[Openicc] X-Rite ColorTRUE SDK for Android and iOS - balkanized ICC colormanagement ?

[Jan-Peter Homann]

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Hello ICC-members and users

X-Rite offers from today a SDK for Android and iOS for working with
monitor profiles, embedded profiles in images and simulation profiles
for softproofing.
The basic SDK is for free, but at the current state, the monitor
profiles must be generated with the X-Rite ColorTRUE app and an App
making use of the SDK must be labeled and marketed as "ColorTRUE Aware.


More here:
http://www.xrite.com/colortrueSDK

Graeme Gill had a short look how moniotr profiles are handled inside
this environment and stated on the OpenICC mailinglist as following:

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X-Rite's profiles are in a folder called "iccprofiles" and
are called profileData.xml, but seem to be neither ICC profiles
nor (ICC) XML files.

So balkanized color management on handheld devices
- - here we come!
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If the finding of Graeme Gill is correct, I would currently not
recommend software developers to support the X-Rite ColorTRUE SDK.

An SDK for bringing ICC profile support to Android and iOS which uses
an vendor specific format for monitor profiles instead of the
ICC-format does make no sense in my eyes.

By the way, Android and iOS devices try both to match sRGB in their
display color rendering. It would not a big deal to implement some
basic ICC support on system level and use sRGB as default monitor
profile.

Applications which need the highest graphics performance could just
bypass ICC support but must contain only sRGB images and graphics as
today.

Colorcritical applications could use an ICC infrastructure incl. the
default sRGB profile.

High-end profiling solutions could exchange the default sRGB profile
with an individual profile which could be used in every ICC aware
application.


Any comments ?

Regards
Jan-Peter



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