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Aves

Aves is a gallery and metadata explorer app. It is built for Android, with Flutter.

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Features

Aves can handle all sorts of images and videos, including your typical JPEGs and MP4s, but also more exotic things like

multi-page TIFFs, SVGs, old AVIs and more

!

It scans your media collection to identify

motion photos

,

panoramas

(aka photo spheres),

360° videos

, as well as

GeoTIFF

files.

Navigation and search

is an important part of Aves. The goal is for users to easily flow from albums to photos to tags to maps, etc.

Aves integrates with Android (including Android TV) with features such as

widgets

,

app shortcuts

,

screen saver

and

global search

handling. It also works as a

media viewer and picker

.

Screenshots

Changelog

The list of changes for past and future releases is available

here

.

Permissions

Aves requires a few permissions to do its job:

read contents of shared storage

: the app only accesses media files, and modifying them requires explicit access grants from the user,

read locations from media collection

: necessary to display the media coordinates, and to group them by country (via reverse geocoding),

have network access

: necessary for the map view, and most likely for precise reverse geocoding too,

view network connections

: checking for connection states allows Aves to gracefully degrade features that depend on internet.

Contributing

Issues

Bug reports

and

feature requests

are welcome, but read the

guidelines

first. If you have questions, check out the

discussions

.

Code

At this stage this project does

not

accept PRs.

Translations

Translations are powered by

Weblate

and the effort of wonderfully generous volunteers.

If you want to translate this app in your language and share the result,

there is a guide

.

Donations

Some users have expressed the wish to financially support the project. Thanks! ❤️

Project Setup

Before running or building the app, update the dependencies for the desired flavor:

# scripts/apply_flavor_play.sh

To build the project, create a file named

/android/key.properties

. It should contain a reference to a keystore for app signing, and other necessary credentials. See

key_template.properties

for the expected keys.

To run the app:

# ./flutterw run -t lib/main_play.dart --flavor play