I am looking for an app that allows me to combine up to 20 images into a grid. That’s it.

Hard requirements:

  • not bigger than 60MB (not bloated with useless stickers etc.)
  • works properly, multiple grids, maybe adaptive to content, rectangle, resizable images inside the grid.

Soft requirements:

  • no ads or creepy network stuff (GrapheneOS network toggle deals with that)
  • latest target SDK
  • support for share dialog OR android photo picker portal (instead of using their own filepicker and needing storage access)
  • FOSS

So far I tried these apps, all garbage:

All have their own silly galleries and have a nonfunctional share portal.

Explanation: Apps dont need access to your storage to load content into their internal sandbox storage.

They can use the native android photo picker portal:

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Or they can catch media sent to them via the share dialog, from your trusted Gallery or Filemanager app.

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Apps using a builtin Gallery suck, as they need access to all media (Android 14), specific folders (GrapheneOS) or even all storage (older Android) which is pretty invasive.

And yeah, Signal is still doing that.

  • BearOfaTime@lemm.eeEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Upvote for proper homonym usage.

    Also, not sure how you can make a collage without access to photos/media?

  • anon6789@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    You seem to have some particular privacy concerns that I’m not totally in the know about, but if it being an app isn’t a requirement, I’ve used photojoiner.com with great success and no obnoxious stuff to my knowledge.

    They do have an app, but I’m not sure it will meet your privacy requirements.

    You sound like someone who has a pretty locked down browser, so all it should get is what you supply, but if you want to keep it locally, I don’t imagine this would help you, but if it’s not the photos but rather your other data and location you wish to protect, this may work.

    Again, I’m not hardcore into data privacy, so I may be off on what you need.

    • Pantherina@feddit.deOPEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Thanks! Yeah that is a service running entirely on their site, so permissionwise very good but they get your stuff. There are lots of browser tools running locally using javascript, and images never leave the browser.