[Android Apps and Games] Mikhail5555:
Dear XDA-Members

After some have requested me to post my tasker profile here is a noob friendly walk trough.

This is the first time I make a tutorial like this so any corrections are more then welcome (since English isn't my native language)

I haven't made this fully on my own, some ideas I got from other posts.

So here it goes:

It was hard to find a good trigger for the task to start and I decided to add it to opening/closing of the camera app.

Profiles:

Application -> (Your default photo app (you can add more then one)

Start task:

Variable / Variable set / name = %Camerastart / To %TIMES - 15 //Set a variable so you can later compare which photos are new and which are old

Exit task:

1. File / List FIles / Dir = DCIM/Camera (Location of the map the photos go in) / Match = *.jpg / Variable = %Files // For each file in the folder create a variable

2. Task / For / Variable = %File / Items = %Files(1:) // For every variable do the next loop

-3. File / Test File / Type = Modified / Data = %File / Store result In = %Filetime / Continue Task After Error = True // Look when the photo was taken (modified)

-4. Task / If / Condition = %Filetime > %Camerastart // Compare the variables to see if the photo is either new or old

--5. File / Copy File / From = %File / To = DCIM/Backup (Location of folder you want to copy the new photos too) / (Use root = true // optional) // If true copy the photo to another map

-6. Task / End If // Self explanatory

7. Task / End for // End the loop

I Hope you guys liked this tutorial and I helped some of you out.

I also uploaded the .txt file, rename it to .xml so you can easily import it to tasker. (This was made with the newest version (4.5u1)

Edit: Forgot to add one thing, add a file named .nomedia to the folder where you place the extra photos (Do this with root explorer or some other that displays hidden items), this will prevent the photos from displaying in the gallery app.

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Dear XDA-Members,

I'm not sure if something like this already exists but after a while of searching I haven't found anything like this.

We probably all had one of those moments in our life that we took a photo of something or someone that we wanted to keep really badly but someone forced us to delete it from the gallery.

So my idea was that after a photo gets taken by the camera app and saved to the default location /sdcard/DCIM/camera (or other place, dependence on the camera app (possibly customizable setting?)) a backup is instantly made to a folder (of choice) that isn't displayed in any gallery. And I know dropbox could instantly sync this to the cloud but this firstly drains my data plan and you can't save it locally and only on the cloud (not talking about the huge amount of battery that is drained).

Maybe it's easier to make a camera app that saves a photo on 2 places (one displayed in the gallery and the other one is saved in a secret folder that you can assign yourself and see with the most file browsers.)

I hope you guys like this idea and maybe someone could work this out if they have the time for it.

tldr; Lightweight app that secretly 'backups' photos to a secret folder that isn't displayed in the gallery app.

Sorry for my English, it isn't my native language.