In the interest of time, I was stripping out some of the non-essential (read: fun) stuff from the API. Profiles could potentially support little avatar images and images of items. The primary reason I stripped this out was that we have no real support for it in the Android app and I don't care to try now when nobody else is really doing it.
Turns out, App Engine has just the service for this: The Images Java API, however it's separate from both our DB engine and DB backend, so there's some finagling to be done there.
In the interest of time, I was stripping out some of the non-essential (read: fun) stuff from the API. Profiles could potentially support little avatar images and images of items. The primary reason I stripped this out was that we have no real support for it in the Android app and I don't care to try now when nobody else is really doing it.
Turns out, App Engine has just the service for this: The Images Java API, however it's separate from both our DB engine and DB backend, so there's some finagling to be done there.
Also relevant: com.google.appengine.api.datastore.Blob Images Java API Overview