PhotoBox! comes to Android, the 'Lightroom for Facebook'
Mobile app developer WeaverMobile USA announced on Thursday that its formerly iOS-exclusive photography management app PhotoBox! has launched on Android.
The application can be thought of as "Lightroom for Facebook," giving users the ability to find, manage, add effects to, and share photos posted to Facebook, as well as perform batch uploads and downloads, to tag/untag, like/unlike, and comment. It provides a pretty robust toolkit for editing photos, adding filters, drawing, and adding text.
"PhotoBox! continues to be the only all-in-one photo app that supports searching, managing, editing and sharing images on Facebook," said Raymond Wei, co-founder of Weaver Mobile. "Facebook users are becoming increasingly mobile, and we are excited to bring the PhotoBox! app to the hands of Android owners everywhere."
But with the recent addition of Instagram to the Android family, PhotoBox provides an important gap-bridging solution.
Instagram photos, it seems can't be stored directly on the phone's SD card. (Edit: This is a false assumption. Upon closer inspection, we found that Instagram does automatically create a directory on the device's SD for saving copies of edited photos locally. The next section can be used simply to explain the Facebook batch download process.)
Here's how to save Instagram photos to SD via PhotoBox!
Instagram should be set to post to your Facebook Timeline in an album called "Instagram Photos"
Click on the cloud icon in this album in PhotoBox!
Prompt will say "Are you sure you want to download all photos in album Instagram Photos?"
Click OK twice
Click on "Saved Photos"
Click on the blue arrow on the saved album "Instagram Photos"
Prompt will ask if you want to Delete Album or Export Album to Camera Roll
Click Export, confirm action
PhotoBox will say "Saved to your Phone SD."
This first version has proven to be somewhat crashy, and the "save to SD" feature does not work on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus (since it doesn't have SD memory), however we got this feature to work on a first generation Droid, and files were saved to the directory /mnt/sdcard/PhotoBox. Please let us know what results you get with other Android devices.