Soon, you'll be able to buy your OnePlus 6, but you can acquaintance some of its apps today acknowledgment to XDA user erayrafet, who ripped a few OxygenOS apps like Weather and this Gallery app. While Google Photos is a abundant service, this Gallery app should be your go-to app for locally-stored photos.
The capital advantage of OnePlus' Gallery app is that it's lightweight. It's accessible to use, and it avalanche appropriate in band with the affair of OnePlus's software in general: simplicity. It doesn't seek to reinvent the wheel, but what it does do, it does effectively. If you're not acclimated to sideloading apps, you may be abashed by this accomplished process. Don't anguish though, as it's all categorical here.
Step 1: Accredit Unknown Sources / Install Unknown Apps
Before you can do annihilation else, accomplish abiding your phone is set up to sideload apps. If you're active Android Nougat or antecedent versions, accredit Unknown Sources to let your phone install apps that you didn't download from Google Play.
If your phone is active Android Oreo or higher, again you charge to accord your browser permission to install Unknown Apps. You can either do it now or while you're aggravating to install the OnePlus Gallery app. If you're not picky, it's easier to do it aback you try to install the app, as you can aloof tap "Settings," again analysis a box and arch aback to columnist "Install."
Step 2: Install the OnePlus Gallery App
Next, get the OnePlus Gallery APK from the articulation below. Aback prompted, tap "Download." If you're accepting some agitation downloading it, you may charge to long-press the articulation and accept "Download link" manually. Afterwards you download it, the book will arise in your notification shade. Pull bottomward on it and tap on it.
Your phone will again affirm that you appetite to install the app. To do so, tap "Install," again tap "Open" aback your phone finishes installing it.
If you absitively to delay to admission your browser permission to install Unknown Apps on your Oreo (or higher) phone, actuality is area you'll tap "Settings" aback asked to. On the abutting screen, aloof accredit the switch, tap the aback button, again hit "Install."
Step 3: Start Using the OnePlus Gallery App
Gallery will appearance you all of your photos aggregate by date (similar to how it's done on Google Photos). Tap on one to zoom in on it (you can compression afterwards that to zoom in further). Tap the "Share" button in the bottom-left bend to allotment the photo, the Star figure to admired it, the pencil to adapt it, or the debris can to annul it.
If you tap the three-dot-menu in the top-right corner, you can set the photo as your wallpaper or as a contact's photo. You can additionally tap "Add to" if you appetite to add the photo to a accumulating aural the Gallery app (or actualize a new one).
There are two added tabs in accession to the capital Photos one: Collections and Places. Collections are groups of photos that are both curated automatically or manually. By default, photos you admired are added to a Collection, as able-bodied as your screenshots. Places is comprised of photos aggregate by location.
Now you're all set to use your Gallery app about you like. Whether you accept a cast new Android phone or an old clunker, this failing app should run abundant on your device.
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