settings
The Settings View is used to configure the behaviour of "A Photo Manager".
You can reach the Settings View via the settings menu of
"A Photo Manager" has these settings
- Language: Allows to set gui language. Default is (device language).
- Translate: Starts the Stringlate app to translate "A Photo Manager" to other languages. Option to automatically install Stringlate from F-Droid app store if not found.
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Appearance: Allows to change colors (Look&Feel) of the app
- Light black text on white background.
- Dark white text on black background.
- Photos
- Slide Show Interval in millisecs: defines the Image-View's timing of menu command slideshow
- Auto Hide Actionbar after millisecs: After this time the actionbar of the Image-View is automaticaly hidden. "0" means do not hide.
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Show thumbnail for big images optimisation for Image-View
- loding #10 high resolution photos into Image-View may need up to 1,5 seconds thus preventing fast swiping through the images.
- APhotoManager can load precalculated downscaled mini-versions (a. k. a. thumbnails) which is much faster (< 0.1 seconds) so swiping is possible again.
- If the photo is bigger than Big-photo-width-height-value then it uses thumbnails to allow fast swiping.
- Thumbnails means memoryefficient, fast, but lower-quality.
- As soon as you zoom the full resolution image is loaded.
- Thumbnail folder defines the filesystem's directory where precalculated-mini-images (thumbnails) are stored and loaded from.
- Bookmark folder defines the filesystem's directory where Virtual Albums/Bookmark files are stored.
- Date Picker as decades if enabled the date picker in Filter-View shows an additional hirarchy level decade (10-years). Example the decade "2010*" means between 2010..2019. This reduces the number of root entries if you have photos from more that 20 different years
- Show in Map
- Use Mapsforge offline map: if checked use mapsforge offline map data else use cached online data.
- Mapsforge offline Folder: Where mapsforge offline map data is loaded from.
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Max. Sel-Markers in Map: The maximum number of Blue selection markers in the Geographic-Map.
- Note: This value is limited for performance/memory reason.
- Edit
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Write changes to where modified meta data is stored. This setting also influences in which order metadata is read by the media scanner. For details see supported meta data (exif,xmp,iptc) and #79 and (since 0.6.1):
- jpg and xmp (Create if not found)
- jpg (and xmp if exists)
- jpg file only (xmp sidecar file is not created/modified)
- xmp file only (jpg file is not modified; , Mediasanner prefers reading from xmp-sidecar befor looking into jpg)
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Long xmp sidecar file name #84 (since 0.6.1. Oder versions only support short format "file.xmp")
- [_] not checked means use short format "file.xmp"
- the photo file /path/to/file.jpg will use the sidecar file /path/to/file.xmp
- use this setting if you do not use the pc software digikam to mange your photos
- checked means use long format "file.jpg.xmp"
- the photo file /path/to/file.jpg will use the sidecar file /path/to/file.jpg.xmp
- use this setting if you use the pc software digikam to mange your photos
- this setting is important if you want to use xmp-sidecar-files with other apps
- [_] not checked means use short format "file.xmp"
- Rename PRIVATE ...jpg to ...jpg-p: when checked PRIVATE images get a properitary fileextension .jpg-p so other image apps do not see them.
- Clear Multi-Selection after: If checked multi selection mode in Gallery-View is canceled after a command from Actionbar or Menu
- History Settings for the Set geo command available in Gallery-View and Image-View
- The History shows last picked geo-s as additional blue selection markers in the picker
- Set Geo History Max: The maximum number of items of the geo-pick history
- Set Geo History File: The file where the geo-pick history ist stored.
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Write changes to where modified meta data is stored. This setting also influences in which order metadata is read by the media scanner. For details see supported meta data (exif,xmp,iptc) and #79 and (since 0.6.1):
The Diagnostics group defines settings to support finding errors.
A Photo Manager uses the android's logcat system to store debug output. When "A Photo Manager" crashes the content of the logcat is saved to a file "androFotofinder.logcat-xxxxxx.txt" to allow later analysis.
There are these diagnostics settings:
- Error Log Folder: Defines the filesystem's directory where logcat infos or crash reports are written to.
- LogCat SQL: If enabled: Write Database activity to logcat.
- LogCat Grid/Listview: If enabled: Writes infos about "Grid View Items" of Gallery and other lists to logcat.
- LogCat Memory Consumption: If enabled: Writes infos about memory consumption to logcat.
- LogCat jpg: If enabled: trace photo file operations (copy/move/delete).
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LogCat jpg/xmp metadata: If enabled: Writes infos about reading/writing metadata of jpg/xmp to logcat.
- Note: if enabled meta data is re-read after write so this can slow down internal mediascanner.
- Logcat SAF File handling: If enabled: Writes infos related to Android-s Storage Access Framework (SAF) (i.e. Files on SD and USB to logcat). (since 0.8.4)
- LogCat zip-file: If enabled: Writes infos about reading/writing zip-file or backup to logcat. (since 0.7.5)
- LogCat libs: If enabled: Writes infos about 3rd paty libs to logcat.
- LogCat Misc.: If enabled: Writes detailed infos about other components to logcat.
- Clear LogCat clears the current logcat of the app.
- Save LogCat to file writes the current logcat to a file.
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