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Pixelgarde

Version 1.0+ finished on April 2010

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  • Description

    Pixelgarde gives users control over their personal data saved in photos and videos.

    Application features:

    • Ability to view and edit photos metadata
    • Ability to share photos on many social networks: facebook, twitter, flickr, picasa, photobucket, tumblr and wordpress
    • Integrates iAd and AdMob (some of the versions have iAd, some AdMob)
    • Integrates InApp Purchase for upgrading the application and unlock some features and remove ads.

  • Work

    1. Alexandru I. - Sole developer
      • Implement metadata viewer and editor using Apple's frameworks.
      • Implement custom web-consumers and integrate some third party frameworks to handle some of the web-services. Integrate them for sharing photos.
      • Create custom controls: thumbs tableview, photo viewer etc.
      • Provide periodical builds for testing.
      • Assist at releasing the app to App Store.

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Version 3.0 finished on September 2012

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    • The designs for the new version have been changed completely
    • The UX has been changed, making the app more efficient and easier to use
    • Adds support for videos:
      • metadata editing for videos
      • sharing videos by mail and to multiple social platforms: Facebook, Twitter (Twitpic), Google (Picasa, Youtube), Photobucket, Tumblr, Flickr;
    • Multithread (background) sharing and assets processing for better performance
    • Custom controls for a better design flow:
      • custom camera control (AVFoundation) for recording videos and taking photos
      • custom spin control for choosing the direction of the assets
      • custom action sheets
      • custom input views for inserting/changing locations (geocoding and reverse geocoding), inserting text, setting date and time etc.
    • Customizable editing and sharing options
    • Custom webservice-consumers for all sharing apis, for better performance and integration into the app (less memory required, better management of requests etc.)

  • Work

    1. Alexandru I. - Sole developer
      • Implement metadata-viewer and editor for videos
      • Extend metadata-editing and viewer for photos
      • Implement webservice-consumers for all sharing options, and handle sharing of multiple files, to multiple social networks, in 1 step
      • Implement simple watermarking for videos
      • Implement custom camera control for recording videos and shooting photos
      • Create custom controls such as table views, action sheets, spin control, placemarks etc.

  • Screens

Version 3.5 finished on July 2013

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  • Description

    Allows photo and video metadata editing, image blurring and drawing/text overlays, as well as sharing to multiple social networks.

  • Work

    1. Alexandru I. - Sole Developer
      • Implement full photo and video metadata editing
      • Implement image blurring and possibility to add image drawing (brush & lines) and text overlays
      • Performance improvements and bug fixes

    2. Screens