Behind the Curtains How Photos TM Work

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Kotlin Android Things photo-booth that captures photos to local storage then uploads to a Google Photos shared album after a companion phone app sends an OAuth token via Nearby Messages token transfer. Uses Google Sign-In, coroutines and Retrofit but falls back to a raw multipart upload because Retrofit mangles the octet content type. Hits two surprises: a pagination token bug in the Photos API and albums only appearing in Google Photos once they have at least one uploaded image.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 2:32Authentication
3. 3:28Companion App
4. 9:34How To Use the Google Photos Api
5. 19:14Google Photos Api
6. 20:30Questions
7. 23:04Why Did You Use Google Photos Api Instead of Fine-Tuning Google Drive Api

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