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deckerst / aves

Aves is a gallery and metadata explorer app, built for Android with Flutter.
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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Support for adding tags to HEIC images #145

Open ghost opened 2 years ago

ghost commented 2 years ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. It's not strictly a problem, but images taken in the HEIC format are fairly common, especially amongst Apple and Samsung devices. HEIC images, while not being as widely supported as older image formats such as JPEG and PNG, offers many benefits, which include but are not limited to smaller file sizes and better image quality.

Describe the solution you'd like I'd sincerely appreciate a feature to add tags and metadata to images in the HEIC format.

Describe alternatives you've considered Aves is honestly the only app in it's class - the default Samsung Gallery features a "Tags" feature, but does not actually modify the image's metadata itself, causing data loss when switching devices or platforms.

Additional context Add any other context or screenshots about the feature request here.

deckerst commented 2 years ago

I agree this is important and I'd like to support this, but the format is not well supported by the libraries that Aves uses to read and write metadata. I'll try and implement it myself someday, but it's unlikely to be in the short term.