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 > I guess people are just cropping out all the sadness
 
-This is another Android library project providing a simple image cropping `Activity`, based on code from AOSP.
+An Android library project to provide a simple image cropping `Activity`, based on code from AOSP.
 
 [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/jdamcd/android-crop.png)](https://travis-ci.org/jdamcd/android-crop)
 
 ## Goals
 
-I put this together in my [hacker time](http://backstage.soundcloud.com/2011/12/stop-hacker-time/) as a replacement for our old android-cropimage fork.
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 * Gradle build with AAR
 * Modern UI
 * Backwards compatible to Gingerbread