PhotoCloud

Android Digital Photo Frame

PhotoCloud

Android Digital Frame App for Tablet, Phone and Android TV

Just sit back and watch your photos with your family; convert your old Android tablet to a digital photo frame; browse your cloud photos, hassle-free. The only digital frame application which supports your own OwnCloud/NextCloud servers, with self-signed https certificates.

Able to retrieve and slideshow photos from the following sources:

Respects user’s privacy: PhotoCloud is the only Android Digital Frame application which supports your own personal OwnCloud/NextCloud servers (including self-signed https certificates), your own SSH+SFTP servers, photos located on your Windows machines, etc.

Supported image types:

Please note: This is just a digital frame / photo browser. It does not play any music, does not create videos, does not replace your gallery app, it does simply one thing - shows a slideshow of your photos - and does it simply and right.

Because of its nature, the application generates a very high network traffic - please make sure you have WIFI enabled. The app has built-in network protection and will abort the Slideshow if WIFI disconnects.

No annoying video commercials, simple to use. This application is at its infancy, please let me know which features would you like me to implement, at the bug tracker page.

Screenshots

Streams Slideshow Browser
Welcome screen with the streams A paused slideshow, showing EXIF and the location  
where the photo was taken You can browse the stream for photos and files  

A short 3 minute introduction video:

PhotoCloud Introduction Video

Free Download At Google Play

Please download the PhotoCloud application at Google Play for free.

Endlessly cycles photos from any combination of the streams. You can play all photos from the stream, or you can limit the stream to given list of directories (and subdirs). You can also browse the files of the stream manually. The photos are automatically cached locally; when offline, you can show slideshow from cached photos only. Supports slideshowing photos from subdirectories.

Supports:

Also supports Daydream (Android 4.2 and higher only; unlocked with an one-time PhotoCloud purchase). Daydream in Android turns your phone’s display into a mosaic of images, news headlines or random colors. Debuting as part of Android 4.2, Daydream remains a feature in Android Marshmallow, as an interactive screensaver that switches on when you plug in your phone. Read more about the DayDream screensaver at the Tom’s Guide on Daydream screensaver.

Please see below on which Android versions are supported by PhotoCloud.

Pricing

Pricing: free version shows a “please purchase” images once a while during the slideshow. There is an in-app payment which removes these images. Another payment unlocks the “Daydream” functionality; this only works on Android 4.2 and higher, don’t purchase if you have Android 4.1 or lower.

To recap, there are two separate one-time purchases possible for this app:

The in-app purchases are located in PhotoCloud Settings - simply touch the appropriate item to launch Google Play purchase process. If the “Purchase” items are missing, it could be that the In-App Purchases API is not available on your device (for example Amazon Fire tablet with Google Play). To verify that, please open the About Dialog and scroll to the bottom: in the “System stats” Section there will be the “In-App Purchases API available:” line. If it says “false”, then unfortunately the In-App Purchases API is not available on your device, which means two things:

In such case please don’t use in-app purchases.

Offline Licenses

It is possible to install PhotoCloud on an Android device that doesn’t have Google Play installed. Please reach out to me at martin@vysny.me and download a special PhotoCloud flavor which doesn’t use Google Play but instead uses a system of licenses.

Warning: this flavor of PhotoCloud doesn’t support Google Photos.

Once launched, PhotoCloud will present you with a device key. You need to e-mail me the device key; in turn I’ll give you an unlock code which you have to type into PhotoCloud. The unlock code is 102 characters long; it’s really annoying to type in on a TV - you have been warned :)

The unlock key unlocks all features of the app. The app should stay unlocked even when updated. You can also use the same unlock key after you uninstall PhotoCloud and install it from scratch. There is no unlock count limit - you can reinstall and unlock the app on the same device as many times as you need.

However, factory reset of the device will change the Hardware Key and will render the unlock key useless. In such case you will need to purchase a new unlock key.

The price of the license key is 10 EUR, paid to my PayPal account.

THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY AND NO PROMISE FOR ANY FUTURE UPDATES. You’re receiving the software as-is, and you are responsible for figuring out the way to install it (side-load it) to your device. The best way is to find and watch a YouTube video on how to sideload APK to a TV.

Privacy Policy

See Privacy Policy for more details.

Required permissions

Devices Support

PhotoCloud works best with Android 5 onwards (API level 21). You can install newest PhotoCloud from Google Play.

Half-supported Devices

In fact the PhotoCloud on Google Play also supports Android 4.4 and higher (API level 19 and higher), however on Android 4 you may encounter the “SSL Handshake Aborted” issues (see FAQ for more details), therefore Android 5+ is recommended.

There is an older version of PhotoCloud published on Google Play which also supports Android 4.1 (API level 16 and higher), but that older version is not maintained and provided as a “gesture of good will”.

Unfortunately, Androids 4.0 and lower are not officially supported at the moment. The reason for that is stated in Issue #105.

There is an unofficial build which targets Android 4.0.3 and higher (API level 15 and higher). You can get the APK from this link, however parts of the app requiring higher Android will simply crash. Such crashes will not be fixed.

Unsupported Devices

It has been reported that in-app payments on the Amazon Fire tablets with Google Play installed do not work - the payment goes through but the annoying “Please Purchase” image stays. Please do not use PhotoCloud’s in-app purchases if you plan to use the app on the Amazon Fire tablet.

Links

FAQ

Located here: Frequently Asked Questions