Here's an Android app I'm working on as a means of getting to know that platform. It uses the flickr API to display photos randomized from sets you select. Optionally, it will display them as your phonetop wallpaper as well. I am using flickr's OAuth security api. This means that when you enter your flickr credentials, you are interacting directly with flickr. All my app sees is a token from flickr confirming that you've ok'd access. You will be presented a list of your sets. Select the ones you want to include and click "Start Show". If there are a lot of sets/pictures involved, there may be a disconcerting wait here, be patient. I will move this work to a background thread in a future version. Pictures cycle every 60 seconds. This will be configurable in future versions. A single tap on each picture brings up basic information. As an alternative to the current wallpaper cycling option, I am considering assigning a wallpaper image via a double-tap here. Let me know what you think. Swiping left moves to the next picture while swiping right moves to the previous. This happens with no slide-in/out animation because getting that to work fluidly is surprisingly difficult. If you select the Wallpaper option, images will continue to update in your phonetop wallpaper even after you navigate away from the app. To stop this, return to the app, click Back to get to the set list then click Menu>Exit. The scaling of these images is controlled by whatever phonetop manager you are using. Like I said, this is a learning tool for me, so don't expect professional polish. It seems reasonably stable or I wouldn't put it here. If you find bugs, please let me know. Known issues:
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