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["Mario Guerriero" <mefrio.g@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,




I need to access photos from all apps (in a read only mode) and I need to access photos from my app which create them using the camera.




Thanks for your reply, 

Mario

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On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 10:05 AM, Thomas Voß <thomas.voss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hey Mario,
> thanks for your mail. A question first: Do you need to access pictures
> from the file system only from your app or also the pictures of other
> applications? In general, accessing, reading and writing content
> (here: pictures) owned by other applications programmatically without
> user interaction is restricted by our confinement approach.
> It would be great if we could understand your use-case a little better
> to help you solve it.
> Thanks,
>   Thomas
> On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 9:44 AM, Mario Guerriero <mefrio.g@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Developing my app for the Ubuntu App Showdown contest I implemented a
>> feature which needs to read and write photos from the file system. While
>> packaging it as a click package I added the picture_files policy so that my
>> app would be able to do what I supposed it to do.
>>
>> My problem is that MyApps reviewers told that it is not good to add
>> picture_files policy to any 3rd party app while I really need it for my app.
>>
>> I need the picture_files policy because I need to read and write photos from
>> the file system. Having content_exchange, for example, I would be able to
>> write only.
>>
>> A reviewer suggested me to use the content hub API to do that but since it
>> is not yet available and I need my app to be ready for the end of the
>> contest the only solution I can see is using the picture_files policy.
>>
>> In conclusion I am requesting you to publish my app even if it has the
>> picture_files policy. After the contest I will update it to use content hub
>> API.
>>
>> My app is Memories, here is the link on MyApps
>> https://myapps.developer.ubuntu.com/dev/click-apps/60/
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Mario
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone 5
>>
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