zhanghai / zhanghai/MaterialFiles

[Feature Request] Add direct camera integration

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Description

It's a simple and great app! I love being able to create shortcuts to folders and being able to configure a default folder, it is very well thought out as it saves us from having to navigate to the desired location every time we open the application.
It would be great to be able to organize a workflow that was available for iOS...

Regarding the request, currently only "create file" and "create folder" are available in the "+" menu located in the bottom panel.

I think it would be a great contribution if the camera option were also added, so that pressing the button opens a quick and easy camera that allows you to take a sequence of images, without having to accept them one by one, adding all the captured images to the folder from which you pressed the "+" button. Something similar to the File Manager +Camera application, which although functional in this sense, contains ads and as a file explorer does not provide the extensive options that "Material Files" offers.

This would be a really comfortable and simple way to organize images at work, in the field, at home, on a trip or in any situation, knowing that the camera is one of the most used functions on mobile devices but at the moment without simple options to organize the images well captured from the beginning, forcing users to do considerable work later reviewing each photo one by one to organize hundreds or thousands of images.
The advantage of the approach that I propose over other applications is that the extraction of the organized images would be really fast thanks to the fact that visible folders could be chosen in the file system accessible without root, unlike other applications such as DocStorer or similar where the files They are stored in the file system that is not accessible without root and finally it is very difficult to extract the data by having to export backup copies that not all devices are capable of processing, especially when you have many GB of images.

Thanks for the application and for reading my suggestion.

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Research direction

Start by reviewing the bottom-panel "+" menu described in the issue and how the current create-file and create-folder actions work. Define the camera workflow so it can capture a sequence of images and place all captured images in the folder where the "+" button was pressed; the issue mentions no files or tests to run.

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Assessment

Tech stack
android, kotlin
Domain
mobile
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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