Imava v1.1.38

🚀 What's New in Imava v1.1.38

• Genuine Startup Screen Navigation: Fixed startup screen initialization so Imava reliably opens to your selected tab (Timeline, Albums, or Last Active Screen) without race-condition resets.
• Leak-Proof EXIF Metadata Stripping: Extended the privacy cleaner across all EXIF timestamps, GPS coordinates, camera serial numbers, Adobe/Google XMP blocks, and MakerNotes.
• Shared Media Privacy: Private sharing now leverages the unified, exhaustive metadata sanitizer before handing files to third-party apps.

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Full Changelog: v1.1.37...v1.1.38

Imava v1.1.37

🚀 What's New in Imava v1.1.37

🛠️ Changes

• Remove viewer rotate button and purge simulated trash auto-purge worker

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Full Changelog: v1.1.36...v1.1.37

Imava v1.1.36

🚀 What's New in Imava v1.1.36

🛠️ Changes

• Unify rotation controls into a single 90 degree clockwise button

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Full Changelog: v1.1.35...v1.1.36

Imava v1.1.35

🚀 What's New in Imava v1.1.35

• 1-Tap Orientation Override: Toggle viewer between landscape and portrait instantly with auto-reset on exit.
• Lossless EXIF Rotation: Rotate JPEGs 90° clockwise or counter-clockwise in ~15ms without recompressing bitmap quality.
• Video Repeat & Frame Stepper: Toggle single-video repeat loops and step frame-by-frame (±33ms) when paused.
• Viewer Brightness Boost: Optional setting to automatically maximize screen brightness when opening media.
• Timeline Filter Chips: Quick-filter timeline by All, Photos, Videos, Screenshots, Favorites, GIFs, or RAW.
• Recycle Bin Auto-Purge Setting: Configure automatic trash retention (7, 14, 30, 60 days, or Never).
• Default Startup Screen: Choose whether Imava launches to Photos, Albums, or remembers your last active tab.
• Export Clean Copy: Strip all GPS coordinates, camera serials, and EXIF metadata to Pictures/Cleaned.
• Dominant Color Palette: View dominant photo swatches in Info sheet; tap to copy HEX codes with haptics.
• Emergency Shake-to-Lock: Instantly lock and close the Hidden Vault if your device is shaken.

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Full Changelog: v1.1.34...v1.1.35

Imava v1.1.34

🚀 What's New in Imava v1.1.34

• Delete Confirmations: Added explicit confirmation dialogs with item counts before moving selected items to Trash or deleting permanently from Trash.
• Trash Dated / Flat View Toggle: Fixed the date grouping toggle in Trash, accurately grouping deleted items by deletion date.
• Viewer Swipe Glitch Fix: Fixed photo viewer swiping stutter by guarding page transitions, resetting zoom on page settlement, and trimming memory bounds.
• Performance Boost & Bloat Removal: Switched from heavy ImageDecoder to native BitmapFactory, stabilized grid keys to prevent recompositions, and stopped idle tab retention in RAM.

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Full Changelog: v1.1.33...v1.1.34

Imava v1.1.33

🚀 What's New in Imava v1.1.33

🐛 Bug Fixes & Stability

• Fix delete button failure, resilient trashing fallback & eliminate filesystem query lag

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Full Changelog: v1.1.32...v1.1.33

Imava v1.1.32

🚀 What's New in Imava v1.1.32

🔍 WhatsApp Sent, Telegram & Hidden Media Deep Discovery

• Generic Files Content URI (content://media/external/file/{id}): Fixed a critical MediaStore URI mismatch where media in .nomedia directories (indexed with media_type = 0) was assigned invalid images/media/ or videos/media/ URIs that failed to load in Coil. MediaStore.Files URI resolves any media type seamlessly.
• Hybrid Discovery Engine: WhatsApp Sent, Private, Animated GIFs, WhatsApp Business, Telegram, and .nomedia media are now retrieved both via direct MediaStore database path queries (DATA LIKE) and direct filesystem scanning fallback with Uri.fromFile().
• Accurate Media Classification: Videos indexed with media_type = 0 are now accurately identified as MediaItem.Video using file extension inspection and MIME type resolution instead of erroneously falling back to image/jpeg.
• Automatic Album Grouping: Folders containing .nomedia files (e.g. Sent, Private, Telegram Images) are automatically registered as distinct albums in the Albums tab, dynamically deriving names and bucket IDs from directory structures.
• All Files Access Setting: Added a dedicated "Deep Media Scan & Storage" card in Settings with manual "Deep Scan Now" trigger and "Grant Access" shortcut on Android 11+ (MANAGE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE).
• Auto-Refreshed UI: Deep scan automatically notifies the gallery and refreshes all views upon background completion.

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Full Changelog: v1.1.31...v1.1.32

Imava v1.1.31

🚀 What's New in Imava v1.1.31

🐛 Bug Fixes & Stability

• Monotonic timeline scrubber, confirmed delete advance, compose crashes & hidden media deep scan

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Full Changelog: v1.1.30...v1.1.31

Imava v1.1.30

🚀 What's New in Imava v1.1.29

⚡ Butter-Smooth 120Hz Swiping & Video Player Controls

• Zero-Stutter Photo Swiping: Overhauled horizontal gesture physics in the photo viewer. Completely removed conflicting swipe-down gesture interceptors and fling-killing snapping for natural, fluid 120Hz pagination.
• Instant Transitions: Eliminated Coil crossfade flicker mid-swipe so adjacent photos render immediately from cache with zero visual stutter.
• Smooth Double-Tap Zoom: Replaced 1-frame scale jumps with a smooth 220ms animated zoom transition targeting tap coordinates.
• No Video Autoplay: Videos now open paused at frame 0 with clean thumbnails and zero unwanted audio playback.
• Unimpeded Video Swiping: Replaced generic drag listeners with vertical-only gesture detection (for brightness and volume). Swiping horizontally over videos now moves seamlessly to adjacent photos or videos.
• Dedicated Play Controls & Auto-Pause: Added a prominent 72dp centered play button, transport bar toggle, and automatic playback pause as soon as you swipe away.

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🔒 Absolute Privacy for Biometric-Locked Albums

• Photos Tab & Feed Isolation: Media from biometric-locked albums is now completely hidden from the main Photos timeline, Videos tab, and general gallery searches. Even if an album was opened in a session, its contents never leak into general feeds.
• System-Wide .nomedia Protection: Locking an album automatically creates a .nomedia file inside its physical folder and triggers a media rescan. This hides locked photos from the Android system MediaStore and all other apps on your phone. Unlocking safely removes .nomedia and restores access.

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📅 Lossless Move & Copy Date Preservation

• No More "Today" Timestamp Resets: When moving or copying photos/videos to other albums, their original capture dates are 100% preserved.
• Full EXIF & Filesystem Synchronization: Original EXIF datetime tags (TAG_DATETIME_ORIGINAL, TAG_DATETIME, TAG_DATETIME_DIGITIZED), physical filesystem last-modified timestamps, and MediaStore database rows are accurately updated.
• Metadata Migration: Favorites, custom tags, and custom locations migrate seamlessly to the new album.

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📍 Free-Form Custom Location Descriptions & Geotagging

• Arbitrary Place Names: You can now attach any descriptive place name (e.g. "delhi rohtak madina village raju printing press meham") directly to your photos without requiring GPS coordinates.
• Dual Search (Names & Coordinates): The Map Explorer and EXIF Location Editor now support searching both place names and raw coordinates (e.g. 28.6139, 77.2090 or 28.6139° N, 77.2090° E).
• Gallery Search Integration: Search your gallery using words from custom place descriptions.
• Open in Maps: Launch Google Maps / default maps app directly by coordinates or custom place name.

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🎞️ Motion Photo Frame Extraction & GIF / MP4 Export

• Micro-Video Frame Scrubber: Play and scrub embedded live/motion photos frame-by-frame.
• Best-Shot Extraction: Pick any moment from a motion photo and save it as a pristine full-resolution still.
• Looping GIF & MP4 Export: Convert 2–3s motion photos into smooth looping GIFs or standalone video clips with 0 KB external bloat.

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🔇 1-Second Lossless Video Muter (Audio Stripper)

• Instant Background Noise Removal: Strip audio tracks from videos in under 1 second.
• Zero Re-Encoding: Copies video streams losslessly via hardware-accelerated MediaMuxer and MediaExtractor, preserving 4K/60fps quality without battery drain.

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🔍 On-Device OCR with Selective Copying

• Streamlined Scanner: Clean single-tap document scanner action in the photo viewer.
• Selective Highlighting: Double-tap words or drag selection handles to copy only the exact text snippet you want.
• Smart Quick-Copy Chips: Tap detected lines or phrases (phone numbers, addresses, totals) to copy them instantly.
• Searchable Text: Search for text visible inside photos directly in the main gallery search bar.

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📸 Automated Documentation & Screenshot Sync

• Continuous Sync: Adding or updating pictures in screenshots/ automatically synchronizes to docs/screenshots/, the GitHub Pages website, and README.md via pre-commit hooks, Gradle tasks, and CI.

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Full Changelog: v1.1.29...v1.1.30

Imava v1.1.29

🚀 What's New in Imava v1.1.29

⚡ Butter-Smooth 120Hz Swiping & Video Player Controls

• Zero-Stutter Photo Swiping: Overhauled horizontal gesture physics in the photo viewer. Completely removed conflicting swipe-down gesture interceptors and fling-killing snapping for natural, fluid 120Hz pagination.
• Instant Transitions: Eliminated Coil crossfade flicker mid-swipe so adjacent photos render immediately from cache with zero visual stutter.
• Smooth Double-Tap Zoom: Replaced 1-frame scale jumps with a smooth 220ms animated zoom transition targeting tap coordinates.
• No Video Autoplay: Videos now open paused at frame 0 with clean thumbnails and zero unwanted audio playback.
• Unimpeded Video Swiping: Replaced generic drag listeners with vertical-only gesture detection (for brightness and volume). Swiping horizontally over videos now moves seamlessly to adjacent photos or videos.
• Dedicated Play Controls & Auto-Pause: Added a prominent 72dp centered play button, transport bar toggle, and automatic playback pause as soon as you swipe away.

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🔒 Absolute Privacy for Biometric-Locked Albums

• Photos Tab & Feed Isolation: Media from biometric-locked albums is now completely hidden from the main Photos timeline, Videos tab, and general gallery searches. Even if an album was opened in a session, its contents never leak into general feeds.
• System-Wide .nomedia Protection: Locking an album automatically creates a .nomedia file inside its physical folder and triggers a media rescan. This hides locked photos from the Android system MediaStore and all other apps on your phone. Unlocking safely removes .nomedia and restores access.

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📅 Lossless Move & Copy Date Preservation

• No More "Today" Timestamp Resets: When moving or copying photos/videos to other albums, their original capture dates are 100% preserved.
• Full EXIF & Filesystem Synchronization: Original EXIF datetime tags (TAG_DATETIME_ORIGINAL, TAG_DATETIME, TAG_DATETIME_DIGITIZED), physical filesystem last-modified timestamps, and MediaStore database rows are accurately updated.
• Metadata Migration: Favorites, custom tags, and custom locations migrate seamlessly to the new album.

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📍 Free-Form Custom Location Descriptions & Geotagging

• Arbitrary Place Names: You can now attach any descriptive place name (e.g. "delhi rohtak madina village raju printing press meham") directly to your photos without requiring GPS coordinates.
• Dual Search (Names & Coordinates): The Map Explorer and EXIF Location Editor now support searching both place names and raw coordinates (e.g. 28.6139, 77.2090 or 28.6139° N, 77.2090° E).
• Gallery Search Integration: Search your gallery using words from custom place descriptions.
• Open in Maps: Launch Google Maps / default maps app directly by coordinates or custom place name.

---

🎞️ Motion Photo Frame Extraction & GIF / MP4 Export

• Micro-Video Frame Scrubber: Play and scrub embedded live/motion photos frame-by-frame.
• Best-Shot Extraction: Pick any moment from a motion photo and save it as a pristine full-resolution still.
• Looping GIF & MP4 Export: Convert 2–3s motion photos into smooth looping GIFs or standalone video clips with 0 KB external bloat.

---

🔇 1-Second Lossless Video Muter (Audio Stripper)

• Instant Background Noise Removal: Strip audio tracks from videos in under 1 second.
• Zero Re-Encoding: Copies video streams losslessly via hardware-accelerated MediaMuxer and MediaExtractor, preserving 4K/60fps quality without battery drain.

---

🔍 On-Device OCR with Selective Copying

• Streamlined Scanner: Clean single-tap document scanner action in the photo viewer.
• Selective Highlighting: Double-tap words or drag selection handles to copy only the exact text snippet you want.
• Smart Quick-Copy Chips: Tap detected lines or phrases (phone numbers, addresses, totals) to copy them instantly.
• Searchable Text: Search for text visible inside photos directly in the main gallery search bar.

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📸 Automated Documentation & Screenshot Sync

• Continuous Sync: Adding or updating pictures in screenshots/ automatically synchronizes to docs/screenshots/, the GitHub Pages website, and README.md via pre-commit hooks, Gradle tasks, and CI.

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Full Changelog: v1.1.28...v1.1.29