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With the demise of my Flickr Pro account I've been using Postimage instead. However, I also have my own domain and space which I'm not using for much. Mostly, I'm just uploading snaps from my Android phone.
What I'm after is pretty simple (I think)
An app that is accessible from Gallery on Android when I choose to Share a photo.
It should then upload it to my domain/space without intervention.
It should give me a URL for the uploaded file, in a format suitable for sharing on here and other forums.
There are any number of Android FTP clients for me to investigate but I thought someone migbt have been through this previously.
Surely Google photos can do that by now? Or am I expecting too much, and will be castigated for expecting this for free? 🙂
Try getting a shareable URL from Google - one that can be embedded on a forum.
Google Photos embedding using https://www.labnol.org/embed/google/photos/
First photo hasn't embedded properly perhaps because it's a portrait photo, second one taken in landscape.
I don't have an Android phone but does Gallery resize photos for upload - it's a real pain when people upload a set of 20mb images to a thread. So I think that would be a must have feature in any app.
Have a look at Chevereto
(Not sure if there is an Android app, or whether you'd need one.)
Edit: It provides re-sized copies automatically.
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My solution that works very well is to self-host Piwigo, I own a domain name and use a third party host although it could easily be brought in-house.
So Piwigo provides all the capabilities of most photo hosting sites. Then, in order to upload there's a number of choices but I've settled on using digiKam installed on my computer. Through this application I can export photos to my Piwigo application. DigiKam has a setting where I can set the JPEG quality to whatever percentage aswell as the dimensions of the jpeg file. This setting is saved for all subsequent photos making things very quick or can be changed for each upload.
If you're using RAW then those files may need conversion first but I only take pictures in Jpeg format. I expect digkam can convert those too.
I then log in to Piwigo, create a folder for the new photos and the process of resizing and uploading the photos takes seconds.
Sharing the URL to you photo(s) is simple using a plugin. This plugin provides a number of different pre-defined url links, e.g. photos that are clickable links to your shared gallery, or embedded photos without clickable links but have black borders.
I use it for hosting my eBay sales mainly. I can advertise my items using more photos than possible through simply using eBay on its own.
It's learning how to self-host Piwigo and then customise the plugins and then learn digKam which takes time but the pay off is very much worth it not least for feeling more empowered.
You may want a simple solution, if so this ain't for you if you don't like a learning curve but if you're on furlough or old and retired then certainly worth exploring.
P.S. There is a nice clean Piwigo gallery app for Android too so that you can view your uploads.
Thanks for the suggestions folks. Seems like there's nothing quite like I'm looking for but I'll investigate the ideas above.