Camera Folder: "Take a Photo from Camera" everywhere where you can open a photo file

When "Camera Folder" is installed, any Android app that can open jpg files can also take a photo from camera.

Note that "Camera Folder" has no user interface and no start icon of its own.

The app is super tiny: 0.16 MB

Example usecase:

From the drawing app Simple Draw we will "open" a photo from the Open Camera app.

• (0) Open the app "Simple Draw"
• (1) Open the overflow Menu
• (2) Choose "Open file". The Android System file picker opens.
• (3) Click the Hamburger menu
• (4) The Provider View opens
• (5) In the Provider View choose "Camera Folder"
• (6) The Camera picker opens.From the available Camera apps choose "Open Camera"
• (Please note that in Android 11 and above the camera picker has been removed and therefore the default camera app will automatically open)
• (7) Take a photo with "Open Camera" and choose "OK"
• (8) You will be back again in "Simple Draw" with the photo you have just taken ready for processing.

Requirements:

• Android-4.4 (api 19) or later with camera hardware.
• At least one Camera app must be installed (i.e. Open Camera)
• Required Permissions:
  • CAMERA needed to ask a camera app to take a photo
  • WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE to save the photo to a file

Technical details

• "Camera Folder" plugs into the Android-System-File-Chooser that is used by many Android apps.
• It Translates from ACTION_GET_CONTENT.to MediaStore.ACTION_IMAGE_CAPTURE

How to compile

In the project root execute on the commandline

   ./gradlew assemble test

Privacy

No adds, no usertracking, no internet connection, free open source, available on f-droid

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