Photon Gallery v2.1.3

Photon Gallery v2.1.3

What's Changed

Features & Enhancements

• Google Lens Visual Search: One-tap visual search and image analysis directly from the viewer bottom dock
• Smart Search Dispatcher: Direct intent routing for Google Lens and Google app with automated fallbacks
• Refined Viewer Dock: Polished button arrangement, Material Symbol icons, and responsive haptic feedback

Fixes & Improvements

• Standardized Section Headers: Unified layout, baseline alignment, and height across Albums, Places, and Capture Modes
• Accent Indicator Polish: Resolved corner clipping distortion on section header indicator pills
• Separated Interaction Targets: Isolated toggle touch areas from trailing action buttons with 44dp touch targets

📦 Assets

• 📱 PhotonGallery-arm64-v8a.apk (Recommended for modern 64-bit devices)
• 🌐 PhotonGallery-universal.apk (All ABIs included)
• 💾 PhotonGallery-armeabi-v7a.apk (32-bit ARM devices)
• 💻 PhotonGallery-x86_64.apk (x86_64 emulators & devices)

Full Changelog: v2.1.2...v2.1.3

Photon Gallery v2.1.2

Photon Gallery v2.1.2

What's Changed

Added

• Videos Tab Toggle: Added an optional switch in Settings > Dock & Navigation to show a dedicated Videos button in the navigation dock (closes #15).
• 360° Photo Sphere Detection: Added XMP GPano metadata header scanning to detect equirectangular 360° spherical captures.

Fixed

• Panorama & Sphere Separation: Separated Photo Spheres from standard Panoramas so both modes are queried and displayed without overlapping.

Changed & Refactored

• Capture Modes: Renamed the media types section in Albums to "Capture Modes".
• Animations Carousel: Moved Animations (GIFs) into the Capture Modes carousel.

📦 Assets

• 📱 PhotonGallery-arm64-v8a.apk (Recommended for modern 64-bit devices)
• 🌐 PhotonGallery-universal.apk (All ABIs included)
• 💾 PhotonGallery-armeabi-v7a.apk (32-bit ARM devices)
• 💻 PhotonGallery-x86_64.apk (x86_64 emulators & devices)

Photon Gallery v2.1.1

Photon Gallery v2.1.1

✨ Features & Enhancements

• 🎨 Material 3 Expressive Update Dialog: Redesigned in-app update popup card featuring official M3 shape-morphing hero badges (Cookie9Sided and Clover4Leaf), categorized pill tags, scroll fade masks, and bouncy .pressScale() physics.
• 🌊 Wavy Progress Indicator: Replaced flat linear progress with official LinearWavyProgressIndicator showing real-time download percentage and transfer stats.

🛠️ Fixes & Improvements

• 🧭 Onboarding Navigation: Added an explicit Back button on Step 1 (Look & Feel) alongside Next, and wired Android system edge-swipe back gestures and hardware back buttons via BackHandler.
• 📅 Date Header Alignment: Default timeline section headers and the floating scroll badge now default to Left alignment with automatic migration from legacy center alignment.
• ⚡ Update Flow Stability: Hardened in-app download and installation triggers for smoother package delivery.

📦 Assets

• 📱 PhotonGallery-arm64-v8a.apk (Recommended for modern 64-bit devices)
• 🌐 PhotonGallery-universal.apk (All ABIs included)
• 💾 PhotonGallery-armeabi-v7a.apk (32-bit ARM devices)
• 💻 PhotonGallery-x86_64.apk (x86_64 emulators & devices)

Photon Gallery v2.1.0

Photon Gallery v2.1.0

Note

This release incorporates all features and milestone changes from v2.0.0 along with critical stability fixes, dynamic theming upgrades, and performance enhancements.

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🚀 What's New in v2.1.0

🖼️ Seamless Style Mosaic Layout (#14)

• Gapless Grid: Completely overhauled the Style Mosaic layout, eliminating empty voids and loose padding for an edge-to-edge aesthetic.
• Dynamic Tile Clustering: Automatically composes photos into eye-catching hero blocks and 2×2 quad clusters based on chronological flow and orientation.

🔄 System-Wide Unified Favorites (#11)

• Bidirectional MediaStore Sync: Direct two-way synchronization with Android's system-wide MediaStore favorites pool.
• Cross-App Compatibility: Photos favorited in Google Photos, OEM gallery apps, or third-party managers automatically sync in Photon Gallery and vice versa.
• Vibrant Indicator: Crimson heart badge overlaid on thumbnail tiles and integrated into the full-screen photo viewer.

🎨 Material You & Theming Enhancements

• Dynamic Wallpaper Color Default: Defaults directly to dynamic Material You wallpaper colors on Android 12+ devices right from launch.
• Left-Aligned Timeline Headers: Timeline date headers and floating scroll indicator are now aligned to the left by default.
• 3-Step Expressive Onboarding: Guided setup wizard featuring:
  • Step 0: Welcome, Privacy Guarantee & Granular Media Permissions
  • Step 1: Look & Feel Customization with interactive live theme viewport & Back/Next navigation dock
  • Step 2: Semantic AI Smart Search Setup with live speed & model metrics

📌 Up to 15 Pinned Albums & Redesigned Pushpins (#12)

• Increased maximum pinned albums from 6 to 15.
• Replaced pins with clean, filled Material Symbols Rounded pushpin icons.

🔤 Granular Font Size Slider (#13)

• Fine-tune typography in Settings > Display Preferences with a 70%–150% slider, 5% snap intervals, and precise nudge controls.

📁 Empty Albums & Direct Folder Scanner

• New "Show Empty Albums" toggle in Settings > Albums & Library to keep newly created or empty folders visible.
• Instant filesystem scanner to discover empty folders across internal and external storage.

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✨ Milestone Features (from v2.0.0)

🎨 Material 3 Expressive UI

• Full adoption of official Material 3 Expressive design tokens: 5-tier surface elevation, expressive motion transitions, and redesigned floating navigation dock.

🔍 Deep Zoom (up to 25X)

• Sub-sampled multi-resolution tile decoding in full-screen viewer supporting up to 25X deep zoom with an auto-hiding zoom indicator badge.

🎞️ Motion Photos

• Real-time detection and playback of motion photo micro-videos with embedded video track extraction.

🕰️ Flashback Memories

• Full-screen memory reel viewer with algorithmic fallback highlights when anniversary photos are unavailable, plus collapsible feed banner.

📁 Redesigned Albums Experience

• 9-item album preview with dedicated "Show All" library screen, flexible list/grid views, and natural sorting.

⚙️ 16 KB Page Size Support (Android 15+)

• Upgraded ONNX Runtime to 1.22.0 with full compatibility for Android 15+ 16 KB memory page size environments.

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🛠️ Fixes & Under-The-Hood Improvements

• 🤏 Viewer Gestures: Fixed pinch-to-zoom lift-off scroll jump and edge padding settling.
• 🗑️ Fullscreen Delete Flow: Delete confirmation and trash actions operate directly within full-screen viewer overlays.
• 🏷️ Launcher Stability: Removed dynamic activity-alias switching; MainActivity is directly bound to the launcher for maximum OS reliability.
• 📅 Header Optimization: Prevented duplicate date header keys and suppressed unnecessary separators during search.
• 🗄️ Database Migration: Room database migration to v25 to resolve schema integrity mismatches.
• 🛡️ ProGuard / R8: Hardened keep rules for ONNX Runtime, HuggingFace Tokenizers, JNA, ML Kit, and osmdroid.

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📦 Download Assets

• 📱 PhotonGallery-arm64-v8a.apk (Recommended for most modern devices)
• 🌐 PhotonGallery-universal.apk (All ABIs included)
• 💾 PhotonGallery-armeabi-v7a.apk (32-bit ARM)
• 💻 PhotonGallery-x86_64.apk (x86_64 devices & emulators)

Photon Gallery v1.0.1 (beta)

🎨 Material 3 Expressive UI & Typography

• Google Sans Flex Variable Typography: Upgraded the app's entire type scale to the 6-axis Google Sans Flex variable font with clean, bold, upright letterforms.
• Home Screen Filter Chips: Added and organized home screen quick filter chips (Camera & All) with snappy spring animations and tactile haptic feedback.
• Redesigned Scrollbar: Clean, high-visibility fast scroller thumb with dynamic date badge tooltip indicator.
• Improved Grid Scroll & Fling Smoothness: Optimized layout passes and thumbnail loading for fluid high-refresh-rate 120Hz scrolling.

📤 Direct Media Sharing Fix

• Native Media Sharesheet: Fixed an issue where photos and videos shared via system sharesheet were sent as generic documents in WhatsApp, Telegram, Gmail, and Instagram. Media is now recognized and previewed directly as photos and videos.

📁 Persistent Section States

• Persistent Section States: Expand/collapse state for all album sections (Pinned, People, Places, Media Types, More) now persists across app restarts and device reboots.

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📦 Which APK should I download?

• Most modern phones (Android 12+): Download PhotonGallery-arm64-v8a.apk
• Older 32-bit phones: Download PhotonGallery-armeabi-v7a.apk
• PC / Emulators / Chromebooks: Download PhotonGallery-x86_64.apk
• Not sure?: Download PhotonGallery-universal.apk

Photon Gallery v1.0.0 (beta)

Initial beta release of Photon Gallery, an offline Android gallery application built with Material 3 Expressive.

Features

• Fluid media grid with customizable column layouts and smooth animations
• Material 3 Expressive UI with dynamic theming and AMOLED dark mode
• Full-screen media viewer with EXIF metadata inspector
• Video player with gesture controls and playback speed adjustment
• On-device natural language smart search and OCR text recognition
• Photo map for geotagged media exploration
• Built-in photo editor and collage creator
• Duplicate photo cleaner and recycle bin
• Biometric-locked private space vault

Downloads

APK	Size	Architecture
PhotonGallery-arm64-v8a.apk	37.0 MB	64-bit ARM (recommended for most phones)
PhotonGallery-armeabi-v7a.apk	27.68 MB	32-bit ARM
PhotonGallery-x86_64.apk	39.37 MB	x86_64 (emulators / Chromebooks)
PhotonGallery-universal.apk	83.78 MB	Universal

Not sure which one to download?

• Most users (Recommended): Download PhotonGallery-arm64-v8a.apk (Smaller download, optimized for all modern Android phones).
• If you're unsure: Download PhotonGallery-universal.apk (Works on all Android devices).
• Older phones (32-bit): Download PhotonGallery-armeabi-v7a.apk.
• PC Emulators / Chromebooks: Download PhotonGallery-x86_64.apk.

Requirements

• Android 12 (API 31) or higher