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"Fx Fotos" is an opensource gallery app in react native with the same smoothness and features of Google Photos and Apple Photos. It is backend gnostic and connects to decentralized backends like "box", "Dfinity", "Filecoin" and "Crust".
https://github.com/functionland/fx-fotos

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"Fx Fotos" is an opensource gallery app in react native with the same smoothness and features of Google Photos and Apple Photos. It is backend gnostic and connects to decentralized backends like "box", "Dfinity", "Filecoin" and "Crust".

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README 

        
![](https://github.com/functionland/photos/blob/main/assets/images/logo.png)



**Google Play:** https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=land.fx.fotos



**App Store:** https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/fx-fotos/id1640008383



# Latest 2 Updates



**November-10-2022:** Application was approved by App store.



**October-26-2022:** Application was approved by Google Play.



# Discussions



This project is part of a bigger project to disrupt the subscription industry.

Join the channel and group to participate in the discussion.

https://t.me/functionland



# BOX Photos development guide



Note: Project is still in alpha phase and not production ready. We aim to

release beta version by end of August 2021.



[Intro Blog](https://dev.to/fx/google-photos-open-source-alternative-with-react-native-80c)



## Project Description



![](https://github.com/functionland/photos/blob/main_old/assets/images/Photos-integrations.png)



Photos is a react-native(expo)+typescript application to replace Google

Photos/Apple Photos, and give freedom in hosting your photos on any platform,

either centralized servers like Amazon or Microsoft, or decentralized solutions

such as Dfinity or IPFS-based "box". It is optimized for decentralized

platforms, but is backend agnostic. Your can easily use it with the IPFS-based

"box" or "Dfinity" to host your files and photos with the same experience you

had using Google Photos, however, with full privacy.



## Why?



Decentralized Backend(IPFS, Dfinity, Crust, Filecoin) + Photos = Awesome!



Google photos is a great service with great benefits however, there are major

setbacks with it:



1- It is not free anymore



2- It does not respect our privacy



We developed this project with the smoothness and features of popular gallery

apps in mind to enable anyone jump on and start using it right away.

Furthermore, it can connect to "box", a decentralized node based on **IPFS** and

**Crust**, or **Dfinity** instead of centralized cloud networks. We are also

working on enabling it to connect to centralized cloud networks, however, with

web3.0 privacy, do you still want to use web2.0? more information is available

in the box repo.



## demo



Checkout full demo video at: https://youtu.be/wDxaC1HF5PQ



Or checkout individual features below:



- Pinch/zoom to switch between modes:

- ![https://youtu.be/ioK0zkew--w](https://github.com/functionland/photos/blob/main_old/assets/demo/BOX_Photos_pinchzoom_to_switch_between_modes.gif)

- Opening a single image in fullscreen mode:

- ![https://youtu.be/jPVqxPoNH9M](https://github.com/functionland/photos/blob/main_old/assets/demo/Single%20image%20modal%20scroll%20and%20zoom.gif)

- Header animation(hide on scroll down and show on scroll up):

- ![https://youtu.be/qjfiukClHqQ](https://github.com/functionland/photos/blob/main_old/assets/demo/Header%20hide%20on%20scroll%20down%20and%20show%20on%20scroll%20up.gif)

- Highlights/Story:

- ![https://youtu.be/yEOnDtT3cX0](https://github.com/functionland/photos/blob/main_old/assets/demo/Highlights.gif)

- Fast scroll/Thumb scroll feature:

- ![https://youtu.be/QsDzOGyj9cM](https://github.com/functionland/photos/blob/main_old/assets/demo/Fast%20scroll_thumb%20scroll.gif))

- Image Edit feature

- ![https://youtu.be/SDyCdE_aUso](https://github.com/functionland/photos/blob/0c52d3a1d73f3bfe045d939eef324270b1cd7f73/assets/demo/imageEdit.gif)

- Image select feature

- ![https://youtu.be/3IXIoBLGY_4](https://github.com/functionland/photos/blob/cc57d970dc50598c7949831a64c5d8647a85ef81/assets/demo/select.gif)



## table of content



- [Install npm, git and expo-cli](#Installing-Pre-requisites)

- [Clone the project](#clone-the-project)

- [Install requirements](#install-requirements)

- [Run](#run)

- [Packages](#packages)

- [Pages structure](#pages-structure)

- [Components structure](#components-structure)

- [Components description](#components-descripction)



### Installing Pre-requisites



- NodeJS/NPM



This application needs NodeJs to run. You can download and install NodeJs from

the below link on any platform if you do not have it already.

[Download NodeJS](https://nodejs.org/en/)



you can also check if you already have NodeJs installed by running the following

two commands in terminal window



```

node -v

npm -v

```



- Git: You can use git to easily download the files from github into your

  computer (or if you prefer you can download files manually from this github

  repository in step 1 of cloning the application)

  [Download Git-Scm](https://git-scm.com/downloads)



you can also check whether you already have NodeJs installed by running the

following command in terminal window



```

git --version

```



Now you need to install expo-cli. If you want to know more about expo check

their website. [Expo](https://docs.expo.io/)



```

npm install --global expo-cli

```



Optional: if you prefer yarn you can install yarn.



```

npm install --global yarn

```



## Clone the project



You can clone the project by running the command below to your terminal:



for https cloning:



```bash

git clone https://github.com/functionland/photos.git

```



```bash

cd photos

```



## EPERM issue



On Windows, you may get an EPERM error when running. This is a known bug and you may need to follow workaround 2 in this article: https://bitstopixels.blogspot.com/2017/04/react-native-windows-10-eperm-operation.html



## Install requirements



You can install dependencies with `yarn` by running:



```bash

yarn

```



## Run



Then you can start the debug server using the command below:



```bash

yarn run start

```



At last but not least, for installing the debug version and starting the

development process on the emulator or a real device you should run commands

below: 



#### IOS



```

yarn run ios

```



#### Android



```

yarn run android

```



## Packages



- We used **expo Media Library** for getting the data from user's phone.

- We used a modified version of **expo-video-player** to play videos. It is

  available in our repo.

- We used a modified version of **react-native-stories-view** for the story

  style view on top of gallery, which is available in our repo.

- We used **RecyclerListView** from FlipKart, as the scrollView for the photos.

- We used **react-native-reanimated** for animations.

- We used **Recoil** for state management.

- We used **react-native-gesture-handler** for gesture handling.

- We used **@react-navigation/bottom-tabs** and **@react-navigation/native** for

  navigation.



## Pages structure



For now we have two pages in the app:



- The HomePage that is the main page for showing the media files.

- The PermissionError page that is the page we show when there is permission

  error from user's phone.

- We are working on creating the "Library" and "Search" pages.



## Components structure



```├── app.json

├── App.tsx

├── babel.config.js

├── components

│   ├── AllPhotos.tsx

│   ├── FloatingFilters.tsx

│   ├── Header.tsx

│   ├── Highlights.tsx

│   ├── Media.tsx

│   ├── PhotosChunk.tsx

│   ├── PhotosContainer.tsx

│   ├── PinchZoom.tsx

│   ├── RenderPhotos.tsx

│   ├── SingleMedia.tsx

│   ├── StoryHolder.tsx

│   └── ThumbScroll.tsx

├── index.js



├── metro.config.js

├── navigation

│   └── AppNavigation.tsx

├── package.json

├── package-lock.json

├── pages

│   ├── HomePage.tsx

│   └── PermissionError.tsx

├── store

│   ├── actions.ts

│   ├── reducer.ts

│   └── store.ts

├── __tests__

│   └── App-test.tsx

├── tsconfig.json

├── types

│   └── interfaces.ts

└── utils

    ├── APICalls.ts

    ├── constants.ts

    ├── functions.ts

    ├── LayoutUtil.ts

    └── permissions.ts



```



## Components description



The components are as what follows:



### PhotosContainer



**Purpose:** this component is responsible for getting the photos and videos

from storage and feed the AllPhotos component with storage photos.



- this component include the PinchZoom component and AllPhotos component



### PinchZoom



**Purpose:** This component is responsible for all the animations for switching

between different column modes, and actions we want to do when animations done.



- This component is wrapped around the AllPhotos component.

- The component uses GestureHandlers to respond to pinch and pan gestures



### AllPhotos



**Purpose:** This component is wrapped the three RenderPhotos components and is

responsible for lazy load the photos and feed the render photos with proper

data.



- The three different kind of RenderPhotos is the month view with 4 columns of

  photos, the day view with 3 columns of photos and the day view with 2 columns

  of photos.



### RenderPhotos



**Purpose:** This component includes with the number of PhotosChunk components

and one FlatList that wrapped all the PhotosChunk components that we want to

show the user. It is responsible to show the Photos(main) page of hte

application.



- This component also renders date headers.

- It uses RecyclerListView to show the scrollable grid of photos



### PhotosChunk:



**Purpose:** This component is responsible to show each block/Thumbnails in the

gallery.



### FloatingFilters:



**Purpose:** This component is responsible to show and position the "year"

titles when fingers are placed on thumb scroll.



### Header:



**Purpose:** This component is responsible to show the top header of the

application. It is used in the top Navigationbar.



### Highlights:



**Purpose:** This component is responsible to show the story thumbnails and text

on top of Photos page.



### Media:



**Purpose:** This component is responsible to display photo or video when opened

in full page. It is the component used in SingleMedia.



### SingleMedia:



**Purpose:** This component is responsible to show modal with the content when

image or video is opened in full page. It uses Media to show the photo or video.



### StoryHolder:



**Purpose:** This component is responsible to show each story/highlight in full

screen when thumbnail is clicked on.



### ThumbScroll:



**Purpose:** This component is responsible to show the thumb scroll icon in the

right of screen when scrolling.



## Components diagram



```mermaid

graph TD;

App --> AppNavigation --> PermissionError

AppNavigation --> Header

AppNavigation --> HomePage --> PhotosContainer --> AllPhotos --> RenderPhotos

PhotosContainer --> PinchZoom

AllPhotos --> StoryHolder --> StoryContainer --> StoryComponent

AllPhotos --> SingleMedia --> Media

RenderPhotos --> PhotosChunk & ThumbScroll & Highlights & FloatingFilters

```



## How to contribute?



Just pick any issue from the issues tab or create your own and do a pull

request! Please use yarn instead of npm if you are a contributor to be aligned

with other contributors. You can ask questions and get in touch with the rest of

contributors and community in the

[Discussion here](https://github.com/functionland/photos/discussions/58) **We

appreciate all the help you can do, even if it is renaming one variable to a

better name.**



## Road map



- [x] Pinch/zoom to switch between 3 modes

- [x] Open each image/video in a Single image modal and scroll between images

- [x] Show highlights

- [x] Fast scroll/thumb scroll

- [x] Select and unselect each image to delete/edit/share

- [x] Connect with Dfinity

- [x] Auto-upload photos to backend

- [x] Automatic Migration tool from Google Photos

- [x] Connect with BOX (as a self-owned IPFS solution)

- [ ] Connect with Filecoin

- [ ] Connect with AWS

- [ ] Search page to search by date/tags

- [ ] Library page to show images by folder/Album

- [ ] AI features to do on-device analysis for face recognition/object

      recognition



## Related Publications and News



- https://filecoin.io/blog/posts/249k-for-17-projects-from-dorahacks-filecoin-grant-hackathon/

- https://dev.to/fx/google-photos-open-source-alternative-with-react-native-80c

- https://hackernoon.com/were-building-an-open-source-google-photos-alternative-with-react-native-zw4537pa

- https://crustnetwork.medium.com/crust-network-and-functionland-partnering-up-on-web3-developer-tools-309e41074fc5