Closed robertocarroll closed 9 years ago
robertocarroll
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9 years ago Do we definitely want this feature? I realise the reasoning behind this feature, but I'm just checking because it adds to the image requirements considerably. Without it, each question would just need the square images, but this adds the need for the full image as well.
clintmclean
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9 years ago Hi - yeah it is too bad we can't do both in one but it definitely important to show the full image somewhere and I can't think how we could do it instead of thumbnails or something.
robertocarroll
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9 years ago There's is a technical constraint here. Each question will have an extra 400-500kb with the full images. If we have lots of questions that will make the app very heavy to download on install.
Perhaps this is the point at which the app crosses over into the website? The round image could open a link to the full image on the Barjeel site using the in-app browser.
clintmclean
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9 years ago Hi - the @2x image sizes are more between 125-250kb (each). I don't see how we can have an app based on artworks and not show the artworks. I think it is essential for the game to be useful. Our images are not large compared to what a lot of apps do with images for ipads etc - I don't know anything about the tech of how they do it, but having links seems like a bad idea to me. Maybe the difference is with a lot of image heavy apps people are expecting them to be heavy but wouldn't be for a game-based app like ours. And I guess it needs to download all in order to be used off-line… I don't know what the answer is here - wanna discuss on skype tomorrow?
C.
On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 9:44 PM, Robert Carroll notifications@github.com wrote:
There's is a technical constraint here. Each question will have an extra 400-500kb with the full images. If we have lots of questions that will make the app very heavy to download on install.
Perhaps this is the point at which the app crosses over into the website? The round image could open a link to the full image on the Barjeel site using the in-app browser.
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robertocarroll
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9 years ago Why do the links seem like a bad idea? Could you elaborate? I think it's a very good idea which balances the requirement to view the full image with all the other issues. The experience of viewing the image would arguably be better than provided in the app because all the relevant metadata etc will be there and the image will be in the context of the collection. Sorry, but I can't do tomorrow. How about Wednesday?
clintmclean
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9 years ago Is it possible to do a test with this without too much pain on your part? I just think leaving the app after each question isn't very nice for the flow of the game and it means we are not functional if off-line which was part of the thinking in having the app download wasn't it? ..should we rethink that? What if the app wasn't available when off-line? Does that solve the image size issue? Ok lets try wed - I have a suit fitting and an interview and friends coming for a goodbye dinner but will try to carve out an block to catch up - I think we need it!
C.
On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 10:26 PM, Robert Carroll notifications@github.com wrote:
Why do the links seem like a bad idea? Could you elaborate? I think it's a very good idea which balances the requirement to view the full image with all the other issues. The experience of viewing the image would arguably be better than provided in the app because all the relevant metadata etc will be there and the image will be in the context of the collection. Sorry, but I can't do tomorrow. How about Wednesday?
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clintmclean
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9 years ago Was looking at how other apps do this again - sometimes it opens just the larger image onto black and it is quite instantaneous - and sometimes it loads a page with a url. Which of those two (or was it a third way) were you suggesting? I am wondering also if we can reduce the px dimensions of our images to help reduce file size.but the chrome link where wanted to see the dimensions on various apps isn't loading anymore - did you change the url?
robertocarroll
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9 years ago Url is the one for this repo. It's robertocarroll.com/barjeel-app
robertocarroll
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9 years ago Url is the one for this repo. It's robertocarroll.com/barjeel-app
robertocarroll
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9 years ago I suugested getting the image and the data from the website but loading it as json so it can be styled in the app and opened in the in-app browser - not just like opening the whole website in Safari etc
clintmclean
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9 years ago oops. I had the public-app url. All good. I emailed Una directly with that url but copied the message into github for archiving (in case you are thinking she won't see it there).
I think opening the browser window is going to be cumbersome to repeatedly be doing but maybe a test is the best way to know for sure - can you demo that? I'll look into reducing file sizes by reducing px dimensions which would mean the full image pics aren't big and glorious but would be more feasible.
robertocarroll
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9 years ago I've added a quick test for the larger images just to see what the reaction is:
It's all hardcoded at the moment so it only shows the same image for every question.
robertocarroll
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9 years ago The pop up for the larger images on the play section look good to me - pretty seamless.
So we need the url of the each image from the website and any other information we want to display there, e.g. title, artist.
Closing this issue.
User can tap on an image in the answer to see it bigger. Opens in a modal window.