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Feature #614

Quick Capture Screen

Added by baghdadbrian almost 5 years ago. Updated over 4 years ago.

Status:ClosedStart date:02/01/2013
Priority:HighDue date:
Assignee:n8fr8% Done:

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Target version:Dev Sprint 5
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Description

This is the final screen design for Quick Capture photo/video.

These designs were submitted some months ago, but seem not to have been added to the dev site.

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#1 Updated by n8fr8 almost 5 years ago

  • Status changed from New to Feedback
  • Assignee changed from n8fr8 to baghdadbrian

Do we have the designs? Can you link/upload them here?

#3 Updated by baghdadbrian almost 5 years ago

Nathan, this screen should explain exactly what the quick capture is supposed to do: https://dev.guardianproject.info/attachments/download/566/CameraOverlayScreen.jpg

Also, check out this code: https://github.com/communitymedia/mediaphone/blob/535a1d323318e8f5d7a670c7e8ec03f83507ae6e/src/ac/robinson/mediaphone/activity/CameraActivity.java

and
https://github.com/communitymedia/mediaphone/blob/6f604c994367491650880f65fd617c5821dd6b81/src/ac/robinson/mediaphone/view/CameraView.java

Some comments from the developer about these libraries:

Regarding the camera - yes, I've made a custom camera view. The relevant code is in CameraActivity.java and CameraView.java (mediaphone) and CameraUtilities.java (mediautilities). Currently I do preview and image viewing in the same activity, but this doesn't really follow the Android activity model, so can probably be simplified a lot for your purposes.

To be honest, custom cameras are a bit of a nightmare, because you can never be sure that the options a device claims to be able to support are actually valid. So, for example, I've recently had to hack around an issue where the device supports only landscape camera previews when it is in portrait mode, but both landscape and portrait orientations when it is in landscape mode. There are also issues with selecting the right preview sizes - if you use a preview size that has a ratio too dissimilar to the picture size you want then the image the camera takes will be corrupted. Hopefully I've caught most of these by now, though, and I'd be grateful if you let me know of any suggestions or improvements.

#4 Updated by baghdadbrian almost 5 years ago

  • Assignee changed from baghdadbrian to n8fr8

#5 Updated by baghdadbrian almost 5 years ago

I'm not sure the status of this feature, I assume it is not going to be completed in the current sprint.

Therefore, for the time being, SWN proposes the quick capture buttons in the side drawer will launch the corresponding simple story template. This can be modified once we are able to implement the custom camera in a later dev sprint.

#6 Updated by baghdadbrian almost 5 years ago

  • Priority changed from Normal to High

#7 Updated by n8fr8 almost 5 years ago

  • Status changed from Feedback to In Progress

i think that is a good compromise

#8 Updated by n8fr8 almost 5 years ago

  • Status changed from In Progress to Resolved

quick capture buttons now launch a new story project directly into capture mode for the first clip of that story.

#9 Updated by SteveWyshy over 4 years ago

  • Status changed from Resolved to Closed
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