Gadgetory

hello again ladies and gentlemen I'm Joe Hindy the android authority app guy cyanogenmod has been developing a brand new gallery app called gallery next that will soon be replacing the AOSP gallery in cyanogenmod if you want to see what it's all about you're in the right place because we are going to check it out okay since this app is still in beta we're going to go over the functionality and design pretty quickly so you can have an idea of what this is all about as you can see this is a gallery app so it does gallery app like things like viewing photos and videos stored on your device as advertised you can sign into a few services to get your cloud storage photos as well this includes Facebook Picasa Flickr and Dropbox signing in is easy enough and everything loads as quickly as you could reasonably expect it to once everything is loaded in it can be sorted a few different ways you can view everything all at once in a tiled layout view by album and view by moments moments is simply a bunch of photos that are grouped together by common things like date of course there are the basic functions of a gallery app that are present as well there is a sharing function the ability to view photo details and support for photos videos and gifs in terms of design signage in mod keeps it simple there's a left-side slide-out menu that lets you navigate around the app and everything is viewed in tile formats it's color neutral so you don't have to worry about it clashing with any custom themes that's really it folks they kept it nice and simple so here's a quick list of things we liked about it it's very simple there's no complicated menus to deal with or weird unfamiliar user interface elements you just open it up pick a category you want to view and then view content the moments feature works on all of your photos at once for each source individually which I thought was kind of cool so you can have it work for all of your photos or just your Facebook photos or just your Dropbox photos lastly signing into the various cloud services is pretty easy usually we do a list of things that we didn't like but since this is a beta and some features may not be fully implemented and all the bugs may not be fully squashed yet we're not going to give the app the same scrutiny we would give a fully released app that said there are some small bugs that still need to be squashed again it is a beta so this is expected but I did experience a crash or two while I was checking about the only other thing is the number of cloud services available right now it's just the major for which is facebook dropbox picasa and flickr while that'll be just fine for most people support for additional services would be nice to see also there are no settings so you can't really change anything about the app even if you want it to overall this is going to be a very solid gallery up offering when it's finished it's simple and modern with enough functionality to put it head and shoulders above the standard AOSP gallery app in most cases it's quick and rusher bug fixes and optimizations will make it even better before it's released if you want to check it out we have a link to the Google+ community you can join to get the app that also has the full instructions it's fairly easy just join the community become a beta tester and then download it keep in mind this is not a finished product yet so bad things will probably happen while you use this application until all the bugs get fixed unless you're into being a beta tester we recommend you pass this one up until it becomes a full release once again I'm Joe Hindy the android authority app guy don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel and check out these social media links below if you're hanging out for a minute we have a couple of Awesome videos for you to watch right over there finally don't forget to check out the briton companion in the video description thank you again for watching and have a wonderful day