.withPictureContex(mContext)
	.getAllPictureContentByBucket_id(pictureFolders.get(0).getBucket_id());

Getting Videos from the MediaStore

get all videos in the MediaStore.

ArrayList<videoContent> allVideos;
 allVideos = MediaFacer
             .withVideoContex(mContext)
             .getAllVideoContent(VideoGet.externalContentUri);

loading video into VideoView from videoContent class

VideoView playZone findViewById(R.id.vid_zone);
SeekBar seeker = findViewById(R.id.seeker);

 playZone.setVideoURI(Uri.parse(videoContent.getAssetFileStringUri()));
        playZone.requestFocus();
        seeker.setMax((int) videos.get(position).getVideoDuration());
        playZone.start();

get all folders containing videos

 ArrayList<videoFolderContent> videoFolders = new ArrayList<>();
      
     videoFolders.addAll(MediaFacer.withVideoContex(mContext).getVideoFolders(VideoGet.externalContentUri));
	
//now load videos for the first videoFolderContent object
	videoFolders.get(0)
	.setVideoFiles(MediaFacer.withVideoContex(mContext)
	.getAllVideoContentByBucket_id(videoFolders.get(0).getBucket_id());