Photostream For Android Announced
Story posted on: September 5, 2008, filed in: google
Android Developers has just announced a new open-source application for Google’s Android, called Photostream, which has been added to the apps-for-android project. Photostream is a photo browser and viewer for Flickr, and all you need to use it is a Flickr screen name or username. This application also acts as an example of several Android features and APIs:
- Activity aliases
- Adding custom shortcuts to Home
- Adding a new wallpaper chooser to the system
- Custom layouts
- Custom XML attributes
- Use of themes
- Use of styles
- Use of text colors
- Use of
- Use of bitmap and layer drawables from XML
- Use of HttpClient
- Proper interaction between background threads and the UI thread
- Efficient display rotation (using the new onRetainNonConfigurationInstance() API)
- Animations and layout animations
- Cropping an image
- Image manipulation
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