How to add a photo gallery to your business app

Photos in an app come in two kinds: a gallery you put together for customers to browse, and photos you or your staff take with the phone camera and keep with a record, such as a job, a product or a customer. They are set up differently, so decide which you need first.

Updated 2026-11-09

A gallery for customers

A salon, decorator, boutique or bakery app can open with a gallery of your work, grouped as you like: Bridal, Party, Hair; or Cakes, Cupcakes, Custom orders. A few photos you attach in the AppCub chat can be built into the app itself. If you want to add new photos often from your phone and have them show on customers' phones, the photos must be stored in a database: connect your own Supabase database from the chat.

Photos on records

Many apps are better with a photo next to each record: a product in stock, a finished repair, a site visit, a delivered order, a damaged item. An AppCub app can take a photo with the phone's camera or pick one from the phone's gallery and keep it with that record.

If only you use the app on one phone, the photos can stay on that phone. If staff take photos on their phones and you need to see them on yours, keep them in your own Supabase database so every phone sees them. Photos take space, so take them at a reasonable size and delete what you no longer need.

Where photos help in an app

Product lists in a shop app, so staff and customers pick the right item
Before and after photos of a repair, cleaning job or service visit
A profile photo for each student, member or patient, if they agree
Proof of delivery or of a finished job, kept with the order
A portfolio for a makeup artist, photographer or interior designer

Good practice

Ask before you photograph customers, children or the inside of homes; keep sensitive photos off any customer-facing screen
Group the gallery by what customers look for, not by date
Use your own photos only, not pictures from the internet
Add a WhatsApp button under the gallery: "I liked this design, can you do it?"
For a clinic or medical work, keep patient photos private to staff and follow your professional body's rules

With AppCub

Describe it, for example: "Add a Gallery screen with my photos in three groups. Let me add new photos from my phone, stored in my Supabase database, so customers see them." Or: "On each job, add a Before and After photo from the camera." Try the camera on the installed app; scan the QR code next to the chat to install it.

Questions

Can my app take photos with the camera?

Yes. An AppCub app can take a photo with the camera or pick one from the phone's gallery, and keep it with a record.

Can customers see new photos I add from my phone?

Yes, if the photos are stored in your own Supabase database, connected from the chat.

Will staff photos reach my phone?

Only when the app uses a shared database. Without one, photos stay on the phone that took them.

How many photos can the app hold?

On one phone, it depends on the phone's space. In Supabase, it depends on your plan's storage.

Can customers upload their own photos?

With a shared database, yes, for example a reference photo with a booking. Ask for it and check the plan.

Do photos work in the web link version?

Showing photos does. Use the installed Android app to test taking photos with the camera.

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