The stock gallery app is.... garbage IMO. Its constantly reordering my images to some arbitary order instead of by name (very annoying because i have pages of documents scanned and named by page number), just overall it feels rather clumsy, it doesnt animate gif files, no respect for .nomedia, etc.
Yeah, technically this is a question but here goes: What gallery applications do you use? If you could rip the gallery app from any device which would you choose and why?
Personally, im thinking of trying to rip the gallery app from the S2 or the galaxy tab, i know the S2 works well with gif files and thus far has not given me the amount of pain the Asus one has.
what do you think?
only thing I hate is that it won't allow you to rename files in there. so i use Asus file manager to rename. for the pictures or whatever you don't want shown, Quick pic works perfectly to hide whatever you don't want shown. I noticed GIF. don't animate in there also. they do in quickpic. but that's not a big deal for me. Other than that, I actually like the gallery app. its way better than my Ipad stock gallery app. I haven't came across another gallery only app. I'd be up for trying one. as long as its one that doesn't need to make duplicate copies to fill up its own gallery.
pileot said:
The stock gallery app is.... garbage IMO. Its constantly reordering my images to some arbitary order instead of by name (very annoying because i have pages of documents scanned and named by page number), just overall it feels rather clumsy, it doesnt animate gif files, no respect for .nomedia, etc.
Yeah, technically this is a question but here goes: What gallery applications do you use? If you could rip the gallery app from any device which would you choose and why?
Personally, im thinking of trying to rip the gallery app from the S2 or the galaxy tab, i know the S2 works well with gif files and thus far has not given me the amount of pain the Asus one has.
what do you think?
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I use quickpic, I've always used quickpic so I'm not sure whichother I'd use
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+1 on quickpic, you can do so much with it.
put folders the way you like them, move pics around easy and it makes any pic you look at nice and big.
i will never use anything else and ive tried a few.
I also use QuickPic. It is the best gallery app on Android, hands down. Not only is it super fast and responsive, but it is rock solid and has tons of file management and editing options that don't exist inside of the stock Gallery app.
https://play.google.com/store/search?q=quickpic&c=apps
+1 on quickpic - however has anyone used the gallery app on MIUI 4??
I used it on my old desire hd, it was pretty nice!
Gave quickpix a try, it does everything i need. Thanks for the suggestions everyone!
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I found this in the Desire Z forums and tried it out.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=9685595&postcount=13
So far so good. Found all my pics and the camera button is even linked to the HTC camera, so it can easily replace the Sense App.
Hope this helps someone.
Works awesome, takes a sec to load pictures but everything is fully funtional. I don't really like the htc gallery. The only thing that sucks is that the camera takes you back to the htc gallery if you hit the gallery button on the camera app.
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Any chance this gallery links to your picasa albums? I have some albums that I enjoy pulling wallpapers from, but Sense gallery doesn not pull them into the phone.
BuddahWolf01 said:
Any chance this gallery links to your picasa albums? I have some albums that I enjoy pulling wallpapers from, but Sense gallery doesn not pull them into the phone.
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It sure does.
sweet, I know what I'll be getting after perma-root gets working.
Man this is the first time I've seen the 3D gallery move this quickly. I liked the look of it on the Hero, but it was slow to load.
After the initial load up there is no hesitation on the Shift.
This isn't going to make my phone go nuts, is it?
When i had a Moment, if the stock gallery and the 3D gallery were even installed at the same time, not running, it would make the phone slow down like crazy.
BuddahWolf01 said:
sweet, I know what I'll be getting after perma-root gets working.
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You don't need root. Just install the .apk like any other app.
adamr240 said:
This isn't going to make my phone go nuts, is it?
When i had a Moment, if the stock gallery and the 3D gallery were even installed at the same time, not running, it would make the phone slow down like crazy.
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My Shift is running just fine with it and stock gallery. But my Moment didn't have problems when both were installed either.
It's not only about the slowness but the 3d gallery is very unstable even when it comes as stock on many phones if not all the thumbnail cache is a pain in the butt... deleting caches with Astro to rebuild then use it a few days then again black squares as thumbnails.. Nah! I rather use the stock sense gallery works great!
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It's not only about the slowness but the 3d gallery is very unstable even when it comes as stock on many phones if not all the thumbnail cache is a pain in the butt... deleting caches with Astro to rebuild then use it a few days then again black squares as thumbnails.. Nah! I rather use the stock sense gallery works great!
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I had those problems on my Moment but not on the Shift. It is slow to load the thumbnails for the first time but when you've got 20GBs of photos on Picasa that you'd like ready mobile access to it's the way to go. I'm actually really impressed with it. The only problem is that it keeps asking me for permission to sync with a gmail that I've already turned the sync off to and that I've already denied access to.
Has anyone been able to port a different gallery app? For instance the 3D one (don't know what it is called). The stock picture viewer is slow to render and a bit bothersome...
Google Gallery apk: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=887425&highlight=gallery
And another one that quite a few people like, QuickPic: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=866827&highlight=gallery
The 3D gallery is available on www.sdx-developers.com under the Samsung Moment downloads. It works great on the NC.
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peiziyu said:
Google Gallery apk: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=887425&highlight=gallery
And another one that quite a few people like, QuickPic: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=866827&highlight=gallery
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Thanks, but Quickpic only looks at the SD card. Any way to make it look elsewhere?
Seems the same with Google Gallery. Will anything work?
Thanks,
kev
I love the cool iris gallery but it only shows the SDcard as well, which makes me mad
Has anyone tried JustPictures on their NookColor? I use this on my DInc for pics and love it. I am getting a NC on Friday and am hoping to be able to set my photos up the same on both devices this weekend.
Me too. Stock gallery is crap, for sure.
I tried installing google gallery and it wouldn't let me, I'm on 1.0.1 rooted
I use a modified 3D gallery for the Samsung Moment (actually modified for the Spica) ... camera button removed, solid black background, and no flickering thumbnail artifacts.
I've attached it for you!
I'm noticing in my gallery that I have random ad pictures downloaded and I was wondering what's the cause? There are about 4-5 ads so far downloaded into my memory card which are in jpg or some sort of picture format.
i read that some games (like WWF, for example) will save some pics on your sdcard, which may appear in your gallery.
Oh really? Is there anyway to disable that? I don't want to keep on deleting random ads..
you'll have to have root access, and you will want to block ads via hosts file..
some roms do this, i belive cm7 does, unnamed does, dont know about others..
you could probably find an app in the market to do this also..
or buy the pro version of said app (if it has one) and you wont get ads..
Don't feel like rooting my phone... :/ Guess I'll deal with the ads then
Use QuickPic from the market to disable those folders. Or you can manually add .nomedia file in each directory to disable the photo viewer from opening that folder.
You can hide it with QuickPic and still use the default viewer.
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I'm noticing in my gallery that I have random ad pictures downloaded and I was wondering what's the cause? There are about 4-5 ads so far downloaded into my memory card which are in jpg or some sort of picture format.
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Hey, I'm new to this.. First time Android user who jumped from the iPhone 3GS because of how awesome the reviews were for the GS2! Anyways, I had the same issue and did some research and found out the ads for me were coming from Shazam.. A few days ago, they released an updated version of the app and under the changelog apologized for the issue.. Since updating, I haven't seen the ads again in my Gallery.. So if you have Shazam, I would check the market for the update!
hi there.
the devs' of one game (EA's monopoly) were so brilliant to forget to hide their game's pictures and other media from android gallery.
I have added the file .nomedia in all folders that contain the game media, cleared gallery data and rebooted, but the pictures still show up in gallery.
what am i doing wrong?
Would've thought the file would do the trick. Strongly suggest QuickPic. MUCH faster, lighter and has more options. The gallery is a cpu hog.
s15274n said:
Would've thought the file would do the trick. Strongly suggest QuickPic. MUCH faster, lighter and has more options. The gallery is a cpu hog.
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yeah that's what i thought.
used quickpic on my other phone, liked it. generally want to go stock as much as possible though... weird that it doesnt work the way it should
so there is no known solution for the monopoly issue? its too bad, i really like the game but its messing up my gallery so much
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so there is no known solution for the monopoly issue? its too bad, i really like the game but its messing up my gallery so much
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Unfortunately I couldn't find any
I put .nomedia file in every possible sub-folder and rebooted, but the media still showed up. Kind of weird, because ".nomedia" should and has worked in the past... so kind of a combination of EA making this blunder in their game design, and something wacky about the GT ROM not properly rescanning media files...
I ended up deleting the files and uninstalling the game, periodically checking the market whether EA has updated the game... I also sent them a bug report to their support Email in their website (although for support they do not have Android as a platform listed... go figure...) -haven't received an answer yet
^ certainly understand your thoughts... just curious though... the stock gallery is a cpu hog. why not just freeze it and use quickpic? You know from using it you could easily hide/exclude the galleries you did not want scanned/shown and the Tab has proven to run much better for me without the stock Gallery.
I know you mentioned staying stock as much as possible.... just felt I'd beat the drum a little more for those who read this later.
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^ certainly understand your thoughts... just curious though... the stock gallery is a cpu hog. why not just freeze it and use quickpic? You know from using it you could easily hide/exclude the galleries you did not want scanned/shown and the Tab has proven to run much better for me without the stock Gallery.
I know you mentioned staying stock as much as possible.... just felt I'd beat the drum a little more for those who read this later.
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no prob.
i used quickpic on my old Galaxy Tab (and my wife still does).
Gallery in Honeycomb just has a pretty good integration with Google+ and Picasa.
quickpic is a good app, can recommend it definitely.
right now i however just wish that EA would take android programming more serious... it tells me a lot that their user support pages don't even list Android as a platform... they haven't really arrived here yet...
I also have this problem, tried everything and my gallery is still full of monopoly trash . Sad cause I liked the game.
Have you cleared app data for media storage in settings/apps?
not entirely related to your issue, but an interesting side note.... When i plug in my nikon sd card via the usb adapter gallery refuses to show the contents, but quickpic works fine
Never had this with my other droid devices, so defo something odd on the tab re gallery/media scan
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Have you cleared app data for media storage in settings/apps? ........ so defo something odd on the tab re gallery/media scan
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Yes and yes
I'm after the original gallary app from the Nexus device for the Note 2, because Samsung's version is horrible, it's ultra choppy, it's worse than a HTC Hero, especially because I'm using Picasa, next to it I have my Nexus 4 side by side, everything is instant, scrolling, loading thumbnails and loading the images, just as fast as offline in the nexus version of the gallery app.
Even offline photos in the sammy version are choppy, you don't even want to bother trying to pinch to zoom, and of course this is all assuming you can even get the app to work, it usually freezes half way through a swipe, showing half of 2 images and only fix is a restart of the phone.
Samsung really screwed up some things on their OS, it's generally pretty slow all over, people said how fast this phone is, My S2 performs just the same, and vastly faster in the gallery and of course it's software which is to blame as I did put CM10.1 on my Note 2, which made is just as fast as the nexus, maybe even a bit faster, but then you lose the S Pen, camera app, multiview, etc...
I can live with the Lagwhiz, but I'd like a nice gallary app, I tried some 3rd party ones, which load just as fast as the original android one on the Nexus, but they don't load Picasa files and doesn't look as nice as the original gallery app from Nexus 4.
I found this, which is very fast and looks like JB Gallery, but no online photos from Picasa
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.moblynx.galleryics&feature=search_result
Oh yea in addition to be slow or freeze, much of the time it won't even show anything, you open gallery and it's just all black other than the top bar... Samsung really screwed it up.
If u can find the 4.2 cam zip and flash it the gallery comes with it
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Could you please post some screens?
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