Lavender Photos!

This is Lavender Photos, a no non-sense, smooth, and performant gallery app for Android!

Features

• Browse all your photos and videos smoothly, separated by date
• Add and remove albums as you wish, no arbitrary or forced selections
• Search for an image by its name or date (in many formats!)
• Immich integration for safe and easy cloud media backup
• Trash Bin that's sorted by recently trashed
• Full fledged favouriting system
• A selection system that doesn't suck
• Edit and personalize any photo or video, any time, without an internet connection
• Secure sensitive photos in an encrypted medium, for safe keeping
• Find all the relevant information for a photo from one button click
• Copy and Move photos to albums easily
• Clean UI and smooth UX
• Privacy focused design, no chance of anything happening without your permission
• Customizable to your heart's content
• WAY more to come

Help us translate

Lavender Photos is meant to be accessible for all, and contributing a translation would greatly help with that! Our Weblate instance is a great place to start.

Screenshots

Main View	Albums	Cloud
Secure Folder	Favourites	Search
Privacy	Trash	Look & Feel

Verification

• Package name: com.kaii.photos
• Signing hash: B2:6E:8A:CD:20:D2:BD:B5:1D:EE:0D:F9:65:AA:40:BD:86:43:D3:F8:95:E8:25:A0:CD:DF:51:FE:27:5B:3E:C1

Install

• Grab a release version from the releases page
• Or a nightly version from the actions page

Compile

• Clone this repo & cd into it
• Run mkdir keys and copy your signing keys as releasekey.pk8 and releasekey.x509.pem into the newly created keys folder
• Run chmod +x ./build.sh
• Run ./build.sh TYPE where TYPE is one of release or debug
• Install the resulting photos_signed_TYPE.apk
• Note: build.sh accepts normal gradle arguments after the first TYPE argument
• Note: for unsigned builds just use normal grade commands. ie: ./gradlew TYPE where TYPE is one of assembleRelease or assembleDebug
  • Resulting unsigned APK will be in ./app/build/outputs/apk/{debug/release}