[cookiecaper]

The Android application I'm developing is immensely easier because of Android's open-source nature. Not only are things simpler on my physical phone because of cyanogenmod, but the basis for my program is actually Google's Camera app -- I literally copy the code verbatim and make the necessary changes. My project would be many, many more times work if I had to start a camera application from scratch (for what I want to do, using the intent that exports to the native camera widgets that are pluggable into your application is not sufficient, I need full control of the process).