Share Your Board

[outsider]

I don't have a whiteboard handy to test this on but it takes quick pictures.

I hope that whatever it does differently sees its way to the regular camera app.

[Infinatenothing]

it takes pictures quick but couldn't find my sd card to save them for some reason

[dLish]

I don't get it. It takes a picture, then completely stretches and crops the image by auto correcting the angle, then turns the image to rainbow color line art with a white background. On the plus side at least it makes use of the accelerometer during the processing stages.

[swaney29]

it uses an accelorometer

[jdwme]

I think it's trying to determine where the "white board" is in your photo. Go take a picture of something white and see what it does

[ayo991]

I don't understand what this is for. Why does it only let you take a picture?

[tdeagan]

Funny enough, for me, this is the Android 'Killer App'. I take hundreds of pictures of whiteboards every month. This app lets me take the snap, it auto crops and contrasts, then lets me send it out to the relevant team members. This is the app I've been waiting for (but I'm a 46 year old software architect, so my needs differ vastly from what I read from other people on this forum.)

[tdeagan]

Okay, I just tried it and it's GREAT!!!! (Assuming whiteboards are important to you.)

It takes a snap, finds the edges of the whiteboard, crops the pic, adjusts the image to make it 'true' (unangled), color balances then auto-contrasts.

Then you can make notes about that image which are stored with other meta-data. You can share it with others from that menu as well.

For the right audience, pure software gold. For the Facebook and ringtone crowd, not so much.

[poky]

I agree with you tdeagan. I spend a lot of time with a team of software developers scribbling on whiteboards and then trying to recreate on paper. This seems like a fantastic concept (we were considering buying one of those "smart boards" that copies the white board and prints it out. This solves that problem.

I think the weakest link here is the camera in the phone. I had a hard time getting it to focus cleanly in low light, which is what I would consider all of our conference rooms. I need to play around some more, but I LOVE the idea, and would gladly pay once the beta period expires.