I've read in the archive proposals about porting Argyll to Android and the
problem is that Argyll is C, needs to be ported on the Native NDK of Android
and possibly for each CPU, etc... Long way.
What about a shorter way? Patch Argyll so you still run it on a PC, but it
renders the patches on the Android device. You still connect the colorimeter to
the PC, but put it on the Android device screen. This also means that you would
be able to do color management for Android devices without USB connection.
The easiest thing that I can imagine is a simple option to the Argyll
executables that render the color patches so instead of rendering on the PC
display they launch a specified executable and drive it by printing to its
stdin (for instance a single line in the form r:45 g:79 b:35 for each patch to
be rendered). Then it's up to somebody else to provide a couple of
applications, one for Android and one for MacOSX/Linux/Window that do the rest
of the job (a master running on the PC would just read the RGB triple, send it
in some way to Android, where a slave just reads the values and then fills the
screen). If Argyll provides the small required patch, I could be interested in
make the remainder :-)
PS I still don't know about how ICC profiles can be installed to Android. But
this is not Argyll's problem. In any case, the thing could be used to
characterize the device. I'd be very curious to see how large the color space
of my tablet is.
What do you think?
