[Feature request] Multiselect for Img-Gallery-Upload (Android >= 4.3)

[cmotika]

Scenario: You have shot a lot of pictures and want to upload all or most of them at once.

When selecting UPLOAD in an ownCloud directory the user can choose

1. Files, or
2. Content from other apps

When selecting 2. and choosing "Gallery", one cannot select multiple files for upload. This is annoying when you have shot a lot of pictures and want to upload most of them at once.
Currently you are forced to select Upload->Content from other apps->Gallery->Camera shots->Picture, for EVERY single picture. And you have to remember which picture you just uploaded and where to continue. Dropbox allows multiselection for uploading from the Gallery.

Request: It would be nice to have the possibility to select multiple files from other apps like from the Gallery.

[cmotika]

[davivel]

We need to check this in some more detail. What is your device model and Android version?

[fduraibi]

I have the same thing, there is no way to select more than one photo from gallery, the moment you select one is gets uploaded, while other apps supports multiple selection by either check-boxes or long press on a photo/file

Nexus 4 (Android 4.4.4)

[davivel]

OK, seen. This is a new feature to add. This flow is available from Android 4.3 , with the addition of the http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/Intent.html#EXTRA_ALLOW_MULTIPLE to the ACTION_GET_CONTENT intent. We didn't notice it before.

Should be reasonably easy to do. Contributions are welcome.

[tobiasKaminsky]

I have tried to implement it.
As far as I have read the stock gallery app does not support sending multiple files.
But the "Images" from the Chooser supports multiple selection of images.

So my question is, how to deal with it as it is not clear for the user why the "images" support multiple selection but not "Gallery" or any other app...

Also I think I have found a bug in upload -> files. I will investigate further and then write an issue or PR.

[tobiasKaminsky]

@davivel @jancborchardt
I think we need to discuss how the multiselect should work.

[nacef-labidi]

FYI I have found a workaround for this usability inconvenience. One can go directly to his Gallery, long press, select as much pictures as wanted, then click on the share button and select ownCloud from the list. It will open an ownCloud window allowing you to select the destination folder. Hope this helps while we have this feature implemented into the app itself

[davivel]

This is available in the currently published version 2.0.1 of the app.

Conditions: Android 4.3 or later is required and the gallery app has to support it following official Android API.

If you met these conditions but doesn't work for you, please, comment after me.