PixelDroid is an Android client for Pixelfed, the federated image sharing platform based on W3C ActivityPub. Our goal is to bring the Pixelfed platform to Android and provide a mobile user experience that excites. We aim to provide feature-parity with the Pixelfed web client as well as add additional features like image and video editing, capturing and uploading directly from the app. During the project we will also make it easy to use multiple accounts, even across different instances. Additionally, we want to contribute to the Pixelfed API with testing and additional documentation.

Image-sharing platforms are among the most intimate surveillance surfaces: they collect location data, facial recognition inputs, social graphs, and behavioural signals from every swipe and pause. Mobile apps intensify this by accessing cameras, contacts, and notifications continuously.

PixelDroid connects Android users to federated Pixelfed instances instead of corporate silos. Multi-account support across instances reduces lock-in, and feature parity with the web client means users are not forced back to proprietary apps for basic sharing. It addresses the risk that mobile users, especially, have no practical path off surveillance- based photo platforms.