Amazon Cloud Photos - Android

[jamief]

I've got something weird happening with my phone and I wonder if anyone can help. I use Amazon Cloud Drive to store my photos (via the Android app on my Galaxy S5) - this uploads the original photos (so about 4-5Mb per photo).

When I view my Cloud Drive on the web, I can see the photos with the correct file sizes.

When I download them using the Cloud Drive app, the saved file is ~500KB and lower resolution. I've spoken to Amazon support who categorically deny the app having the ability to resize images. They say something else on my phone must be doing this, but I've got a completely stock S5 (using the built in Gallery App).

Anyone know what might be going on?

 

[Orcvader]

Does it happen if you use another cloud storage app? Personally I've been using Google Photos for storage and it's been working fine there.

 

[jamief]

Well, I decided to do a bit of digging. I downloaded the APK for the Cloud Drive app onto my computer, extracted the JAR file from it, decompiled the Java source and dug through it. Right enough, the request that is sent to Amazon's servers request the image with a maximum dimension of 2048 pixels, whereas the source is 5k ish. I've told Amazon of my findings and await their response