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According to me this would not be a good idea. Let's suppose you have hundreds of folders inside folders, storing a boolean for all of them in SharedPreferences does not look good. A better way could be to have an internal database in the app preferably Realm or sqlite. This will also be scalable so that one can store more data in the app if required in the future.

Also consider a case where two folder in different directories have same name, so differentiating them in SharedPreferences would be difficult.

Another issue would occur when a folder will be deleted from the share, how would you know to remove it from SharedPreferences too?

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Realm is a much better option than sqlite, with that we can save the model objects as is in the db. No need to declare any tables/columns. Also writing queries is much easier as it's all in java and gives a cleaner code to maintain. If you have never used Realm before just read the docs once, it's quite easy to use.

PS: I can help if you need any.

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@mehtamanan0 Any progress on this issue?

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@octacode yes im using sharedPreferences to store a boolean value that will determine the sorting option.

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@mehtamanan0 I too would have done the same. 👍

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In most file browsers, there is a default sort option, if the user changes the sort options for a particular directory, then it changes to all the directories.
@cpg implementation for this would be simple enough.

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I will be happy to resolve this bug.

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@octacode yes halfway done.

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@mehtamanan0 I just wanna ask how are you actually resolving it. Shared Preferences??

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@csoni111 good that you pointed this out , yes even i think in my opinion sqlite would be a better option for this, as these sharedpreferences might be wasted.I think ill port over to sqlite then.

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@csoni111 cool , ill go over the docs once and will tell you i face any problem.

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I have been to caught up with studies as i have ongoing exams so it's been very hard to work on things from my side, I would like any of you all to take over this Issue. Ill be back once my exams get over.

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Great! I'll work on it then.

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@octacode Sure ! Go ahaed.

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@octacode Are you working on this issue?

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I don't understand why we need to store the sort type for each folder, because we can just use a universal sort type which will be used in every folder and will be remembered whenever changed.
@csoni111 Can you help me with this?

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@adi23arora Well it was a feature request from amahi users.

@cpg Do we really need this feature? If yes, can the folder sorting preferences be stored on the server side because it would make much more sense if we were to store it with the other data for each folder on the server side rather than in the app as here we will have to string match the names of the folder one by one and then there's problem with the deletion of a folder. Also if the app is uninstalled, all data will be lost.

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Presentation is really not the server's job, much less user-preferences for presentation, so I don't agree that storing this (on a per user basis!) on the server makes more sense.

This is just a small convenience. We don't have to implement it. Seems like too much trouble/work for a small convenience.

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@cpg As discussed, storing sorting preferences for each separate folder is a bit complex to implement and less feasible.

But what I suggest is using a universal sort type on each folder and remembering it whenever it is changed. This approach is used by most of the file explorer apps. This could provide some convenience to app users.

For example, if a user wants to find a recent file stored several folders deep, then he sorts the parent folder by modification time and automatically the same sort type will be applied to all sub-folders so that user won't have to switch sort type on each sub-folder.

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