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QuickPic - the perfect AOSP Gallery replacement

ardchoille

Android Expert
Mar 8, 2011
3,683
1,941
Seattle
I've never been a fan of the AOSP Gallery app and have tried many things to replace that app. I recently found a very nice gallery app, entitled QuickPic, that can be used as a drop-in replacement for the AOSP Gallery.

Features:
* QuickPic can be set as the default app for gallery activites.
* Show albums as a list or a group
* Multi-select images in an album
* Pinch to zoom images
* Share individual images
* Delete individual images
* Rotate individual images
* Crop individual images
* Set individual images as Contact Icon or Wallpaper
* Rename individual images
* Image details
* Launch camera app

Market Description:
This is the best picture viewer/gallery/photo album you are looking for and you can replace the stock gallery!

Speed browsing tons of pictures without background service!
Clear thumbnail previews, include or exclude the specified folders! Easy to hide your privacy photos!
Greater resolution, better image quality of full-screen photo view!
iPhone' smooth experience: sliding shift or switch, single/double tap or pinch to zoom!
Rich image editing and management features: rotate, crop/shrink, share, set wallpaper, slides, sort, rename, move/copy!
It is free and no ads!
If you find any BUG, email me! One For All, All For One!!!

Tips:
Please BACKUP YOUR IMPORTANT PHOTOS before your do file operations!
Long press a thumbnail to move/copy to another or new folder.
Click the title in the title bar to rename the file/folder.
Animated-GIF is in testing, because it is not well supported by Android!
Not support Picasa or Facebook or other web album!
Not support 3D photos yet!
App2SD will be available when the APK size >= 500K!

Market Link: QuickPic

About This App:
Rating: Four and a half stars from 42,101 user ratings
Updated: July 19, 2011
Current Version: 1.3.2
Requires Android: 2.0 and up
Category: Photography
Installs: 1,000,000 - 5,000,000
Size: 290k
Price: Free
Content Rating: Everyone

Permissions:
Storage:
1. Modify/delete USB storage contents modify/delete SD card contents - Allows an application to write to the USB storage. Allows an application to write to the SD card.

System tools:
1. Prevent device from sleeping - Allows an application to prevent the device from going to sleep.
2. Set wallpaper - Allows the application to set the system wallpaper.

User Reviews:
5 Stars 32522
4 Stars 7553
3 Stars 1344
2 Stars 292
1 Star 454

Settings Screen:
General
Toggle: Use light background
Toggle: Include videos

Browser
Included folders: Select which folders are scanned for content
Excluded folders: Select which folders are not scanned for content
Toggle: Logical sorting of file names
Toggle: Open last viewed fodler
Toggle: Hide system status bar
Toggle: Semi-transparent title bar
Toggle: Password protect hidden fodlers

Viewer
Choice: Change screen orientation
Toggle: Single tap-to-zoom
Toggle: Maximum brightness
Toggle: Play animated GIFs
Toggle: Force decode true color
Choice: Slideshow interval
Toggle: Shuffle slideshow

Cache
Toggle: Cache full screen preview
Option: Clear micro thumbnails

Changelog:
v1.3.2
1. New option: simple animated-GIF player (enable it in the settings, in testing)
2. Draw 3D images with 2D mode (3D mode in developing)
3. Work around: preview the taken photo from the Moto Camera
4. Fix bug: crash when resume from screen on sometime
5. Fix bug: crash when open a folder in some devices

AOSP ROM users rejoice! QuickPic is a very nice app, I'm impressed.
 
Heh, from the title of this thread i thought you were looking for a replacement gallery app... so came here specifically to suggest quickpic. :D

Quickpic is indeed fantastic. Started using it on my hero since its feeble CPU really struggled with the laggy bloated stock gallery. Have carried on using it ever since.
Great minds think alike :)

Thanks for mentioning the title, I fixed it.
 
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