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A World Of Photo

Loosely inspired by the traditional "Spin the Bottle", A World Of Photo is a casual, geo-multiplayer online game with with a social touch.

By spinning their phone, players select a peer who will spontaneously take a picture using their mobile camera and send it to them. The selected player then continues the thread by spinning herself.

It won the Entertainment category of the Android Developer Challenge 2.

screenshots

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download

The latest version is 1.1.9c, published 2026-09-01.

Google Play (currently unavailable)

The Google Play release is currently disabled. A World of Photo is currently only available for self-install.

changelog

1.1.9c (2026-09-01)

  • Modernized the app to run on current Android versions, including a higher minimum Android version and OpenStreetMap-based maps in place of retired Google Maps support.

1.1.9b (2010-11-06)

  • Retired our custom crash reporting in favor of Google's new built-in reporting facility (available starting with Froyo).
    • Fixed the donate version, was broken in the last release.

1.1.9 (2010-10-18)

  • Fixed: Previous version broke custom sound selections.

1.1.8 (2010-10-15)

  • Fixed: Connection always failed on some devices running 2.2.
  • Allow installation on external storage on 2.2 devices.
  • Fixed: The Vibrate setting now works correctly.

1.1.1 (2010-04-19)

  • Includes translations that we missing in 1.1.0 release.

1.1.0 (2010-04-19)

  • Allow for selection of custom notification tones. This also automatically enables a "silent" option as well.
  • Saved images are now stored in a custom folder in the Gallery.
  • New "Share" option when viewing a photo.
  • Fixed rating bar display on high resolution phones like the Droid or N1.
  • Include high-resolution icons for HDPI screens.
  • Added a handful new languages (Italian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Arabic).
  • The "nag to rate" mechanism which intercepts BACK in the photo view is now less aggressive and hopefully works better.

1.0.9 (2009-12-15)

  • Fixed crash in Central.
  • Removed idle threats about reputation points.
  • Support responding to rating-only messages.
  • Attempt to fix various sending photo issues on the Droid (sometimes involving hangs and crashes apparently), though I am kind of shooting in the dark at this point.
  • You may now access preferences, help and the feedback option on the setup screen.
  • Added French, Russian and Spanish translations.

1.0.5 (2009-09-26)

  • Fixed issue with losing a connection during an upload.
  • Lock orientation during spinning.
  • Added option to distort the own position.
  • Improve ability to have the app run in the background.
  • Fixed various potential crashes.
  • Built against 1.6 ("Donut-ready").

1.0.0 (2009-09-01)

Initial Release.