Coolsmartphone Android App – Floating Image

Floating Image is a replacement for your gallery app, the app also contains a live wallpaper. It shows a nice 3D floating thumbnail slideshow of your images. By default it uses your “DCIM” folder on your memory card plus a random selection of photos from Flickr’s top 500 images, So the first time you load it up you might wonder what some of the pictures are. You can remove the Flickr pictures in the settings.

There are a lot of settings to play about with, you can change background colour, the speed the images move around at, where the photos appear from plus many more. You can also add photo feeds from Picasa, facebook Flickr and any folder on your memory card. When the photos are scrolling past you tap on one you want and it zooms in on it, tap it again and the slideshow commences. You can also pause the slideshow by pressing and holding the screen, doing the same to resume. The live wallpaper is a bit of a battery hog, but there are some options to reduce frame rate.

With this app you could turn your device into a photo frame, using a tablet this would look great. On a phone it is a much nicer way of viewing your pictures.

The concept is simple. Instead of looking through your p

ictures one by one by pressing on that lame Next arrow in Android, you open Floating Image and you begin to see all your photos floating across the screen. Now, here is the thing. When I say “Your photos”, I do not just mean the photos on your phone, you can also view online pictures in Flickr straight from within the app.

It liked to see the ability to add your various online photo storage accounts, such as Picasa or even Facebook, but you can’t have it all I guess. So, the pictures float across your screen and you can press on a picture to view it full size, then press it again to go back to the floating pictures. You can easily set a picture from Flickr as your wallpaper or save the picture to the phone by pressing on the photo for two seconds.

The interface is almost non existent with your options being limited to defining which directories the app uses to find pictures as well as the ability to disable Flickr pictures. As the title says, Floating Image will keep you occupied while you sit back and watch a visually appealing 3D presentation of your photos. The app worked well even though I was using it on a Samsung Galaxy, which is significantly less powerful than the Nexus or Droid, so I am sure it works beautifully on those phones.