Announcement: Android App for Smugmug

adamcadamc Registered Users Posts: 25 Big grins
edited September 1, 2010 in SmugMug API Support & Integrations
My new Android app, SmugBot, went live on the market today. It allows multiple picture upload from the Android gallery. I'm still working on improving it - adding a better UI, facebook and twitter integration, and new gallery creation. I have a website up at http://smugbot.aer0apps.com for information and issue reporting.

thanks!

Comments

  • rsquaredrsquared Registered Users Posts: 306 Major grins
    edited July 31, 2010
    Does it run on 1.5? I don't see it on the market yet, but maybe I just need to wait a bit...
    Rob Rogers -- R Squared Photography (Nikon D90)
  • adamcadamc Registered Users Posts: 25 Big grins
    edited July 31, 2010
    rsquared wrote: »
    Does it run on 1.5? I don't see it on the market yet, but maybe I just need to wait a bit...

    It should - I'll double check. Thanks for the report.
  • rsquaredrsquared Registered Users Posts: 306 Major grins
    edited July 31, 2010
    It may just need a little time to show up. I just ask because the last time I waited around a couple days to ask, it turns out that app was 1.6+, so it wouldn't show in the market for me...
    Rob Rogers -- R Squared Photography (Nikon D90)
  • adamcadamc Registered Users Posts: 25 Big grins
    edited July 31, 2010
    Nope - you were right, I didn't have the version correct for 1.5. So then I did some testing and had to make some fixes for 1.5. Man did it have some bugs...

    Anyway, it should be there now. Thanks for trying it out.


    rsquared wrote: »
    It may just need a little time to show up. I just ask because the last time I waited around a couple days to ask, it turns out that app was 1.6+, so it wouldn't show in the market for me...
  • rsquaredrsquared Registered Users Posts: 306 Major grins
    edited July 31, 2010
    adamc wrote: »
    Nope - you were right, I didn't have the version correct for 1.5. So then I did some testing and had to make some fixes for 1.5. Man did it have some bugs...

    Anyway, it should be there now. Thanks for trying it out.

    Awesome, it's installing now!
    Rob Rogers -- R Squared Photography (Nikon D90)
  • adamcadamc Registered Users Posts: 25 Big grins
    edited July 31, 2010
    rsquared wrote: »
    Awesome, it's installing now!

    Great - I appreciate any feedback.
  • BaldyBaldy Registered Users, Super Moderators Posts: 2,853 moderator
    edited August 2, 2010
    Cool, Adam! Nice way to do it, too, by just adding a menu item to the gallery. We have two Android-based phones in the office and got it working on the HTC Incredible, but can't seem to get it working on the Droid.

    The problem is when I go to gallery, I just get the four default options (facebook, etc.). It says my OS is up to date at version 2.1. Is this a Motorola thing where they don't support extending the gallery menu on their systems?
    My Smug Mug
  • adamcadamc Registered Users Posts: 25 Big grins
    edited August 2, 2010
    Baldy wrote: »
    Cool, Adam! Nice way to do it, too, by just adding a menu item to the gallery. We have two Android-based phones in the office and got it working on the HTC Incredible, but can't seem to get it working on the Droid.

    The problem is when I go to gallery, I just get the four default options (facebook, etc.). It says my OS is up to date at version 2.1. Is this a Motorola thing where they don't support extending the gallery menu on their systems?


    Hi Chris,
    Thank you for checking it out. I don't have a Motorola, but if they made their own Gallery, I'll have to try to find a way to hook into it. Do the Share options look similar to the ones on the Incredible? I'll try to find some docs and a Droid to try it out. Btw - while I have your attention - thanks for SM in general. Can't imagine using anything else.

    Adam
  • adamcadamc Registered Users Posts: 25 Big grins
    edited August 3, 2010
    adamc wrote: »
    Hi Chris,
    Thank you for checking it out. I don't have a Motorola, but if they made their own Gallery, I'll have to try to find a way to hook into it. Do the Share options look similar to the ones on the Incredible? I'll try to find some docs and a Droid to try it out. Btw - while I have your attention - thanks for SM in general. Can't imagine using anything else.

    Adam

    This is a little troubling. I got motorola's dev environment and a droid emulator and it seems to work fine. The gallery they have in the emulator is called Media Gallery. Is yours called something different. Motorola has such a huge marketshare I hate to think none of them can use my app.
  • SnakerootSnakeroot Registered Users Posts: 43 Big grins
    edited August 7, 2010
    GREAT app, Adam! I too like the way it's just integrated into the photos viewer.

    Here are a couple of feature suggestions, if I may:
    1) Either allow creation of new (private) albums
    or
    2) Have some way of putting "favorite" albums at the top of the list. That way if you have say a "phone pics" album, you could mark it as a favorite album and it would always be at the top of the galleries list so you don't have to scroll through so many albums to find the one you want.

    Again, you did a great job on this app!
  • SnakerootSnakeroot Registered Users Posts: 43 Big grins
    edited August 7, 2010
    adamc wrote: »
    This is a little troubling. I got motorola's dev environment and a droid emulator and it seems to work fine. The gallery they have in the emulator is called Media Gallery. Is yours called something different. Motorola has such a huge marketshare I hate to think none of them can use my app.


    I don't know if you've updated the app since this message, but I just downloaded it on my wife's motoDroid and it worked just fine. She's got an app called "Gallery" instead of "Photos" like I have on my Incredible.

    Anyway, I installed it on her motoDroid, went to Gallery and touched the picture I wanted to share, then touched menu > Smugbot. At this point, it went to a black screen and it took about 10 seconds before any of the items were on the screen (the dropdown, update button, etc.). If someone weren't patient, they might think the app didn't work and move away from the screen before it had a chance to load. You would probably benefit from an animated loading picture between the time they click smugbot and when the screen is populated with controls.

    All of that to say it works just fine on the Motorolla Droid. Good work!
  • pearsonartphotopearsonartphoto Registered Users Posts: 34 Big grins
    edited August 7, 2010
    I've got to laugh, I'm about 70% of the way done on my own SmugMug Android application, and right now there's only 4. Odd that two people would be working on one at the same time... My program's completely different however, I should say. I suggest you work on oAuth, it's really not that bad to do... I just get a bit nervous typing in my password into anything I didn't code myself... Still, looks nice!
  • adamcadamc Registered Users Posts: 25 Big grins
    edited August 7, 2010
    Snakeroot wrote: »
    I don't know if you've updated the app since this message, but I just downloaded it on my wife's motoDroid and it worked just fine. She's got an app called "Gallery" instead of "Photos" like I have on my Incredible.

    Anyway, I installed it on her motoDroid, went to Gallery and touched the picture I wanted to share, then touched menu > Smugbot. At this point, it went to a black screen and it took about 10 seconds before any of the items were on the screen (the dropdown, update button, etc.). If someone weren't patient, they might think the app didn't work and move away from the screen before it had a chance to load. You would probably benefit from an animated loading picture between the time they click smugbot and when the screen is populated with controls.

    All of that to say it works just fine on the Motorolla Droid. Good work!


    Thanks so much for the feedback - I really appreciate it. I'm still working on a few new features, but I'm also trying to make the basics really solid. I'm going to try to find a way to get a Droid for testing since it has some different apps for many of the things.
  • wxwaxwxwax Registered Users Posts: 15,471 Major grins
    edited August 21, 2010
    I gave it a try this evening, adamc.

    I like it! My demands aren't great -- just uploading shots to a pre-existing folder -- and it worked easily and speedily.

    And the price is outstanding. :D

    You and I and others can think of features to add to it. But if that's not your focus, then my only suggestion would be to add a note to the "Choose a gallery" page; a note that tells first-time users to hit the Refresh button to initialize loading their Smugmug galleries the first time out.

    Nice work!
    Sid.
    Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam
    http://www.mcneel.com/users/jb/foghorn/ill_shut_up.au
  • athosathos Registered Users Posts: 237 Major grins
    edited August 25, 2010
    very glad i searched for smugmug in the app store. it does the basic and most needed function right and super easily. works great on my droid x running the leaked 2.2 ROM.

    can't wait to see what you and other developers come up with for Smugmug and android down the road!
    www.simplyathos.com

    Gear
    *Canon 40D: 17-55IS - 70-300IS - 100mm Macro - Sigma 10-20EX
    *Imagination
  • orskierorskier Registered Users Posts: 1 Beginner grinner
    edited August 26, 2010
    Would absolutely LOVE the ability to sync selected Smugmug albums to my phone. Maybe even have it run in the background and if I add new albums to select categories it would automatically download those.
  • rsquaredrsquared Registered Users Posts: 306 Major grins
    edited August 26, 2010
    orskier wrote: »
    Would absolutely LOVE the ability to sync selected Smugmug albums to my phone. Maybe even have it run in the background and if I add new albums to select categories it would automatically download those.

    JustPictures is the app you're looking for. thumb.gif
    Rob Rogers -- R Squared Photography (Nikon D90)
  • tonydtonyd Registered Users Posts: 213 Major grins
    edited August 30, 2010
    Tried this on my DroidX and it works great. I agree about the comment regarding the refresh button above.

    Also think it would be useful to have the gallery list alphabetically sorted to help find galleries easier.
  • adamcadamc Registered Users Posts: 25 Big grins
    edited September 1, 2010
    tonyd wrote: »
    Tried this on my DroidX and it works great. I agree about the comment regarding the refresh button above.

    Also think it would be useful to have the gallery list alphabetically sorted to help find galleries easier.

    Hi Guys,
    Thanks again for the feedback. I just updated and provided a message to use the refresh button if the galleries are empty. I also added a hash to make sure the file arrives intact. I'm still working to provide some more features.

    Adam
Sign In or Register to comment.