Picasa Mobile 2.2.7 is now available

Picasa Mobile 2.2.7 for Android is now available for download on the Android Market. Major highlights of this release:

• Slideshow capabilities: the slideshow can be launched through the context menu and can be used with your online photos, your local photos, with any public photos displayed as the result of a search as well as with your contacts' photos.
• Russian translation - many thanks to Stanislav Belyaev for translating the user interface into Russian. Great work, Stanislav!

Picasa Mobile 2.2.5 is now live

Picasa Mobile 2.2.4 for Android is now available on the Android Market. Major highlights of this release: 

• Optional photo caching: if you are looking at those crazy vacation photos over and over again :), it would help if you enable photo caching. You can do so from the Settings menu, under Photo Browsing -> Caching.
• We reorganized the Settings menu into categories - there were just too many options in the same screen.

Many thanks to John for his suggestions!

Picasa Mobile 2.2.4 is now available

Picasa Mobile 2.2.4 for Android is now available on the Android Market. Major highlights of this release: 

• Album search - you can use a keyword to filter the list of displayed albums
• Full screen photo browsing - starting with this version, the photos are displayed in full screen by default
• Optionally hide the photo captions when browsing through photos
• By default, show the newest thumbnails first

Many thanks to John, Tzinzo and Harald for suggesting some of the above enhancements!

Picasa Mobile 2.2.1 is now available

Picasa Mobile 2.2.1 is now available on the Android Market. Major highlights of this release:

• Video playback - you can play any video stored on Picasa Web Albums, regardless if it's yours or if it was made public by somebody else, including your contacts
• Thumbnail caching - this feature was requested by many users in order to speed up the thumbnail scrolling

Many thanks to Lester and Tzinzo for their suggestions.

Picasa Mobile 2.0 Is Now Live!

As mentioned in an earlier post, a major release of Picasa Mobile for Android is now available for download from the Google Android Market.

The main highlights of this new version:

• Social features:
• Public Picasa photo search
• View public Picasa albums of your contacts
• Invite your friends to see your albums with one click, from within the app
• Web album visibility editing
• French, Spanish, Italian and German translations
• Improved overall performance and stability

Stay tuned for more highlights and new features! As usual, all the updates are free, always!

Working on Picasa Mobile 2.0

As some of you may have noticed, we slowed a bit the pace of new releases. That is because we are working hard on the version 2.0 of Picasa Mobile, which we expect to become available towards the beginning of July.
This major release would include lots of performance improvements, as well as some social features.
Stay tuned!

Feedback, Please!

A month has passed since we released Picasa Mobile and we have well over 200 downloads. One of the most challenging things so far has been getting user feedback.

Like with any other consumer product, knowing what the user expects from it, how he/she uses it and what other features they would like are essential ingredients in creating a successful app.

So far, we have been pretty quick in responding to our users' queries, and our above average rating reflects it.

We were told that browsing through a lot of local pictures may be a problem, so we implemented a time filter.

We were asked for camera key support and we implemented it as of version 1.0.9.
We were told the some phones don't have a physical SD card (see LG-P999 G2x) and, starting with version 1.1.2, we adapted Picasa Mobile to use emulated SD cards.

But we are sure that the items above are just the tip of the iceberg. So please, send us your feedback so we can continue to improve Picasa Mobile. And rest assured that any upgrade will always be free.