Piwigo Client - Basic

Gareth Deli

Contains adsIn-app purchases

About this app

Use to browse a PIWIGO photo gallery.

NOTE: EULA must be accepted on download.

If you like the app, but not the adverts, look for the paid version that is advert free and has progressively more functionality.

** App is now not being Actively Developed (bug fixes only) **
** If something doesn't work - email me - it'll be fixed **

** For full functionality, you should install the PiwigoClientWsExts server plugin. **

See full list of features below.

Connect to servers running on non-standard http or https ports
Accept invalid (wrong host name) or self signed server certificates if required
server Certificate pinning is supported (verify certs against a local copy)
View images at a resolution optimised for your screen (or select the one you want).
Show and allow zoom into images of any size available on the server
View MP4 videos (others should work too, but I've not tested other formats)
Download images.
Save fully downloaded videos
Optionally exclude videos from slide-shows
Rate images and view average ratings
Upload new images or videos (can be optionally compressed)
Setting and amend permissions, description, and other details of albums and files
Add or alter albums, their permissions, description, etc
Add, view and edit gallery users
Add, view and edit gallery groups
Copy or move images around within the gallery
Select image(s) for upload using other apps and share them with PIWIGO
Special app read-only mode available to prevent any unwanted alterations to the gallery
Some control over the layout of screens on the app (use to customise for the screen on your device)
Support for alternative format (e.g. raw, psd etc) download for items hosted in pwg_format child folder (synchronised sites)

Supported server plugins : PiwigoClientWsExts, community, piwigo_privacy, videojs, extended descriptions.

Want something else not listed? Try the app. If it doesn't do exactly what you need. Drop me an email using the link in the app and I'll look into adding the missing feature(s).

Upcoming Changes:

The intention is to enhance the user interface progressively, and one of the users, David Klement, has kindly provided some suggestions for screen layouts going forward which I have started using from version 1.3.95 and will no doubt be taking more ideas from. The proposals are available in full:
https://api-8938561204297001672-604498.firebaseapp.com/design-proposals/index.html

Known limitations:

1. Comments are currently unsupported - you can neither see comments nor add them. If this missing feature is important to you - please talk to me.
2. The number of files that can be added to an upload job is limited to 5 in this free version (use the paid version to remove this limit)

Ratings and reviews

I understand that a free app needs to show ads, but this app shows an literally after every single button press. Open a photo - ad, close the photo - ad, go folder up - ad, enter another folder - ad. That's not how ads are supposed to work. And no, I'm not going to buy the pro version of the app when I'm not even able to try it properly because it shows so many ads.

App is difficult to use. Non intuitive. Possibly as it's slow to respond. Can't get out of file upload screen. Only way I've found is to furtle to get os controls up & close app. Ads way too intrusive and close to action buttons so with big thumbs like me you're forever closing a browser. Sorry, just too hard to be useful. Yes it all takes time &effort but on the basis of this trial, not minded to buy. Remember piwigo is free & browser is OK on Android so what are app benefits over this?

App still logs me in as guest, not as admin. Cannot edit or upload anything. To close app you need to kill it, since android back button traverses you back through all the screens, albums and settings until it would eventually reach last one and close app. Clicking on Gallery did not help. Latest version became ad bloated. Every click opens up ad. Some ads have very loud sound and are blocking back button so you cannot quickly stop viewing them. Mute button appears in random location and slowly

What's new

No longer retrieve images in the root of the gallery due to API limitations - sorry if this affects you
Fixed bug where album items are not always aligned to the top of the screen