TALKING ANDROID

BFF Photo 2.0 Guided Tour

• Facebook Photos on your Phone.
• View, upload, and save photos. Upload videos
• Includes Friend and Facebook Page Photo Albums.
• Add Albums
• Comment on photos

Use gestures to browse photos, rotate phone to change view, upload existing photos and videos. Try version 1.5.

Search Android Market for BFF Photo.

If you like the app, please rate it in the market.

Feedback, questions, issues, suggestions?
http://www.facebook.com/BFFPhoto

BFF Photo is an application to:

• View your Facebook Photos on your Phone
• View your friend’s photos
• Take pictures and videos using the app and upload to Facebook

Find it by searching for “bff” on the Android Market.

Login to Facebook from the app to authorize on Facebook.  Requires Internet connection.

On the technical side, I mention that I am using Intents for both camera and video capture.  More on that in a future post.

Please contact with issues or technical questions.

Photos are one of the most used features on Facebook.

BFF Photo is an application to:

• View your Facebook Photos on your Phone
• View your friend’s photos
• Take pictures and videos using the app and upload to Facebook

Find it by searching for “bff” on the Android Market.

Like any other Facebook Application,  BFF Photo needs to be authorized.  Login to Facebook from the app to do that.

To upload videos and photos,  set the Facebook Publish permission.  That is done in the app after  Login and from the Android Menu.  You can  set a permission to stay connected to Facebook. That means you will not need to login again.

To Login and retrieve or upload photos, you will need an Internet connection.

Next:  A video showing taking a picture and shooting a video.  Stay tuned.

“BFF Photo for Facebook”  is now on the Android Market.

It is an Android app for viewing the photos you and your friends have posted to Facebook.  You can also upload new photos and videos.

Please give it a try. Find it in the market by searching “bff”.  If you like it, rate it and comment on the Android market. Post technical questions here.

To interact with Facebook, I am using their new “Simplified Desktop Authorization Flow.“

For API calls, I am using a Java Facebook Client library I developed for talking to the Facebook REST server. I’ll be writing more about it. I intend to clean up the library and ultimately make it open source.

I am using Android Intents to take a photo and capture a video.

Video Demo Coming Soon!

• Browse Facebook Albums
• View Photos
• Upload new Photos and Videos.

Full app will be available soon.

On technical side, this uses a small Java library for Facebook calls including multiPart mime for uploading photos and videos.