1.0.5: the way back from Google Drive

Two emails from a user in Japan set off this update. The first one said the backup
could be saved to Google Drive but not brought back.

He was right, and it was not one thing but three.

Why the way back was blocked

Restoring had no entry in the settings. It sat behind the plus button in the gallery,
among the import actions. Anyone who had saved a backup looked for the way back where the
way out had been, found nothing, and concluded the app writes backups it cannot read.

The file picker filtered on the file type of a zip. Google Drive reports a different type
for anything it does not recognise, and what does not match the filter is greyed out in
the picker. The file was there to see and impossible to tap.

And the file size query could fail the check of the backup. Files from the cloud arrive
without a reliable size, and a perfectly intact archive was reported as invalid.

What is different now

• Restore backup sits in Settings under Advanced, right below the entry that creates one
• Files from Google Drive can be selected
• A backup in the cloud is downloaded once instead of twice, which halves the waiting
• Fixed: a crash on the second restore attempt in a row

The recycle bin, from the second email

He had found the way and wrote straight back with the next wish: could the recycle bin be
emptied in one go. It could not. Delete every photo on its own, confirm every time, a
hundred taps for fifty pictures.

Now a long press starts a selection, another tap adds to it, and the top bar carries the
count, select all, restore and delete. Beside it, a button that empties the bin outright.
It asks once, and the question names the number.

Where to go next

See it on Google Play
or read the info page. The version before this was
1.0.1.

Both changes are here because somebody wrote an email. That is the shortest way to change
anything about these apps.