TiMultiImagePicker Module

Description

Titanium Android module for select multiple images from Gallery. This module developed from existing Android open source library MultipleImagePick. Also this module uses Universal image loader library for asynchronous loading and caching.

TiMultiImagePicker Screenshot

Features

Accessing the TiMultiImagePicker Module

To access this module from JavaScript, you would do the following:

var gallerypicker = require('titutorial.gallerypicker');
The gallerypicker variable is a reference to the Module object.

Methods

openGallery()

Method to open custom gallery with multiple image select option.

Parameters

Property Description Default Is Required?
cancelButtonTitle Cancel button title text Cancel No
doneButtonTitle Done button title text Done No
title Custom gallery window title Gallery No
errorMessage Message used to show, if maximum image selection limit reached Max limit reached No
limit maximum image selection limit 5 No
success callback function to handle success response - Yes
error callback function to handle error response - Yes

decodeBitmapResource()

Method to scale down the bitmap

The system Gallery application displays photos taken using your Android devices's camera which are typically much higher resolution than the screen density of your device

Given that you are working with limited memory, ideally you only want to load a lower resolution version in memory. The lower resolution version should match the size of the UI component that displays it. An image with a higher resolution does not provide any visible benefit, but still takes up precious memory and incurs additional performance overhead due to additional on the fly scaling.

This method used to decode large bitmaps without exceeding the per application memory limit by loading a smaller subsampled version in memory

Reference: Android guild lines

Parameters

Property Description Is Required?
path Input image file path Yes
width Required thumbnail image width Yes
height Required thumbnail image height Yes

Usage

gallerypicker.openGallery({ cancelButtonTitle: "Cancel", doneButtonTitle: "Okay", title: "Custom Gallery", errorMessage: "Limit reached", limit: 10, success: function (e) { Ti.API.info("response is => " + JSON.stringify(e)); var imgArray = e.filePath.split(","); for (var i = 0; i < imgArray.length; i++) { if (imgArray[i]) { var imgView = Ti.UI.createImageView({ left: '10dp', top: '10dp', image: gallerypicker.decodeBitmapResource(imgArray[i], 100, 100) }); imageHolder.add(imgView); } } }, error: function (e) { alert("error " + JSON.stringify(e)); } });

refer example/app.js for more info

Using Custom Resources

If you want to use custom resource in your App you can override default resource. For that you have to place your custom resource inside app_root/platform/android/res or app_root/modules/android/titutorial.gallerypicker/0.1/platform/android/res in the same name.

For example, if you want to override default image in Gallery item you have to override your custom image with name of no_media.png

Author

Karthi Ponnusamy - karthi.nkl@gmail.com

License

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