Today I was playing with Picasa albums on the Android gallery and was curious if there are Facebook APIs that would allow the gallery to display facebook albums similar to how they display Picasa albums. (run on sentence?)
I recall reading in the past that facebook opened up APIs for displaying photo albums outside of FB, but I was not sure if anyone has thought of adding this functionaliy.
If it is not possible to add to Gallery, is there another photo program besides the built in FB app that will pull FB photos?
The new MyTouch Slide does this.
I'm not a dev or anything, so I couldn't tell you how it's done though.
hoyter said:
Today I was playing with Picasa albums on the Android gallery and was curious if there are Facebook APIs that would allow the gallery to display facebook albums similar to how they display Picasa albums. (run on sentence?)
I recall reading in the past that facebook opened up APIs for displaying photo albums outside of FB, but I was not sure if anyone has thought of adding this functionaliy.
If it is not possible to add to Gallery, is there another photo program besides the built in FB app that will pull FB photos?
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It's there already in Sense. Get an Android made by HTC all you'll be able to do it. It's cool!
I'm considering (if I can find a little time) to extend the gallery app to allow it to be extended to support additional sources of networked albums. Gallery uses android data sources to get the images to and has a class which concatenates two data sources, one for local files, the other for picasa. Extending this to concatenate any number of providers and querying the android system for them would allow this to be extensible.
My goal is to add support for gallery3 (gallery.menalto.com), but facebook, flikr or any other photo service with a suitable API could be added.
tuxfoo said:
I'm considering (if I can find a little time) to extend the gallery app to allow it to be extended to support additional sources of networked albums. Gallery uses android data sources to get the images to and has a class which concatenates two data sources, one for local files, the other for picasa. Extending this to concatenate any number of providers and querying the android system for them would allow this to be extensible.
My goal is to add support for gallery3 (gallery.menalto.com), but facebook, flikr or any other photo service with a suitable API could be added.
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Interested in the Gallery3 support as well.
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Interested in the Gallery3 support as well.
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Great! I'll PM you if I ever get around to working on it and have something usable for you to test.
I did look into it a little bit more and it looks like things are not abstracted quite as well as I had originally thought, which means its a lot more work.
There was an app for the G1 (at least that was how it was labelled, worked fine on my Magic) that worked on Gallery2. Since Gallery3 is a re-write, I doubt it works anymore. I think I found it in the Market.
Morenicano said:
It's there already in Sense. Get an Android made by HTC all you'll be able to do it. It's cool!
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Thank you for pointing this out!! I had no idea! I freaking love this phone! If it could give bj's and make sandwiches I think I'd marry it. ;-)
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Just downloaded the Facebook Album hotfix where you get an extra Facebook tab within Albums to look into your FB friends album as if they where on your phone. Works nice and neat....!!!
Is this possible for Picasa..?? So you would get an extra Picasa tab (just like the FB one) so you can look into your own and your friends album..!! That'll be cool cause I can show everyone in an easy way my Picasa pictures..
Thanks in advance..!!
DirectZ said:
Just downloaded the Facebook Album hotfix where you get an extra Facebook tab within Albums to look into your FB friends album as if they where on your phone. Works nice and neat....!!!
Is this possible for Picasa..?? So you would get an extra Picasa tab (just like the FB one) so you can look into your own and your friends album..!! That'll be cool cause I can show everyone in an easy way my Picasa pictures..
Thanks in advance..!!
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Highly unlikely seeing as how the Facebook Plugin is directly tied to the Facebook Engine package and Social Networks Engine. Neither of which are designed to support Picasa.
I would like to ask to community to help out in a request to a developer.
Some of you many not know that the 3d Gallery app on our phones is NOT present in all 2.1+ android devices. While the Gallery itself maybe present access to Picasa is missing in some Sense based roms.
There is a fix for this being developed and is available in the market under the name, 3D Gallery. Here is where I would like you help.
At present the dev is doing nothing more then trying to make a clone of the gallery. He has just added Picasa access, but you will need to give the app your log-in details. This is not something that many users are willing to do as Picasa generally speaking is tied to the users main account.
What I would like to see is the dev give access to Picasa public galleries through username alone along with the ability for full access if both user and pass are given. Granted you will not be able to upload if user and pass are not given, but thats not really a big deal.
I think the one thing Google overlooked with the 3d Gallery was the ability to view albums you mark as favorites in your account. This app has the ability to give us this function, we just need to let the dev know that we want it.
This would be the PERFECT way to share wallpaper with each other, without the need to actually take up any storage on the phone itself.
I know Im not the only one that wants this, so please help out.
Send a copy of the following petition to the devs email address.
Email: support at flikie dot com
Copy petition below
I fully support the petition to add access to selected Picasa public albums inside of your 3D Gallery app. Access to said galleries should be entered through username alone and/or full web address.
Adding the ability to view public galleries gives us the perfect method to share wallpaper in a way that does not require using the phones storage.
Thank you for considering our request.
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Reviving a pretty old thread here.
Is there anyone with the coding know-how to get this to work? I've been looking for a solution and even looked at some of the source code for the gallery files, but then quickly realized I had no business in there.
What I'd like to see is any albums that are shared with me or people who I'm "following" through Picasaweb are synced to my phone and visible in Gallery.
Any takers?
I figured out how to get high res contact photos.
First you need ICS
Have a google plus account and google plus on your phone
Create a folder on your computer called contact photos
Load all your contact pictures into this folder
Put this entire folder onto google+ picasa web albums
Have google+ picasa web albums synced to your phone with the google+ app
You should see in gallery an album called contact photos
Manually link all of your contacts to these photos
Now all of your contacts have high res photos! Its kind of time consuming but its finally a work around the stupid google blurry pictures. I have spent countless time googling a work around. I hope this helps everyone out!
They are working on it as we speak. Thanks for the feedback and suggestion, but personally I think I'll wait until I can manager higher resolution photos directly from GMail Contacts. Saves any future hassles
i hope they fix this!!! i hate low res contact pics.
It's not exactly a fix... but I've gotten many of my contact pictures in high res through Facebook and HaxSync. As long as you have them as a Facebook friend, you can at least see their face clearly with this
The only problem is, if you have to blast your contacts storage or switch phones for any reason, the pictures that get synced back down from Google are the low res versions, then you have to manually re-do the photos all over again. It's disappointing that Google has taken so long to fix what seems like a relatively simple issue.
The other suggestion from Google was to sync your G+ contacts to your phone, but most of the people I contact via text or phone aren't actually on G+, and most of the people I have as contacts in G+ I don't communicate with outside of professional social networks.
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I figured out how to get high res contact photos.
First you need ICS
Have a google plus account and google plus on your phone
Create a folder on your computer called contact photos
Load all your contact pictures into this folder
Put this entire folder onto google+ picasa web albums
Have google+ picasa web albums synced to your phone with the google+ app
You should see in gallery an album called contact photos
Manually link all of your contacts to these photos
Now all of your contacts have high res photos! Its kind of time consuming but its finally a work around the stupid google blurry pictures. I have spent countless time googling a work around. I hope this helps everyone out!
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Any word when they gonna fix this? It's superridiculous, I have no words for it...
First rule of xda and google
don't ask for ETA
androidsjonnie said:
Any word when they gonna fix this? It's superridiculous, I have no words for it...
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There's now a fix!
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ryosoftware.contactphotosupdater
Also downloads from Facebook & Twitter if you donate
Saved me from manually linking everytime I flash a ROM
avidmovies said:
There's now a fix!
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ryosoftware.contactphotosupdater
Also downloads from Facebook & Twitter if you donate
Saved me from manually linking everytime I flash a ROM
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Manually choosing pictures for each contact is not a fix!
I have put together a tiny app that syncs the photos on the phone to picasa web thus preserving its quality. Of course you need to have choosen a high resolution photo on your phone.
This being probably my first post, I can't include a link so have a search of it on Google Play and if you found it useful, post the link yourself.
Search for "Contact Photo Sync" on Google Play (remember to include the double quote marks in your search).
I've also released the code under GPLv3. To get the code, search "contactphotosync" in github.
Hope this helps some of you
That is supercool!
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I have put together a tiny app that syncs the photos on the phone to picasa web thus preserving its quality. Of course you need to have choosen a high resolution photo on your phone.
This being probably my first post, I can't include a link so have a search of it on Google Play and if you found it useful, post the link yourself.
Search for "Contact Photo Sync" on Google Play (remember to include the double quote marks in your search).
I've also released the code under GPLv3. To get the code, search "contactphotosync" in github.
Hope this helps some of you
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THANK YOU
oxplot said:
I have put together a tiny app that syncs the photos on the phone to picasa web thus preserving its quality. Of course you need to have choosen a high resolution photo on your phone.
This being probably my first post, I can't include a link so have a search of it on Google Play and if you found it useful, post the link yourself.
Search for "Contact Photo Sync" on Google Play (remember to include the double quote marks in your search).
I've also released the code under GPLv3. To get the code, search "contactphotosync" in github.
Hope this helps some of you
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.oxplot.contactphotosync
^ THIS
THAT APP did a good job for ICS AOSP user,
which google failed to provide.. :good:
i personaly dont like another app solution,
which syncing it with FB photo.. even though it's HD.
FB photo profile sync just sucks big time..
i simply don't want my friends picture on my contact phone is just like:
Cat, Guitar, Car or natural scenery,
or maybe his / her picture but way too far from camera..
which s/he set as profile picture on FB.
that app really good, suits my need, which i can't found for months..
oxplot said:
I have put together a tiny app that syncs the photos on the phone to picasa web thus preserving its quality. Of course you need to have choosen a high resolution photo on your phone.
This being probably my first post, I can't include a link so have a search of it on Google Play and if you found it useful, post the link yourself.
Search for "Contact Photo Sync" on Google Play (remember to include the double quote marks in your search).
I've also released the code under GPLv3. To get the code, search "contactphotosync" in github.
Hope this helps some of you
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Brilliant! solves my headache....U are my new hero
You can try also Facebook Contact Picture Sync (google play)
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You can try also Facebook Contact Picture Sync (google play)
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yeah.
because all of friends put a real profile picture of them on their profile.
not.
facebook contact picture sync is great but it's weird to get cat, guitar and etc at my friends contact profile.
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anyway im on Jelly Bean right now.
google already fix this thing.
contact profile already on HD size, and stays HD after sync from scratch.
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Hi,
I don't like to give my info to third party libraries or apps,so i've managed to fix SyncMyPix for ICS. Also fixed facebook functions. I'm uploading apk and source here.
I also added fql to fetch fullsize facebook photos.
To use it,
1)You have to create an application on your facebook account from developers.facebook.com.
There is an video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDeaKrWR7WA&feature=relmfu -> thanks to google
2)After creation enter your facebook "application id" to "Application Id field on preferences of application".
https://developers.facebook.com/attachment/android_devapp_basic.png <- in this picture the APP_ID part is your application id.
(dont click on green square)
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/getting-started/facebook-sdk-for-android/3.0/ -> step 4
Add this key as android key
Code:
it's not needed anymore, use it as web app
3)Enable high res photos, and disable crop from preferences.
4)When you touch sync facebook login form will appear, (it's facebook's own login dialog) and login to your facebook account from application.
5)If you didn't add your application to your facebook account it will ask you to authorize it.
6)It will automatically fetch contact photos. (If it doesnt start click sync again, it will not ask your facebook details again)
I could have given my application id to you but there would be no point to use this application if i had done it. There are lots of applications on market.
Also if you understand compiling from source you can set application id from string.xml -> "facebook_api_key"
My source code repo of syncmypix:
https://github.com/Deadknight/SyncMyPix
Have fun
Update (special-3):
*It works on 4.2.2 emulator
*Highly increased image resolution.
*Because of change in facebook fetch type, it will be a little bit slower than other releases while syncing
*Apk is signed use the key provided above to enable facebook app over it
Update (special-2):
*Fixed crop view
*Increased resolution of images, Still a little choppy but better from before.
There is a way to implement high res photos with real size. But rooting required and i don't have time to research it .
*Some small bug fixes.
PS:Thanks Neil Loknath for fantastic base code.
PS 2:Tested on Nexus-HD2 Rom v2.3
Use special-3 version, older ones left for testing
Are you going to pass it upstream, they use svn: https://code.google.com/p/syncmypix/source/checkout
Hi,
Nope, i'm not sure which one he is using github or google. Also if anyone wants i attached source.
You lost me at "application id"
I think it works for me.
Update on tutorial for the guys cannot do.
Quick question:
Is this the same as using HaxSync or Facebook Profile Sync?
They both do 256x256 images I think, if not higher.
Update:
*Fixed crop view
*Increased resolution of images, Still a little choppy but better from before.
There is a way to implement high res photos with real size. But rooting required and i don't have time to research it .
*Some small bug fixes.
Quiksilver78 said:
Quick question:
Is this the same as using HaxSync or Facebook Profile Sync?
They both do 256x256 images I think, if not higher.
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I don't know how they work, but i added the functions that has to be used to add contact photo without hacking. Last version's quality is good. Try it yourself
Works great so far! Thanks for the update.
I didn't see anything in the thread about the difference between the special and special2? Could you clarify which is the best to use?
use special 2,
i left old one, if something wrong happens with new one.
are the attached apk's ones we can use or do we still have to make the app ?
You're app keeps giving me errors and the Facebook login prompt thingy is giving me an error as well.
Jelly Bean btw.
your app force closed and then it worked....odd.
Quick question, can i choose what fb name to sync with what name? I don't sync the fb contacts with my google contacts, but a display picture for the people would be sweet, but i have them all with nicknames in the phone and not the name as in fb.
will this fix where sense has blurry photos? and which apk should i install for that?
Does it work with MIUI4?
Hello.
Thanks for the hard work.
Does this app sync photos properly with MIUI4? I think they use a higher resolution that normal.
Mo.
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are the attached apk's ones we can use or do we still have to make the app ?
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yeah, do i still go through the whole video and all the steps?
im just confused as to what the first part with making the app has to do with anything...
quorn23 said:
Quick question, can i choose what fb name to sync with what name? I don't sync the fb contacts with my google contacts, but a display picture for the people would be sweet, but i have them all with nicknames in the phone and not the name as in fb.
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yes you can, the smart name matching sort of linked the wrong people for me but i guess its fixable
Does this sync Phone nos like it used to on Gingerbread?
quorn23 said:
Quick question, can i choose what fb name to sync with what name? I don't sync the fb contacts with my google contacts, but a display picture for the people would be sweet, but i have them all with nicknames in the phone and not the name as in fb.
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Yes, you can chose it from results view, long press the facebook username and click link to contact.
This program not intended to work with gingerbread, also i'm not sure it will work on 4.1.
You can use the attached apk, video is for creating facebook application. You will use that application id to fetch photos from facebook.
The application fetches the best sized photo on facebook profile, it will use highest resolution.
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Yes, you can chose it from results view, long press the facebook username and click link to contact.
This program not intended to work with gingerbread, also i'm not sure it will work on 4.1.
You can use the attached apk, video is for creating facebook application. You will use that application id to fetch photos from facebook.
The application fetches the best sized photo on facebook profile, it will use highest resolution.
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so whats the app do that u create? like whats its purpose?
Hello, I'm looking for an app to upload photos (preferably automatically), but also allow others to upload to the same album. Ideally, the shared album would show up in their account as well so they don't have to go looking for it each time.
Facebook allows this, but I don't want to share on fb, I just want to share with a couple people. I really like Google photos, but the multiple contributor "feauture" is atrocious. It's not even a feature, it's more of a work around unless I'm missing something.
What do you guys think?
Thanks