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explodingdog, for lovers of Sam Brown's art, or of automatically changing wallpapers.

Hey guys,
Just wrote a little app overnight which gets the latest images from explodingdog.com and sets them as your wallpaper.
Check it out, called: explodingdog.
Best of all, it's FREE! haha.
Will post updates on my twitter when I get round to it (dazbradbury).
http://dazbradbury.googlepages.com/
Enjoy.
Daz.

Holy crap! Thanks!

v1.5.0 released: Option to have the latest explodingdog images automatically pushed to the phone...

v2.0.0 - Image previews and more...
Ok, was away for a few days, but just got back and implemented a few changes. Image previews, and background service improvements...
Try it out...
Daz.

Anyone on XDA using this?
Daz.

Fairly major design change... give it a go and let me know what you think.

Running JF 1.5 and after "updating wallpaper", working process just seems to keep going, doesn't back out of itself. Have to hit back button to go back to app mainscreen.
Is this app supposed to auto-set wallpaper with new images?

Are you on 3G/GPRS? Have you tried waiting 30 seconds or so? Perhaps I should revert back to the progress bar style...
If you're on 3G, the initial search should take less than 10 seconds, and setting the wallpaper, less than 5 seconds. On GPRS it can take anywhere up to a minute, and around 10-15 to set the wallpaper.
Am just going to release an update now which should improve things.
Cheers,
Daz.

Oh, just understood your comment. Managed to reproduce the bug once, so will work on what's causing it. The background updated correctly though right?
And yes, the app can auto-set wallpaper with new images if you set it to.
Enjoy. Daz.

Update posted. Made quite a big change to how the app works when you click an image. You should find it's actually nearly instant now.
Enjoy. Daz.

Thanks, I'll try new version. Where are the images stored on the phone?

At the moment, the explodingdog app stores only 1 image at a time in the phone's internal memory. If you check out my Flickr Droid app, that can save images to your SD card. At some point, I'll add that functionality to this....

I'm trying to find the thread for the flickr app. I for one would really appreciate it if you had the cached photos go to a hidden folder (starting with a period) so that they don't show up in the regular image browser?

Flickr Droid thread is here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=512601
I see your point, and my aim is that images don't appear in your image browser UNLESS, you select Set As/Save and View. If you simply browse images and select them (to be set to your wallpaper), you won't see any images appearing in the android image viewer. Or at least, you shouldn't be doing...!
If you still think somethings not right, I'll have a look at it, but I can't see the problem on my phone...
Thanks for the feedback, Daz.

Just made a big change to what goes on behind the scenes with explodingdog.
Made it possible to code in the Dog Hates ME sub-site in the future too...!
Enjoy!

explodingdog 2.0 just released including the ability to keep up to date with DogEatsME.com.
Hope you like it!
Daz.

E-Paper: Simple drawing app

Due to the lack of good open source drawing apps to port to the NST, I wrote myself a simple one specifically for the NST, taking advantage of the fast refresh mode (A2).
The app is quite simple: it is multi-page, can export and import pages from PNG files, and the usual basic stuff you'd expect from a (basic) drawing app. See some screenshots below.
Actually, you can import any PNG images folder by long pressing the folder at the import screen. However, for now you can't erase pixels from imported pages. This is because the drawer is curve based (you create and delete curves), not pixel based.
In addition to the icons at the bottom of the screen, the left side keys perform undo/redo and the right side switch pages.
Comments and suggestions are welcome, also if some is willing to help me port this to the PRS-T1, let me know.
Source code is available at: https://github.com/marspeople/E-Paper
Changelog:
1.1: Background of exported images is now white instead of transparent.

I would like to ask, are there any text mode, allowing users to type in some text?
Support your great app!

Nice work. Just tried it out. Pushing the limits of what an e-paper device can do (actually, it's a bit beyond...) but still pretty rad that you were able to make it! Thanks!

pretty great app. really liked the simplicity and such.
but i would want to have some options on saving images, by default on png images, drawing is black and background is transparent, so previewing on a different app makes my images weird. it could has some options, like background and text colors, image size and jpg/png output etc. And also it would be cool to add some texts to my drawings as wheilitjohnny said.
cheers

Marspeople, I think this app is great. I've looked for apps which my kids can use for drawing and this answers the need.

drmxmyt said:
pretty great app. really liked the simplicity and such.
but i would want to have some options on saving images, by default on png images, drawing is black and background is transparent, so previewing on a different app makes my images weird. it could has some options, like background and text colors, image size and jpg/png output etc. And also it would be cool to add some texts to my drawings as wheilitjohnny said.
cheers
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You're right, I forgot about fixing the transparent background. Fixed now.
Regarding your other requests, I think they defeat the simplicity purposes of the app. However, adding typed text may be interesting, I will consider that.

E-Paper app
Great little app! Would be great if you could add a button to refresh the page once in a while. After many deletes the shadows can be overwhelming and distracting. I am currently deciding which one I like better: E-Paper or FreeNote (more features but also more complicated). I think in the end simplicity trumps flexibility.

Here is a small tip: you can draw straight line segments by touching the screen with two fingers (one after another) and releasing them at reverse order.
nrseife said:
Great little app! Would be great if you could add a button to refresh the page once in a while. After many deletes the shadows can be overwhelming and distracting. I am currently deciding which one I like better: E-Paper or FreeNote (more features but also more complicated). I think in the end simplicity trumps flexibility.
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Well, you can simply press the n button twice (don't press too fast or it will create ghost at the bottom).

=>> App for making lecture notes
Hi!
I would like to suggest some simple upgrade to your app, which equivallent I failed to find on Market.
Since E-Ink Multi Touch screen of NST seems to be great also for making lecture notes, but for what I have failed to find any suitable app, althought only simple thing would make your app to be great for this purpouse. You could then even start of selling it.
Here is the simple idea:
Screen divided into 3 frames:
1.) Overlook-frame of printable-part of A4/A5 -- used for scroolling/scalling of the Zoomed-frame around paper - which should look like small box on large A4,
2.) Zoomed-frame -- used for handwritting text, drawing pictures, writting formulas into the small box on Overlook Frame
3.) Toolbar-frame -- same as yours only with zoom +- buttons. also scalling of Zoomed-frame box on Overlook-frame could be done by multitouch.
Would be great hack for students of Natural arts - could provide ability to write mathematical formulas and schemes and so on, not loosing possibililty of hand writting.
What do you think?

That looks like a really nice, polished app.
I was just wondering if anybody uses the capabilities of ezPDF Reader to do similar things.

ezpdf
Renate NST said:
That looks like a really nice, polished app.
I was just wondering if anybody uses the capabilities of ezPDF Reader to do similar things.
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yes i use comments for correcting LATEX generated i write pdfs or for commenting some books for studying. However i think that ezPDF is mainly for reading pdf and is not suitable for making lecture notes.

Very nice and simple app...thanks

Is there any way to exit this app? (I mean alternative to terminating a process)

~windrider~ said:
Is there any way to exit this app? (I mean alternative to terminating a process)
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You normally don't exit android apps, the system will terminate it if needed. This app will be totally idle when it isn't at foreground.

I tried using your app on my prs-t1. It works and runs but there's a lag when drawing. For example if you draw a line, it takes about half a second or so to show up on the screen.
I wish I could help you port it and optimize but I have no clue how to Lol > < I really wish it were possible because the native drawing app on the prs-t1 saves in some weird format.
Sent from my Liberty using Tapatalk 2

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bug
i had probably found a bug.
scenario:
1. made note
2. saved it
3. load it
4. cannot delete erase what was written there
i had earned some developement skills for android. So i may probably do enhancements to the app I had proposed here earlier.

the simple answer to that is this app save it as png, not svg or another vector method. so you cant edit it, it just an image file. its not a bug.

drmxmyt said:
the simple answer to that is this app save it as png, not svg or another vector method. so you cant edit it, it just an image file. its not a bug.
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That's correct. The reason for this is being easier to handle a png file than a curve-based specific file format.
mrWax said:
i had earned some developement skills for android. So i may probably do enhancements to the app I had proposed here earlier.
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This app has large room for improvements. If anyone want to contribute, just send me a patch.

[Q] Change DCIM naming scheme?

Picked up an HTC One DE to upgrade from a Galaxy Nexus. I've had a few days to play with it, so now there are a lot of pictures on the One... the trouble is that my GN uses a logical naming scheme (eg,: IMG_20130503_215914"), while the HTC One saves them with just sequential numbering (eg.: "IMAG0004"). I have a ton of pictures using the GN's naming scheme and would prefer to have the One spit out pictures using the logical naming with dates in it like the GN.
Can't find any settings to change this in any app. Help?
Also a small gripe/side effect of zoes: it takes 20 pictures, and on the phone gallery I believe it picks the "best" one to display. I wish this was labelled somehow when browsing the dcim folder on a computer, because sorting through even a weekend's worth of zoes is turning into a several hour long ordeal, never mind my usual "hook it up to a pc once a month to sync/dump photos".

there isnt any way to change how pictures are named. zoes have rendered any 3rd party gallery like quickpic useless. ive had the phone for 3 weeks and i have 3000+ pictures on it due to the zoes. its also a pain looking at them on the computer since MTP takes forever.

cachookaman said:
there isnt any way to change how pictures are named. zoes have rendered any 3rd party gallery like quickpic useless. ive had the phone for 3 weeks and i have 3000+ pictures on it due to the zoes. its also a pain looking at them on the computer since MTP takes forever.
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What about some sort of post-picture naming script? I am no coder, but could a script be written to look at the EXIF info and rename the file with the date/time stamp? Anyone care to take a stab?

[Q] SONY: Wrong method of naming Photos in xperia.

For the past 15 years I used Nokia mobiles, I was very happy the way Nokia named newly shot photos (e.g. 21062010128, i.e. 21 June, 2010 0128, the current date and then an increment number). This gave me a lot of flexibility in sorting, organising and finding photos (I know that the exif data of a photo does contain the photo shot time).
But sony, gives the numbers like 'DSC_0295'. Just the useless word DSC and an increment number. This gives me a lot of problems while finding and storing the photos. E.g. when I move some photos from my phone to a photo storing folder on my hdd, then the phone again starts naming photos like dsc0001, 002 etc. And when 2nd time I try to move these photos to my storing place, then I've to rename all the new photos so as to avoid to overwrite the earlier ones. What say fella!
VERY POOR SONY. Pls give us the proper naming method having date time included in photos title. It won't hurt you and help us a lot.

i agree with you but you can use another camera app from play store

That's because they use the same naming scheme as their Digital cameras, I think its because of the camera software, as DSC is Digital Still Camera? That prefix is common among most Digital cameras, even DSLRs from Nikon use the same naming scheme and even HTC Phones.. You can use image importing software to fix that otherwise yeah, the manual method works. You could folder them by date.

I haven't tried them but you could check this app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=it.smartphoneapps.jcrename
or this one https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cyb.satheesh.filerenamer .
They both claim that you can batch rename files. Hope it helps.

Use dropbox camera upload.. it changes filename to date from EXIF and you can keep using stock camera.

gerickjohn said:
That's because they use the same naming scheme as their Digital cameras, I think its because of the camera software, as DSC is Digital Still Camera? That prefix is common among most Digital cameras, even DSLRs from Nikon use the same naming scheme and even HTC Phones.. You can use image importing software to fix that otherwise yeah, the manual method works. You could folder them by date.
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'The Free Photos & File Renamer' seems to be an alternative.
But my post was not a question. It was a remark regarding the deficiency of this file naming system of different manufacturers EXCEPT NOKIA!
Using 3rd party apps is never as efficient as the built in function. I don't know what is problem in implementing this thing in all sony devices. It is very very beneficial to many users.
And I know the full form of DSC. But what I don't know why they would write to the beginning of every photo shot. And particularly when there are problems in this (as enumerated in my starting post).
So, pls be kind enough to understand the spirit of my post before replying. Thanks all!

It appears you have a problem with the naming scheme because it makes it difficult to sort by date.
So in the default album app, pictures are already sorted by date.
In windows explorer you can easily set it to thumbnail then arrange by date as well....

I too think the current naming system is crap. As I file photos in folders and sometimes make a camera dump many times a day, there will be overlaps.
I'd rather see they'd be named something like this:
XXX_yyyyMMdd_hhmmss_nn.jpg
"XXX_" would be a prefix you yourself could choose. I would have it read "XZ_" because i take pictures with many different cameras and I'd like to tell the cameras apart. If no prefix is entered in the camera settings, it will be left out. (Default may be "DSC" if Sony so wishes, but please give us the choice.)
"_nn" would be a serial number (_01, _02...) IF there are multiple pictures on that same second. Otherwise the serial would be left out.

Don MC said:
I too think the current naming system is crap. As I file photos in folders and sometimes make a camera dump many times a day, there will be overlaps.
I'd rather see they'd be named something like this:
XXX_yyyyMMdd_hhmmss_nn.jpg
"XXX_" would be a prefix you yourself could choose. I would have it read "XZ_" because i take pictures with many different cameras and I'd like to tell the cameras apart. If no prefix is entered in the camera settings, it will be left out. (Default may be "DSC" if Sony so wishes, but please give us the choice.)
"_nn" would be a serial number (_01, _02...) IF there are multiple pictures on that same second. Otherwise the serial would be left out.
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Agreed, it couldn't get any more stupid than this ****ed up naming scheme. Sony should really do something about it.

To be honest, I like the way it is. It is consistent, clean (not a buch of digits). Is specially helpful when filtering the good and bad photos on the computer, to them move or delete them... The Nokia method would make me really confused and bothered.

Felimenta97 said:
To be honest, I like the way it is. It is consistent, clean (not a buch of digits). Is specially helpful when filtering the good and bad photos on the computer, to them move or delete them... The Nokia method would make me really confused and bothered.
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It would be great if we could choose how it names the pictures, wouldn't it?

I posted about this some time ago. Mainly because when I transfer photos to other place and delete them from phone, the camera starts counting from 0001 again. It's really bothersome if you upload photos to cloud directly from the phone.
Sent from my eXposed C6603

bloodsuckingcomputer said:
Agreed, it couldn't get any more stupid than this ****ed up naming scheme. Sony should really do something about it.
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i think the DSC_xxxxx is for Digital Camera Shutter counts. it usually used in professional photographer to judge the life of lens and shutter etc. and sometime they make many shot in studio and it may less than a second 3-4 shot. so the dsc_xxxx may help them to tell their stuff which is the final desicion to be use as their project. compare to date they more prefer shutter count.

I would be ok with this naming scheme, because I had some Sony Cameras (DSC-P73, DSC-W120 and now DSC-HX5), but the biggest problem is either not storing the next photo number like the cameras do, relying just in the last number found instead (if you leave a DSC_1594.JPG in /sdcard/DCIM/100ANDRO, the next photo will named as DSC_1595.JPG), and not allowing you to change this number (except by doing the way I explained, which is very inconvenient).

why not looking in the exif tag?

DoubleYouPee said:
Use dropbox camera upload.. it changes filename to date from EXIF and you can keep using stock camera.
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excellent suggestion!
I spent a few frustrated hours with my new Xperia ZR trying to figure out how to archive different project related pics in folders without messing everything and dropbox not only does that automatically so I have reasonably named photos now, but I don't even need to bother xfering the files over, using the cable to connect etc. As soon as I'm at home or at work on wifi it moves them over
many thanks!
cheers
V.

virtuvas said:
excellent suggestion!
I spent a few frustrated hours with my new Xperia ZR trying to figure out how to archive different project related pics in folders without messing everything and dropbox not only does that automatically so I have reasonably named photos now, but I don't even need to bother xfering the files over, using the cable to connect etc. As soon as I'm at home or at work on wifi it moves them over
many thanks!
cheers
V.
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Yes
And then you write a .bat script to automatically move the photos based on EXIF information to your \pictures\ folder on HDD .
Never bother with organizing pictures again.

you are right
zopfan said:
For the past 15 years I used Nokia mobiles, I was very happy the way Nokia named newly shot photos (e.g. 21062010128, i.e. 21 June, 2010 0128, the current date and then an increment number). This gave me a lot of flexibility in sorting, organising and finding photos (I know that the exif data of a photo does contain the photo shot time).
But sony, gives the numbers like 'DSC_0295'. Just the useless word DSC and an increment number. This gives me a lot of problems while finding and storing the photos. E.g. when I move some photos from my phone to a photo storing folder on my hdd, then the phone again starts naming photos like dsc0001, 002 etc. And when 2nd time I try to move these photos to my storing place, then I've to rename all the new photos so as to avoid to overwrite the earlier ones. What say fella!
VERY POOR SONY. Pls give us the proper naming method having date time included in photos title. It won't hurt you and help us a lot.
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ZOPFAN
You are right
I m having the same problem when organizing pictures... At least it should be squential from the beginnig of the phone life, like canon does. I think the nokia method is the best because it organises time oriented.
Like this ,its a mess... i dont want to lose time renaming fotos, and i need to put them in existent folders by subject...
PLZ if you find a solution, upgrade software or any app that can rename them by daTe will be great..
Thanx~
SONY XPERIA e4 DUAL, 2015

Nice necro-thread bumping...
And if we talk about topic its most... useless whining I heard. Every app and every system have sorting methods by date of creation/modify/name so dsc prefix is not a problem at all.
Also if you work with images for most of time, maybe you should use apps that deal with such prefix, even free IrfanView dont have problem with that.
Not to mention sorting by exif data, if you take image management serious you would know that there is such thing and this topic would be unnecessary, because there is looots of apps for that.

Change the screenshots folder because google photos

Hey all.
Does anybody knows how to change the Screenshots folder to InternalStorage/pictures/screenshots (like all the other android devices) instead of InternalStorage/DCIM/Screenshots?
In the galaxy s10 it saves automatically in the DCIM folders and Google Photos detects it like has been taken with the Camera so it automatically backups all the screenshots like normal photos. This is very frustrating.
Does anybody knows a solution for this?
I am currently using an app named "PinSync" that automatically moves the screenshots for the storage i want but it has a Cons which is that it invalid the Smart screenshot menu, it doesn allow me to edit or share directly. It's only a mending when i want a true solution.
Thanks

Try putting a .nomedia file in the folder. Only drawback is that your gallery won't show them either.

I hate this. I used Pinsync and it was cool but I need Smart Scroll too much
so I just routinely purge Google Photos backup
sigh
I may try the .nomedia file for now since I usually just share screenshots immediately and purge later

vonDubenshire said:
I hate this. I used Pinsync and it was cool but I need Smart Scroll too much
so I just routinely purge Google Photos backup
sigh
I may try the .nomedia file for now since I usually just share screenshots immediately and purge later
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I was using PinSync also, but now I dont even take screenshots anymore. I use the Smart Select edge panel and select whatever part of the screen to share (or the whole screen), and once I share it to an app and send it, I back out and the image is not saved.
Still, taking a screenshot and immediately pressing Share takes a lot less effort. I wish Samsung would just move their screenshots folder as it being in DCIM violates DCIM standards.

ryan770 said:
I was using PinSync also, but now I dont even take screenshots anymore. I use the Smart Select edge panel and select whatever part of the screen to share (or the whole screen), and once I share it to an app and send it, I back out and the image is not saved.
Still, taking a screenshot and immediately pressing Share takes a lot less effort. I wish Samsung would just move their screenshots folder as it being in DCMI violated DCMI standards.
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You gave me an idea.
Can I use BXactions or something to trigger smart select? Then I don't need a screen shot. Might negate the time factor and eliminates the Google photos back up issue.

I literally just searched this forum to find out if there was an acceptable solution for this, but I realize that there is not. I will have to do some deep research on how to change the path where the screenshots are saved directly in the system.

It's stunning how a company like Samsung can manage the complexity of producing an amazing smartphone but yet is not competent enough properly configure a storage path for screen shots.