This makes me want to scream. EXIF has got to be one of the worst standards out there in common use; this is just one of the many major problems.
You'll find that virtually nothing handles EXIF well, so you'll be in good company. I checked the original Japanese standard, in hopes that there actually IS a standard behavior here, but no such luck; it's as ambiguous as the translated English version. I would suggest avoiding making your model detection not depend on exact matches. I'd suggest building an ordered set of rules with wildcards, each rule asserting a specific set of attributes. Then you can go through the rules, identifying every match (this lookup can be cached). You can either apply them in priority order, avoiding overwriting attributes established by higher-priority rules, or in reverse priority order, blindly overwriting. This really ought to be a shared industry effort, and a sane replacement format for EXIF designed. One would hope that XMP would be that sane replacement -- but it appears to have the same problem. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
