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ExifInterface GPS not read on Android Q/10

I'm having the issue that Android 10 can't read GPS information from my jpeg files. The exact same files are working on Android 9.
I tried the ExifInterface (androidx) which returns null, as well as apache commons imaging which is saying "GPSLatitude: Invalid rational (0/0), Invalid rational (0/0)".
Other exif information like the rating or XPKeywords are read correctly.
How to fix that?
Test code:
import androidx.exifinterface.media.ExifInterface;
ExifInterface exif2 = new ExifInterface(is);
double[] latLngArray = exif2.getLatLong();
getLatLong Implementation:
public double[] getLatLong() {
String latValue = getAttribute(TAG_GPS_LATITUDE);
String latRef = getAttribute(TAG_GPS_LATITUDE_REF);
String lngValue = getAttribute(TAG_GPS_LONGITUDE);
String lngRef = getAttribute(TAG_GPS_LONGITUDE_REF);
if (latValue != null && latRef != null && lngValue != null && lngRef != null) {
try {
double latitude = convertRationalLatLonToDouble(latValue, latRef);
double longitude = convertRationalLatLonToDouble(lngValue, lngRef);
return new double[] {latitude, longitude};
} catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {
Log.w(TAG, "Latitude/longitude values are not parseable. " +
String.format("latValue=%s, latRef=%s, lngValue=%s, lngRef=%s",
latValue, latRef, lngValue, lngRef));
}
}
return null;
}
All getAttribute calls are returning null on Android Q/10. On Android 9 it is working. My test photo does contain GPS information.
Even Android itself was unable to index the GPS location into their media store. The field is null as well in their database. I transferred the test photo via mail.

As mentioned in developer android, now, on Android 10, the location embed on image files is not directly available to the apps:
Because this location information is sensitive, however, Android 10 by default hides this information from your app if it uses scoped storage.
On that same link, you can check how to fix:
Request the ACCESS_MEDIA_LOCATION permission in your app's manifest.
From your MediaStore object, call setRequireOriginal(), passing in the URI of the photograph, as shown in the following code snippet:
Code snippet:
Uri photoUri = Uri.withAppendedPath(
MediaStore.Images.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI,
cursor.getString(idColumnIndex));
// Get location data from the ExifInterface class.
photoUri = MediaStore.setRequireOriginal(photoUri);
InputStream stream = getContentResolver().openInputStream(photoUri);
if (stream != null) {
ExifInterface exifInterface = new ExifInterface(stream);
// Don't reuse the stream associated with the instance of "ExifInterface".
stream.close();
} else {
// Failed to load the stream, so return the coordinates (0, 0).
latLong = new double[2];
}
Note how they are now using Uri, InputStream (and also FileDescriptor) to access the file since now, you can't access a file using its file path.

Android email client app tracking unread gmail emails

So I've been using javamail API as part of my android app. After a login to a gmail account, the user can write new emails, check the inbox and sent mails. The emails are displayed in a listview with the help of an adapter class. (more accurately the sender, the subject and the sending date is displayed, and if the user clicks on the listview item, then the mail content will be displayed too on a new activity). All this is working well.
I would like to display unread emails differently (unread in the gmail client too), like set the textSyle bold if the mail is unread, but i'm having trouble adding this feature. I've been trying to check the flags of each fetched email message, but for some reason i dont see these flags in the variables.
My code snippet for fetching the mails (display is not here, that's in the adapter class):
protected ArrayList<Email_Message> doInBackground(Void... args) {
try {
Properties properties = new Properties();
properties.put("mail.store.protocol", "imaps");
Session emailSession = Session.getDefaultInstance(properties);
Store store = emailSession.getStore("imaps");
store.connect("imap.gmail.com", username, password);
// create the folder object and open it
Folder emailFolder = store.getFolder("INBOX");
emailFolder.open(Folder.READ_WRITE);
Flags flags2 = emailFolder.getPermanentFlags(); //has 2 weird user flags in it ($phishing, $notphising) and systemflags = -2147483061 ???
Flags seen = new Flags(Flags.Flag.RECENT);
FlagTerm unseenFlagTerm = new FlagTerm(seen, false);
Message messages2[] = emailFolder.search(unseenFlagTerm); //this will net the same result as getMessages(), only here for testing
int test = emailFolder.getUnreadMessageCount(); //as far as i can tell this is working (i have 5000+ emails and 37 them are unread somewhere) but when i get a new email and the number goes up by 1 (38), and if i run the code again, after i already fetched the mails once, it's gonna be 37 again, and the mail marked as read in my gmail webclient too
// retrieve the messages from the folder in an array and print it
Message[] messages = emailFolder.getMessages();
int j = messages.length - 1;
for (int i = j - startIndex; i > j - startIndex - offset && i > (-1); i--) { //startIndex and offset are for displaying only 10 messages at the start and loading another 10 if the user scrolls to bottom
if (isCancelled()){
break;
}
Email_Message mailMessage = new Email_Message(); //my class for storing email messages
mailMessage.messageType = 1;
//some tricks to get the address in the right format
Address[] email_address = messages[i].getFrom();
String tempAddress = email_address[0].toString();
tempAddress = MimeUtility.decodeText(tempAddress);
//still tempering with address, not important
if(tempAddress.contains("=?")){
String[] AddressParts = tempAddress.split("\\?=");
mailMessage.messageAddress = AddressParts[1].substring(2);
}
else {
mailMessage.messageAddress = tempAddress;
}
Flags flags = messages[i].getFlags(); //user_flags = null, system_flags = 32
Flags.Flag[] systemflags = flags.getSystemFlags(); //has 1 item in it: bit = 32
String str[]= flags.getUserFlags(); //empty, these are all true for all my mails, not just one
mailMessage.messageDate = messages[i].getSentDate().toString();
mailMessage.messageSubject = messages[i].getSubject();
Object msgContent = messages[i].getContent();
String content = ""; //getting the content of the mail with these multipart stuffs
if (msgContent instanceof Multipart) {
Multipart multipart = (Multipart) msgContent;
Log.e("BodyPart", "MultiPartCount: " + multipart.getCount());
for (int k = 0; k < multipart.getCount(); k++) {
BodyPart bodyPart = multipart.getBodyPart(k);
String disposition = bodyPart.getDisposition();
if (disposition != null && (disposition.equalsIgnoreCase("ATTACHMENT"))) {
DataHandler handler = bodyPart.getDataHandler();
content = handler.getName();
} else {
content = bodyPart.getContent().toString();
}
}
} else
content = messages[i].getContent().toString();
mailMessage.messageContent = content;
EmailInbox.add(mailMessage);
}
// close the store and folder objects
emailFolder.close(false);
store.close();
} catch (NoSuchProviderException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (MessagingException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
return EmailInbox;
}
I put some comments in the code to explain what i've found in the flags. What can I do to make this work? I already predict problems, like what happens after I read an unread mail in my app only, set its flag to seen, and when I start the activity again and fetch the mails, it's gonna be unread again, since I don't store them locally, but that's a problem after I managed to find a solution for this first.
Thanks for any help!

I'm not clear on how you're looking for the flags. Using messages[i].isSet(Flags.Flag.SEEN) will tell you if the SEEN flag has been set. Note that the SEEN flag will normally be set as soon as you access the content of the message, so you should not have to set it yourself.
Hint: use the InternetAddress.toUnicodeString method, or get the name and address separately using the getPersonal and getAddress methods. This will avoid any need to decode them yourself.

Integrating and working with .pkpass passes in Xamarin Android app

I'm developing a Xamarin Android app and I need the ability to be able to work with Passes (PassKit passes for example (JSON)). I need to be able to list all the passes in a ListVew and be able to open and display the pass. Also be able to save them to a wallet such as PassWallet or Pass2u. I don't need the ability to create them, just view them, and save them to a wallet or discard them.
There seems to be an example Xamarin iOS app which does exactly what i need here but of course I need to be able to do this in Xamarin Android.
I've been researching this for hours but don't know how to achieve what i need. JSON.net seems the way to go to read the passes, but that's as far as I've managed to get. Some examples would be great. Can anybody help?

To add the pass into PassWallet you can use the following:
private static boolean launchPassWallet(Context applicationContext, Uri uri, boolean launchGooglePlay) {
if (null != applicationContext) {
PackageManager packageManager = applicationContext.getPackageManager();
if (null != packageManager) {
final String strPackageName = "com.attidomobile.passwallet";
Intent startIntent = new Intent();
startIntent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
startIntent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
Intent passWalletLaunchIntent = packageManager
.getLaunchIntentForPackage(strPackageName);
if (null == passWalletLaunchIntent) {
// PassWallet isn't installed, open Google Play:
if (launchGooglePlay) {
String strReferrer = "";
try {
strReferrer = "&referrer=" + URLEncoder.encode(uri.toString(), "UTF-8");
} catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
strReferrer = "";
}
try {
startIntent.setData(Uri.parse("market://details?id=" + strPackageName + strReferrer));
applicationContext.startActivity(startIntent);
} catch (android.content.ActivityNotFoundException anfe) {
// Google Play not installed, open via website
startIntent.setData(Uri.parse("http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=" + strPackageName + strReferrer));
applicationContext.startActivity(startIntent);
}
}
} else {
final String strClassName = "com.attidomobile.passwallet.activity.TicketDetailActivity";
startIntent.setClassName(strPackageName, strClassName);
startIntent.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_BROWSABLE);
startIntent.setDataAndType(uri, "application/vnd.apple.pkpass");
applicationContext.startActivity(startIntent);
return true;
}
}
}
return false;
}
And an example call is:
launchPassWallet(getApplicationContext(),Uri.parse("http://test.attidomobile.com/PassWallet/Passes/AttidoMobile.pkpass"), true);
You can also use a file:// URL if you have the file locally.
To display them in the list, you'd need to unzip the .pkpass file and then parse the JSON for the relevant fields.

How to show images and text with listview from web site

I use Jsoup to parse HTML page and I want to show text and images in the ListView. So I created LinkedHashMap and SimpleAdapter for this. Besides text shows as is. Images don't wan't to be shown. Every time I get log message such as: "resolve Uri failed on bad bitmap uri". I tried to google this problem but still can't resolve it.
Here is the code:
#Override
protected String doInBackground(String... arg) {
Document doc;
try {
doc = Jsoup.connect("http://thesiteiuse.com/news/").get();
title = doc.select("h2[class=et_pt_title]");
picture = doc.select("img");
listViewContent.clear();
for (Element titles : title) {
Map<String, Object> map = new LinkedHashMap<String, Object>();
map.put(ATTRIBUTE_NAME_TEXT, titles.text());
listViewContent.add(map);
}
for (Element img : picture){
Bitmap bitmap;
Map<String,Object> picMap = new LinkedHashMap<String,Object>();
String iurl;
iurl = img.absUrl("src");
Log.w("ABSurl:", iurl.toString());
URL url = new URL(iurl);
bitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(url.openStream());
Log.w("BITMAP",bitmap.toString());
picMap.put(ATTRIBUTE_NAME_IMAGE, String.valueOf(bitmap));
listViewContent.add(picMap);
}
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
return null;
}
How can I solve my problem? Maybe is there another simple way to display images in the ListView which app get from the URL?

You have to create your own adapter to the listview. You should see this tutorial on how to create it: http://www.vogella.com/tutorials/AndroidListView/article.html

Android - Facebook API giving empty result for user cover photo

I'm trying to get the user's cover photo and show it at the top of a layout. I'm using AsyncTask to run the API call to Facebook. The code I'm using to get the Facebook data is
JSONObject json = null;
response = Utility.facebook.request("me?fields=cover");
json = Util.parseJson(response);
The exception that stops the thread comes from a json error on the next step because the returned json is empty, even though the request clears through. I can get a proper json using just "me" or "me/albums" or anything other than "me?fields=cover". When I comment out the last line, 'try' process finishes with no exceptions/errors.
Is there something wrong with the Facebook API or am I doing something wrong?

I personally prefer using FQL when dealing with User Profile. If you would like to give FQL a try, check the following piece of code. If you would like to stick to Graph API, see this answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/12434640/450534
try {
String query = "SELECT pic_cover FROM user where uid = " + PUT_THE_USER_ID_HERE;
Bundle param = new Bundle();
param.putString("method", "fql.query");
param.putString("query", query);
String response = Utility.mFacebook.request(param);
JSONArray JAUser = new JSONArray(response);
for (int i = 0; i < JAUser.length(); i++) {
JSONObject JOUser = JAUser.getJSONObject(i);
// COVER PHOTO
if (JOUser.has("pic_cover")) {
String getCover = JOUser.getString("pic_cover");
if (getCover.equals("null")) {
String finalCover = null;
} else {
JSONObject JOCoverSource = JOUser.optJSONObject("pic_cover");
if (JOCoverSource.has("source")) {
String finalCover = JOCoverSource.getString("source");
} else {
String finalCover = null;
}
}
} else {
String finalCover = null;
}
}
} catch (Exception e) {
// TODO: handle exception
}
The above code already accounts for User's who do not have a Cover Photo set in their profiles and checks for its availability. With this code, you will have the URL to the Cover Photo and can then process it as you prefer.
NOTE: If you are fetching the logged in users cover photo, this piece of code SELECT pic_cover FROM user where uid = " + PUT_THE_USER_ID_HERE; can also be written as: SELECT pic_cover FROM user where uid = me()"; For the non-logged in user's cover photo, the above can be used as is.
Couple of things as a side note.
I use Fedor's Lazy Loading technique to load images in almost exclusively.
I recommend running the code block, mine or any other solution you choose, in an AsyncTask.

The reason for not getting any result can be found in the javadoc of request(String graphPath) method:
(...) this method blocks waiting for a network response, so do not
call it in a UI thread.
In your case, you should probably do the following synchronous call:
Bundle params = new Bundle();
params.putString("fields", "cover");
String result = Utility.facebook.request("me/", params);
Siddharth Lele is very correct in his answer, but I wanted to specify the actual reason for not getting any response in this case.

Note: Fetching Cover Photo using Facebook API and endpoint https://graph.facebook.com/me?fields=cover no longer works as on 20th Dec 2014.
It was supposed to give following response:
{
"cover": {
"cover_id": "10151008748223553",
"source": "http://sphotos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s720x720/391237_10151008748223553_422785532_n.jpg",
"offset_y": 0
},
"id": "19292868552"
}
But now it just gives User's id:
{
"id": "19292868552"
}
Verified this using Graph Tool explorer v2.2 using me?fields=cover.