One of the main features introduced last year by Android 13 is the new Photo Picker, which lets users choose exactly which media files to share with an app.
This system will probably offer an even better experience in the coming months, as cloud content from apps like Google Photos will be displayed automatic.
Important news for Google Photos
The Photo Picker has two tabs, “Photos” and “Albums”: the first shows all photos, videos or both in reverse chronological order while the second shows media items from the Camera, Videos, Screenshots, Downloads and Favorites albums on the device.
If you store all of your media files locally on your device, the photo picker will show you all the files you might want to share, but if you store the majority of your photos and videos on Google Photos, the designed system will be missing a lot of content.
Google knew this would be a problem for many users, which is why it designed Android’s Photo Picker to support selecting items from cloud media providers right from the start but, to work, the providers of cloud media content must implement an API that allows read-only access to media files stored in the cloud.
