FileDialog Usability
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Descriptions
An application can show the media available on phone. File Dialog (MGFetch API) allows you to have a selection dialog that you can show to the user, the content shown in the dialog is the files in the media gallery. It shows the list of images & other media files available on device with their thumbnails, from which user can select one or more files.
User can also specify whether all file or a specific type of files to be shown in a list. User can also specify how many files allow to be selected at a time. (Single or Multiples).
MgFetch::RunL will fetch media files in C:\Data and E:\Data paths inherently.There is no need to mention the path anywhere.
Image Description
Following is the example of Image selection dialog. It showing thumbnail of image on left most size, Image name, size of image, and location of image whether image is stored on phone memory or memory card.
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Image Dialog example |
Image Dialog example |
Video Description
Following is the example of video selection dialog. It showing thumbnail of video on left most size, video file name, size of video file, and location of video whether it is stored on phone memory or memory card.
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Video dialog Example |
Video dialog Example |
Some File dialog usability tips
- Image dialog can be used whenever your application wants to upload image selected by user to blogs/social community sites/server.
- If you are creating a sharing application you can show third dialog to select videos or images to share.
- If your application requires to insert user’s personal details that time you can show image dialog to get his/her picture.
- Filters should be used to decide the proper mime type.
- For an image selection dialog, thumbnails should be provided.
- Should include the "." directory, for example, to allow the users to refresh their view of the current directory.
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