Yahoo unveiled the first official Android Flickr app, as well as a new feature that will allow users of its popular photo service to quickly and easily share pictures in real time with family and friends. Within the new Android app, users can access all their own photos, as well as their albums and contacts. They can see activity streams, and photos that friends have uploaded.

In addition, Flickr developed its own camera experience that is built into the app. It has a custom viewfinder that allows a user to select different photo ratios, and lets him quickly name new photos and add metadata. The app also automatically appends geolocation data. Any new photograph taken inside the app can be instantly and automatically uploaded to Flickr, and can also be sent to other social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr, by clicking a check box.

In addition to its new Android app, Flickr also unveiled its new Photo Session feature which allows users to flip through their photos with friends in real time for a live slide show. It works by generating a unique URL that can be sent to up to ten friends; when they click on it, they can join the group viewing the pics.

Photo Session is currently still only a preview, browser and device support is limited to the iPad, iPhone 4.2, and Firefox version 4 or higher, Safari 5 or higher, and Chrome 12 or higher. The feature doesn’t currently work on Internet Explorer or Opera browsers. Photo Session also doesn’t work on the new Android app, but Yahoo plans to address that shortcoming in future updates.

Via Tgdaily