foto-duplicate-finder/docs/STORE_LISTING.md

# Play Store listing (M10)

Everything the *Main store listing* page in the Play Console asks for, ready to copy. The
graphics are generated from the app's own vectors, so they can be regenerated after any
branding change instead of being edited by hand.

See [PLAY_RELEASE_CHECKLIST](PLAY_RELEASE_CHECKLIST.md) § 4 for where these fit in the
release.

## Graphics

Generated into `store-assets/` **inside the repository**, never into `$HOME`. These PNGs are
the files that get uploaded to the Play Console, so they are committed and versioned with the
release they belong to. Only the uncropped captures the screenshots are cut from
(`store-assets/raw-screenshots/`) are git-ignored.

```bash
./tools/make-store-assets.sh       # icon + feature graphic  -> store-assets/
./tools/make-store-screenshots.sh  # crop the adb captures   -> store-assets/screenshots/
python3 tools/make-demo-photos.py  # synthetic photo library -> demo-photos/ (git-ignored)
```

| Asset | Play's spec | Result | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| App icon | 512×512, 32-bit PNG with alpha, ≤ 1 MB | `store-assets/icon-512.png` — 512×512, RGBA, 6 KB | `tools/store-assets/icon.svg`, mirrored from `app/src/main/res/drawable/ic_launcher_background.xml` + `ic_launcher_foreground.xml` (paths and group transforms are identical, so the store icon *is* the launcher icon) |
| Feature graphic | 1024×500, JPEG or 24-bit PNG without alpha | `store-assets/feature-graphic-1024x500.png` — 1024×500, RGB | `tools/store-assets/feature-graphic.svg` |
| Phone screenshots | JPEG or 24-bit PNG without alpha, shorter side ≥ 320 px, longer side ≤ 3840 px, **longer side ≤ 2× shorter side** | `store-assets/screenshots/0{1,2,3}-*.png` — 1080×2160, RGB | `tools/make-store-screenshots.sh`, from raw `adb exec-out screencap` captures in `store-assets/raw-screenshots/` |

Two details worth keeping in mind:

- The icon is **full bleed**: the adaptive-icon background covers all 108 dp, so every pixel
  of the PNG ends up opaque and Play's mask can crop to any shape without showing a gap.
- A phone screenshot at the test device's native 1080×2400 is **2.22:1 and therefore
  rejected** — Play's limit is 2:1. The normaliser crops the status bar (93 px) and the
  navigation bar (130 px) and clamps to 1080×2160, which removes system chrome only, never
  app content. Re-measure both insets if you shoot on another device and pass
  `STATUS_BAR_PX` / `NAV_BAR_PX`.

## Screenshots

Captured on the test device (1080×2400, Android 12 / MIUI), cropped to 1080×2160:

| File | Screen |
|---|---|
| `01-empty.png` | Intro / empty state before the first scan |
| `02-scanning.png` | Scanning progress — *“Looking for visually similar photos…”* 5341 / 5363 |
| `03-results.png` | Results — 15 duplicate groups, 39.8 MB reclaimable, `BEST` badge, selection bar |

⚠️ **Both caveats below are outstanding for the files committed today.** One re-shoot fixes both.

1. All three still show the *“Photo access needed”* banner. The test device (Xiaomi M2101K7AG
   / MIUI) refuses `pm grant`, `install -g` and synthetic taps, so the runtime permission was
   never actually granted there — the scan was driven with a debug-only
   `MANAGE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE` app-op. That app-op gets the scan through MediaStore but does
   **not** satisfy the app's own `checkSelfPermission`, which is why the banner — and the
   disabled *Start scan* — are genuinely in frame. **Re-shoot on a clean install after tapping
   “Grant access”**: that also closes the one remaining device-only verification gap.

   Enabling *USB debugging (Security settings)* in the MIUI developer options turns synthetic
   taps and `pm grant` back on. That is what would let the capture run from a script instead of
   by hand.
2. `03-results.png` currently shows real photos from the test library. They are the developer's
   own, so nothing is licensed against us, but the library is not ours to publish. The next
   capture must be taken over the generated demo library below.

### Demo library: generated photos, so none of anyone's real ones are published

`03-results.png` is a screenshot *of a photo library*, so whatever is on the test device ends up
in the store listing along with it. `tools/make-demo-photos.py` exists so that library can be
generated instead of borrowed: every scene is drawn procedurally — sunset, mountains, beach,
conifers in haze, dunes, city skyline, night sky, bokeh — so there are no people, no third-party
content and nothing to license. It writes to `demo-photos/foto-dup-demo/`, which is git-ignored
and regenerated on demand, exactly like `fixtures/`.

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` (default 45 MB),
- **exact pair** — two byte-identical files, for the SHA-256 path,
- **singles** — the other scenes, once each, so the library looks lived-in.

```bash
python3 tools/make-demo-photos.py
adb push demo-photos/foto-dup-demo /sdcard/DCIM/foto-dup-demo
adb shell content call --uri content://media --method scan_file \
    --arg /sdcard/DCIM/foto-dup-demo
```

Two non-obvious details, both load-bearing:

- **Why the headline group has a target size.** Results are ranked by reclaimable bytes, so the
  first group on screen is the largest one. A demo group smaller than anything already on the
  device would be pushed below the fold and a real photo would be back in frame. 45 MB clears
  the test device's own 39.8 MB with room to spare; raise `--target-mb` if you capture on a
  library whose biggest group is larger.
- **`scan_file` on the folder, not on the volume.** It indexes just that path (API 30+) instead
  of forcing a MediaStore-wide rescan on a 5,000-photo device. It does recurse into the folder,
  and re-running it after the folder is deleted drops those rows again — both verified on the
  test device.

Check the grouping *before* pushing, rather than reading it off the phone: the desktop harness
runs the app's real engine over a scaled copy of the library and reports the two intended groups
and nothing else.

```bash
magick mogrify -resize 1024x -quality 90 -path build/demo-validate-raw demo-photos/foto-dup-demo/*.jpg
python3 tools/normalise-for-local-grouping.py build/demo-validate-raw build/demo-validate
./gradlew :app:testDebugUnitTest --tests '*LocalGroupingTest*' \
    -DfotoLocal.dir="$PWD/build/demo-validate"
# images=22 groups=2 -> PERCEPTUAL 14 copies, EXACT 2 copies; the six singles stay ungrouped
```

Cleanup, once the captures are done:

```bash
adb shell rm -rf /sdcard/DCIM/foto-dup-demo
adb shell content call --uri content://media --method scan_file --arg /sdcard/DCIM/foto-dup-demo
```

Screens still worth capturing once a device grants access through the real flow (the capture run
needs two taps on the phone — *Grant access*, then *Scan* — which is the one thing the MIUI test
device will not accept from a script):

- the **Options** sheet with the three sensitivity presets,
- the staged state (*“All duplicates are ready to go”*) after selecting duplicates,
- Android's **confirmation dialog** for moving photos to the trash.

## Store listing copy

### App name (max 30 characters)

    Foto Dup Finder

### Short description (max 80 characters)

    Find and remove duplicate photos. Free, ad-free, works offline.

Alternative, if the no-upload promise should lead:

    Find and delete duplicate photos. No ads, no uploads, no account.

### Full description (max 4000 characters)

    Find and remove duplicate photos, then get the space back. Foto Dup Finder does one
    job and does it without ads, without an account and without ever uploading anything.

    WHY IT IS DIFFERENT
    • No ads — no banners, no interstitials, no upsells.
    • No internet permission at all, so the app has no way to upload your photos.
    • No account, no sign-in, no tracking, no analytics.

    WHAT IT DOES
    • Finds exact copies: files that are byte-for-byte identical, even when their names
      differ.
    • Finds near-duplicates: the same picture saved twice, or two shots of the same
      scene. A perceptual hash compares how the images actually look rather than only
      their bytes, so a re-compressed or slightly re-cropped copy is still caught.
    • Suggests what to keep. The best copy of each group is marked BEST, and
      "Select all but best" marks the rest in a single tap.
    • Lets you choose how far to go: Exact copies only, Balanced (recommended) or
      Aggressive.
    • Deletes safely. Every removal goes through Android's own confirmation dialog, and
      you choose between moving photos to the trash (recoverable) and deleting them
      permanently. Nothing is removed without your confirmation.
    • Copes with a messy library. RAW files and unreadable or corrupt images are skipped
      and reported instead of stopping the scan.
    • Much faster the second time. File hashes are remembered on the device, so
      re-scanning an unchanged library takes a fraction of the first run.

    HOW IT WORKS
    1. Grant photo access — everything runs on your device.
    2. Tap Start scan. A library of several thousand photos is done in seconds.
    3. Review the groups, keep the copies you want and select the rest.
    4. Tap "Remove all selected" and confirm once for the whole batch.

    YOUR PHOTOS STAY YOURS
    Foto Dup Finder declares no internet permission, ships no advertising or analytics
    SDKs, and stores nothing besides a local index of file hashes so the next scan can be
    quick. No photo ever leaves your phone, and uninstalling the app removes the index
    with it.

    GOOD TO KNOW
    • Requires Android 8.0 or newer.
    • Photos moved to the trash can be restored from your gallery app until the trash is
      emptied (Android 11 and newer).
    • Works fully offline, in flight mode, always.

Every claim above is checkable against this repository: no `INTERNET` permission in the
merged manifest, no ad or analytics dependency in `gradle/libs.versions.toml`, `minSdk 26`
in `app/build.gradle.kts`, and the second-run speed-up is the persistent hash index in
`data/PhotoIndexStore.kt`.

### Category and tags

- **Category:** Tools (alternative: Photography — *Tools* matches the one-job utility framing
  better, and Photography is more crowded).
- **Tags:** duplicate photos, photo cleanup, storage.
- **Contact details:** the same e-mail as in [PRIVACY.md](../PRIVACY.md) — replace the
  `support@example.com` placeholder there first.