{"id":1912,"date":"2013-01-14T22:32:20","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T13:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joewein.net\/blog\/?p=1912"},"modified":"2013-01-24T14:04:57","modified_gmt":"2013-01-24T05:04:57","slug":"android-gallery-pictures-are-blank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/2013\/01\/14\/android-gallery-pictures-are-blank\/","title":{"rendered":"Android Gallery pictures are blank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am not sure when this started to happen, but for some time I have been unable to use the Gallery app on my Google Nexus S (Android 4.0.4) phone to view my Picasa albums. It shows all the album names and how many pictures each album contains, but the pictures themselves are invisible. Each shows as a dark grey rectangle only. Only the &#8220;Camera&#8221; and &#8220;sdcard&#8221; albums (i.e. local pictures on the device) display correctly.<\/p>\n<p>I tried all the fixes I could find, including these steps:<br \/>\n&#8211; Manage Apps, Gallery, Force Stop, Clear data<br \/>\n&#8211; Manage Apps, Google+, Force Stop, Clear data<br \/>\n&#8211; Manage Apps, Camera, Force Stop, Clear data<\/p>\n<p>This didn&#8217;t do anything for me. It re-synced and showed the same blank images again.<\/p>\n<p>So far the best solution has been to install the free app &#8220;Just Pictures!&#8221;. Upon connecting it to my Google identity, it initially showed only my public albums, but <a href=\"http:\/\/justpictures.uservoice.com\/knowledgebase\/articles\/69967-can-i-display-private-albums-in-justpictures-\">an article<\/a> in their knowledge base explained how to add login credentials to enable it to manage private albums, too and after that I could view them all.<\/p>\n<p>If anybody else figures out a way to fix the original Android Gallery problem, do let me know!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am not sure when this started to happen, but for some time I have been unable to use the Gallery app on my Google Nexus S (Android 4.0.4) phone to view my Picasa albums. It shows all the album &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/2013\/01\/14\/android-gallery-pictures-are-blank\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-android","category-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1912"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1917,"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912\/revisions\/1917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}