com.samsung.android.widget.pictureframe Copy

Recorded here with the English label "Gallery" and localised equivalents in other locales (Galerie, Galeria, Galería, Galleria, Galerij, Галерея). It is Samsung platform-signed, on an OEM key that also signs the Android framework. The label is the thing to be careful about: this is not the Samsung Gallery app itself. The package name is com.samsung.android.widget.pictureframe, and its permissions on this site's provenance data are those of a home-screen widget that displays photographs rather than of a gallery application. It requests READ_MEDIA_IMAGES, READ_MEDIA_VIDEO, READ_MEDIA_VISUAL_USER_SELECTED and ACCESS_MEDIA_LOCATION, the Samsung launcher's READ_SETTINGS permission, USE_EXACT_ALARM, SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW, VIBRATE and WAKE_LOCK, and a set of Samsung permissions named for Gallery content providers, Samsung Cloud, Samsung's "deepsky" widget services and a system UI keyguard image. A caveat on those vendor-named permissions: the provenance API records the permissions a package requests, never the ones it declares, so a name such as com.sec.android.gallery3d.provider2.READ shows this package asking for access published elsewhere and does not establish which component publishes it. Samsung documents how widgets reach the home screen generally: touch and hold the home screen, tap Widgets, choose a widget and tap Add. That page does not name a Gallery or picture frame widget, so it is cited here for the mechanism rather than for this package. For Android Enterprise, EMM and kiosk use there are two things worth noting. First, it holds INTERACT_ACROSS_USERS and INTERACT_ACROSS_USERS_FULL, so it is trusted to work across Android users, which is worth knowing on a device with a work profile or secondary users. Second, on a dedicated device whose launcher is replaced or locked down, a home-screen widget has no surface on which to appear. No role in enrolment or policy is identified in the sources cited here. It is rated with caution mainly because of the naming trap: an administrator sweeping a package list by label could disable this expecting to disable the Gallery app and get a different result in both directions. The effect on Samsung Gallery itself or on lock screen imagery is not documented, so test on one device. Version note: this database records builds from 5.0.00.21 to 9.0.00.24 across observed API levels 33 to 37, that is Android 13 and later, with a roll-up target SDK range of 33 to 36. The package does not appear on the Samsung certified application lists checked here for the Galaxy Note20 Ultra 5G (Android 10), the Galaxy S20 FE 5G (Android 11) or the Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G (Android 11). That is consistent with the package arriving after those releases, though a list that does not name a package is not proof it was absent from that firmware generation, and the release it arrived in could not be sourced.

• Add, customize, and use widgets on Galaxy phones - Samsung US →
• Galaxy Note20 Ultra 5G (N986B) Application List, Android 10 - Samsung Knox CC Mode →
• Galaxy S20 FE 5G (G781B) Application List, Android 11 - Samsung Knox CC Mode →
• Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G (G998B) Application List, Android 11 - Samsung Knox CC Mode →
• Package provenance for com.samsung.android.widget.pictureframe - Android System App Database →

• Signed by the device maker's own signing key (Samsung), so it is an OEM preinstall, and that single certificate is consistent across all 20 device profiles. It also signs the Android framework, so it is a platform-level key on its device(s). Inferred from the certificate appearing only on Samsung devices (508 packages, 10196 observations).
• Its largest observed manifest declares 31 permissions: 4 runtime (user-granted), 4 signature or system-level, 6 install-time and 17 vendor or uncatalogued.
• APK size ranges from 3.9 MB to 13.1 MB across the reporting device profiles, so the build differs substantially between them.
• Never reported as user-facing, so it runs as a background or system component rather than an app the user opens.