Cooliris partners with Baidu: 1st International Developer to integrate Baidu's API

A brand new version of Cooliris is now available in the iTunes App Store. This update introduces integration with Baidu, China’s largest web service. With this partnership, Cooliris is the world’s first international developer to be granted access to Baidu’s complete API,providing the large and growing Chinese smartphone market with access to Cooliris’s award-winning 3D wall and a beautiful way to experience their photos.

The new app enables users to add Baidu MyCloud as a photo source, making images from Baidu’s three different cloud services available for viewing on Cooliris’s signature 3D wall.

The integration with Baidu will further complete the media experience for Chinese users by bringing photos from their device, social networks and now cloud storage services all in one place, beautifully displayed on the 3D wall, and in their localized language.

Baidu’s services available for viewing in Cooliris:

• Pan, a file storage and synchronization service
• Xiangce, a cloud album
• Yun, a social networking and identity service

Previous versions of Cooliris already include popular Chinese services amongst their sources.

Renren, a Chinese social networking service, enables Cooliris users to view their photos from their camera roll, directly from the feed and explore their friends photos as well. Similarly, Tencent Weibo, the “Twitter” of China can also be explored through Cooliris. Chinese users can view their own photos and those of their followers via Cooliris. They can also browse through different streams of themed content in Tencent Weibo via Cooliris.

In addition to including Baidu as a new source, our team has been working tirelessly to spruce up the app with a refreshing new look and feel to match Apple’s latest iOS7 update.The user interface has received a makeover, inspired by flat design and resulting in a clean and minimalistic feel. The redesigned layout includes:

• New logo for a fresh, modern look
• Brand new background to welcomes you
• Single pixel lines separate conversations, enhancing clean, fluid look and feel
• Flattened buttons to provide clean look that matches iOS 7
• Optimized text kerning and line spacing for easier reading of conversations
• Display new iOS 7 icon for camera roll
• Enhanced conversations usability which includes more presence on homepage and allows users to easily save photos directly from conversations view to Camera Roll, Dropbox, and Google Drive, or further re-share to another conversation or post to Facebook

At Cooliris, we want to give you the photo viewing and sharing experience that’s like no other. We try to bring photos from multiple sources all into one place in a convenient, organised and beautiful way. With the addition of Baidu to the 18 plus major sources already supported, combined with the new design, we are bringing Cooliris one step closer to the world’s most complete media hub.

Download the new version of Cooliris available for free on iPad and iPhone in the iTunes App Store here.