Scrapple: LiveJournal Photo Uploader for Android
Scrapple is an
image uploader
for LiveJournal. I created
it because the only existing LJ uploader I found required me to
have an account with a third-party service, and give them my LJ
password. Scrapple, instead, has you upload directly from your
phone to your LJ Scrapbook; your password stays as safe as your
phone.
Free
in the Android Market (not even ad-supported), or you can
download it right here
(provided you've got "Allow other sources" turned on—which you
can't do with older AT&T phones). Mind you, I
would prefer if you
install it via the Market, so that I can see how many people have
tried it.
The name is a joke. I wanted to avoid naming it "LiveJournal
Uploader", since that would be a trademark infringement. Names
starting with "LJ" were descriptive, but not that interesting; I
started looking for a name that played off of "Scrapbook" (which is
what LJ calls its photo service). Finally I thought of
scrapple,
which is a really terrible meat product found in Pennsylvania, made
out of scraps left over from actual meat. To seal the deal,
"scrapple" seems to be a
frequentative
form of "scrap", and I really like frequentatives.
Version 2.0 adds a major new feature: Automatic Upload. If you
enable Automatic Upload, every photo you take will be uploaded via
Scrapple. You can specify a maximum size for the automatic uploads;
you can also specify that panoramas should be exempt from the
maximum size (since squeezing down a panorama to a width of, say,
640 may make its height too low to pick out details). Automatic
Upload has to guess which images are panoramas; an image is
considered a panorama if (a) its filename contains "pan" (or "PAN",
or "PaN", etc.) or (b) its width is at least twice its height.
Automatic Upload may not work with all camera apps. The following
apps are known to work as of 22 June 2013:
If there is a camera app which you want to use with Automatic
Upload, please let me know and I'll see if I can support it.
2.0 also adds some extra robustness, retrying when uploads fail;
and it allows you to specify a maximum size when uploading manually.
Version 1.2 improves efficiency when sharing images which have to
be downloaded (over HTTP, or from Picasa via the Android 4.x
Gallery): it downloads the image only once. 1.2 also adds a
setting for the default security level (public vs. private), and, on
Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean), the "upload complete" notification now
shows a large slice of the image.
Version 1.1.5 adds compatibility with the new LiveJournal Scrapbook.
Version 1.1.4 adds compatibility with Android 4.0.
Version 1.1 improves the notification system, providing separate
notifications for each image you're uploading, so you can see them
queued up. Version 1.1.2 fixes a crash bug introduced in version
1.1. Version 1.1.3 fixes a bug where it couldn't upload images
that weren't actually stored in files. Version 1.1.4 fixes an
incompatibility with Android 4.x (and possibly 3.x; I never got
any bug reports, but I never tried it myself). Version 1.1.5 adds
the privacy policy. Version 1.1.8 improves compatibility with
LiveJournal's new Scrapbook.
Scrapple se puede utilizar en español.
Scrapple nutzbar ist auf Deutsch.
I do not collect your private information. Your username and
password are stored on your device and used only to access
LiveJournal; they are never made accessible to me. Your pictures
are copied to LiveJournal, and, of course, are then subject to
LiveJournal's privacy policy.