Picture A Day

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cjrademaker
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Picture A Day

Post by cjrademaker » 11 Apr 2014 20:07

http://automagic4android.com/flow.php?i ... 503bc5d0b2

You have likely seen a video or two online of someone who has taken a photograph of themselves every day and created a time lapse video of themselves over time. If you havent, check one out, they are very interesting.

I had been interested in doing something like this, but knew I would never remember to take the daily photo, this tool solves that problem, as well as automates the storage of each days pictures in a folder hosted on dropbox or google drive

Of couse you dont have to photograph yourself, another user expressed interest in using this for their child, perhaps a pet, a one move a day chess game, the view out a window to see the seasons change around your home.

Stuff you need to know

Global variables:

global_picturepath - used to temporarily store the file path of last picture taken

global_picturecount - Not currently used, in a later update I, (or anybody who wants to help out) will add a count of pictures taken in the variable and this will be used to keep every nth picture on the device using modulo division

Flows:

Picture a Day Create Notification - creates the daily reminder notification in statusbar

Picture a Day Take Picture - Takes a picture and sends it to the cloud storage service chosen, will also check network state and if not connected to wifi, will save the picture for upload later

Picture a Day Upload Offline Hold - next time you connect to wifi, the picture will be upload Note that any changes you make in the Take Picture flow in terms of the service used, directories used, or signal type uploads are allowed under, will need to be changed in this flow as well

Group uses the global Notification ID 87, make sure you do not have any conflicting notification IDs and change this value if necessary

Let me know what you think, if you have any improvements you would like to add, or even just what you want to use it for.

venkidas
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Re: Picture A Day

Post by venkidas » 21 Apr 2014 04:51

Seriously cool man. Awesome flow.

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