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Snap FX for Android Phones

Snap FX is an application for creating and manipulating images right on your phone. Many other camera and image-editing applications in the Android Market won’t allow you to deal with full-sized images and that is what sets Snap FX apart from the rest: With Snap FX you can take pictures and manipulate them without scaling them down to smaller versions.

Click on this link that takes you to Snap FX’ product information.

Leave comments, suggestions, problems and compliments in the comment-section of this post.

Thank you!
– Anton Spaans.

Android does not provide an Exif Reader or Exif Writer in its SDK (it has a native implemenation, though, but that API is private).

The Sanselan library, however, does provide a full fledged set of functionality for reading and writing Exif metadata.

However, Sanselan pur sang cannot be included in an Android Project. It references classes and packages that do not exist under the current version of Android (e.g. ImageIO).

Therefore, I made a quick cut of Sanselan 0.97, cutting out all the classes that prevent it from being used on the Android platform. It is a quick cut and it may have some issues. However, I got its exif reading and writing to work for my application and it looks its working quite well. Reading and writing raw image-datais however not possible in this cut. This has been cut out.

You can download the Sanselan sources from here:
Sanselan 0.97 for Android

If you want to make it into a proper library (JAR), you have to do that yourself

Upload your Pics to Smugmug

This application allows you to upload the pictures you shot with your Android phone directly to your Smugmug account.

This application is still in its pre-alpha stages.

If you have any comments, complaints or compliments, you can do so in the comments-section below.

Thank you very much.
– Anton Spaans.

The Rubik’s Cube for Android Phones

In 1974, the Hungarian professor of architecture Ernő Rubik invented the now well known puzzle that is named after him: “Rubik’s Cube™”. To solve the puzzle, each of the six faces must be of one solid color. This ageless game is a test of wit, dexterity and problem solving and has now been brought to the virtual world of Android as “Gube”.

If you have any comments, complaints or compliments, you can do so in the comments-section below.

Thank you very much.
– Anton Spaans.