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title: "photup is now open source."
url: https://daily.dev/posts/photup-is-now-open-source--xfhis8yut
source_url: https://chrisbanes.me/posts/photup-is-now-open-source
type: article
source: "Chris Banes"
published: 2026-07-05T07:13:53.351Z
updated: 2026-07-05T07:17:01.524Z
tags: ["open-source", "android"]
reading_time: 2
upvotes: 0
comments: 0
language: en
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# photup is now open source.

**[Chris Banes](https://daily.dev/sources/chrisbanes)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

photup, an Android photo-sharing app inspired by Facebook's Camera app, has been open-sourced under the Apache v2 license after reaching 80,000 downloads and a 4.4 average rating. The author highlights notable code examples including photo tagging with scale/pan support, an upload service, and an action bar component, while also acknowledging areas needing improvement such as database operations, AsyncTask usage for networking, and lack of documentation.

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