[Ssc-dev] Phase 1 app.

[Andrew Senior]

Hi Shawn,

I just got the latest code and was trying the app. It's great. Lots of
function already in it.
My android coding is very rusty so I haven't got far with investigating and
thought I'd ask some questions....

The EraseMetaData button wasn't in the checked in version's main.xml, and
while I managed to make one, I don't think I figured out how to hook it up-
I don't get a "toast" message when I press it, and the metadata didn't seem
to be erased. In pictures taken with the tool, most of the metadata wasn't
there- I was wondering if that was because it wasn't never in there, or
because you had to erase it? I don't see a call to erase the metadata.

I was wondering if using Exif tags not defined in the android docs works- I
tried
    ei.setAttribute("ImageDescription","Something New");
 ei.setAttribute("UserComment","No Comment");
getting tag names from exiftool but I don't think I'm actually executing the
code yet.

I guess we don't need to erase all of the fields - flash, image dimensions,
orientation, white balance can stay in.

Perhaps for date we need some options for putting in plausible but false
data. Maybe just empty or user-edited are all that are practical, but we
could offer something like "start at this date/time and increment by a
random amount around 60 seconds each photograph" for continuous shooting or
batch editing.

I think this was the article I'd found before that mentioned adding to the
gallery menu item.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1215817/how-to-add-share-menu-item-to-gallery-by-code

Andrew
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