Question about captured Image with auto-rotation (problem on Android)

[Pai Peng]

Hello CN1,

I have now another problem with captured Image on Android device. When I took the photos in Portrait format, the Image displayed in a Label is always in Landscape format.

By testing on iOS device, there is no such problem.

Could it be a bug in CN1?

Or how can I get the EXIF information from captured image? 

Regards,

Pai

[Francis Perreault]

I did see a similar issue a few weeks ago where I would display a picture in a form (can't remember if I was displaying it in a label, though), and the orientation was "locked" even if the picture was properly rotated by the OS once taken. I saw this on a Galaxy S3. It could still be there, I did not have the time to investigate this yet.

Francis

[Shai Almog]

This issue exists with many devices and is really a feature not a bug.
When capturing an image the device always captures them in a specific orientation and then marks them as such in the image data. So some apps that recognize that data show them in the right rotation while others don't.

On iOS we sort of broke that on purpose by seamlessly rotating the image to the "right" orientation. I'm guessing this is the simpler workaround and that we should probably add that workaround to Android too. Can you please file an issue for that?

[Francis Perreault]

Issue 801 filed. I'm wondering if the API could be updated to have the picture auto-rotated or not...Thanks!

Francis

[Francis Perreault]

Hello Pai,

Just to let you know that Shai fixed issue 801:

I just added support for this to the build server. Since this is untested its disabled by default so you will need to invoke:
Display.getInstance().setProperty("normalizeImage", "true");

when your app starts up to enable this.

Please report here if this now works like you expect, and I will do the same.

Have a nice day!

Francis