JXL = JPEG XL file viewer for Android recommendations? The format is not natively supported by Android yet, it seems. However, apps could still support JXL. Which ones would you recommend for viewing the photos?

Note: this question has been asked before on reddit here: https://www.reddit.com/r/jpegxl/comments/xh72kl/jxl_file_viewer_for_android/

I'm re-asking here for a rather FOSS perspective.

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[–] vas@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Personally, I've found Fossify Gallery so far: https://f-droid.org/packages/org.fossify.gallery/ Tried it out, it works well. Any other recommendations would be nice, too.

Signal, for example, does not support JXL as of today. But saving the photo and opening in Fossify Gallery works.

[–] vas@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 weeks ago

(Fossify is a fork of the discontinued SimpleMobileTools.)

[–] asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev 5 points 2 weeks ago

This gallery app supports it: https://github.com/IacobIonut01/Gallery

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Damn i thought firefox/fennec on android would support it already but i guess not.

[–] illusionist@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 weeks ago

No, but it supports avif which is (subjectively) more important

[–] vort3@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I never encountered jxl in the wild so I don't know which apps support it, but if somehow you found a jxl file and don't know how to view it, this one works:

https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/fr.oupson.jxlviewer

[–] vas@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago

I wanna use JXL locally. It's quite amazing technologically, you can losslessly compress a JPEG to 0.8 or so of the original size.

I compress my photos for long-term storage anyway, so why not do it with JXL.

Thanks for the app recommendation!