Now Google is delivering new support for enhancing the Google Photos experience, plus other cloud services for image pickers on Android, a feature that has already been awaited for a couple weeks. The Android Photo Picker almost completely reduces friction by not requiring any runtime permissions.
This means that users will have the power to take advantage of this solution to share the multimedia content they want faster, all while using an upgraded and modern interface. Regarding this, Google in an official blog has explained the things more clearly: the image picker on Android has always been the access point to the users’ local media library, as it boasts a secure and date-sorted interface just to offer multiple applications access to pictures as well as videos.
As per the work space team of Google, it is time to expand the users convenience by taking the next step and permitting the users to take advantage of this tool to also have access to content stored in the cloud. Whereas the backed-up images, or, one can say, cloud photos, will now be integrated along with local ones in photo pickers on Android, this leads to eliminating the need for users to switch between applications.
Also, all the albums that have been created in their cloud storage application will be easily accessible in the album tab of the photo picker. However, the brand has stated that this convenient feature already exists, will be launched along with a system update on Google in February, and will be available for all devices, but the only condition is that it should be based on Android 12 or the above version.
Noticeably, Google Photo is already supporting this new feature, but Google mentioned that its APIs are open to any other cloud media application, but that should be eligible. Apart from this, it also adds that the image picker on Android will attempt to automatically select a cloud media application, but users will have the ability to edit or even remove it whenever they want directly from the settings of the photo picker.
