hello, Jeff!

how can I help you today?

hi mark

one second

here I am

2 questions

there you are

1 on the camera

go ahead

I asked an Android developer advocate about the camera just to make sure I wasn't doing more than I had too(aka something stupid)

he suggested using EXIF interface so I read your code on it

that code changed, dramatically, in 0.6.0

my question is whether EXIF gives enough information to skip doing per device profiles

reading your code, it looks like a per device profile is still required, correct?

it is required where it is required :-)

rotation-related device profile stuff is now mostly gone

oh

courtesy of the improved EXIF support

I'll read that code

I adopted Google's EXIF code from their MMS support in the AOSP messaging app

so using EXIF information, you can tell whether the image is properly rotated (not upside down)?

I'd phrase it more as that CWAC-Camera will apply the EXIF headers and rotate the image

so that the resulting image does not have the header, but is already rotated

for better compatibility with viewers that do not honor the EXIF headers

OK, but not based on device specific information? it's Exif information?

mostly, yes

some devices screw up

great

yea

IIRC, Nexus 7 (2012) improperly codes the EXIF header in landscape

so I have fixups based on that, driven by device profiles

thanks

(which are now mostly in XML resources, per our previous discussion)

excellent!

(assuming you're the Jeff that I had that previous discussion with :-)

yes, I'm Jeff Drew of brooklyn. I go to the Android meetup usually and my app is gooditron

I'll change my name in the chat room

oh, you can use whatever name you want here

it's just that "Jeff" is generic enough that I have to be a bit careful about assuming that all Jeffs are one and the same

thanks but I think anonymity is confusing the good guys

question 2

I now want to write cloud sync for my app

I want to use some library. I think Google Cloud Endpoints and AWS's SDK look best. Do you know of any big problems with either of those?

um

I have never used Google Cloud Endpoints

I have never used AWS from within Android, though I use them a fair bit outside of Android

what are you trying to sync?

I just wanted to check for any horror stories before I start - I'll prototype both.

images from the camera ;)

and some information that goes along with the image

OK, if that's what you want

and your latest source code is in cw-omnibus?

for CWAC-Camera? no

yes CWAC-Camera

thanks - that's all my questions

thanks for the help

you are very welcome

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