Just a heads up to everyone... if you haven't tried the app Quick Pic on your NC, you owe it to yourself to do so. It is by far the fastest and most responsive gallery app I've ever used on Android. Period.
It also makes a fantastic comic viewer if you've unzipped all of the comic images into their own folders.
For your convenience, I've attached the apk.
http://www.appbrain.com/app/quickpic-(picture-folder)/com.alensw.PicFolder
That one?
Awesome, thank you for sharing!
It's called QuickPic (Picture Folder) in the Market.
thanks! have to give it a try ... stupid question, is there an easy way to uninstall any of the apps and it will do a clean uninstall.
first time playing with android and installing apps left and right but I'm not sure if that's the best thing to do
Okay, that is a fantastic application. Finally, a way to manage mass amounts of photo data.
_Thank_you_
Wow, this app is awesome. Its like gallery app on steroids. It is beyond snappy or responsive. Thanks OP.
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Awesome app. Thanks!
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Great app. Thanks for sharing!
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hamachiaddict said:
thanks! have to give it a try ... stupid question, is there an easy way to uninstall any of the apps and it will do a clean uninstall.
first time playing with android and installing apps left and right but I'm not sure if that's the best thing to do
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You'll need Nook Color Tools -> All Settings -> Manage applications
i cannot find recent screenshots in my pic gallery using this app. I can only see then when using the original gallery app. Any Help?
after the recent update, quickpic now zooms on double-tap instead of single-tap. I don't like double-tapping/pinch2zoom all the time, do you know how to change it back to single-taps ?
I tried to find the homepage/forum of the developer to ask him that, but failed... -only found some chinese page
there is no settings/preferences button for this app, right?
QuickPic works good for local pictures, but does nothing with remote pictures. JustPictures works great for remote pictures (Flickr, Picasa), but always does a scan that takes quite a while for local pictures.
I use both, depends on what I'm doing.
I wish QuickPic had an option to not disable the status bar.
this app vs google's stock 2.1 gallery any comments?
eric2k said:
this app vs google's stock 2.1 gallery any comments?
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I'm not sure exactly what the stock google 2.1 gallery is, but if it's the 3Dgallery, or the original Nook Color gallery, then the Quickpic app isn't quite as fancy, but it also hasn't choked on large quantities of very large photo files, which both of the prior mentioned apps couldn't handle. I also had problems with JustPictures choking on multiple folders with over 100 (5+mb) photos in each.
I would list Quickpic as more utilitarian. It does the job, and does it fairly well.
What about Floating Image?
It doesn't help when you want to find a particular image, but browsing a gallery is heavenly in that app.
Great suggestion
Thanks for suggesting this... I really like the Froyo 3D Gallery, but its not as smooth and some things are just annoying, especially when loading new pictures.
QuickPic is damn good for my needs.
i wish there was a good flickr app, with the same layout as quickpic. quickpic is awesome.
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QuickPic works good for local pictures, but does nothing with remote pictures. JustPictures works great for remote pictures (Flickr, Picasa), but always does a scan that takes quite a while for local pictures.
I use both, depends on what I'm doing.
I wish QuickPic had an option to not disable the status bar.
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been looking for something like this, thanks for the suggestion!
Great app, was using just pictures until now which was far better than the standard gallery app.
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A guide probably is a strong word for something this simple.
I did this because:
- I hate the way the stock gallery functions
- Watchdog constantly shows it using 44-52% of my resources.
My solution:
Replace Gallery3D with QuickPic in the Market
(no wonky permissions and the UI is much better in my opinion).
How to do it:
- So easy.
- Download QuickPic (LINK TO MARKET)
- Install, Open, like it? Continue.
- Go to your file manager (I like Root Explorer)
- go to system/apps
- Long press on Gallery3D
- Rename it
- Change the .apk to .bak
- Have shortcuts to the gallery? If so, replace them with Quickpic. I have a custom icon I prefer so I changed that too.
- Reboot.
What have I noticed?
- A better looking, and easier navigated Gallery.
- No Watchdog alerts for excessive CPU usage
- No loss in functionality (the opposite actually)
- Easily hide or exclude photos or folders in the gallery
I encourage you to try it.
I've always hated Gallery. This seemed like a good solution, so I decided to try it. It's certainly easy enough. I like that I can hide all those random images that appear from email caches and the like. Thanks!
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JJMT said:
I've always hated Gallery. This seemed like a good solution, so I decided to try it. It's certainly easy enough. I like that I can hide all those random images that appear from email caches and the like. Thanks!
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Ahh, really good point. I neglected you can very easily exclude or hide folders/images from the Gallery.
Edit, just added it.
Nice! Had never heard of Quickpic, but so far I prefer it to the native 3D Gallery.
Thanks for the heads up Callip.
Fast works great.
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I like it. Seems faster. Now I followed your steps, but after every reboot, my launcher pro freezes. It either takes a real long time to return to normal or I get a FC.
I find it easier to just freeze gallery in titanium backup. Just an alternate method.
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I find it easier to just freeze gallery in titanium backup. Just an alternate method.
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True. I'll add that as an alternate later, thanks man.
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I like it. Seems faster. Now I followed your steps, but after every reboot, my launcher pro freezes. It either takes a real long time to return to normal or I get a FC.
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This should have zilch to do with launcher pro, unless you have a shortcut to the gallery (not quickpic) maybe?
I use adw ex, no issues at all. I'll try and help, just don't see how this could be related.
I use launcher pro and have replaced the gallery app for a while with no fc...I recommend this app too haha.
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This should have zilch to do with launcher pro, unless you have a shortcut to the gallery (not quickpic) maybe?
I use adw ex, no issues at all. I'll try and help, just don't see how this could be related.
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I did have a shortcut to the gallery, but I trashed it. It doesn't matter, I just flashed to another rom. Does gallery3d really need to be disabled? I can't have both running?
You can do whatever you want man, I gave my suggestion. Sounds like I'm having much better results. If you have one, don't really need the other do ya?
First time I heard of quickpic, installing and so far loving it. thanks
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You can do whatever you want man, I gave my suggestion. Sounds like I'm having much better results. If you have one, don't really need the other do ya?
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I was thinking there would be interference issues or something if both apps were kept and that's why you wanted to remove gallery3d. Anyway thanks for this app recommendation. It loads a lot faster. I'll be following your beta swype steps real soon.
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I was thinking there would be interference issues or something if both apps were kept and that's why you wanted to remove gallery3d. Anyway thanks for this app recommendation. It loads a lot faster. I'll be following your beta swype steps real soon.
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Awesome man!
FYI, QuickPic got an update.
Android Central had just posted a write-up of QuickPic today.
http://www.androidcentral.com/android-quick-app-quickpic
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Android Central had just posted a write-up of QuickPic today.
http://www.androidcentral.com/android-quick-app-quickpic
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Likely because of all my jibber-jabber on this over Twitter, ha.
I tried this with launcherPro and works great. It even let me choose my wallpaper from my pics like normal gallery. Also I can disable rescan media, since this lets me choose folders on command! This is A-W-E-S-O-M-E! I recommend this even as a solution if you have any problems with the normal gallery.
I use it to crop photos a lot.. Also nice because when you set a wallpaper it defaults the way most prefer, never understood why the stock gallery didn't zoom all the way out.
UPDATE!
this one is way better than the one i originally posted
Thanks Armenian6000 for showing us this gallery app it is fantastic!
Quickpic form market is free and is far Far! BETTER THAN ANY GALLERY APP, its super fast and really nice in fact its the fasted gallery app out on market. but worth a try for sure,
check it out
https://market.android.com/details?i...icFolder&hl=en
Great looking app, plays 3D Movies - however the 3D pictures aren't being displayed in 3D.
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hey guys i installed the 3d gallery from the nexus one on my evo and it worked great it just takes a while to create the thumbs at first but once thats done it works its real fast and it plays 3d videos just fine...
here is the market link
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.cooliris.media&feature=search_result
looks a hell of a lot better than the htc gallery!
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sucksballs compared to the new htc gallery imho the new gallery is a HUGE improvement over the old one
if i was going to install a new gallery app it would be quickpic's
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Great looking app, plays 3D Movies - however the 3D pictures aren't being displayed in 3D.
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If the 3D pics are displayed in 3D, then the gallery is pointless. Isn't it kind of ironic that that gallery is called the "3D" Gallery?
is there a way we can make sub folders in the stock gallery.
You can in Quick Pic but again it wont show the 3D ones
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sucksballs compared to the new htc gallery imho the new gallery is a HUGE improvement over the old one
if i was going to install a new gallery app it would be quickpic's
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I used to use the 3D gallery but I have a lot of picture folders and it would arrange them in some entropic order sometimes and got too annoying so I switched to Quickpic. I was going to install Quickpic on my 3vo but the new HTC gallery is a huge improvement. The most important feature, it starts with the most recent pictures. That was so annoying with the old gallery app. You'd spend 30 seconds scrolling to your recent pictures.
Bahahhaha youre kidding me right? That has to be worst gallery ever made, its what cm7 uses.
3D gallery runs crappy even on this phone. I still have folders loading pics long after I opened the app. Uninstalled.
Im pretty content with the HTC gallery included with the 3VO.
Thanks for the link.
What bothers me the most about HTC gallery is that when you click on a photo or a video in the gallery, there is no option to delete.
This is regression from Google's stock gallery because when I have 5 very similar pictures, I need to be able to compare them by swiping through them and then deleting those that i dont like. Having to go back to the thumbnail view is terrible because I cant tell which one I decided to delete.
I started a thread on this in the HTC forum - please add your feedback there if you agree: community.htc.com/na/htc-forums/android/f/138/p/12583/53177.aspx#53177 (cant post proper links yet)
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You have to tap the image instead of hitting the menu button.
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Thanks for the link.
What bothers me the most about HTC gallery is that when you click on a photo or a video in the gallery, there is no option to delete.
This is regression from Google's stock gallery because when I have 5 very similar pictures, I need to be able to compare them by swiping through them and then deleting those that i dont like. Having to go back to the thumbnail view is terrible because I cant tell which one I decided to delete.
I started a thread on this in the HTC forum - please add your feedback there if you agree: community.htc.com/na/htc-forums/android/f/138/p/12583/53177.aspx#53177 (cant post proper links yet)
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Never mind, you have to tap the screen instead of hitting menu
Quickpic
Quickpic form market is free and is far Far! BETTER THAN ANY GALLERY APP, its super fast and really nice in fact its the fasted gallery app out on market. but worth a try for sure, i always used this on my evo 4g and now my evo 3d
check it out
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.alensw.PicFolder&hl=en
wow that hide a folder feature is the best! thanks for that man
No problem bro
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Thanks for the link.
What bothers me the most about HTC gallery is that when you click on a photo or a video in the gallery, there is no option to delete.
This is regression from Google's stock gallery because when I have 5 very similar pictures, I need to be able to compare them by swiping through them and then deleting those that i dont like. Having to go back to the thumbnail view is terrible because I cant tell which one I decided to delete.
I started a thread on this in the HTC forum - please add your feedback there if you agree: community.htc.com/na/htc-forums/android/f/138/p/12583/53177.aspx#53177 (cant post proper links yet)
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Hey!!! now I know your ID on both forums!!!! lol
To the opp....sorry the new gallery that comes with the 3D is good enough....fast....and I just don't see a need to load another app that does the same **** I can do with the one that comes stock.
It is nice and fast indeed, but it doesnt show 3d content properly
I dont really have a performance problem with HTC Gallery.
Can anyone recommend a good gallery app, paid or free. I installed gingerbread and although I like the new gallery it's just so slow. It never loads all the thumbnails so I can't tell what each picture is without pressing it.
I appreciate any suggestions.
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I use QuickPic -- its free on the market. Great gallery app, fast, smooth, loads up images in NO time.
I'm using Gallery+ right now cuz I hate 2.3.4's Gallery, gotta try that QuickPic one.
I use Quickpic. Love it.
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Gallery 3d
Thanks you guys. I will check those out out.
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I use to think it was the 2d gallery app, but I can't install it on gingerblur.. so I say quickpic
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+1 for QuickPic
will have to check it out; i HATE that the new gallery is all timecode based; i have all my pics (i am a published pro photographer and cameraman) organized meticulously and the new gallery wont let me just see everything in the old froyo file system. plus it is (WAY) slower and will not properly load thumbnails so 95% of my shots (which i keep in full res on the external SD card) show up without a thumbnail or title.
totally unacceptable to me. also i dont do social networking (AT ALL, i call/tango/skype if needed and talk or text but i prefer REAL human interaction) so tagging etc is useless for me.
+982343 for QuickPic
Super fast, and also renders images you use for WALLPAPER without any quality loss; if you set a wallpaper using the stock gallery vs quickpic you will see a stark difference.
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+982343 for QuickPic
Super fast, and also renders images you use for WALLPAPER without any quality loss; if you set a wallpaper using the stock gallery vs quickpic you will see a stark difference.
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yep, i noticed this straight away, with the wallpapers, and luckily quickpic does them perfectly, best gallery ive used.
Is the crap quality wallpaper thing a problem with the atrix gallery app or is it the same on other phones?
You guys are all correct, Quickpic is great. I need to start recommending it to people. Thanks again.
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Another vote for Quickpic here... Flashed 2.3.4 a few days ago and I have been more than disappointed with the new stock gallery app. Quickpic is definitely the answer. It organizes everything for you.
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Quickpic has my vote! So much easier to use!
Agreed quick pic is great but I also use b and b http://gallery.breadandbuttertool.com/ which has better folder options in certain circumstances imo. Those 2 though are all I need really!
quickpic!!
Quickpic is about the best.
But one feature that they ALL lack is an ability (option) not to recursively show subfolders.
ie, I have a folder called pets, and inside two more called cat, and dog. From the main gallery I only want to see pets and any images in pets. If I want to dig into cat or dog, I want to see those as subfolders. Just like folders in Windows.
If you like the idea of this, send an email to the author of quickpic. I requested this and he likes the idea. He said maybe if more people request it.
Okay, my personal mission aside.
Has anyone frozen (TiBu) the stock gallery app? I don't like it, and I'm tired of it littering my /sd with cache folders all over the place.
Yet another vote for quickpic.
Hey guys. I did a factory restore on my phone for reasons unrelated to the gallery, but when it was done, the factory gallery now works flawlessly. It loads up almost instantly and the thumbnails are perfect. I still think I like quickpic better, but I thought I would let you guys know what happened.
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Can anyone recommend a good gallery app, paid or free. I installed gingerbread and although I like the new gallery it's just so slow. It never loads all the thumbnails so I can't tell what each picture is without pressing it.
I appreciate any suggestions.
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I have tried a few gallery apps because i totally hate the stock gallery app as well. I love how smooth QuickPic is. They recently released a latest version of this app, making pinch to zoom look like eye candy.
Have a look at this youtube link and see for yourself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQdOwRCh__g
*Note: This is the old version of QuickPic though....the latest version is WAY smoother.
I really like the Sony Cradle, but there's one thing that's been bugging me since I got it.
I'd really like to use my tablet as a photo frame when it's in the cradle, and there's the Gallery app to do just that. But unless I'm missing something, there doesn't seem to be much in the way of settings.
Rather than just pulling in any photos it finds, I'd like to just display a specific folder of images (In an ideal world, it'd hook into Flickr and pull a particular set in, but that's probably asking too much).
Failing that, it'd be great if other applications - including an alternative "gallery" app - were available.
Other options should include duration between pictures, selection of transitions, how to deal with photos of different ratios, and choosing whether to pan/zoom or not.
Has anyone got any solutions?
install quickpic (alternative gallery, fast and free, lets u define paths)
go to settings, applications, gallery
clear defaults
see if quickpic now comes up as option when u dock
Any word on how this worked? I'd like to have something like this, but can't try it until I get home.
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tried it. still only gives the same options. =\
QuickPic is indeed a much nicer program than Gallery, although it could do with some transitions.
Unfortunately, only the three "official" Sony apps come up as options to auto-start when you dock in the cradle - Clock, Gallery and Chumby.
I'm not sure what special inclusions are required for third-party apps to work like that...
Well, quickpic needs some development
Quickpic is nice, but still, what's bugging me is:
"Can't sync Picasa or Facebook or other web albums!"
An app where you could choose whatever album you wanted (including Picasa) I would give a fair amount of money for.
I personally have always liked Quickpic vs pure android gallery and Xperia gallery when i had my Arc S. but since i've had the 4.1.2 Gallery on my S3, ive loved the different view options, the speed has been great. I cant see myself having a need to use Quickpic again.
Anyone sitll using Quickpic? if so, why?
Because it will not let me hide albums like quickpic. Change to view only on device but does not save that setting
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And Quickpic works extremely fast with quality previews, unlike the blurry images on the the stock SGS3 gallery!
Mick
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Because it will not let me hide albums like quickpic. Change to view only on device but does not save that setting
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Agreed with the option not saving but i definitely dislike my facebook / picasa pics in my gallery, so i remove them from syncing.
I like the logical sorting option.
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Exclude albums from being scanned
Hide albums
Fast even with high quality images
Loads much quicker
The thing that really put me off the stock gallery though was how long it took to generate an image after I took a photo. I'd snap an image, click on the preview button and would normally be greeted by a loading screen that would take roughly 2 seconds. If I use another camera app then hit the preview button and set it to open with QuickPic, the image is there IMMEDIATELY. It's not the fact that 2 seconds is a long time to wait, its the fact that other apps can do it quicker. I'm on CM10.1 and have no need for QuickPic. Gallery is smooth and images are accessible immediately, no loading times or black screens