Syncing Picasa Web Albums - Is this new?

[Jef]

In the past when I had gone into Settings -> Accounts & Sync -> My Gmail account I swore there were only 3 options in there. Sync Contacts, Sync Gmail, Sync Calendar. Today I noticed there was a 4th option "Sync Picasa Web Albums", which was unchecked.

Now I am not sure if this has been there, or I had installed something to enable this. I am also curious where it is syncing this, and how am I accessing them?

Any ideas? Is this new, or was I just blind?

[Jef]

Ok, it appears it's from the Gallery3d from Nexus. My Picasa web albums now show up in the Gallery.

Pretty cool feature!

[iPirate]

Ok, it appears it's from the Gallery3d from Nexus. My Picasa web albums now show up in the Gallery.

Pretty cool feature!

This is a feature from 2.1?

[Jef]

Yes, it must be a feature of Gallery3d from the Nexus, which is 2.1.

[CaptainMorgan]

If you don't have it you can find it over in droid hacks you can install the new gallery as a apk by itself without the whole upgrade to 2.1. Same with pretty much every new feature in 2.1 except live backgrounds. I switched back because 2.1 froze on me constantly, even the apk version sux.

[SGTiger]

It synced for me. That is, it brought my pictures from the Picasa website down to the Droid. I just cannot figure out how to get the photos I've taken with the Droid camera to automatically sync back to the Picasa website.

Any ideas?

[mpax9]

Download ITOOKTHISONMYPHONE app and configure your Picasa album.

[SGTiger]

Download ITOOKTHISONMYPHONE app and configure your Picasa album.

Well if I leave the built-in sync to Picasa on, uploading photos with a third party app will mean they subsequently will be downloaded back to the Picasa folder on my Droid thus resulting in two copies of the same photo on the Droid.

I really would like away for the built-in sync support for Picasa to automatically synchronize on both ends the camera photos and photos on the Picasa website.

[Jer]

So, if I understand this correctly, I have a Droid and installed the 2.1 gallery and am considering opening a Picasa account for online image hosting. If I do this it will create a 'Picasa' or 'online' folder in my primary gallery view? Will it also show individual folders I created on Picasa within that folder on the Droid? This sounds like a VERY cool feature and I often find myself going to my onlne storage to link an image to someone to see what I'm explaining. If it does all of this am I able to get link info from each image or can I just email the actual image from the Droid? Does that make sense?

[deputc26]

So, if I understand this correctly, I have a Droid and installed the 2.1 gallery and am considering opening a Picasa account for online image hosting. If I do this it will create a 'Picasa' or 'online' folder in my primary gallery view? Will it also show individual folders I created on Picasa within that folder on the Droid? This sounds like a VERY cool feature and I often find myself going to my onlne storage to link an image to someone to see what I'm explaining. If it does all of this am I able to get link info from each image or can I just email the actual image from the Droid? Does that make sense?

No it doesn't show a "picasa" folder, it shows all the floders in picasa separately.