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[Solved] Gallery3D = Piece of Crap. Alternative?

Found my solution. It's QuickPic. Unbelievably good, simple, and not overdone. It's fast and to the point. I recommend everyone install it.
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Gallery3D is by far the most over-engineered photo app on the planet.
I absolutely HATE it.
~ Why does it take so long to "index" all my photos?
~ Why do I not have an option to disable all the retarded tilt/sliding animations?
~ Why can I not use it without it prompting me a million times to access my Picasa Web Albums (which I do NOT want to see)?
~ Why does it not remember my place when I go back to my homescreen?
The frustration I'm facing is coming from trying to place shortcuts on my Launcher Pro homescreen using custom icons. Gallery3D is the only registered handler to pick photos, and Its driving me nuts. The folder structure seems to randomly change order, the thumbnail cache of all the folders seems to be continuously rebuilt, there's just SO many things I hate about it.
I found the wonderful app called "JustPictures" but LauncherPro doesn't recognize it as a handler for images when selecting icons
Is there an alternative app I can use that will work with LauncherPro's custom icon support? I really need folder support, as a minimum, and that's honestly all I care about.

quickpick, miui gallery, or gallery 2D

I agree with liquid. Im really sick of 3d gallery. Im going try one of those you posted kyle!!
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Quick pic is pretty nice. Couldn't find miui gallery!
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zanywood said:
Quick pic is pretty nice. Couldn't find miui gallery!
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Its not in the market do a forum search for it I know its in the miui camera thread
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+1 for QuickPic... much better than Gallery3D
-mb

Quick pic is the best blows that damn 3d gallery away
Hijacked aospCMod Darkhorse GB Hero

Have u downloaded desktop visualizer? Its a great cutom widget/shortcut app. Also, if u like wp7, search photo safari in the market and check if launcher pro supports that
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I agree. Quick Pic is awesome.
METHOD1911 said:
Quick pic is the best blows that damn 3d gallery away
Hijacked aospCMod Darkhorse GB Hero
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THanks guys, QuickPic is excellent, everything I needed and nothing I didn't want. Updated OP so others can know about it as well.

Cool man, glad it worked out for you. I've switched over to it as well. Much faster than G3D.
By the way, I want to say thanks to you LS for your fantastic work on this phone. Your dev skills are epic in comparison to mine, so I thank you for your hard work to make our phone "Hero-scale"

Be advised: if you delete the 3d gallery you will lose picture frame widgets. I also lost the video player. So, until I find a lighter weight video player im stuck with it gumming up my phone with its crappy slowness.
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Don't know if this will help any of you all. But when I do a fresh installation of a rom I always clear data on gallery before I start it up. Also on every reboot I clear data as well and I have over 300 pic's on my sd and it performs good
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Love the quickpic.
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Hell yeah! This QuickPic is on point. Exactly what I needed.

LiquidSolstice said:
Gallery3D is by far the most over-engineered photo app on the planet.
I absolutely HATE it.
~ Why does it take so long to "index" all my photos?
~ Why do I not have an option to disable all the retarded tilt/sliding animations?
~ Why can I not use it without it prompting me a million times to access my Picasa Web Albums (which I do NOT want to see)?
~ Why does it not remember my place when I go back to my homescreen?
The frustration I'm facing is coming from trying to place shortcuts on my Launcher Pro homescreen using custom icons. Gallery3D is the only registered handler to pick photos, and Its driving me nuts. The folder structure seems to randomly change order, the thumbnail cache of all the folders seems to be continuously rebuilt, there's just SO many things I hate about it.
I found the wonderful app called "JustPictures" but LauncherPro doesn't recognize it as a handler for images when selecting icons
Is there an alternative app I can use that will work with LauncherPro's custom icon support? I really need folder support, as a minimum, and that's honestly all I care about.
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Amen to everything you just said LS, I have always wondered the exact same things! Oh and Dl'ing QuickPic now
*UPDATE* QuickPic is freaking Awesome!

user7618 said:
Be advised: if you delete the 3d gallery you will lose picture frame widgets. I also lost the video player. So, until I find a lighter weight video player im stuck with it gumming up my phone with its crappy slowness.
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Personally I love the Act1 Video Player...

user7618 said:
Be advised: if you delete the 3d gallery you will lose picture frame widgets. I also lost the video player. So, until I find a lighter weight video player im stuck with it gumming up my phone with its crappy slowness.
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Try Mvideo player its decent
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LiquidSolstice said:
Gallery3D is by far the most over-engineered photo app on the planet.
I absolutely HATE it.
~ Why does it take so long to "index" all my photos?
~ Why do I not have an option to disable all the retarded tilt/sliding animations?
~ Why can I not use it without it prompting me a million times to access my Picasa Web Albums (which I do NOT want to see)?
~ Why does it not remember my place when I go back to my homescreen?
The frustration I'm facing is coming from trying to place shortcuts on my Launcher Pro homescreen using custom icons. Gallery3D is the only registered handler to pick photos, and Its driving me nuts. The folder structure seems to randomly change order, the thumbnail cache of all the folders seems to be continuously rebuilt, there's just SO many things I hate about it.
I found the wonderful app called "JustPictures" but LauncherPro doesn't recognize it as a handler for images when selecting icons
Is there an alternative app I can use that will work with LauncherPro's custom icon support? I really need folder support, as a minimum, and that's honestly all I care about.
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Or you could always try this
Brainmaster's "Increase Read Cache for better SD Card access" tweak

I just used a system app remover and got rid of 3d gallery all together.
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Photo Slideshow Android App?

Any one know of a good Android app for viewing or creating picture slide shows. I want to be able to select multiple albums, add music and have transitions. Basically iPhoto on the tablet. The stock Asus Photo app nor Quick Pic can achieve what I want to do.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
TIA

im searching for the same thing xD
In deed im seaching for build my own slider... but i dont know how T.T

Quickpic is a decent app only it's slow with the slideshow.
The only thing I miss in the standard app is the duration of the slide show, it's WAY to fast! Now it's ugly when I use it as an photo slider....

Floating image , look great

Floating image os good, thx
DroidIris+ nice too
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[App] Claystone Launcher 2.4

UPDATE (9/21/2012): We've posted a new version of Claystone - v2.4 - to Google Play @ https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.claystoneinc !
We've taken a lot of the feedback discovered here in this thread to improve the app, including re-introducing theme support, weather panels, and more.
Check it out and let us know what you think. Thanks!
Claystone Team
http://www.claystoneinc.com

Great launcher
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This launcher rocks!!!!! Thanks
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yeah so I've used just about every launcher out there, and this launcher made me jizz myself.
only issue is the built in browser doesn't support java?
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Fuuuck me this is a...confusing beauty.... still a beauty. Will give this a go! Foooooooooooooooo sure
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I love the update and hope they keep coming. Here's a few things I tried to do but couldn't and some I'd like to see:
Ability to add, change, and customize the dock,
Multiselect apps to add to a pane
Change the transition effect from fade
Pinch and zoom to activate expose'
Swipe up and down actions
Would love a running apps dock
LANDSCAPE SUPPORT!
Ability to change themes or customize them more....especially icons
That's all for now,
Cheers!
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adzidek said:
yeah so I've used just about every launcher out there, and this launcher made me jizz myself.
only issue is the built in browser doesn't support java?
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Haha - hilarious.
Re: web + java. No, not right now. I know it's an oversight, but definitely something we want to tie in sooner rather than later.

D_one said:
I love the update and hope they keep coming. Here's a few things I tried to do but couldn't and some I'd like to see:
Ability to add, change, and customize the dock,
Multiselect apps to add to a pane
Change the transition effect from fade
Pinch and zoom to activate expose'
Swipe up and down actions
Would love a running apps dock
LANDSCAPE SUPPORT!
Ability to change themes or customize them more....especially icons
That's all for now,
Cheers!
Sent from my MB860 using XDA App
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Great, great feedback. Thank you!
Some of these are already on our plate - working on getting dock customization in ASAP - but those that aren't are going straight from your keyboard to the developer's ears. Thanks, again!

My phone's being repaired right now, so I can't try this. Are scrolling widgets supported?

Awesome work !! Really a good launcher. Makes my iFriends go green
Will post any features needed/ bugs

willing to try this and have great faith in the project. I love seeing a launcher with a difference and will download in the morning to my vibrant running cyanogen mod. finally if you are in need of a beta tester please let me know and I will do anything to help.

I like it.
Down points-
Slow to scroll from screen to screen
Confused on how to resize widgets.
I didn't see how to change what screen goes in what order. Example-I could never get my homescreen to be the middle screen instead of the 1st screen.
I think I'd like a swipe up gesture that allows quick screens glance rather than the middle dock button being the quick screen glance.
I give you props on this. It's turning out nicely and will continue to do so!

Nitro_123 said:
Awesome work !! Really a good launcher. Makes my iFriends go green
Will post any features needed/ bugs
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Haha - glad to hear. Thanks!

Vulpix said:
My phone's being repaired right now, so I can't try this. Are scrolling widgets supported?
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I'd like to say yes, but unfortunately they're not in this latest release. That said, let me see what I can do to sneak them into an upcoming build.
Hope your phone comes back better than ever.

Bean can said:
willing to try this and have great faith in the project. I love seeing a launcher with a difference and will download in the morning to my vibrant running cyanogen mod. finally if you are in need of a beta tester please let me know and I will do anything to help.
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Great, glad to hear. It's always a challenge trying to do something different, but totally worthwhile.
Any feedback you could offer would be much appreciated!

kiltedthrower said:
I like it.
Down points-
Slow to scroll from screen to screen
Confused on how to resize widgets.
I didn't see how to change what screen goes in what order. Example-I could never get my homescreen to be the middle screen instead of the 1st screen.
I think I'd like a swipe up gesture that allows quick screens glance rather than the middle dock button being the quick screen glance.
I give you props on this. It's turning out nicely and will continue to do so!
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Gotcha.
In terms of the widget resizing, if you long hold on a widget and tap 'Resize' you'll notice the bounding box + arrows pop up. From there, you should be able to resize by tapping and dragging on the arrows to get the dimensions needed (if you're not seeing the arrows or that functionality's not working, definitely let me know).
Re: setting the order of screens - we don't have that included now, but it's already in the works for a release in the very short-term.
Lastly, hadn't considered the upward swipe gesture idea. Let me stew on it for a bit and see if there's something we can do there.
Thanks for taking the time to drop the feedback - love it!

I am trying the Launcher (although I prefer plain vanilla LauncherPro). It's tricky trying to get use to using this. I am so use to using an almost empty, plain desktop.
I wanted to try this because of the news feeds as it seems easier than opening the browser and going to the news sites.

really good, but on my sensation (960x540 px resolution) the themes doesnt resize properly, there are blurry icons and backgrounds. only the widgets are looking ok. i hope youll make it compatible with qHD (960x540) resolution.
glad to see that you are working on the screen order feature
a setting to change the transition effect and a running apps panel (task manager) would be very nice!
i dont like the photos panel, i cant scroll through the photos when i select one from the list, i must first go in fullscreen mode... it should be more like gallery 3D ^^
waiting for the next update

Falen said:
I am trying the Launcher (although I prefer plain vanilla LauncherPro). It's tricky trying to get use to using this. I am so use to using an almost empty, plain desktop.
I wanted to try this because of the news feeds as it seems easier than opening the browser and going to the news sites.
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Totally understand - it's a bit of a departure from layouts featured in ADW, LauncherPro, etc.
In fact, one area in which we need to improve in is explaining the basics of Claystone. Once you play around with it it starts to come together, but we've got to do a better job in bridging that gap.
Thankfully, I've got a Word doc in front of me ready to be dumped into an HTML layout with the aim of having that ready within the week!

nicu96 said:
really good, but on my sensation (960x540 px resolution) the themes doesnt resize properly, there are blurry icons and backgrounds. only the widgets are looking ok. i hope youll make it compatible with qHD (960x540) resolution.
glad to see that you are working on the screen order feature
a setting to change the transition effect and a running apps panel (task manager) would be very nice!
i dont like the photos panel, i cant scroll through the photos when i select one from the list, i must first go in fullscreen mode... it should be more like gallery 3D ^^
waiting for the next update
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Of those, I can tell you that a 'Running Tasks' panel is ridiculously close to being included (as in: we've had it in there, but haven't quite finalized it yet in deference to other features).
In terms of qHD compatibility and revised photo functionality, I can't promise that they'll be featured in the next build or two, but can say I'll bring them to the team and see where we can slide them in on a priority scale amidst other feature development.
Really appreciate you helping out - thanks!

[App][4.0+]XDA Portal

Hi everyone, this is my first "hello world" app on the play store. I know there is another app similar to this, but I just wanted to learn how to code so here it is .
XDA Portal is an extremely light-weight, unofficial app designed to let you quickly glance over the first new articles featured on the XDA portal.
Features:
Extremely light-weight and fast
Elegant cards ui
light on memory
Application is still in beta, so there may be occasional bugs. Again, this is unofficial.
Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.sunstreak.xda
v2: Ability to open page in browser so you can access all the links!
What do you all think?

Looks good. Force closed after it finished loading on first try, then worked good. Needs a tablet layout, though
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Felimenta97 said:
Looks good. Force closed after it finished loading on first try, then worked good. Needs a tablet layout, though
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Thanks for the feedback! Was it while you were rotating the tablet? Tablet layout soon!

sunstreak said:
Thanks for the feedback! Was it while you were rotating the tablet? Tablet layout soon!
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No. It forced close before showing any content, when it was still showing the "Loading goodies" message. If I have it again, I'm going to send feedback through the Android feedback thingy.
If you want anyone to test the Tablet layout, let me know (Tablet Z, 10.1 inch, 1920x1200 here)
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Just downloaded it and works great for me on my SGS3 with no force closes.
One little thing regarding the visual look of the UI though. The contrast between the background and the cards should be increased slightly because it's difficult to tell where one card ends & the next one begins.
Other than that, looks great & works great! Nice job!
Sent from my Xposed CM11 SGS3 on Virgin Mobile

Works great on a N5. One tip though...make the font size for the title and the body have more of a difference. The title and body fonts aren't really easily distinguishable. Another tip would be to make the background a light gray instead of pure white so the cards don't blend in as much. (Or just use holo dark as the theme).

First of all, great.
Second: Please parse the content for links. The portal is all about linking to other content.
Keep up the good work.

Subscribed, I tend to browse the portal allot. This may just be my app for that, instead of opening tapatalk, then browsing through the list of forums, then loading, then sliding out and selecting portal and then waiting.
Super light weight, and simple. Love the UI its clean and neat, haven't experienced any problems what so ever on my Nexus 5, really good creation for you first app!
Keep the updates and new features coming.
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using a samsung S3, works great, fast, stable and sharp, now there are lot of things you can implement in the visual area, like choosing three different fonts, sizes.
In some cases, once you open an article, you can see there´s more space between the image and the main title in some articles, that´s all for now.
Keep up with this fine work !!! :good:

good work,keep it up!!!!!

Can you add Android 2.3 support? Seems interesting. :good:

nothing when settings tab is pressed!!!

minimal & fast... keep it up!
Hope You will add a switcher, in Settings, between dark and light (i use trds roms), and the a ability to load also older stories, or a cut-off number selection to choose how many entries one wanna load

@sunstreak
good job, thanks :good:
first thing I've noticed that settings on menu doesn't do anything, if you didn't added it eclipse automatically add menu item called "settings" so I suggest to remove it.
another little problem maybe cuz of the small screen is that there's a large empty space like this image:

Amazingly smooth man, i'm keeping it.

Thanks for all the feedback! V1.1 should be up soon with ability to open link in the browser and removed settings button.

this is good stuff man downloading as we speak

Working nice on G2(d802):thumbup:
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good work,keep it up!!!!!
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settings are missing.. or? I can see just action bar and loaded articles, no login no nothing.. it should be like that?

ewoks said:
settings are missing.. or? I can see just action bar and loaded articles, no login no nothing.. it should be like that?
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Yeah, it just shows the xda portal articles, no login or anything because it isn't the forum

[Q] Looking for a nice pictures editing app

Hey guys,
I'm a proud owner of nexus 5, great device.
Do you know a good app for editing pictures?
Hdr and effects?
I didn't find instegram and google pictures to have
Sufficient options.
Thank you!

Autodesk pixlr, picsart photo, photo editor pro
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my all time favorite... handy photo... very powerful... has cloning, eraser... check videos on it

I always use VSCO app on all of my photos taken with my N5.
You can add filters (nothing compared to instagram etc.) to your photos which is the easiest but I always edit them manually, contrast, saturation, tint etc. then I add a filter to it once its finished and lower the opacity to like 1-3 to give it a nice touch.
Give it a try I highly recommend it :good:

The Best is Photoshop Touch!

Snapseed - fantastic app and free!

Aviary
Sent from my Nexus 5

Thanks you guys!
But now im a bit confused.
I dont like manual editing,
Just one tap and I have a very cool picture
Hdr and such that I can upload to facebook.
Is there such an animal?
Thanks again

biotech326 said:
Thanks you guys!
But now im a bit confused.
I dont like manual editing,
Just one tap and I have a very cool picture
Hdr and such that I can upload to facebook.
Is there such an animal?
Thanks again
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There are some nice suggestions in this post, but for one tap quick filter operation, my recommendation is MIX by Camera360; it also includes manual adjustment tools, if you wish to fine tune.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pinguo.edit.sdk
For HDR and dramatic effects, the built-in Google Photos editor (same as Snapseed) is nice, just apply the Drama or HDR filters.

Thank you very much guys
Helped me alot