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deckerst / aves

Aves is a gallery and metadata explorer app, built for Android with Flutter.
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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PiP mode for images #616

Closed Tanmandal closed 1 year ago

Tanmandal commented 1 year ago

Can you please add the feature of viewing an image in pip mode Instead of automatically switching to pip mode like in case of videos add a button which would open the image in pip mode

The only app which has this feature is Anything to PiP , but it is not open source

deckerst commented 1 year ago

PiP is useful to let something play in a corner while doing something else, so I don't understand why you would want a static image in PiP. Could you explain why you need this?

Tanmandal commented 1 year ago

I am a student and it's useful when I am jotting down points from online class screenshots on notesapp The pip window on latest versions of android is resizable so I can just resize it to make small while I write and again when I need to read I can just make it large to see this reduces the need for switching between apps I tried using the android split screen feature but it does not work very while typing as space where I am typing is not quiet visible

deckerst commented 1 year ago

On my device (a Samsung from 2019, running Android 12), any app can be switched to a split screen view or a pop-up view. The pop-up view is a resizable window. Don't you have this? It seems exactly what you need, and I designed Aves to behave gracefully when being used in a resizable pop-up view.

I'll close this issue, because I don't think PiP is appropriate here. A resizable pop-up view is what you want and that can be handled by your launcher/OS.