LegacyPhotoFrame

LegacyPhotoFrame

Turn your ancient Android tablet into a beautiful digital photo frame.

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Description

LegacyPhotoFrame is a free, open-source photo frame app built for legacy
devices. It is designed to run on bare-minimum systems that cannot support
other functionality.

DISCLAIMER: This app is written by hand, by humans.

All code and documentation written for this project was done by hand, not by LLMs.
Please consult the README in our source code for more information.

Features:

- Lightweight, Android-native design with no fluff for low-RAM devices
- Configurable auto-start and auto-stop functionality for preserving hardware
- Automatic keep-awake functionality while app is active
- And, of course, no ads

What’s new (1.3.1)

### Features

- Fixed setting header colors to be a bit more vibrant
- Changed (i) icon style
- Date in image popup is now a bit more legible

### Bugfixes

- Did some rearchitecturing of the spaghetti code in the "utilities" folder

Versions

Version Date Size Requires Android Download
1.3.1 current
cb8b86c19ba6f804…
2026-09-11 5.3 MB API 19
1.3.0
234f1e71559e8e7f…
2026-08-10 5.3 MB API 19
1.2.0
d5318def61f03d4e…
2026-07-28 5.3 MB API 19

Permissions

What the app asks the system for. Android only grants sensitive access after you confirm it.

  • Read storageRead files on the device storage.
  • PhotosRead images from the media library.
  • VideosRead videos from the media library.
  • READ_MEDIA_VISUAL_USER_SELECTED
  • Exact alarmsTrigger actions at a precise time.
  • Display over other appsDraw content on top of other apps.
  • USE_FULL_SCREEN_INTENT
  • NotificationsShow notifications.
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  • Prevent sleepingKeep the device from going to sleep.
  • legacyphotoframe.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION

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