2d ago

A more feature-rich gallery app than Fossify Gallery

Gallery | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

Saw it in another thread, thought it might be interesting to share for people who find the Fossify one a bit basic: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.dot.gallery/

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"view network connections Allows the app to view information about network connections such as which networks exist and are connected."
That's a hell no from me.
- I asked the creator. The F-Droid version does not actually use network access. It is used to access mapping API from Mapbox.
  
  Any chance you asked about why they need to know what wifi networks are around and which ones I am connected to?
  EDIT: Sorry, missed the link. You did ask that question, and they literally ignored it in their answer.
- As the other commenter said. Its required to display location preview.
  Android doesn't have a default internet permission. But, some OEMs allow that. For others you can use Netguard to limit connection for your apps.
  
  I don't even see that permission listed. That being said, it's a whole different permission than what I listed: "...information about network connections such as which networks exist and are connected." is different from requiring internet activity.
  Comparing this app to Fossify Gallery is straight silly, because people that chose Fossify Gallery, chose it because it didn't have all this unnecessary garbage.
- Does it do Geo lookup? It might just be pinging OpenStreetMaps
- Maybe it's because of the face recognition?
  
  If it has face recognition, than it's a definite fuck no.
  
  Why would it need network access for that? It’s pretty easy to do on device these days
I prefer Aves
- +1 for Aves (Libre ver.)
- it'd sad that aves doesn't support jxl since for me its rather critical now.
- I saw that on Accrescent, I'll give it a try.
I found it doesn't have great performance sadly. Can be significantly slower then fossify for rendering images.
- that's really interesting, i've had the opposite experience
more feature rich? According to the store description and screenshots, it has less features.
I use it as my primary gallery app. It works great.

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