QuintessArt for Android - virtual Art Gallery/Museum

masterdevx · December 11th, 2010, 11:18 PM

Hi,

I present you QuintessArt for Android.

QuintessArt for Android is a virtual museum, a virtual gallery that presents greatest masterpieces in a nice way via tab navigation (3 different activities at the same time) with slideshow,quiz, bookmarks,notes,Tags,suggestions, intuitive and speedy search for paintings (+Instant Search)+sharing of paintings/bookmarks/notes by Mail/twitter-like apps+twitpic/Facebook/picasa/..etc. QuintessArt is educational and is a playful activity.

QuintessArt proposes nice user experience when searching for paintings. The application provides cool search interface, making you discover new paintings via suggestions, bookmarks, notes, slideshow,sharing paintings, notes and bookmarks by email and a quiz. It enables in a cool manner to learn more about currents and great painters. For the moment more than 20 painters, 8 currents and more than 1600 paintings...more coming soon.
Want to discover Monet, Manet, Courbet, Klimt, Boticelli ...or Impressionnism, Fauvism, Realism, Romanticism, Symbolism ...QuintessArt !

Some reviews of QuintessArt here: http://quintessart.blogspot.com/p/th...erests-in.html

Materials and complete guide are available at: http://quintessart.blogspot.com

a PDF help resource:quintessart.pdf at http://goo.gl/wTp6C

and more screenshots at:
http://picasaweb.google.com/quintessart

New video Demo available on youtube for QuintessArt: http://youtu.be/A5tB9Kpe5vM and http://youtu.be/GXk9_HX14hI

Follow us on Twitter:@quintessart
(http://www.twitter.com/quintessart)

A free version of the application with ads is available (http://market.android.com/details?id...uintessart_ads).

QuintessArt (free with ads)

Some changelogs:

Version 2.2.0
*new sharing options for paintings/notes/tags/bookmarks pictures+text/single or multiple pictures in attachments (mail/twitpic/twitter-like apps/picasa/facebook/ ...)
*download whole thumbnails for a gallery
*bug fix in gallery/thumbnail download
*gallery/long click on missing thumbnails for options+menu

Version 2.1.0
*fullscreen toggle in zoom activity

Version 2.0:

*Tags enabled: to build your own bag of keywords to see in galleries and search; to tag paintings you visit/retrieve/add/edit/share them
*Enhanced search with multiple queries with "OR" and "AND" statement: "gard+wom" will look for "garden OR women";"gard&wom" for "garden AND women";"portr & 186 c.im" for "Portraits in impressionnism in the 60's"
*data selection for download (instead of having to download whole thumbs): in "/menu/data/download thumbs" you can select thumbnails of painters or currents you want to download; in galleries you can download individual thumbs (report button/download thumb);the thumbnail is automatically downloaded when downloading a painting (refresh the gallery or slide on thumbs or click again on thumbnail to see changements); you can also download the thumbs associated to a quiz (actual thumb or whole this quiz thumbnails)
*No more missing thumbs (if any do check again)
*check for Application update (menu/contact or QuintessArt icon on main activity)

Version 1.0:
*Tab navigation between activities
*Activities: galleries from painters,currents,museum,cities,countries/search/slideshow/quiz
*notes:you can edit/save/share notes on paintings you apreciate
*bookmarks
*shuffle
*suggestions: this feature enable you to discover new paintings that could interest you through all the available paintings
*Multi-Touch zoom: from a small device you can have even more details than on a computer :-)
*3D-animations in gallery
>26 painters;>8 currents;>1600 paintings
*data storage on SDCard
*...enable move to SDCard (via Apps2SD for example)

masterdevx · December 14th, 2010, 03:00 PM

QuintessArt support forum is launched : http://forum.quintessart.com !

You will find all useful elements to have better experience with QuintessArt (Features/Tips/Help/Questions & Answers/Feedback/Suggestions & Feature requests/Bug-errors Reports).

You will also find topics and categories dedicated to Art Lovers such as:

*Artists dedicated forum/special board: artist can expose/present their exposition/galleries/own works (dedicated forums)

*Art in general: techniques, museums, news

*Masterpieces of Old Masters with dedicated forums to each great painters (see for instance "De Vinci" forum: http://goo.gl/QHnEG )

Several options: polls, sharing with twitter/mail, RSS web feed ...etc

Follow us on Twitter for updates: @quintessart
Our blog:http://quintessart.blogspot.com

A screenshot:

masterdevx · December 25th, 2010, 08:39 PM

QuintessArt update available in the Android Market (version 2.3.0) ;-); new features on home screen+optimization+performances;enjoy !

Blog: http://quintessart.blogspot.com
Twitter:@quintessart

Changelogs:
-add 4 home random paintings+associated options in main page (randomize,see painting/painter/current/suggestions/informations...)
-bug fix for OR statement in search (see "wom+portrc.im" for "impressionist portraits or paintings representing women")
-thumbnail download in slideshow
-ui optimization & performance improvement (e.g. randomization/search speedier)
-Size of Application reduced ;-)

masterdevx · January 19th, 2011, 08:23 PM

A new version of QuintessArt is available inthe Android Market (version 2.5.0).

This update brings several new features:

A new game ! "Find the Intruder !" is a "Spot the Odd one Out " like game in which you have to identify 1 or 2 or ...8 paintings of a given master among a set of paintings from other painters; educative, informative as you can see informations/see the associated paintings in the gallery tab and shuffle through all available thumbnails (1700 available :-) for this version); a new design is also proposed for the display in grid view; you can share your scores
real-time Top downloaded of the month/week/all the time
search option in Art events; filtering options according to cities/countries
several bug fixes in gallery/slideshow

Some screenshots below, as usual (see Quintessart on Picasaweb for more screenshots http://picasaweb.google.com/quintessart ):

First panel in which you analyse/observe/learn paintings of a selected master (you can select a master via menu or let the random choice :-) ):

Second panel in which you have to find the paintings of the selected painter amon a set of other masterpieces of other painters:

Follow us on Twitter: @quintessart (http://www.twitter.com/quintessart )
Our blog: http://quintessart.blogspot.com

Enjoy with QuintessArt :-)

masterdevx · January 21st, 2011, 06:00 AM

If you have any suggestions to make QuintessArt better, with art events,paintings,games,smart search,suggestions,bookmarks...etc, do not hesitate, we are "open" :-)
We're working presently, besides other developments, on including details of certain paintings in order to have a deep zoom on the detail of the painting.

QuintessArt is an edutainment application and we want to make it a reference for Art Lovers and for discovering, in a playful manner, paintings of greatest masters of history !

See our blog: http://quintessart.blogspot.com
Follow us on Twitter: @quintessart (http://www.twitter.com/quintessart )

Enjoy with QuintessArt !

John · January 21st, 2011, 02:44 PM

Thanks, I think we got the message.

masterdevx · April 5th, 2011, 10:28 AM

Thank you all for your interest in QuintessArt ! http://quintessart.blogspot.com/p/th...erests-in.html (http://goo.gl/yVAmq)

You can download materials here: http://goo.gl/s0nHd
Question and answers: http://goo.gl/c5b20
Answer to users' comments: http://goo.gl/ycDzK

All screenshots available on picasaweb: http://picasaweb.google.com/quintessart

We presently propose three versions of QuintessArt (Android Market http://goo.gl/dOf3a and amazon appstore http://goo.gl/4H8yP ):
*QuintessArt (http://goo.gl/EflqM): complete virtual museum (notes, bookmarks,random,advanced search+refine, filters,suggestions,art events, stats...etc)
*QuintessArt Games (http://goo.gl/1cCRC): dedicated to games related to art and paintings
*QuintessArt Gallery Lite (http://goo.gl/hJQIg): discover in a simpler way the list of painters and paintings available in QUintessArt

If you have any suggestions or difficulties, do not hesitate to contact us: masterdevx@gmail.com or quintessart@gmail.com or on twitter @quintessart

Enjoy with QuintessArt !

QuintessArt

QuintessArt Games

QuintessArt Gallery Lite

January 19th, 2011, 08:23 PM	#4
masterdevx Junior Member Join Date: Dec 2010 Posts: 7	A new version of QuintessArt is available inthe Android Market (version 2.5.0). This update brings several new features: A new game ! "Find the Intruder !" is a "Spot the Odd one Out " like game in which you have to identify 1 or 2 or ...8 paintings of a given master among a set of paintings from other painters; educative, informative as you can see informations/see the associated paintings in the gallery tab and shuffle through all available thumbnails (1700 available :-) for this version); a new design is also proposed for the display in grid view; you can share your scores real-time Top downloaded of the month/week/all the time search option in Art events; filtering options according to cities/countries several bug fixes in gallery/slideshow Some screenshots below, as usual (see Quintessart on Picasaweb for more screenshots http://picasaweb.google.com/quintessart ): First panel in which you analyse/observe/learn paintings of a selected master (you can select a master via menu or let the random choice :-) ): Second panel in which you have to find the paintings of the selected painter amon a set of other masterpieces of other painters: Follow us on Twitter: @quintessart (http://www.twitter.com/quintessart ) Our blog: http://quintessart.blogspot.com Enjoy with QuintessArt :-)

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December 14th, 2010, 03:00 PM	#2
masterdevx Junior Member Join Date: Dec 2010 Posts: 7	QuintessArt support forum is launched : http://forum.quintessart.com ! You will find all useful elements to have better experience with QuintessArt (Features/Tips/Help/Questions & Answers/Feedback/Suggestions & Feature requests/Bug-errors Reports). You will also find topics and categories dedicated to Art Lovers such as: Artists dedicated forum/special board: artist can expose/present their exposition/galleries/own works (dedicated forums) Art in general: techniques, museums, news *Masterpieces of Old Masters with dedicated forums to each great painters (see for instance "De Vinci" forum: http://goo.gl/QHnEG ) Several options: polls, sharing with twitter/mail, RSS web feed ...etc Follow us on Twitter for updates: @quintessart Our blog:http://quintessart.blogspot.com A screenshot:

December 25th, 2010, 08:39 PM	#3
masterdevx Junior Member Join Date: Dec 2010 Posts: 7	QuintessArt update available in the Android Market (version 2.3.0) ;-); new features on home screen+optimization+performances;enjoy ! Blog: http://quintessart.blogspot.com Twitter:@quintessart Changelogs: -add 4 home random paintings+associated options in main page (randomize,see painting/painter/current/suggestions/informations...) -bug fix for OR statement in search (see "wom+portrc.im" for "impressionist portraits or paintings representing women") -thumbnail download in slideshow -ui optimization & performance improvement (e.g. randomization/search speedier) -Size of Application reduced ;-)

January 21st, 2011, 06:00 AM	#5
masterdevx Junior Member Join Date: Dec 2010 Posts: 7	If you have any suggestions to make QuintessArt better, with art events,paintings,games,smart search,suggestions,bookmarks...etc, do not hesitate, we are "open" :-) We're working presently, besides other developments, on including details of certain paintings in order to have a deep zoom on the detail of the painting. QuintessArt is an edutainment application and we want to make it a reference for Art Lovers and for discovering, in a playful manner, paintings of greatest masters of history ! See our blog: http://quintessart.blogspot.com Follow us on Twitter: @quintessart (http://www.twitter.com/quintessart ) Enjoy with QuintessArt !

January 21st, 2011, 02:44 PM	#6
John John Malyon, host Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 2,400	Thanks, I think we got the message.

April 5th, 2011, 10:28 AM	#7
masterdevx Junior Member Join Date: Dec 2010 Posts: 7	Thank you all for your interest in QuintessArt ! http://quintessart.blogspot.com/p/th...erests-in.html (http://goo.gl/yVAmq) You can download materials here: http://goo.gl/s0nHd Question and answers: http://goo.gl/c5b20 Answer to users' comments: http://goo.gl/ycDzK All screenshots available on picasaweb: http://picasaweb.google.com/quintessart We presently propose three versions of QuintessArt (Android Market http://goo.gl/dOf3a and amazon appstore http://goo.gl/4H8yP ): QuintessArt (http://goo.gl/EflqM): complete virtual museum (notes, bookmarks,random,advanced search+refine, filters,suggestions,art events, stats...etc) QuintessArt Games (http://goo.gl/1cCRC): dedicated to games related to art and paintings *QuintessArt Gallery Lite (http://goo.gl/hJQIg): discover in a simpler way the list of painters and paintings available in QUintessArt If you have any suggestions or difficulties, do not hesitate to contact us: masterdevx@gmail.com or quintessart@gmail.com or on twitter @quintessart Enjoy with QuintessArt ! QuintessArt QuintessArt Games QuintessArt Gallery Lite