figurophobia/milk-filter-mobile

Milk Filter Mobile is an Android app that converts any photo into the distinctive pixel-art look of Nikita Kryukov's Milk game series. It offers two filter modes: a Milk filter ported from an existing project by LucaSinUnaS that gives images a flat palette of deep reds and purples, and an original Pixel Art filter built by the app's own author that uses a dithering technique to create a retro, blocky look. A companion web version of both filters, which also supports video, exists as a separate related project. The app gives you nine adjustable parameters with a live preview as you tweak them, including brightness, contrast, pixel block size, grain or noise intensity, how many colors the palette is reduced to, an optional dot pattern overlay, and JPEG compression quality for a more compressed, lower quality look if desired. Several hand picked color palettes inspired by the games, plus some original ones, can be cycled through. The interface itself uses a pixel style font to match the visual theme. Once you are happy with an edit, you can share the result to any app or save it directly to your photo gallery, and tapping the center of the image at almost any point lets you swap in a different photo without restarting. The easiest way to get the app is downloading a ready to install APK file from the project's releases page, which requires Android 7.0 or newer and may prompt you to allow installs from outside the Play Store. Anyone still on the original version 1.0.0 release needs to uninstall it first, since later versions switched to a different signing key. Developers who want to build it themselves need Android Studio, Android SDK 34, and a device or emulator running Android 7.0 or higher, then can build a debug version with a single Gradle command. The project is released under the MIT license.