And even simple things like the gallery is so bad, scanning your whole phone. I want the gallery yo show my photos, not my video collection or downloaded images.
I’m not rich, but if I could I’d jump ship with my xiaomi 13t.
Yeah I need a good camera, and I heard the pixel is good. I’ll look into that, I can probably keep an older xiaomi for my banking app with all the google crap on it…
Actually, don’t rule out that your banking app works on Grapheneos! Mine is not marked as supported in the wiki and works!
I don’t have contactless payments because gpay doesn’t work, but it’s not a big deal (and it can be solved if you use curve or if you buy a garmin smartwatch)
Pretty sure you can achieve the same with the standard gallery and other media apps by putting an empty file called .nomedia in the folders you want the apps to ignore. I’m using a third-party gallery app, but seems that the feature is widespread (likely because of the apps relying on Android’s own media scanning).
And to be honest, it feels like the whole “windows is usable you just have to…” do things all the time (then it gets removed from time to time, or changed or ignored)
Just to check, did you put in the dot at the beginning of the file name? It’s the convention for hidden files in Unixes. Could just be that Xiaomi forgot to support this feature in their app, of course, and a third-party one would fix that, like the open-source Simple Gallery.
Anyway, I’d guess most people are fine with the gallery showing downloaded images — I know I need that to find the meme I want.
And even simple things like the gallery is so bad, scanning your whole phone. I want the gallery yo show my photos, not my video collection or downloaded images.
I’m not rich, but if I could I’d jump ship with my xiaomi 13t.
Get a refurbished pixel and put grapheneos on it. Best thing I could ever do.
Yeah I need a good camera, and I heard the pixel is good. I’ll look into that, I can probably keep an older xiaomi for my banking app with all the google crap on it…
Actually, don’t rule out that your banking app works on Grapheneos! Mine is not marked as supported in the wiki and works!
I don’t have contactless payments because gpay doesn’t work, but it’s not a big deal (and it can be solved if you use curve or if you buy a garmin smartwatch)
check out the fossify gallery app. not on play store probably. it can ignore folders, or only look in some
Already got it ☺️ from F-Droid.
Pretty sure you can achieve the same with the standard gallery and other media apps by putting an empty file called
.nomediain the folders you want the apps to ignore. I’m using a third-party gallery app, but seems that the feature is widespread (likely because of the apps relying on Android’s own media scanning).Doesn’t work for me.
And to be honest, it feels like the whole “windows is usable you just have to…” do things all the time (then it gets removed from time to time, or changed or ignored)
Thanks for the tip though!
Just to check, did you put in the dot at the beginning of the file name? It’s the convention for hidden files in Unixes. Could just be that Xiaomi forgot to support this feature in their app, of course, and a third-party one would fix that, like the open-source Simple Gallery.
Anyway, I’d guess most people are fine with the gallery showing downloaded images — I know I need that to find the meme I want.