When I copy pictures from my external disk to my Android phone, then open the folder with the app's custom picker, they are displayed in seemingly random order. This makes it difficult to select the best picture of a series of similar shots.

The same folder opens with the right pictures order when using the Google Photos gallery or the simplemobiletools gallery or the Aves gallery.

This problem happens even after using the Image & Video Date Fixer app to set the correct Android file timestamps (all pictures have correct EXIF dates). So the custom picker seems to ignore Android file timestamps when loading pictures, maybe it is using some inode number or something, anyway we need to order them more reliably, preferably using Android file timestamps (faster than parsing EXIFs of thousands of files).

You might need to modify code around app/src/main/java/fr/free/nrw/commons/customselector/ui/selector/

I can provide test files if needed, just send me an email to the address mentioned at https://nicolasraoul.github.io .