Photostream Added to Apps-For-Android

Google have today announced a new additionto the ‘apps-for-android‘ project. The new application, ‘Photostream’, is a simple Flickr photo viewer.

Photostream aims to highlight several of Android’s features and API’s, these include:

• Activity aliases
• Adding custom shortcuts to Home
• Adding a new wallpaper chooser to the system
• Custom layouts
• Custom XML attributes
• Use of themes
• Use of styles
• Use of text colors
• Use of
• Use of bitmap and layer drawables from XML
• Use of HttpClient
• Proper interaction between background threads and the UI thread
• Efficient display rotation (using the new onRetainNonConfigurationInstance() API)
• Animations and layout animations
• Cropping an image
• Image manipulation

[via Android Developer Blog]

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