1.20.1 – HEVC playback hotfix

You can skip this update if you have no HEVC videos in your library.

Fixed

• Refusing to play HEVC video of custom size (odd width or height)

1.20.0 – Dynamic video preview format

Fixed

• Auto screen turn-off when playing video
• Selection reset on the people overview screen when changing the orientation

Added

• Support of Apple live photos uploaded as HEIC+MOV bundle
• Ability to download gallery items selected with a long press
• Exit the selection mode when unselecting the last selected gallery item
• Dynamic selection of the video preview format (AVC, HEVC, VP8, VP9, AV1). For example, if the video is in HEVC and your device supports HEVC, it will be played as HEVC instead of transcoding to AVC. If you have any problems with playback or transcoding with this update, please, join the release discussion or file an Issue
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1.19.0 – Support of Google motion photos

The recent PhotoPrism September update brings indexing of Samsung and Google live (motion) photos. With version 1.19.0 the gallery gets support of Google photos, therefore supporting both formats now. If you already have live photos in your library, after updating the server, make sure to launch library re-scan. You can also test this feature on the public demo.
For me, Samsung shots with the still image taken at the end of the video look much more appealing than the Google ones, where the video looks to be recorder after the still image is captured. What do you think? Join the release discussion.

Changelog

Added

• Ability to disable showing folders in the album list
• Support of Google motion photos in the enhanced live photo viewer

Changed

• Improved visibility of selected items

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1.18.0 – 200 stars release ⭐

Changed

• Albums and folders are now ordered alphabetically, keeping the favorites at the beginning
• People and faces are now ordered by photo count, keeping the favorites at the beginning
• Made image placeholders darker in dark theme

Added

• People overview screen for the search, where you can see all the people and faces in grid view, quickly scroll from top to bottom and filter the items by name
• Pull to refresh gesture on the main screen

1.17.0 – Enhanced live photos viewer, albums overview

Added

• Albums overview screen for the search, where you can see all the albums in grid view,
  quickly scroll from top to bottom and filter the items by name
• Enhanced live photos viewer which fades the video into the high-quality still image.
  It works with Samsung live photos and manually uploaded JPEG+MP4 batches and does not affect short videos treated by PhotoPrism as live photos. Until the autumn PhotoPrism release, you can test this feature on the public demo
• Ability to change the app language from system settings on Android 13

Changed

• Added more vertical space to the search configuration screen
• Make long album names scroll like a ticker

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1.16.1 – Bugfix & improvements

Added

• A notice suggesting to use the mouse to search the library,
  which is shown in the search bar when the app is running on a TV
• Distinctive User-Agent to be shown in the PhotoPrism sessions list
• Going full screen automatically when viewing a video
• Closing media viewer by swiping up or down
• Automatic update of album and people lists when re-opening the app after it has been moved
  to the background by pressing the "Back" navigation button.

Changed

• Improved quality of the viewed photos. Now the app loads corresponding previews
  according to the screen size. This, however, may increase network load
• Split the welcome screen layout into 2 columns on wide landscape screens
• Limited the max width of the search bar
• The "X" button now exits the selection mode instead of just clearing,
  if the selection is initiated by a long press

Fixed

• Crash when clicking the "Apply" button on the search screen twice
• Media viewer failing to load very big images. Thanks to @linosgian for the report
• Missing player controls when viewing video in rare cases

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Here is a before/after comparison of the image quality improvement:

1.16.0 – Search by people

Added

• Search by people and new faces
• Showing full album name as a tooltip when making a long press on it
• Ability to disable loading and showing people and albums on the search configuration screen
• Ability to pick RAW photos when the gallery is opened to pick an image

Changed

• Horizontal lists on the search configuration screen are now scrolled from edge to edge
• Selected elements on the search configuration screen now have more contrast
• Focused gallery item, when using keyboard navigation, is now better highlighted
• PhotoPrism search filter guide on the search configuration screen is replaced with the new gallery search guide

Fixed

• The "Back" toolbar button in the web viewer closing it rather than navigating back

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1.15.1 – Bugfix

Fixed

• Connection screen allowing connection to a private library without credentials
• Not finding a private gallery entry when opening it in the web viewer
• Incorrect color of the "Close" web viewer button in the dark theme
• Missing focus indication in the file selection dialog
• Unwanted focus on the "Back" toolbar button in the media viewer
• Not intuitive behavior of the "Back" button when selecting multiple items

1.15.0 – Multiple selection and sharing

Added

• Ability to select multiple items and share them directly from the gallery.
  To start selecting, make a long press on an item.

Fixed

• Not showing the item title and date in the media viewer when selecting content

Changed

• Use the advanced system dialog (with chats, nearby share, etc.) when sharing a file

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1.14.0 – Release by time police

Fixed

• Showing some gallery entries under the wrong day occasionally.
  Now, if a photo is taken on July 4th at 23:18 in Montenegro, its time is displayed and treated as July 4th, 23:18 regardless of whether the gallery is viewed from Montenegro, USA or the Moon.
• Inability to connect to a library running on a slow server due to the timeout error. Thanks @adrian-klein for the report

Added

• Display of the item title and date in the media viewer