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Description

A High performance Android SMB/WebDAV image viewer/comic reader with network gallery folder support.

The app features advanced image options, including support for RAW, HDR, WCG, slideshow and fast video thumbnails, with a clean interface for daily use.

Based on EhViewer
With Material Design 3
and Dynamic Color Support.

Similar to Perfect Viewer and Kuro Reader, with Hi-Res images support (no downscaling) and good performance.

The desktop version of LocalViewer's HDR image converter is here.
https://github.com/zmz125000/JXRConverter

Get it on GitHub

LocalViewer screenshot main RAW images from rawsamples.ch.

Features

  • Webtoon gallery reader.
  • Local and network libraries for photo/video/comic/ebook.
  • Easy to use, just add your folders and done.
  • Window manager and folder tab, clean navigation flow between multiple sources.
  • Instant scanning and classification for media files in local and network folders.
  • One for all folder listing mode (Videos/Photos/Documents all with their own tags and filters).
  • Fully working on Meta Quest 3.
  • Open or share files like a file manager.
  • Fine-tuned page loader, image prefetch with no OOM crashes.
  • Gallery folder covers and reading progress.
  • Native Android app (Kotlin + Jetpack Compose).
  • Material Design 3 Navigation bar.
  • Highly optimized network image loading, with high-quality rendering.
  • HDR, Wide Color Gamut and 16-bit color mode support.
  • Image info widget (dimensions, bit depth, color space, exif).
  • Instant local archive reading with mmap.
  • ZIP/RAR/CBZ/CBR/CBT/PDF/EPUB support over network share.
  • PDF/EPUB/MOBI/FB2/TXT/AZW3/Markdown Ebook support with text formatting.
  • JXL/JXR/JPG/PNG/AVIF/HEIC HDR support.
  • 16-bit RAW formats decoding with true HDR output.
  • RAW formats support dng/cr2/cr3/nef/nrw/arw/raf/orf/rw2/pef/srw/raw.
  • Batch convert JXL/JXR/RAW to JPEG, JPEG XL, AVIF in both SDR and HDR.
  • Compatible with Oppo/OnePlus ProXDR HEIC format.
  • Compatible with Apple HDR (HEIF, AVIF).
  • Nearest, Bilinear, B-Spline, Catmull-Rom, Mitchell-Netravali, Lanczos3 image scalers using GPU shader.
  • Open offline html website archive in your browser with built-in HTTP server.
  • Network folder playback for MPV/MX Player/VLC with subtitles and external autio track.
  • Optimized Async TCP connection poll.
  • Fast smbj client with concurrent connections.
  • SMB signing JCE AESCMAC hardware acceleration.
  • Ktor OkHttp WebDAV client with HTTP/2 (default) and CIO HTTP/1.1 fallback.
  • High performance reader with network cache from EhViewer.
  • Reader double tap to open previous/next gallery.
  • Reader allow full size image decode.
  • Reader auto rotate image.
  • Reader comic dual pages mode.
  • E-Ink mode support (ported from venera-next).
  • EasyTier support (ported from moonlight-vplus).
  • TXT chapter support (ported from txtautotoc).

Performance

  • The custom SMBJ and WebDAV clients achieve 1 Gbps network speeds over Wi-Fi 7, so after v1.11.x the image reader defaults to have image caching disabled.
  • Windows 11 JXR HDR screenshots can be displayed in fp16 hdr bitmaps, or transcode to Ultra HDR Jpeg.
  • The image loader was tweaked for preloading and decoding 100MB jpg hdr files over network without any OOM crashes, and smaller files should load instantly.
  • Accurate HDR presentation of RAW and JXR images (compared with DaVinci Resolve).

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Flavor Minimum Android Version Features
Default 12 Basic
Default 14 (arm64-v8a, x86-64) HDR, GPU Shaders, RAW
EasyTier 12 (arm64-v8a) Basic, EasyTier
EasyTier 14 (arm64-v8a) HDR, GPU Shaders, RAW, EasyTier
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Screenshot

LocalViewer screenshot main page LocalViewer screenshot gallery reader LocalViewer screenshot window manager

To use WebDAV

openssl req -x509 -newkey rsa:4096 -keyout server.key -out server.crt -days 365 -nodes
.\rclone.exe serve webdav "D:\" --addr :8443 --cert .\server.crt --key .\server.key --read-only --user admin --pass password

To use SMB3 encryption:

Get-SmbShare | Select-Object Name, EncryptData
Set-SmbShare -Name "Media" -EncryptData $true
Set-SmbServerConfiguration -RejectUnencryptedAccess $false -Force

while ($true) {
    Clear-Host
    $config = Get-SmbServerConfiguration
    $sessions = Get-SmbSession

    Write-Host "--- SMB SERVER ENCRYPTION STATUS ---" -ForegroundColor Cyan
    Write-Host "Global Server Encryption Enabled : $($config.EncryptData)"
    Write-Host "Reject Unencrypted Access       : $($config.RejectUnencryptedAccess)"
    Write-Host "Active Sessions                 : $(($sessions).Count)"
    Write-Host "Timestamp                       : $(Get-Date -Format 'HH:mm:ss')"
    Write-Host "------------------------------------`n"

    if ($sessions) {
        $sessions | Select-Object ClientComputerName, ClientUserName, Dialect, NumOpens | Format-Table -AutoSize
    }

    Start-Sleep -Seconds 1
}

Thanks

Here is the libraries

App libraries

Native codecs

License

Copyright 2014-2019 Hippo Seven
Copyright 2020-2022 NekoInverter
Copyright 2022-2023 Tarsin Norbin
Copyright 2023-2024 Foolbar

LocalViewer is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

LocalViewer is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with EhViewer. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

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