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Flickr – A mobile portfolio
Tested version: 1.4.0
Latest version: 1.5.1
Requires Android: from 2.1
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Summary
You've all heard of Flickr, right? It's a Yahoo! service that allows photographers to share their photos with their contacts and, according to one's settings, with anyone browsing the internet. For a while Flickr even served as a portfolio platform for young and even semi-established photographers.
But what of the official Flickr Android app? Is it a must have for photography nuts? Let's find out after the jump.
Features & Use
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Test device: Samsung Galaxy Nexus
Android version: 4.1.1
Root: No
Modifications: None
Recently one of my relatives returned home after an extended stay abroad. Rather than bombard us all with massive email attachments documenting his experience-abroad in over 600 pictures, he created a Flickr account and uploaded everything there, complete with titles and descriptions for each photo. This is where I was able to experience the convenience of a service such as Flickr – which successfully combines online photo albums and social network – first hand.
Once it's installed the official Flickr app is about 8.7 Mb and it requires quite a few permissions including location and sending messages. There may be lots of them, but to me all of the required permissions made sense to a certain degree.
In order to use Flickr as an active member (rather than simply browse through albums) you will have to register using either your Yahoo! Address, Facebook login or Gmail account.
The app is set up in a very straight forward manner, making a great impression right off the bat. It's organised into five sections:
- Your personal newsfeed which tells you who's commented on your pics or added you to their favourites.
- The photostream that displays all of your pictures. You can “flip” through your online album or show your friends when you're out and about. You can also read comments others have made on your photos as well as leave comments on other users' pics.
- The camera with which can can shoot and edit pictures directly, including adding titles, descriptions and privacy settings. Flickr has obviously taken a leaf out of the Instagram Bible and even provides filters to apply to photos. My opinion: if you love the whole filter and other features spiel you'll find more options elsewhere (i.e. Instagram and co.).
- Friends' newsfeeds. Check out what your Flickr contacts are up to (new photos and comments...).
- The “discover” feature: this is where you can randomly check out other users' pictures. The feature includes a filter for users in your vicinity. There are some great photographers on Flickr, sharing their shots with others for free. It's pretty neat.
The app set-up is easy to grasp and easy to use, making it very user friendly. If only all apps were set up in such a clear and straight forward manner!
More features include adding photos to your stream from your smartphone's gallery and sharing Flickr photos via Facebook and Twitter.
Bottom line:
Flickr is an awesome app for those who use the Flickr service. It's well made and structured in a way that makes it easy to use.
Simply put: it's great option for keeping on top of what's going on in the Flickr world or showing your friends your photostream when you're on the go. The app runs smoothly and the app makes using Flickr even easier and more diversified.
Screen & Controls
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As mentioned, Flickr is set up in a very user friendly manner. The intro is set up in five main chapters which makes the whole thing seem nice and neat.
As a result controls are pretty easy too. This is the kind of app you can download and jump right in without having to read a manual or watch a tutorial first.
Speed & Stability
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Flickr runs smoothly overall. Whilst testing it on the Galaxy Nexus I experienced a momentary sputtering but then the app calmed down again and resumed its course fluidly.
Price/Performance Ratio
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Flickr is free and can be found in the App Center. There are no ad banners, either.
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Sep 10, 2012 9:29:21 AM
As I understand it, Flickr has Creative Commons attributes (see here: http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/).
The Yahoo! Infocenter has information about intellectual copyright policy, but I'm not sure in how far this applies to Flickr.
Does anyone know more about specific copyright options for Flickr?
Market Comments
symanuk, Sep 29, 2012
Crashes phone Contacts button crashes phone have to remove battery. Buttons have no animation so no idea if they have been pressed
Tom Harding, Sep 28, 2012
No nexus support? I'd love this for my nexus 7. Its been out nearly 2 months and no ones bothering to make it compatible. Its a no brainer.
giangbutter, Sep 27, 2012
Reliable Im an architect so i do like searching architectural images from flickr. I suppose this app is so reliable for me.
Monique, Sep 26, 2012
Please make for Galaxy Tab 7.0+ I love and use Flickr all of the time. I also love and use my tablet all of the time. It would be excellent if the latest version was tablet compatible.
Topher, Sep 25, 2012
almost perfect love this app. I'm a flickr junkie and the only thing missing is the options to look at my groups. once they add a tab fir groups this will be a 5 star app
Bhushan, Sep 25, 2012
Big Bugs Unable To Download Any photo from This applications Need to Fix Thar Bug. ASAP
Damon, Sep 24, 2012
Glimmer is better Perhaps the Yahoos should just buy them out rather than waiting to add features?
Kevin, Sep 24, 2012
This app would be great... I can not sign in with google/facebook and when i put my yahoo id in wrong and it had to take me to the site to put the captcha code in of course yahoo works... But not google or facebook -_-
mKarbi, Sep 24, 2012
I like it but... 1) Groups section - access & control is needed 2) It also needs notification services. 3) It's supposed to be able to edit people in a photo.
ralphaverbuch, Sep 23, 2012
Good app but why no automatic upload over WiFi? I am a very long time Pro user of Flickr, so I was pleased when Flickr finally brought out a decent(ish) app for Android. I've been using it a while now and I have to say that uploading is not that great. You can often find you have to upload two or three times and it just as often fails to accurately tell you when it's succeeded, causing duplicates to sprout up in your account. So it's hit and miss. The biggest failing is the total lack of automatic uploading of photos in the background over WiFi which would be a huge time saver, allowing you to then visit Flickr at some later stage to tag, put in a set, etc. Google already offers this feature through its Picasa and Google+ apps on Android as does Adobe's Photoshop Express. So the Flickr app offers good stuff for browsing your photos but is really needing work on the functionality that ought to be there already. And reliability isn't there when it comes to uploading accurately. It only just scrapes 3 stars. If the issues mentioned above had been addressed, it'd have been an easy full marks.
I've found FLICKR to be a better experience overall compared to PHOTOBUCKET ... & you can opt out of how you share your images (so that nobody can right click & save) ....
If the FLICKR app allows me to free up space used by saved images (& post these images on INSTAGRAM), it could be very handy for Android Smart Phone Users (when will Google have their version of Flickr - besides Picnik?) ...
C J