But for many smartphone geeks, that alone was not good enough; so, app developers set to work, eventually coming up with several picture apps, one of them being QuickPic, our app of interest today.
Androidpolice.com views QuickPic as “a nice little Android photo gallery/viewer. Over several years, it has gained a comfortable user base, thanks to steady updates, plenty of extra features, and an impressive adherence to Android design standards.”
In terms of user interface (UI), there is nothing extraordinary, as QuickPic sports a simple look and easy navigation.
Upon installing the app, it will automatically browse the SD card for pictures, linking up with your preinstalled gallery, and organise them in appropriate folders like ‘camera,’ ‘downloaded,’ ‘received’ and others.
QuickPic gallery app is also small-sized, requiring you to spend a mere 3MB to download and install. When you enter QuickPic, you will see all your folders neatly arranged and you can choose to display them in grid view, list, explorer or gallery with thumbnails.
Writing on www.firstpost.com, Priyanka Tilve notes that “the app is blazing fast and there is no lag whatsoever, be it displaying the thumbnails or even when browsing the images.”
A long press on a folder will let you see options to delete or rename the folder and even start a slideshow of the pictures in the folder.
A single tap on a picture will open the menu. Here, on the top of the screen, if you click on the bar symbol on the extreme right, you will find various options like slideshow, details, rotate, edit, set as, move to, copy to, rename, show on map and settings.
In 2015, China’s Cheetah Mobile (CM) bought QuickPic Gallery from its original developers.
CM brought in the excellent option of saving your images on CM Cloud, and at blistering speeds at that. I have personally saved hundreds of my photos on this platform, enabling me to delete them from my device, thereby freeing lots of valuable space.
fkhan@observer.ug
