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GPlates Mobile App
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server or download options? #196

Open nickywright opened 1 year ago

nickywright commented 1 year ago

The reconstruction speed is very slow the first time. It is a lot faster after it has reconstructed through once (I guess it's downloading files?), but isn't obvious it will be faster later.

Either need to pay money for a better server (how much would this cost?), or can we have a 'download' grids option? I'd prefer to wait for it to download (after clicking a button) compared to sitting through the reconstruction going very slowly for a few minutes.

nickywright commented 1 year ago

Sorry @michaelchin, I only saw your email about this and how you can change things in settings. I still think aspects of this might be better elsewhere? You can't download new rasters from this menu, so have to select it in the raster thing, then open up settings... it's pretty cumbersome.

Maybe it would be better to have a download icon in the raster menu? Open to other ideas we well!

The number of images cached also doesn't update unless you press 'refresh' (I guess why it's there...). Any chance it can update in real time (not needed if there is an icon instead). I also think the heading for this ('cache information') isn't the most intuitive, thoughts? Do students know what cache means?