Photostream For Android Announced

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