A modern and native Android companion application designed specifically for browsing and viewing media hosted on a PiGallery2 server.
This client delivers a fluid and beautifully designed user interface, allowing you to easily browse your directories, query saved albums, view recognized faces, and rediscover your memories with ease.
- Folder and directory browsing: Securely connect to your PiGallery2 server and browse your photo and video collection within its original directory structure.
- Advanced Query Builder: Use the visual query builder to create complex searches and filter media by keywords, date ranges, file types and other advanced metadata parameters.
- Interactive Map View: Explore geotagged photos and videos on an interactive map.
- Easily view the locations where your memories were captured.
- Please note that to ensure a smooth, TV-friendly interface, interactive maps are automatically disabled when running on Android TV.
- Android TV Optimised: Full support for all Android TV features.
- Optimised layouts and robust D-pad navigation support.
- Performance-heavy map views are disabled on Android TV to keep the focus on smooth media presentation and navigation.
- Customisable layouts and grid control: Adjust the number of columns, image aspect ratios, grid item spacing and corner roundedness.
- Rich Media Viewer: Intuitive zoom-to-span and panning gestures for high-resolution images.
- Face recognition overlays highlight detected people in images.
- Share images instantly via messenger
- Comprehensive Metadata Explorer: A metadata panel displaying full EXIF details, including:
- camera model and lens type
- ISO, exposure, focal length and aperture
- Keywords and detected faces
- Albums: Seamless access to saved albums created within the PiGallery2 web interface with customisable item sorting.
- People & Face Recognition: Browse a structured grid of recognised people.
- Manage and mark favourite people.
- Please note that it does not perform face recognition independently.
- Rediscover: Revisit a randomly selected moments from your library.
This application leverages modern Android libraries:
- Jetpack Compose & Material 3 — Modern declarative UI toolkit with adaptive components and dynamic theming.
- Kotlin & Kotlin Coroutines — Type-safe, expressive programming language with robust asynchronous state management.
- Retrofit & OkHttp — Fast, type-safe REST client for efficient, cookie-persistent communications with the PiGallery2 API.
- Moshi — Modern JSON library for Kotlin and Java to parse complex API metadata.
- Coil Image Loader — Fast, memory-efficient image loading library designed specifically for Jetpack Compose.
- Inspired by: pigallery2_android_test by Lakjdf.
- Developed with AI: This application was developed and optimized with the assistance of advanced AI models.