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Pick or share several photos at once and post them in one batch, still against the existing single-image /upload endpoint — no server change. - Unify the post screen on a list model (PickedItem): a single-photo post or share is just a batch of one, so there is one code path. - Multi-select via PickMultipleVisualMedia and multi-share via ACTION_SEND_MULTIPLE (manifest filter added). - Per-photo caption and EXIF-prefilled date; each card shows its own upload status, with a summary and retry-only-failures on re-post. - Enqueue one WorkManager worker per photo, reusing the durable retry queue. UploadQueue now appends a per-item suffix to the slug so a burst enqueued in the same second cannot collide and be dropped by enqueueUniqueWork.
Gallery Upload — Android client
Native uploader for the photogallery POST /upload endpoint. Pick or share a
photo, add a caption and date, post. Credentials are entered once and sealed
with a key held in the Android Keystore.
The server is not modified by this app. Everything it needs, it does client side.
Build
cd android
nix develop # Android SDK 36, build-tools 36.0.0, JDK 17, gradle
gradle wrapper # first time only, generates ./gradlew
./gradlew assembleDebug
adb install -r app/build/outputs/apk/debug/app-debug.apk
The dev shell exports ANDROID_HOME, JAVA_HOME and a GRADLE_OPTS that
points AGP at the nix-provided aapt2. Without that last one AGP downloads a
generic-linux aapt2 from Maven which will not run on NixOS.
Release signing
app/build.gradle.kts wires up a release signing config only when
android/keystore.properties exists. Both that file and *.jks are
gitignored — keep the keystore outside the repo and back it up somewhere you
will still have in five years, because losing it means you can never upgrade an
installed build in place.
mkdir -p ~/keys
keytool -genkeypair -v \
-keystore ~/keys/photogallery-release.jks \
-alias photogallery \
-keyalg RSA -keysize 4096 -validity 10000
Then write android/keystore.properties:
storeFile=/home/you/keys/photogallery-release.jks
storePassword=…
keyAlias=photogallery
keyPassword=…
./gradlew assembleRelease
Without keystore.properties the release build still runs, it just comes out
unsigned.
How it maps onto the server
| Server behaviour | What the app does about it |
|---|---|
| Slug derived from the uploaded filename | Sends yyyy-MM-dd-HHmmss.jpg, generated once at enqueue |
| Same filename overwrites the same post | Reused across retries, which makes retries idempotent |
| Uploaded file published verbatim as "full size" | Strips EXIF, including GPS, before upload |
| Extension check rejects HEIC | Converts HEIC to JPEG; JPEG and PNG pass through losslessly |
nginx client_max_body_size 20M |
Steps quality, then resolution, if the result exceeds 18 MiB |
| Thumbnailer ignores EXIF orientation | Bakes rotation into the pixels rather than relying on the tag |
nginx only proxies /upload, so /health 404s |
Tests credentials with GET /upload instead |
Replies uploaded <slug>.jpg in plain text |
Parses that into <base>/photo/<slug>/ for the "Open" link |