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Gallery Go by Google Photos is a machine learning-based offline gallery app for Android Go
Gallery Go is an offline gallery app designed for Android Go devices, bringing over several of Google Photos' machine learning features. Read on for more!
Android Go is Google's lightweight platform that is intended to run on less powerful hardware as compared to the regular Android system. Android Go thus targets users in developing nations and low income areas who can only afford basic smartphone hardware, but still aims to provide them with a comparable Android experience. Because of the inherent limitations that the Android Go vision brings along, Google has released highly optimized versions of several of its app, stripping away heavy yet secondary features but still managing to get the primary job done. Google Photos, one of Google's best services in recent years, did not see an Android Go-equivalent app. But at a Google for Nigeria event today, Google has announced Gallery Go -- an offline gallery app that brings some of the machine learning-based algorithmic magic from Google Photos to Android Go devices.