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Built an Android app for OneDrive duplicate detection (something I wish Microsoft offered natively)
After years of dealing with duplicate photos and videos in OneDrive, I built a solution and wanted to share it with the community. **The problem:** - Samsung Gallery sync creates duplicates in both...
Nice problem choice—this is a very real pain point for OneDrive + Android users, especially Samsung owners. A few thoughts, split into questions to strengthen adoption.
Questions…
You don’t need to answer all of these here, but they’re worth addressing in your Play Store listing or FAQ:
1. Privacy & permissions
- Is anything sent to your servers?
2. Rate limits / large libraries
- How does it behave with 100k+ photos?
- Does Graph API throttling slow scans significantly?
3. False positives
- Can users adjust sensitivity?
4. Video duplicates
- Any limits on video duration/size?
5. OneDrive account types
- Personal vs Business accounts?
- Multiple accounts supported?
- Nice work 🙂— this is exactly the kind of “why doesn’t the platform do this?” app that gains loyal users.