News by: Christian de Looper 11th November 2013
Ever since the beginning of Android there has always been an app called “Gallery”, which has been the home of all your images loaded on your device. Soon however, the Gallery app will be phased out completely, being replaced by Google+ Photos, or simply “Photos” as the app is called.
Evidence against the Gallery app is mounting, and a high resolution icon for the app was not even created for Android 4.4, even though most other apps did receive a shiny high res icon. Clearly Google would like as many people to migrate towards Google+ as possible, though you aren’t required to create a Google+ account to use the app. it can handle both offline and online photos.
The next step for Google is to remove the Gallery app completely from Android, and it seems that it is only a matter of time before that happens. In fact, a recent minor update to the Gallery app even included files named “plus_editor”.
news source: androidpolice.com
