Flickr releases its first Android app

PanARMENIAN.Net - Flickr launched its first native Android app for shooting and sharing photos.

It offers quick filters, topic and location tagging, access to comments and groups, and full-screen browsing and slideshows. It has a full list of sharing options as well as privacy controls, according to ReadWrietWeb.

There's also a new feature for all Flickr users called Photo Session, which lets members browse photo slideshows in sync together over the Web. Users can chat and doodle on photos during a Photo Session. It supports all major desktop browsers, iPhone and iPad.

Flickr has had a native iOS app for years, but the filters are new to the Android app. Photo apps that add various shades of brown are a hot commodity. Of course, the photo filter app to watch is Instagram, which released version 2.0 last week, but it's iOS only.

The Flickr Android app is available to download from Android Market.