Google Photos has always been one of Google's more useful services. The photo backup service has garnered widespread praise for its unlimited, free backup features as well as its robust sharing capabilities. But one area that Google Photos has always lagged in is the ability to edit your photos. Luckily over time, Google has been introducing more and more features to allow you to customize your pictures to your liking (though the editing features are not as robust as those found in some of its competitors).
Editing your photo to produce a better image is one thing, but what about editing your image to make it easier to organize? Unfortunately, the ability ot Google Photos to modify EXIF data has been rather limited. Even today, the ability to edit something as basic as the date and timestamp of a photo is limited to the desktop version. But with Google Photos version 2.7 now rolling out, that may change. A teardown of the APK reveals that Google may soon allow you to edit the EXIF timestamp of your photos.
Google Photos Teardown
Within the latest version of Google Photos, there is an interesting string located within the APK that hints at the ability to edit the timestamp of a photo:
<string name="photos_mediadetails_details_edit_datetime_icon_content_description">Edit icon to allow the user to edit the date/time of the media.</string>
As you can see, there apparently will be an icon within the picture detail screen that will allow you to simply edit the date/time of the media. Evidence for this feature can also be found with a new layout file that has been added to the APK:
Google Photos Teardown
exif_datetime_item.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <LinearLayout android:orientation="horizontal" android:id="@id/exif_datetime_item_layout" android:padding="@dimen/photos_mediadetails_item_padding" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:minHeight="@dimen/photos_mediadetails_item_min_height" xmlns:android="http://ift.tt/nIICcg"> <ImageView android:layout_gravity="center" android:id="@id/icon" android:padding="@dimen/photos_mediadetails_item_padding" android:layout_width="66.0dip" android:layout_height="36.0dip" /> <LinearLayout android:orientation="vertical" android:padding="@dimen/photos_mediadetails_item_padding" android:layout_width="0.0dip" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:minHeight="@dimen/photos_mediadetails_item_min_height" android:layout_weight="1.0"> <TextView android:layout_gravity="start|center" android:id="@id/label" android:paddingLeft="2.0dip" android:paddingTop="8.0dip" android:paddingRight="2.0dip" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" style="@style/quantum_text_subhead_black" /> <TextView android:textColor="@color/quantum_black_secondary_text" android:layout_gravity="start|center" android:id="@id/value" android:paddingLeft="2.0dip" android:paddingRight="2.0dip" android:paddingBottom="8.0dip" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" style="@style/quantum_text_subhead_black" /> </LinearLayout> <ImageView android:layout_gravity="center" android:id="@id/edit_icon" android:padding="@dimen/photos_mediadetails_item_padding" android:visibility="gone" android:layout_width="66.0dip" android:layout_height="36.0dip" android:src="@drawable/quantum_ic_mode_edit_black_18" android:contentDescription="@string/photos_mediadetails_details_edit_datetime_icon_content_description" android:alpha="0.38" /> </LinearLayout>
The name of the layout file and the description of the string are quite clear: editing the EXIF timestamp of a photo may soon be available on the Android version of the application. Desktop users (and even iOS users) have had this ability for quite some time now, so hopefully it finally makes its way to Android as well.
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