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Loop concept app - WP Stories library
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Landscape mode #132

Open mzorz opened 5 years ago

mzorz commented 5 years ago

A user said they were expecting the app to be able to capture images / video in landscape mode just as the phone's camera app does, given it feels like it's a phone feature.

s10e has single, and wide-frame options, but Loop only lets me take single-frame photos

Should we add this capability, we should first design and then implement for it. Also some questions:

  1. how would loop frames captured in landscape look in portrait?
  2. how would loop frames captured in portrait mode look in landscape?
  3. do we allow different loop frames orientation be part of the same loop?

cc @megsfulton @aforcier

aforcier commented 5 years ago

Re this comment specifically:

s10e has single, and wide-frame options, but Loop only lets me take single-frame photos

I'm not sure that this refers to landscape mode - it sounds like Samsung's 'wide selfie mode', which sounds basically a specialized 'panorama' mode for selfies (which I would expect works in portrait or landscape).

I'm not sure to what extent we can/should support specialized camera features like this one, as this is likely a software feature of Samsung's camera app and likely proprietary. I think the action item here would be to try other photo-based sharing apps on those devices and support as much of the native camera features as they do.

Maybe that specifically deserves a separate issue @mzorz ?

aforcier commented 5 years ago

Re: landscape mode in general, I wonder what we would learn from user tests later on about this feature - one of the reasons we decided to go with portrait only (at least for MVP) was how common portrait-only is in 'similar' apps.

Maybe this is now a Product question (for that column)?