This is awesome! What's the idea behind the sizing/cropping of the images? It seems that the pictures saved are squares and then you have to readjust when you set them as wallpapers. Since I can adjust the view in the app with the clever horizontal scroll, it would be neat to save that view as a picture, it would fit the screen size perfectly?
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"What's the idea behind the sizing/cropping of the images?"
During development, the first version was downloading photos cropped to size equal to phone resolution. But I found out, that sometimes it missed important element of photo :( That's how I figured out horizontal scroll. Dimension of photo is 2x width, height of screen resolution.
"Since I can adjust the view in the app with the clever horizontal scroll, it would be neat to save that view as a picture, it would fit the screen size perfectly?"
Well, you can do it later, after saving photo. Of course I thought about saving that view as a picture, but gyro is so sensitive that is a lot easier and accurate to do it later, when setting wallpaper.
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@rurza@unchumbelge I realize this is probably an OS limitation, but is there any way to keep it scrollable? I'd love to set an over-sized image and then go to different parts of it when swiping left or right.
Hi!
I've made this app because I love Unsplash. I wanted super smooth, 60fps scrolling experience where I can see photo optimised for my device. And I made it.
Scroll vertically, tilt device to scroll photo horizontally, touch and hold to save it. Simple :)
@rurza this really looks like Polarr's Logo, but better and bolder. Polarr also has an filter collection made by Unsplash and it supposely gives your photos the "Unsplash Look".. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/...
I can appreciate the simple UX used here, kudos on the intuitive scrolling - but not at the cost of a search feature. Am I supposed to just scroll until I hopefully find something I might be interested in? Seems like that would be key to your MVP, both from product and data perspectives. Or maybe I'm taking this too seriously.
God yes this is awesome. I'm tired of using sketchy ad-filled apps to find backgrounds. Great work.
Would love to see scrolling be "paged" in the sense that scrolling down will scroll image-by-image, not a continuous scroll (think home screen, not Instagram).
@markbao There is paging, kind of. If you use inertia with scroll, photo will stop exactly on edge. I was experimenting with typical paging (like on iOS home screen) and it felt a little clunky :)
@rurza Hmm, I don't think I'm seeing this on my side (latest iOS, iPhone 7+) - when I try to inertia-scroll (that means quickly scrolling, right?) the view just goes past multiple photos.
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