Settings
F-Stop Media Gallery is an advanced media gallery and although we tried to simplify it as much as possible we also wanted to provide our users with the control they wanted.
See below for the list of settings and an explanation of each.
| Main | Description |
|---|---|
| Included folders | By default, F-Stop includes all your storage devices (internal memory and SD card). Adding folders here tells F-Stop to only include those folders. Subfolders are also included. |
| Excluded folders | These are the folders that F-Stop will not scan. Subfolders are also included. |
| Include videos | Show videos with images. If unchecked, videos will ONLY be shown in the video folder from the dashboard. |
| Use offline mode | Offline mode keeps media in the internal library if it has been moved or deleted outside of F-Stop. |
| METADATA | |
| Autosave | Selecting this option automatically saves tags and ratings according to your preferences. This will cause tagging and rating to be a little slower since it has to perform a write to the file as well. (Default: Unchecked) |
| Sidecars for non-JPG | Enabling this option saves tags and ratings to a sidecar file for all supported media files that aren't JPGs. Unchecking this option will disable the option to "Always use sidecars". (Default: Checked) |
| Always use sidecars | Checking this setting will always save sidecar files for all supported media. This includes JPG files too. (Default: Unchecked) |
| PROTECTED FOLDERS | |
| Password | Set or change the password to the protected area |
| Location for protected files | Change the location of protected file. All files must be unprotected before changing location. |
| OTHER | |
| Startup screen | Set the default startup screen |
| Suppress hidden folders | Folders and subfolders will be hidden if a text file with filename ".nomedia" is inside the folder. More information about .nomedia files is here or just do a Google search. |
| Hide/show icon | Hides or shows the key icon from the app drawer. |
| Confirm delete | When checked, shows confirmation dialog when deleting media in media viewer. When unchecked, an undo option is shown. |
| Play video | When checked, videos play in external video player. Unchecked shows the video thumbnail in media viewer. |
| App exit options | Provides options for exiting app when pressing back button. |
| Use system share dialog | Use the system share dialog when check. Otherwise, use the custom share dialog. |
| Use root for setting date | If standard method of setting date modified fails, use root method. |
| Layout and drawing | Description |
|---|---|
| Draw thumbnail border | Draws a border around thumbnails |
| Optimize for slow devices | Thumbnails might load a little bit slower but it is useful for devices with a slow processor |
| Draw square thumbnails | Enabling this setting always fills a square thumbnail. Disabling this feature will draw the thumbnail with the original aspect ratio. |
| Status overlay icons | Select to show or hide status overlay icons. See here. |
| Columns in portrait | Select the number of thumbnail columns when device is in portrait orientation |
| Columns in landscape | Select the number of thumbnail columns when device is in landscape orientation |
| Folder view | |
| Grid columns in portrait | The number of columns in portrait orientation for folders in grid view. |
| Grid columns in landscape | The number of columns in landscape orientation for folders in grid view. |
| MEDIA BROWSER | |
| Thumbnail size in portrait | Size of thumbnails in portrait orientation. Using 'Medium' or 'Small' requires more cached thumbnails to be drawn. If you experience any kind of glitches (flashing thumbnails, choppy scrolling, etc.) please select 'Large'. (Default: Large) |
| Thumbnail size in landscape | Size of thumbnails in landscape orientation. Using 'Medium' or 'Small' requires more cached thumbnails to be drawn. If you experience any kind of glitches (flashing thumbnails, choppy scrolling, etc.) please select 'Large'. (Default: Large) |
| Numerical sorting | Treat the first numbers of a file name as a number when sorting |
| Media viewer | Description |
|---|---|
| Endless media viewer | Loop to the beginning when the end is reached |
| Swipe gesture length | The length of the finger swipe before it is accepted as valid. (Default: Very short) |
| Transition speed | Slow, Medium, Fast (default), Very Fast - Transition speed when swiping between images in media viewer (new on v.2.3.0) |
| Maximum brightness | Sets the display brightness to maximum when viewing images |
| Use true color decoding | Check to use full color or 8-bits per pixel for each color. (new on v2.3.0) |
| Image scaling | Select which method to use to zoom in on high resolution images. Hardware method is preferred for Android 3.0+ devices. If there are issues with rendering, please use the software method. |
| Advance after rating | Check to automatically advance to the next image when you rate an image. |
| SIZE AND ROTATION | |
| Enlarge small images | Enlarge small images to fit the screen |
| Best fit | Rotates images to best fit the screen dimensions without cropping |
| Change screen orientation | Choose the method used to change the screen orientation. |
| Fill screen | Scale image to fill the entire screen |
| Disable panning | Disables panning when 'fill screen' is enabled |
| SLIDESHOW | |
| Repeat slideshow | Start slideshow at the beginning when the end is reached |
| Shuffle slideshow | Play slideshow in random order |
| Slideshow interval | Time between next image |
| Transitions | Select the transition type |
| Unified transition | Use the same transition type for the entire slideshow |
| Navigation drawer | Description |
|---|---|
| Hide logo | Hides the logo and shrinks the area take up by the image. |
| Customize | Rearrange and hide items in drawer. |
| Cache | Description |
|---|---|
| Use preview images | Speeds up image loading by initially using low resolution thumbnails |
| Delete preview cache | Delete all generated preview images |
| Refresh thumbnail cache | Delete and regenerate all thumbnails. This will NOT modify any existing data you have saved. It is strictly used to refresh the thumbnails images. It can take >1minute to complete depending on how many media files you have and your hardware. |
| Themes | Description |
|---|---|
| THEME SELECTION | |
| Theme | Allows you to select the color scheme used in F-Stop. |
| CUSTOMIZATION | |
| Base theme | Select light or dark as the base theme. |
| Primary color | Select the primary color for a list of colors. |
| Accent color | Select the accent color for a list of colors. |
| OPTIONS | |
| Image viewer background color | Choose the background color when viewing single images. |
| Other settings | Description |
|---|---|
| SD card write permissions | Open dialog to request SD card write permissions for Android 5.0+. |
| Language | F-Stop language is determined by device system setting. Please consider helping to translate F-Stop into your language. |
| About | Version information and credits |
| Help | Link to the online tutorial |
| What's new | What is new in each version |
| Enter serial number | Enter serial number here to unlock features |
| Rate us | Please rate us 5 stars |
| Upgrade | For free users, this offers a link to upgrade to PRO |
| Contact us | Please contact us here |
| Disable bug reporting | Sends anonymous data and allows us to provide bug free software. |
