Everything the Play forms ask for that can be settled from the working copy, settled:
- PRIVACY.md now carries the real contact address (softwareapp.hb@gmail.com), so the
policy publishes as-is. Hosting is the one step left that cannot be done from here,
because the repo has no git remote: step 5 of the checklist spells out the push +
GitHub Pages route and the URL it yields.
- Checklist: the screenshot item is done (four captures, 1080x2160, over the demo
library, no permission banner), the keystore and versionCode are recorded as already
in place - including the upload key's SHA-256 for the Play App Signing enrolment - and
the App access / Ads / remaining App content declarations are written down. The
first-upload release-notes question is answered too: versionCode is already 2, so
1.0.1 takes the *initial release* block, not the 1.0.1 one.
- The build facts were verified against the artefacts rather than the source: the
release APK reports versionCode=2, versionName=1.0.1, targetSdk=36 and exactly the
documented permission set, with no INTERNET in what actually ships.
- ROADMAP: the re-shoot row is struck out with the numbers that closed it, M10 no longer
claims the captures predate the demo library, and the demo library's removal is
recorded (MediaStore 5,386 -> 5,364; pruneTo drops the stale index rows next scan).
The staged state and the system confirmation dialog are documented as deliberately not
captured: staging clears the demo group, which would put real photos back in frame.
The three captures no longer show the "Photo access needed" banner, and the results
screen is a picture of the generated demo library instead of the developer's own.
Both caveats in the file are closed, so replace them with a short note on how the set
was actually taken:
- 01-empty: the grant went through the app's own "Grant access" button, so
checkSelfPermission is genuinely satisfied. This one needed no tap at all: results
and the selection live in ScannerViewModel and only the hash index is persisted, so
force-stop + relaunch returns to the empty state with the grant still in place.
- 02-scanning / 03-results: shot after tapping Scan over the demo library. The headline
group is 43.1 MB reclaimable, which out-ranks the biggest group already on the device
(39.8 MB), so the first group in frame is generated.
- 04-options is new: the Options DropdownMenu with the three sensitivity presets (it is
not a bottom sheet) and the trash-vs-permanent toggle.
The tick marks and the "37 selected" bar are the screen's default state, not a staged
tap -- a finished scan auto-selects all but best. MIUI still refuses pm grant and
synthetic taps (INJECT_EVENTS), so Grant access and Scan remain the two taps a human
has to make; the two screens still missing (the staged state and the system consent
dialog) are captured by watching for UI text changes instead, rather than by timing a
scripted tap.
store-assets/screenshots/ is git-ignored now, so the Graphics section and the
two blocker entries were describing a state that no longer exists. Point at
where the captures live instead, and say why screenshots stay out of git at
all: a screenshot of this app is a picture of a photo library.
The results screenshot is a screenshot *of a photo library*, so the committed
capture showed the developer's own photos. tools/make-demo-photos.py draws the
library instead: 22 procedural scenes (sunset, mountains, beach, conifers in
haze, dunes, city skyline, night sky, bokeh) with grain and a vignette, so there
are no people, no third-party content and nothing to license.
The duplicate structure is deliberate, because a folder of unrelated pictures
demonstrates nothing:
- headline group: one scene re-saved at falling quality and size until its
reclaimable size reaches --target-mb (45 MB). Results are ranked by
reclaimable bytes, so this group has to out-rank whatever is already on the
device or a real photo is the first thing back in frame.
- exact pair: two byte-identical files, for the SHA-256 path.
- singles: the other scenes, once each, so the library looks lived-in.
Verified with the app's own engine on the desktop before pushing anything:
22 images -> 2 groups (PERCEPTUAL 14 copies, EXACT 2 copies) with the six
singles left alone. Regeneration is byte-identical, the output path resolves
from __file__ so it runs from any cwd, and nothing is written outside the repo.
demo-photos/ is git-ignored, like fixtures/ and store-assets/raw-screenshots/.
STORE_LISTING.md documents the library, why the headline group has a target
size, the MediaProvider scan_file recipe and the cleanup step; ROADMAP, README
and the release checklist point at it.
An Android duplicate-photo finder. Pure-Kotlin core (SHA-256 + dHash hashing, exact and
perceptual union-find grouping, three sensitivity presets) with MediaStore access, a
persistent SQLite hash index and a tiered ScanEngine behind a Jetpack Compose UI.
No INTERNET permission, no ads, no analytics, no account.
Ships versionCode 2 / versionName 1.0.1, carrying the scan-stall hardening (BoundedCall
breaker) and verified against a 5,363-photo device library. 80 JVM unit tests, lint clean.
Release paperwork is in docs/ (Play checklist, store listing, edge-case testing), the
upload-ready Play graphics and screenshots in store-assets/, and the generators for those
assets in tools/.
SoftwareApp
Hadrian Burkhardt