ATAK PLUGIN mod for QuickPic

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BLUF:

Using QuickPic to send a 200px long side image between two atak devices over Meshtastic.

**Don’t tell me how images are too big to TX over protobuf and Meshtastic :thinking:

I’m reading into how Protobuf, Kotlin, and Java integrate and how the ATAK PLUGIN uses the imesh service to communicate between ATAK and Android Meshtastic app. I have written some updates to the atak.proto and other protos to handle chunking a 20kb file for transmission, but then realized the plugin does this for Mission Packages. So now I’m wondering that I don’t have to include this script but integrate exisiting message chunks and it’s classes.

I’m in the beginning stages of Dev, but would love to understand better how everything ties together.

  1. I believe I need to add the kt files and protobuf to both the Meshtastic app and ATAK plugin, correct? I’ll make a list soon of what I think I need to edit / add for integration.

  2. I can share what I’ve already written and created via google drive if someone takes interest.

  3. I have written code that when a QuickPic is taken, in the background it will resize the image to 200px long side before sending the picture over to Meshtastic for TX. If anyone has any interest, send a reply. Im new to Developing on Github and Android but it would be great to incorportate the function in order to send a thumbnail sized image to friends over Meshtastic.

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You can do this point to point slowly via the cli, it wont work practically over the mesh. Sending a hundred close to max packet size messages is really hard on the mesh.