pixymeta-android

Combined Android/j2se version of PixyMeta - a pure Java image metadata manipulation tool.

Subprojects

• pixymeta-lib
  • platform independant code useable by android and by j2se
  • has no code to handle (preview-)Bitmaps that are platform dependant.
  • if you want to use IBitmap (an interface replacement for Bitmap) you either need pixymeta-android-lib or pixymeta-j2se-lib
• pixymeta-android-lib
  • android specific implementation to handle (preview-)Bitmaps
• pixymeta-j2se-lib
  • java/awt specific implementation to handle (preview-)Bitmaps
• pixymeta-j2se-demo
  • java commandline programm to demonstrate image meta functions

Dependencies

• implementation of imageio drivers
  • com.twelvemonkeys.imageio:imageio-tiff (version 3.2.1 working with pixymeta-j2se-demo)
  • com.github.jai-imageio:jai-imageio-core (version 1.3.1 has problems with tiff files)

How to build

• use ./gradlew --gui
  • to start a build gui
• use ./gradlew pixymeta-j2se-demo:fatJar
  • to create pixymeta-j2se-demo-all.jar that contains all dependencies and testimages
  • execute java -jar pixymeta-j2se-demo-all.jar to run the demo

branch gradle-build of k3b-s fork:

Image metadata manipulation:

• JPEG and TIFF EXIF data manipulation
  • Insert EXIF data into JPEG.
  • Extract EXIF data from JPEG.
  • Remove EXIF data and other insignificant APPn jpegSegments from JPEG.
  • Insert EXIF data into TIFF.
  • Read EXIF data embedded in TIFF.
• JPEG and TIFF ICC Profile support
  • Insert ICC profile to JPEG and TIFF.
  • Extract ICC profile from JPEG and TIFF.
• JPEG and TIFF IPTC metadata support
  • Insert IPTC directly to TIFF via RichTiffIPTC tag.
  • Insert IPTC to JPEG via APP13 Photoshop IRB
  • Extract IPTC from both TIFF and JPEG
• JPEG and TIFF Photoshop IRB metadata support
  • Insert IRB into JPEG via APP13 jpegSegment
  • Insert IRB into TIFF via tag PHOTOSHOP.
  • Extract IRB data from both JPEG and TIFF.
• JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF XMP metadata support
  • Insert XMP metada into JPEG, GIF, PNG, and TIFF image
  • Extract XMP metadata from JPEG, GIF, PNG, and TIFF image
  • In case of JPEG, handle normal XMP and extendedXMP which cannot fit into one APP1 jpegSegment

Where can I get the latest release?

There is currently no stable release of PIXYMETA-ANDROID. However you can pull the latest SNAPSHOT from Sonatype SNAPSHOT repository by adding the snapshot repository to your pom.xml:

<repository>
  <id>oss.sonatype.org</id>
  <name>Sonatype Snapshot Repository</name>
  <url>https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots</url>
  <releases>
    <enabled>false</enabled>
  </releases>
  <snapshots>
    <enabled>true</enabled>
  </snapshots>
</repository> 

Then you can use the SNAPSHOT version of ICAFE in your pom.xml:

<dependency>
  <groupId>com.github.dragon66</groupId>
  <artifactId>pixymeta-android</artifactId>
  <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
</dependency>

Go to the wiki page to see this library in action or grab the "pixymeta-android.jar" from the lib folder and try it yourself!

Tested on Android Nexus4 virtual device only!!!

Project using pixymeta-android

Suggestions? custom requirements? Open an issue or send email to me directly: yuwen_66@yahoo.com