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Android viewer for tagged photos

Started Dec 29, 2014 | Questions thread
technic Veteran Member • Posts: 8,932
Re: Android viewer for tagged photos

HPR wrote:

technic wrote:

Russell Evans wrote:

I haven't really seen a lot of Android photo apps that are really full featured yet. Most of the development work for photo management on Android also seems to being done in connectivity, and getting photos published to the cloud. Not really a lot local management development from what I've looked at. My bias is in raw files though, so I probably am missing things happening just in the jpeg realm.

I agree and find most Android photo apps disappointing and immature. Many of them cannot handle a larger number of images (in total or in one folder), most of them don't support folder structures on the SD card (related to Android but still ...), the display of images often leaves much to be desired photographically i.e. regarding how images are displayed and yes, tagging or searching abilities are very limited (with JPEG as well).

I have been using JustPictures as my general picture browser for some time. It does most of what I need but no tags/folder structure, so for organizing a large (mobile) picture collection it is ineffecient. But at least it is relatively stable and pretty easy to use/customize. Like many Apps it seems to be a bit of a dead-end now ...

The paid version of Fstop shows folder structures on the SD card, and this also works OK with Kitkat.

OK thanks, will check it out; not sure if I tried this one before. Until now JustPictures was the only viewer with decent features that didn't crash with the 30.000 or so image collection on my microSD card ;-(

Btw, another important feature for me is the ability to display images in such a way that they initially fill the screen (without black borders, but possibly with two borders of the picture missing) and without any bars or other UI stuff present. This makes the presentation more 'photographic' as black/white borders or UI elements disturb the viewing experience. My tablet has a 1920x1200 pixel display, and most tablets probably have aspect ratio's that are different from what ones camera shoots. I found one program that does this well (Full Screen Pic Picture Viewer), but it had too many other issues ...

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