OT: Images for Mobile

[Graham Samuel]

I don’t see why this is OT. It seems absolutely mainstream for cross-platform, multi-device apps, which is to a great extent what LC is about. Jacque’s solution looks good to me in general, although one can imagine sensitive situations where it wouldn’t look quite so good. I have been hoping in terms of pure size, that SVG graphics would be helpful due to their ‘resizing without resolution problems’ capability. But the mothership has been pretty reticent on so far on which way the SVG functionality for widgets is going.

Graham

> On 28 Aug 2016, at 07:56, J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com> wrote:
> 
> On 8/26/2016 4:54 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami wrote:
>> given these assumptions
>> 
>> a) the top and bottom of Landscape images contain no significant elements
>> b) the left and right sides of portrait images contain no significant elements
>> c) we are looking at a crop that goes full screen,
>> d) you don't want to generate 5 different possible versions of any one image to package in your apps.
>> e) Your "eye candy" team of UX reviewers are very, very forgiving of quality differences and fully appreciate the file size issues (i.e. minute improvements in sharpness and clarity do not warrant keeping a 1.5MB version of the file for mobile when you can put a 250KB file right next to it an you can barely see any difference. )
>> 
>> Then to work in both 16 X 9 phones or 3 X 4 Tablets (with all other Android rects being ignored for the moment) one simple algorithm is:
>> 
>> process all images to 3X4 or 4X3 and, then, using Fullscreen show all, these will center "everywhere" and fill "everywhere" with some areas top and bottom or left and right appearing and disappearing depending on the screen/orientation.
>> 
>> Where your livecode placement scripts always puts these images at the card loc. (centered)
> 
> I haven't actually tried this yet, but I'd be tempted to make all the images square, using the largest dimension you want to support. Since no edges contain significant elements, it doesn't matter which sides get pushed off the screen or what orientation the device has. The center of interest will always be visible and you don't need to worry much about device size.
> 
> I've used both 1x and 2x images and both look about the same to me on mobile screens, use less RAM, and load faster.
> 
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