## Aves
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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 (from KitKat to Android 14, 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
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## Changelog
The list of changes for past and future releases is available [here](https://github.com/deckerst/aves/blob/develop/CHANGELOG.md).
## 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](https://github.com/deckerst/aves/issues/new?assignees=&labels=type%3Abug&template=bug_report.md&title=) and [feature requests](https://github.com/deckerst/aves/issues/new?assignees=&labels=type%3Afeature&template=feature_request.md&title=) are welcome, but read the [guidelines](https://github.com/deckerst/aves/issues/234) first. If you have questions, check out the [discussions](https://github.com/deckerst/aves/discussions).
### Code
At this stage this project does *not* accept PRs.
### Translations
Translations are powered by [Weblate](https://hosted.weblate.org/engage/aves/) 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](https://github.com/deckerst/aves/wiki/Contributing-to-Translations).
### Donations
Some users have expressed the wish to financially support the project. Thanks! ❤️
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## 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](https://github.com/deckerst/aves/blob/develop/android/key_template.properties) for the expected keys.
To run the app:
```
# ./flutterw run -t lib/main_play.dart --flavor play
```
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