How do you give your partner full access? I've got 20k photos going back 17 years. My wife (another account in my Google Apps account) should have full access for searching, etc. Is that on the roadmap (just sharing isn't really a solution)?

Unfortunately we don't have a good answer for "family" accounts at this point.

It's definitely something that we've talked about internally and is something that I'd personally love to see in the product.

Thanks. It's SO important to at the minimum have a coadmin or partner/spouse account. Our whole life is in there and my wife can't get to them, which means they literally don't exist for her.

Love Photos App. There is a serious issue with Photos app on Android that is making many Apps fail while using intents to select photos from Gallery. See the Code Strip here:http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3401579/get-filename-and-...

(Trying to convert URI to Path String results in null with new Photos app since _data value is set to null for some reason).

Trying to reach someone who can look at Android Photos app since its breaking a large number of PhotoGraphy apps.

I should be able to file a bug on this if one hasn't been filed already.

You just filed it ;-) We'll fix this soon for local photos.

Nothing but love otherwise! In case it wasn't clear: Photos looks fantastic. Add an API and it's perfect.

Given that it doesn't have an API, I don't understand why it was announced at Google I/O. What is supposed to be a conference for developers has somehow turned into a place for Google to demo a ton of random new end-user product features.

In your opinion, only those products with API's available today should be announced? That sounds overly restrictive. By the same logic - Projects Jacquard and Vault shouldn't have been announced either.

I think it's fair to announce products so devs can be ready when the API becomes available.

First of all, "there were a couple things tacked on to the presentation that maybe could one day be used by a developer" is a pretty desperate argument, given that the keynote was three hours long and focussed on a ton of things that don't have any API at all, like Photos, and did not mention a single implication for a developer even for the things which had APIs, such as Now on Tap (which means that developers had no reason to bother going to the sessions on that feature, as it was clearly something designed for end users only; apparently it actually has a couple APIs).

However, sure: I'll bite. No: announcing random stuff that we can't play with and that they won't talk to us about is totally useless for developer. This entire event was just about causing people to go "wow, they are smart". I am a developer quite interested in 3D video, and so despite seeing Project Jump and going "ugh, another end-user product announcement", I figure I might as well talk to the engineers about it: only, they aren't willing to say anything about what might be available or how it works or essentially anything about their plans... so good luck "getting ready".

Regardless, the next thing you really need to defend, as this is what we are talking about: what are you, as a developer, doing to get ready for Photos? Google I/O has become less and less developer-focussed ever since it started (I have gone every year), and has turned into more and more of just a showcase of their end-user products. This year as the epitome, and all of the developers that I know who attended were quite disappointed; even the ones who still liked last year's somehow were now also saying "this event seems to have lost its purpose and is no longer useful".

I think a keynote should be more of 10,000 foot view

> Regardless, the next thing you really need to defend, as this is what we are talking about: what are you, as a developer, doing to get ready for Photos?

You can't imagine how unlimited storage of images and videos have no implications to devs and how we view curation of photos? Thats one less limitation to worry about.

I 100% agree that I/O is becoming less and less developer focused. Lots of non-developers want to attend (I blame the freebies they gave - looks like that has stopped so it might get better). I/O (or any other 'developer' conference) goes beyond the technical. There is a lot of self-promotion, PR, recruitment (in the HR sense, and recruitment into the 'developer ecosystem')

Only if they really plan to add an API. What about Hangouts for example? Did they announce an API for Photos?

To make sure I understand, what you would like is an API to get your original photos & metadata back out?

Isn't this compatible with the Picasa and Google Drive API's?

Is the Photo team part of Google+?

Photos works both for users with and without G+ account.