Database Info

[APP][2.1+] SocialBlast 1.0 - Quickly and easily update your social networks

{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
​
Market Link (FREE): https://market.android.com/details?id=com.locomolabs.socialblast
SocialBlast provides you with an easy and enjoyable way to update your status on multiple social networks with one blast! We currently support Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Foursquare. As soon as Google+ has an API, we'll be adding it as well.
When you first open the app you'll create your SocialBlast account, which will give you the ability to sync your social accounts across devices with ease. Then you can add as many social accounts as you'd like, even multiple accounts from each network. When you add your social accounts to SocialBlast, those tokens are encrypted and stored securely on the SocialBlast server for easy access on any of your devices with SocialBlast support (iPhone and iPad clients coming soon).
The home screen presents three icons on the left. The first lets you choose which accounts the current blast will update. The second lets you take or choose a photo to include. The third gives you the ability to checkin with Facebook and/or Foursquare, and even checkin with your friends for Facebook accounts.
Once you've queued up these social update actions, you hit update and everything is sent to your social network accounts and they're updated effortlessly.
SocialBlast is a free, ad-supported, application for basic usage. We offer an in-app purchase for SocialBlast Pro which unlocks all of the features and removes the advertisements.
​
If you have any questions or need support, please email us at [email protected]. Stay up to date with all of the apps from Locomo Labs by visiting:
Web: http://locomolabs.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/locomolabs
Facebook: http://facebook.com/locomolabs

Here goes nothing...
Minor Quibble: having to sign up for yet another account

MokujinX5 said:
Here goes nothing...
Minor Quibble: having to sign up for yet another account
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanks for checking it out. I debated doing that, heavily, but one of the main features I wanted to add was the sync ability. So if you install SocialBlast on your phone and tablet, you can sync your social accounts across the devices using your SocialBlast account.

I just published version 1.0.1 of SocialBlast to the Android Market. The changes are as follows:
1.0.1 - Released 9/6/11
- Clearing data on the server should not remove your SocialBlast account.
- Remove ScrollView usage on main screen (message box stays, everything else moves).
- Accept incoming photo for sharing.
- (BUG) Better error handling around photos.
- (BUG) Layout issue was causing Facebook friends list to not show up.
- (BUG) On certain devices, the account activity could cause an exception.

SocialBlast sounds really good, i am gonna check it for right away.

Thanks for taking a look!
The next 3 people who post here and have a SocialBlast account, I'll enable the Pro features for them for free.

Just downloaded to check it out, should add apps2sd support because almost 7mb is huge for an app like this. I usually use tweetcaster to post to my fb and twitter accounts. will give this a try and see if I likes, thanks

twiztidvandal417 said:
Just downloaded to check it out, should add apps2sd support because almost 7mb is huge for an app like this. I usually use tweetcaster to post to my fb and twitter accounts. will give this a try and see if I likes, thanks
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I'm planning on adding a widget, which is why I haven't enabled app2sd. It's a large package because it contains the background layouts for phones/tablets in one apk package. Thanks for giving it a download!

You could always add apps2sd and a widget, that way theres a choice. if you want to use the widget dont move the apk to the sd card. If you dont wanna use the widget you have the option to move it the sd. I wasnt sure aboiut the colors of the UI but after seeing it on my evo I think its really nicely done!

twiztidvandal417 said:
You could always add apps2sd and a widget, that way theres a choice. if you want to use the widget dont move the apk to the sd card. If you dont wanna use the widget you have the option to move it the sd. I wasnt sure aboiut the colors of the UI but after seeing it on my evo I think its really nicely done!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Very true, and I'll likely go that direction. I do worry that the general Android audience might be confused by that, if they've moved it to SD and try to use a widget, but perhaps it won't be an issue.
Thanks for the feedback!

True about the general android audiences, but also consider storage space on phones aren't plentiful on most phones, some users will see almost 7mb and say thats huge! uninstall cuz some are stupid like that lol. Just tested posting with it, extremely smooth! very nice

Oh also will you enable pro features for me? If not no bigs just wondering

twiztidvandal417 said:
Oh also will you enable pro features for me? If not no bigs just wondering
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yes definitely, you're 1 of 3. I've enabled them so if you log out of the app and log back in, you'll be set.

Thank you so very much I think this app found a permanent home on my phone! cant wait to see more improvements ^.^

Can I also get pro?
Sent from my unicorn

gangsterholla179 said:
Can I also get pro?
Sent from my unicorn
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yep, you're 2 of 3! PM me your SocialBlast email and I'll take care of it.

Unable to add a twitter account.
Sent from my unicorn

gangsterholla179 said:
Unable to add a twitter account.
Sent from my unicorn
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Which phone are you using? If it lets you report the FC, please do so and say you're from XDA.

I am using an evo running the 1.8 miui n tiamot kernel if that helps.
Sent from my unicorn

No problems logging into FB or Twitter. This app only allows you to post but not browse right? Also, I would like to check out the pro version please.

[BETA] Easy Cloud Notes

Hey everyone!
Need your help again with my next BETA Android app
It is again focused on the cloud. This time, it is a note taking app that you can sync to various cloud services (even in parallel).
It supports the common note types:
Text notes
Checklists
Photo notes
Audio notes
Drawings (coming soon)
Currently supported cloud services:
Dropbox
Google Drive
Box.net
SugarSync
SkyDrive
It doesn't use any custom views and should be pure Holo
Grab it at the Play Store:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.goddchen.android.cloudnotes
Or via this QR Code:
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Or on Google Drive:
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B3m7udRtUYhCX2ZkUkxtRktpOEU&usp=sharing
Really looking forward to your feedback of any kind!
Goddchen

v1.0-beta3-hotfix2:
Fixes a crash on devices with Android version < 16

1.0-beta4:
Fixed multiple Force Close issues
Show feedback when clicking the save button
Theme chooser (dark/light theme)

Sweet!
I've been looking for exactly this!
Tho, it doesn't download .txt-files that i move into the Dropbox-folder..?

Mathias1 said:
Sweet!
I've been looking for exactly this!
Tho, it doesn't download .txt-files that i move into the Dropbox-folder..?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Strange, should be working (with txt files for text notes and also images in the Photos folder).
Could you kindly disable and re-enable Dropbox sync and capture a logcat while you do that?
Goddchen

Goddchen said:
Strange, should be working (with txt files for text notes and also images in the Photos folder).
Could you kindly disable and re-enable Dropbox sync and capture a logcat while you do that?
Goddchen
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Now they showed up! But it creates ".txt.sha1"-files..?
But the "No notes" text shows "behind" the entries...
And maybe if the user could be able to only show titles in the list, that'd be great =)

Mathias1 said:
Now they showed up! But it creates ".txt.sha1"-files..?
But the "No notes" text shows "behind" the entries...
And maybe if the user could be able to only show titles in the list, that'd be great =)
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
The "No notes" issue is fixed, thanks for pointing it out! Google caches should be updating in some hours to deliver the update
Good idea on the title-only setting.

Interesting project this is super early in the process, but already looking good what is the goal of the app, with so many alternatives? Not that there is no room for another alternative, just asking how this one will differentiate itself.
Kind Regards
TwinAdk
- Via the premium XDA app

TwinAdk said:
Interesting project this is super early in the process, but already looking good what is the goal of the app, with so many alternatives? Not that there is no room for another alternative, just asking how this one will differentiate itself.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I just didn't find any note app that supported syncing to multiple cloud services in parallel. That's the main reason why I created this app.

Hi, this is a nice project. Any means to try audio notes for free ? I dont want to repeat the awful audio quality of evernote for instance.

Goddchen said:
I just didn't find any note app that supported syncing to multiple cloud services in parallel. That's the main reason why I created this app.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Hmm.. Well, good point actually.. I have been using colornote before, and currently I am using keep from Google - exactly because of the cloud capabilities.. One thing I miss in Google keep is the option to password protect the start of the app..
Kind Regards
TwinAdk
- Via the premium XDA app

adrianhoria said:
Hi, this is a nice project. Any means to try audio notes for free ? I dont want to repeat the awful audio quality of evernote for instance.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanks
Providing some amount of free audio and photo notes for users to test it is a good idea. I will think about it.
For now, I can only tell you some insights:
The app is using the 3GP output format and uses Android's built-in AAC encoder. My tests had pretty good audio quality...

TwinAdk said:
Hmm.. Well, good point actually.. I have been using colornote before, and currently I am using keep from Google - exactly because of the cloud capabilities.. One thing I miss in Google keep is the option to password protect the start of the app..
Kind Regards
TwinAdk
- Via the premium XDA app
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
good point on the password protection, created an ticket for this
You might want to follow it to be notified about the progress
https://bitbucket.org/Goddchen/cloudnotes/issue/9/add-setting-for-password-protection-of-app

Nice app mate!
posted by the Q Master, woepidooo

1.0-beta4-hotfix1:
Fix display of empty list string

Hello.
Part of the app is in german, while the rest is English I can by the way help translate the app into Danish if you like?
Edit : and thanks for the password protection Would encrypting the notes before sync to cloud, and decryption when returning to the phone be considered in the future? Eg, while in the cloud, the data is encrypted?
Kind Regards
TwinAdk
- Via the premium XDA app

Nice
Nice project, but poor design!

It's beta
Kind Regards
TwinAdk
- Via the premium XDA app

TwinAdk said:
Hello.
Part of the app is in german, while the rest is English I can by the way help translate the app into Danish if you like?
Edit : and thanks for the password protection Would encrypting the notes before sync to cloud, and decryption when returning to the phone be considered in the future? Eg, while in the cloud, the data is encrypted?
Kind Regards
TwinAdk
- Via the premium XDA app
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Hey, any help in translating would be awesome! Check out the project at GetLocalization: http://www.getlocalization.com/EasyCloudNotes/ I'll update the strings with the most recent version later today, but you can already start with the current strings
Encrypting files in the could would eliminate the option to edit them in the could... So it's not on the roadmap for now...

JoyNowSoft said:
Nice project, but poor design!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yes, it's beta And it's pure Holo, you don't like Holo?

[App][2.1+] Pho.to Lab - photo effects, frames and montages

Pho.to Lab is a photo processing app which boasts one of the vastest collections of stylish and funny photo effects: more than 500 effects to date! Fantastic face photo montages, photo frames, animated effects and photo filters are here for you to enjoy.
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Pho.to Lab features include:
☆ Photo frames:
choose one of our beautiful frames if you need a final touch to your favorite picture.
☆ Realistic photo effects:
place your image in an unlikely setting. Airbrush it on an exclusive car or leave it as a sand imprint on the beach.
☆ Face photo montages:
Turn yourself or your friend into Jack Sparrow, an astronaut or a horrible monster. The most complicated montages are handled automatically by a face detection algorithm.
☆ Photo filters:
add some style to your images with various photo filters such as Black&White, Neon Glow, Oil Painting and many others.
☆ Photo collages:
create a wonderful picture of you and your friend floating together in a sentimental or futuristic setting.
How it works:
First, choose a photo effect. Then pick a photo you want to process. The photo will be uploaded to our servers and it will be processed there. Then the result will be downloaded back to your phone. All the effects are applied automatically, so you don't have to tweak them manually. This includes face montages. Our face detection algorithms will take care of your portraits.
Important:
Pho.to Lab needs Internet connection to process photos. That's why it's a good idea to use it when your smartphone or tablet is connected to Wi-Fi network.
Feedback:
If you want to complain about something or if you have a feature request, feel free to post in this thread. Alternatively, email [email protected]
Download Pho.to Lab FREE from Google Play
Download Pho.to Lab PRO from Google Play

As the official part is over, let me add my two cents. My name's Kate, and I'm a part of the dev team which has created Pho.to Lab. I'm eager to hear what you think of it and to help if you have any problems with the app. Negative feedback is welcome! Though personally I'd prefer flattering comments. Please, PM me if you don't feel like reaching out via email or posting here.

Uploading photos might not best option.
1. Privacy
2. Image size upload download limitations.
Above is my personal opinion. Idea is good.
Pressing THANKS easier than typing.
Sent from s5360 GB DDMD1 rooted stock.

vikraminside said:
1. Privacy
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Pho.to Lab doesn't generate short links to pictures unless you tell it to.
vikraminside said:
2. Image size upload download limitations.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
That's why we advise to use Wi-Fi. Besides, downloading an image seems way more efficient than storing 500+ hi-res photo frames in a phone memory. If Pho.to Lab worked offline, we should have sent a 16 GB flash drive to each user

upload to your server is not the good idea... IMHO...
Sent from my HTC Butterfly using xda premium

c3n_dhol said:
upload to your server is not the good idea... IMHO...
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yes, but neither is jamming all the effects into phone memory. Besides, we have tons of pictures processed on our site everyday and no one has complained of privacy problems so far. (It's not a challenge, please don't try to hack it somehow)

You can make use of technology like webservices etc for processing instructions.
Just like google doing voice to text conversions. If we can imagine their data center size
Edit: It is brand power that people rely so much. I wish you all the best.
If you wish to provide cloud based services for storage it will sound positive but not just for image processing. Thanks.
Pressing THANKS easier than typing.
Sent from s5360 GB DDMD1 rooted stock.

Thank you for the kind words!
vikraminside said:
If you wish to provide cloud based services for storage it will sound positive but not just for image processing.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Actually, we do provide storage services. But we're centered on photo processing and everything related to it, so we only host images. I guess I'll create a thread for our photo sharing app a little later.

We have opened a beta test thread about the new version of Pho.to Lab on XDA. If you want to try it out, head over here.

We have rolled out the redesigned version of Pho.to Lab PRO!
The interface looks fantastic now:
Get Pho.to Lab PRO on Google Play!

katerinette said:
We have rolled out the redesigned version of Pho.to Lab PRO!
The interface looks fantastic now:
Get Pho.to Lab PRO on Google Play!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I had bought pro version long time ago, i regret about lacks the new effects since several months however present in the site. I hope it will be better in the new version.
Sent from my HTC One S using XDA Premium 4 mobile app

Cyclu said:
I hope it will be better in the new version.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
The new version has all the recent effects Have you already updated to 2.0?

katerinette said:
The new version has all the recent effects Have you already updated to 2.0?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
When i bought this application, i had read in op on the play store: new effects every two weeks
there have also a notification option in the settings, now it's necessary to have new effects
to wait long time for update of the application.
About new UI if is possible improve to the standard holo interface, because the look in the
certain element of the ui have similar look as iphone. Thank you in advance!

Cyclu said:
When i bought this application, i had read in op on the play store: new effects every two weeks
there have also a notification option in the settings, now it's necessary to have new effects
to wait long time for update of the application.
About new UI if is possible improve to the standard holo interface, because the look in the
certain element of the ui have similar look as iphone. Thank you in advance!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I'm sorry that you were disappointed with Pho.to lab. We'll try to roll out updates faster, so that you can enjoy new effects sooner.
As for the new UI, could you please tell me exactly what you don't like?

[APP] Latest News [28.10.2017]

Hi all,
I've made a super simple app for reading news using news-api. It shows sources (groupped by categories). So in short, app can:
Add xml feeds sources to the app
Show each source latest news
Show a preview of news (with basic Share and Open in browser options)
Tries to fetch the full content of the news including images
Show latest news of Favorite sourcess
Shows you a bookmarked list or articles
Download on Google Play Store: Latest News
Screenshots:
View attachment 4211676View attachment 4211677View attachment 4211678View attachment 4211679View attachment 4261818View attachment 4261819View attachment 4261820View attachment 4261821
TODO:
optimization everything for the tablet devices
select preferred language
Thank you for being an alpha tester. Please keep in mind that...
I'm opened for requests/ideas
I'll even fix any bugs you find!
Will change the name of the app to something better, since "latest news" will return at least 3029482093480 items when using search on google play store.
-
Gregor :good:

Rollout of new release has started:
Version 0.0.1 build 6
- Improved speed of scrolling in Favorites list and News of Source
- Implemented the grabber system which fetches the whole article and parse possible text of article including images (this is alpha of alpha app!)

Nice app, can you please add CBC News (Canadian Broadcasting Company)?

paed808 said:
Nice app, can you please add CBC News (Canadian Broadcasting Company)?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thank you for your feedback. One of the next major improvements to app will be possibility of adding custom news pages. I will try me best to add it as soon as possible :good:

@paed808 & others
next release brings adding custom news sources:
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}

Another huge update being rolled out today: Custom feeds!
There's been lots of refactoring, small fixes and improvements, but the biggest thing is finally implemented. Adding custom feeds. Just add the url of the news page or direct feed url (example http://www.cbc.ca/news), select a category and hope for the best!
Feel free to report any bugs you find.

After some release-break, here's yet another one. This has been an amazing month with a-lot of effort going towards development. Started as a simple newsapi client, I've got a few requests for which, I was sure it will take a while to implement them all. Since today, Latest News includes:
- a superb wizard just to remind you its beginner friendly,
- revamped source adding, which doesn't relly on newsapi anymore but uses own methods to fetch xml feeds and parse the data,
- super awesome grabber(tm), which downloads and parses the whole article from the websites, removes everything except the text story and images.
- an awesome back-end synchronization, which makes sure, your sources are always safe,
- and increadible new and redesigned menu (yea, this deserves a place on the list too!) and extra animations
It has been an awesome month.
Now, its up to people to start using it

Another update has been pushed to beta channel:
- added feeds Gruenderszene, NBA, JS weekly, Android Police, XDA-developers, Mac Rumors
- update sync so it will now handle a conflict between different remote/local entries; you will now have options to overwrite local, db or merge both,
- added read flag to article after it has been read.
- fixed the issue with images not being overwritten after refreshing the articles
- fixed the width of items which text isn't long,
- synchronizing favorites should now also work better
Enjoy!

Hi everyone! I'm happy to announce the first PRODUCTION release being rolled out.
Enjoy and don't forget to submit any bugs you find or feeds suggestions you would like to see in the app.

greglord said:
Hi everyone! I'm happy to announce the first PRODUCTION release being rolled out.
Enjoy and don't forget to submit any bugs you find or feeds suggestions you would like to see in the app.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Wow the app is really cool. I will give it a try for a few days and see what It can do.
Just a question: can you add a way to login using Google account? There's a lot of passwords to remember and using Google is much better, with synchronization is superb.
PS: If you need someone to help you translating to portuguese let me know.

Finally an app that allows me read short rss feeds in full. Loves it. Please any plans for an import feature so I can import my feedly subscriptions? Thanks

plans to add to XDA labs or f droid?

PaideLis said:
Wow the app is really cool. I will give it a try for a few days and see what It can do.
Just a question: can you add a way to login using Google account? There's a lot of passwords to remember and using Google is much better, with synchronization is superb.
PS: If you need someone to help you translating to portuguese let me know.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Hi there @PaideLis and thank you for an positive feedback! I will try my best using logging in with Google. Give me few days :good: About the translations... sounds like a plan I will keep in touch.
udegbunamchuks said:
Finally an app that allows me read short rss feeds in full. Loves it. Please any plans for an import feature so I can import my feedly subscriptions? Thanks
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Hi @udegbunamchuks - Just checked the OPML generated and yes, this is doable. You woulld like to see an option to import the exact OPML file, right? Sadly, it will take longer than one afternoon. Hope to keep you in the app until then :good:

b.roid said:
plans to add to XDA labs or f droid?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
With that, do you just mean if I plan to list the app on both services or completely open-source the code?

listing mostly but OS would be nice also.
feel like it would get more love at xda and f Droid.
btw been testing it and working great. been looking for a good rss reader for a long time.

b.roid said:
listing mostly but OS would be nice also.
feel like it would get more love at xda and f Droid.
btw been testing it and working great. been looking for a good rss reader for a long time.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
thank you so much for your feedback. I will bring it on f-droid and xda labs in the future

None of my sources in this app shows any pictures. I even added MTV News since you used that in your screenshots and yours shows pictures for each article. It doesn't show any pictures on mine.

sourbear said:
None of my sources in this app shows any pictures. I even added MTV News since you used that in your screenshots and yours shows pictures for each article. It doesn't show any pictures on mine.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
good evening @sourbear and thank you for your report. Just for test, please try adding "neowin". There are A LOT of sources, that just don't add image as leading article image (default rss image for specific article). However, it just happened none of your picked up source articles currently dont include any images.
MTV, at that time, had images, I've tested it again and what you found is correct. (Shame on them! ). Give them all a day or two.... you will start seeing them eventually. :good:

math in blogs
This is a great news for me, as I have been using feedMe for some time, but it cannot display mathjax properly.
So, two questions, do you plan to add mathjax/mathml support, and offline support as well?? Right now I tried https://terrytao.wordpress.com/feed/ and the math is not shown properly. Some formulas appear too big, some don't appear at all. Thank you for your work @greglord

gilcu3 said:
This is a great news for me, as I have been using feedMe for some time, but it cannot display mathjax properly.
So, two questions, do you plan to add mathjax/mathml support, and offline support as well?? Right now I tried https://terrytao.wordpress.com/feed/ and the math is not shown properly. Some formulas appear too big, some don't appear at all. Thank you for your work @greglord
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Hi there
I will take a look immediatelly what's going on with those formulas!
Update @gilcu3
Just checked the source of the article and... oh my So far, I've made the formulas visible, however, since there is so much mixing between paragraphs and images (formulas), the "grabber" does not add texts to the full story. I humby ask for re-test after new update. If the content isn't something that suits you, I will invest more time and refactor the grabber to be more smart.

[APP][4.2+] PhotoGuard - Photo Vault Hide Photos & Videos ?

Hello guys !
A few days ago, I released the app I've been working on for the about 2 years - PhotoGuard.
PhotoGuard is basically a photo vault and it will protect your photos & videos.
The main architecture was shared with some of the best security consultants, applying it.
Knowing my competitors, best efforts were taken on:
1. Security - Making sure that the encrypted files will be stored on the user's devices (without any servers involved), and indeed unbreakable without knowing someone's passphrase. (If anyone would like to know extra information about the way it was implemented in the app, send me a message please)
2. UI/UX - Making sure that the security layer is as much as transparent to the endpoint user, so that the UI/UX is beautiful and smooth.
Currently the app doesn't have any ads or premium payments (even though the app page states there are), so it's totally free app.
I'll be very glad if you guys are willing to visit the app page and try using this really amazing app.
PhotoGuard Play Store Link
Some screenshots:
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Please do not hesitate to write any comment
Thank you!

BUMP!

Bump

Bump !

Thanks for sharing the app. Does it allow you to have multiple vaults with different PINs? Can we sync to Google Drive? TIA!

J_M_V_S said:
Thanks for sharing the app. Does it allow you to have multiple vaults with different PINs? Can we sync to Google Drive? TIA!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thank you!
The app has albums and you can apply a password to each of the albums, so basically an album can be treated as a standalone vault.
There will be a sync to Google Drive and other cloud services in the coming updates!

Great, thanks!
I would *love* it if this was open source. It seems all vaults - entrusted with out most private pictures and documents - require us to blindly trust the publishers not to do anything bad or copy them. Would this be something you would be able to alay by going open source?
Edit: a dark theme would be amazing!
Furthermore, many XDA users are privacy-savvy and going open source would likely get you on f-droid and privacytools.io and their reddit sub, you'd reach so many users this way. Please think abount going open sauce

WelCoMe2DeT said:
Thank you!
The app has albums and you can apply a password to each of the albums, so basically an album can be treated as a standalone vault.
There will be a sync to Google Drive and other cloud services in the coming updates!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanks for your reply. Is there any way to hide the albums? I usually have 2 or 3 "vaults" independent from each other. For what I understand you can set password for every album, but all of them will be visible on the "front page", correct?
Bingley said:
Great, thanks!
I would *love* it if this was open source. It seems all vaults - entrusted with out most private pictures and documents - require us to blindly trust the publishers not to do anything bad or copy them. Would this be something you would be able to alay by going open source?
Edit: a dark theme would be amazing!
Furthermore, many XDA users are privacy-savvy and going open source would likely get you on f-droid and privacytools.io and their reddit sub, you'd reach so many users this way. Please think abount going open sauce
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
+1
And so the journey begins!

Bingley said:
Great, thanks!
I would *love* it if this was open source. It seems all vaults - entrusted with out most private pictures and documents - require us to blindly trust the publishers not to do anything bad or copy them. Would this be something you would be able to alay by going open source?
Edit: a dark theme would be amazing!
Furthermore, many XDA users are privacy-savvy and going open source would likely get you on f-droid and privacytools.io and their reddit sub, you'd reach so many users this way. Please think abount going open sauce
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thank you for your reply!
I will be thinking about going open source, I've sent you a private message regarding that!
J_M_V_S said:
Thanks for your reply. Is there any way to hide the albums? I usually have 2 or 3 "vaults" independent from each other. For what I understand you can set password for every album, but all of them will be visible on the "front page", correct?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
The albums are shown but without a "front page", if you set a password to the album, the "front page" which is basically the last photo in the album is not visible and users will see a "locked album" icon.

Bump!

Bump

WelCoMe2DeT said:
Bump
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Just started using this after switching from GalleryVault. It's fast, but could do with a few things: unhide to original location, fast select/select all when adding/unhiding, backup/restore

Bingley said:
Just started using this after switching from GalleryVault. It's fast, but could do with a few things: unhide to original location, fast select/select all when adding/unhiding, backup/restore
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I'm very glad you're using PhotoGuard, thank you for the suggestions!
1. Unhiding to original location: I think it would be a bit problematic. What happens if the user doesn't remember from which album/folder he originally took it from, furthermore, what location do pictures/videos that are taken in the app itself should be exported to?
2. select all - a feature that will be available within the app when selecting items to export/share/delete.
3. backup/restore - The app saves its encrypted data in the external storage. which means that the data is backed up automatically. So when you install the app back, it recgonizes your existing vault with the data in it.
The next significant feature that will be added to PhotoGuard is a private encrypted cloud that will be available to users using their Google Drive account.

Bingley said:
Just started using this after switching from GalleryVault. It's fast, but could do with a few things: unhide to original location, fast select/select all when adding/unhiding, backup/restore
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Ive been using GalleryVault for a very long time now, which one do you prefer more?
How is the encryption on this App, would anyone be able to like "hack" my Pictures on there? I'm just curious because I found nothing about that in GalleryVault and it seems interesting if this App can do that better

lpsld said:
Ive been using GalleryVault for a very long time now, which one do you prefer more?
How is the encryption on this App, would anyone be able to like "hack" my Pictures on there? I'm just curious because I found nothing about that in GalleryVault and it seems interesting if this App can do that better
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I still prefer GalleryVault, but I'm midful of it being close source and their sync option is pushed heavily. I do not want my stuff in the cloud.
I'm not sure on either's encryption, but oyu have to trust something.

This seems fricking great, im currently using eds to protect my videos and photos, have you tough about this app protect videos as well? Thanks man really nice app

How about a mirror for those of us who don't use Google services??

Nice!, I was looking for an on the fly camera with encryption, I was using SafeCamera for a long time.
- When rotate the phone during a video play, it starts the decryption again I think.
- Pictures and videos won't keep the normal view as taken in another camera, I mean the pic keeps "sideway", so If I rotate the phone the pic rotate again
- Any plan to create a tool for PC as SafeCamera has?
Thanks again, great job!

Would you add a private browser /incognito.?

-please *no* browser, keep it a gallery
-new look&feel...I can't see any difference
-app feels fast, but a dark theme would be nice
-please remember where photos are added from so when they're removed/unhidden from the app they can be restored to their original folder AND original file name - app shouldn't touch any file info
-backup/restore would be nice to transfer between devices encrypted.
-break in attempts could be something to look at ie capture front camera image from incorrect pin/fingerprint
-in albums, list & current gallery view would be nice
-viewing an image, text overlay of image number ie 34/300 perhaps
-I'm hugely against a cloud link, but do what you will
re 'What happens if the user doesn't remember from which album/folder he originally took it from, furthermore, what location do pictures/videos that are taken in the app itself should be exported to?'
That's the point, the user doesn't need to remember the original folder, just restore it to the one it came from or give the option to. App-captured images should to to the folder you currently export them to, PhotoGuardPublic.