Show metadata in ImageView

[ukleinek]

I'd like to have a possibility to show a caption for the photos viewed in A Photo Manager. It might be possible that this already works and I just missed the relevant settings item as I'm new to this app.

I set various fields in the metadata of a picture using digikam, but I only found them in the "details" view which is way to verbose to look at while browsing the photos of the last vacation.

Environment

• Android Version 4.4.4 (CyanogenMod 11 20150901) on Samsung Galaxy S
• A Photo Manager Version 0.5.2 160726 (via F-Droid)

[k3b]

 "caption for the photos viewed in A Photo Manager".

I assume you mean showing the info in the gallery view and not in the image view.

Which fields do you want to see ? currently you see the end of the filename in the gallery-view.

This would require to implement a different gallery listview with some text columns.

Related #50: define the number of imagecolums.
Related #42:

Is there somebody out there who wants to implement this?

[ukleinek]

I'd like to have a possibility to show a caption, a oneline-title would be fine. The source could be Exif Image Description or what is shown as "UserComment" in the details list.

For the question where to show it: I'd like to see it at least in the "show only one image" view (detail view?) to substitute printed photo books.

[k3b]

I have to check if the android mediascanner (on my "wiko-lenny-android-4.4" and on my "android-4.2 tablet") reads the "Exif Image Description" field into the media database. "UserComment" is not supported by android-stock-database/mediascanner/exif-interface" so this field has to wait until #25 is finished. the mediadb has a field "description" but for all of my 16000 images it-s value is null

[ukleinek]

Do I have the same mediadb? Can I easily check the description field for a given photo?

[ukleinek]

I found in the adb shell:

    # sqlite3 ./data/com.android.providers.media/databases/external.db
    sqlite> select * from images where not description is null;
    sqlite> 

though also at least one of my pictures has meta data set using digikam and the image is referenced in the database.

[keunes]

The meta-data I would like to be able to see is the creation date & time.

This would require to implement a different gallery listview with some text columns.

I would rather keep the current view but have a setting to choose which data to display File name (current), date & time stamp, 'title' (as proposed by @ukleinek). (Maybe this also saves work to implement a new view? 😉)

[k3b]

After implementing #25 "Tag support" in version 0.6.0 the description (and some other non-standard-android-fields) are available in the mediaDb after either if

• importing exiftool generated csv (working since version 0.6.0)
• or running improved a-photo-manager-mediascanner (under development as Show metadata in ImageView #70 available in version 0.6.1)

TODO: add info to to imagedetail view

[k3b]

In version 0.6.1 the Image-View
will get context text and a context button.

Context means text and button relates to the last menu command you execute.

Example:

• if you called the menu command "Set geo" the context text will show latitude, longitude of the image and the context button will open the "Set geo" command.
• if you called the menu command "Set tags" the context text will show tags of the image and the context button will open the "Set tags" command.
• if you called the menu command "Rename" the context text will show file path of the image and the context button will open the "Rename" command.
• if you called the menu command "Details" the context text will show image-id, file path, lat/lon, tags, title, description, rating of the image and the context button will open the "Details" command.

If you know SQL and the properties file format you can define context specific sql-expressions for the context text using a text editor.

See also https://github.com/k3b/APhotoManager/wiki/Image-View#context

[k3b]

... will be available with next release 0.6.1