The Gandhicam Project

Gandhicam main screen

Gandhicam mode on/off

Turn Gandhicam on and off. If Gandhicam is off nothing will be uploaded. If Gandhicam is on, it will watch certain folders (see Advanced settings for more information) for new files being created, and automatically upload those files.

Upload method

Choose how to upload media files - either HTTP (upload to a website) or E-mail (e-mail files to an e-mail address).

Upload destination

Choose the location to upload files to. See HTTP upload destination or E-mail upload destination settings, depending which upload method you have chosen above.

Photographs, Audio and Video

Check the checkboxes to select which files to upload. The filetypes recognised for each media type are listed underneath.

Advanced settings

More advanced settings for configuring Gandhicam more precisely. See Advanced settings for more information.

Tag file with metadata

Attach a unique timestamp, your present location or the unique ID hash of your device.

Timestamp is a Unix timestamp (the number of seconds since 1st Jan, 1970) recording when the media file was created on the device.

Your present location is your current co-ordinates, based on GPS (if available) or determined by the cellular mobile network if not. Due to the way location is handled on Android devices this may be out of date, so Gandhican also informs you when it last got a fix on your location so you can judge how reliable it is.

Unique ID hash is an encrypted code (technically: a one-way SHA-1 cryptographic hash of your mobile device's IMEI number) that is unique to your device. This allows you to prove ownership of an uploaded file if you ever need to, but prevents anyone from working backwards and identifying your phone given only the ID hash.

Think of the ID hash as a special magic number that only you can generate - you can generate it again (for example, by uploading another file) to prove you uploaded the original image, but nobody else can work out who uploaded any given file simply by looking at its ID hash.