On the site itself, you need some words for those "Supported services" icons. I know the first is Facebook; the second I think is Flickr; the third is Picasa; I have no clue what #4 is.
I don't know, seemed obvious to me. The fourth is Instagram.
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#12On the site itself, you need some words for those "Supported services" icons. I know the first is Facebook; the second I think is Flickr; the third is Picasa; I have no clue what #4 is.
You have no clue what "instagram" is ?
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#13As an app developer, I'd love to not write custom code for each photo sharing service. This seems to require using the chute hosted platform, though. Can the library be used without the service?
Agreed. Love the idea but having another external dependency is worrying. I'd rather something akin to OmniAuth
Frank, I definitely understand your concern.
I think the primary challenge with a pure native code solution is that each library works a slightly different way and not all will make it possible to trap the callback directly.
As these APIs change and evolve, we'll be constantly monitoring them and adjusting server side - as opposed to having to change your mobile client code.
Looking forward, we're also planning to do a lot to help speed up this process and enhance it with other features and services.
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#14Couple questions: How are you making money off this (that is, will you be making money off my users)? Obviously you've put a lot of work into it, and it looks really great. Also, can you select multiple images at once? Can you select video as well?
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#15Couple questions: How are you making money off this (that is, will you be making money off my users)? Obviously you've put a lot of work into it, and it looks really great. Also, can you select multiple images at once? Can you select video as well?
Hi there. I'm one of the co-founders of Chute. We're not planning on making money off of this service, per se. We are planning on making money at some point from use of the broader Chute API as well as several other products we're launching, which we hope people will begin to discover with Photo Picker+. Photo Picker+ is something we built as part of the overall (forthcoming) product offering, but we thought it would be useful on its own so we released it first as a separate library.
The Chute API will always have a free tier as well.
You can't yet select multiple images or video, but they're both on the roadmap. Thanks a lot.
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#16This looks very useful. Do you have a link to an app or apk where I could see it in action?
OK, added a sample APK file up here:
https://github.com/chute/photo-picker-plus/blob/master/Andro...
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#17Couple questions: How are you making money off this (that is, will you be making money off my users)? Obviously you've put a lot of work into it, and it looks really great. Also, can you select multiple images at once? Can you select video as well?
Hi there. I'm one of the co-founders of Chute. We're not planning on making money off of this service, per se. We are planning on making money at some point from use of the broader Chute API as well as several other products we're launching, which we hope people will begin to discover with Photo Picker+. Photo Picker+ is something we built as part of the overall (forthcoming) product offering, but we thought it would…
That makes sense. Thanks so much for replying, looks like a great service!
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Agreed. Love the idea but having another external dependency is worrying. I'd rather something akin to OmniAuth
Frank, I definitely understand your concern. I think the primary challenge with a pure native code solution is that each library works a slightly different way and not all will make it possible to trap the callback directly. As these APIs change and evolve, we'll be constantly monitoring them and adjusting server side - as opposed to having to change your mobile client code. Looking forward, we're also planning to do…
I really love the idea of it and appreciate your effort that went into creating this SDK, however, forcing my users to hand over their FB/Instagram/Flickr/Picasa handles to a 3rd party I can't testify for is a no go for me. There also currently is no info to users that their data will be centrally stored by chute in the app GUI, I am no lawyer but after the recent privacy backlashes it might be a good idea to add a note regarding this.
From my point of view, as things stand today with the current focus on privacy, such a feature would need to be completely device based or at least on the servers of the developer of the particular app itself. In another comment a little further down it was also hinted that the chute API might get a price tag at some point (with a free tier), these two things combined unfortunately make it unusable for me at this point.
Really love the idea though, hope we get to see a purely device based version of this at some point (by chute or somebody else).
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#19On the site itself, you need some words for those "Supported services" icons. I know the first is Facebook; the second I think is Flickr; the third is Picasa; I have no clue what #4 is.
You have no clue what "instagram" is ?
"It’s a fast, beautiful and fun way to share your life with friends through a series of pictures." - http://instagr.am/ Think twitter but with pictures.
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#20Does "any of their favorite photo services" mean it can pick from Media RSS?