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The new photos app allows you to choose photos and videos from your device (local and online)

Google photos app is the next version of the gallery app, which is an integral part of the Google Plus app. This app allows other apps to browse/edit/share/choose images and videos (both local and online). It's an alternate application for the default Gallery app.

Reference: https://support.google.com/plus/answer/3453521?hl=en

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Can't select photo and video at the same time from New Google Photos App

After Google Photos update I can't select video and photo at the same time. If I use single "video/*" or "image/*" intent it works as usually. In the video-photo intent it ignores second parameter. If the first is video - it will be video intent, if…
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Getting videos(non-local) from the Google Photos App

With the Google Photos app, I am trying to pick a video, that is not cached on the device. I am using the ACTION_GET_CONTENT intent, to launch the options dialog, and from there I choose the Google Photos app. While selecting local videos, it…
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How to insert Credentials in PhotosLibrarySettings object on Android mobile App. Using Google Sign-In

I do not know how to pass Credentials to Google Photos Library API, after user has authenticated with Google Sign-In, and has been authorized to use Google Photos Library API. I am developing a mobile App (no backend server, just installed Android…
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Google Photos API limits

I'm trying to use the Google Photos API to incrementally upload a very large local photo library. Everything was working, but after uploading about 1.2GB the requests started being rejected with the following message: Insufficient tokens for quota…
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Registering 2 activities to receive images, it doesn't work when sharing from Google Photos app

Let's say in my app, users can make posts & send messages to other users, & I want to register my app as a component among those appears in the Share-via picker when sharing either text or an image, I'm defining my 2 activities in my…
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Organize photos into albums using API

The new Google Photos API seems to allow the creation of albums and uploading images to albums, but I'd like to organize existing photos in Google Photos into new albums; is this currently possible somehow?
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Automatically upload photos to a particular Google Photos album

I'm trying to automatically upload JPG photo files from a particular directory on my computer to a particular album on Google Photos. I'd like the photos to periodically get pushed up to Google Photos (every day or so is frequent enough). Google…
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How to access a Google Photos shared album

I posted this as an answer to a related question but it was deleted by a moderator, so I'm posting this now as a question. The related question is Accessing shared albums from Google Photos I am trying to access a Google Photos shared album using…
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How to read Drive Photos using Drive Rest API

I'm trying to read Google Photos using Drive REST API inside Google Apps Script. The code looks like this: function myFunction() { var files = Drive.Files.list({ maxResults: 10, spaces: 'photos' }); for (var i = 0; i <…
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Pick Image From Gallery Or Google Photos Failing

EDIT: I wanted to update what the problem really is. On a Samsung phone you have "Gallery", inside "Gallery" you can also see your google photos backups. This is the photo selection I'm trying to get at. Now on other apps (Close5) they simply…
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How to programmatically modify Google Drive photo metadata (EXIF)?

I have a lot of photos uploaded on Google Photos and synced with Drive that have the wrong date/time (The camera used to take them had the wrong date/time set and so the files all have the wrong EXIF information). I am trying to correct the…
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How can I find the actual size of a Google Photos library?

I am working on something to download and archive Google Photos libraries on to offline storage media. Before downloading, I'd like to calculate how much media will be needed to store the photos library but all I can get is a user's storage quota…
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How can I upload a photo into "google photos" from my php application?

I want to upload photos into google photos, not the picasa from my php application. I am not getting the apis for google photos. what i am getting is only for google picasa client libraries and integration. Please help me.
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What format does the Google Places Photos API return the image in?

Have a look at this API:…
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Retrieve file size for videos stored on Google Photos

Context: I wanted to see how I'm using my Google Photos space and I wrote a little script in Python that uses the Google Photos API to retrieve all my albums and it's contents (using…
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