I want to develop a photo gallery in Blackberry.
Please give any suggestions about functionality and implementation.
There are couple things to do:
gallery layout variations (table, list, tape)
several thumbnail size variations
info from file (format, resolution, size, etc)
file browser component
send mail/publish web etc
camera integration
Additional features:
slide show
rating functionality
converter functionality
synchronization device-device, device-desktop, device-web
home screen wallpaper (available up from 4.7)
See for code samples:
BlackBerry Dev Blog - How to use Table View layout
StackOverflow - BlackBerry - draw image on the screen
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I was wondering if anyone here knows how to add a camera area like this one(similar to snapchat I guess) in Xamarin Forms (preferably,mainly with XAML)Camera area is suppose to have a livecast & it is going to be on iOS
needed this screen:
I tried Xam.Plugins.Media but couldn't manage to create the needed screen
The media plugin, goes into the platform specific Camera Screen, takes a picture then returns. You can't put extra buttons on the screen in this way.
To get a video feed and manage the capture yourself, you will need to implement a lot of platform specific things.
Android
https://developer.xamarin.com/recipes/android/media/video/record_video/
iOS (Look at the AV samples)
https://developer.xamarin.com/samples/ios/Media/
Let's say I'm writing a word-processing application. Users can embed images using the app. Now since the application is not a photo editor, naturally it would delegate photo editing of embedded images to other applications.
The question is, how to do that? How to invoke photo editing extensions in an iOS app?
Theoretically it should be as simple as passing an image, invoke the extension, and then get another image back as the "edited" image. However the SDK documentation doesn't seem to provide any hint on how to do this.
Looks like the SDK doc actually says it doesn't provide a UI per se:
When using built-in editing controls, the image picker controller enforces certain options. For still images, the picker enforces a square cropping as well as a maximum pixel dimension. For movies, the picker enforces a maximum movie length and resolution. If you want to let the user edit full-size media, or specify custom cropping, you must provide your own editing UI."
From:
https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/AudioVideo/Conceptual/CameraAndPhotoLib_TopicsForIOS/Articles/PickinganItemfromthePhotoLibrary.html
I'm looking at the Adobe Creative SDK Image Editor, which seems to provide a UI. Might show some of their branding in the photo editor, however. Hope to follow up...
I'm looking for some pre-built layouts in jQuery mobile.
Like the camera layouts for example. I would need lets say at least 5-10 layouts to cover the entire process from the engagement of the camera phone to apply the final pic(s) to a photo gallery and albums. Another set of UI layouts Im looking for is chat messages.
Think about how many unique layouts are on an iPhone? There's about 4-5 layouts for your texting on your iPhone from the list view of the people you've been texting to the thread messages inside each conversation and more. Im looking for all the source code files that come along with each layout. Since Im now using jQuery mobile to do my next set of layouts, Im looking for mobile layouts that is compatible with jQuery mobile.
Any help would be appreciated.
John
So on users profiles I will have banner space where they can upload a photo to. I want the space inside the banner to be filled with the photo. Not every user will be good with creating banners in photoshop etc so I'd like to give them some control on how their photo will look in the banner by allowing them to resize it proportionally and position it left, right, up or down until the photo is showing the way they want it to in the banner.
I'd like some limits however in order to stop users from uploading very small photos that won't look good inside the banner. I've checked out google+ which seems to allow this so a perfect example of what I'm looking to do is what facebook do with their timeline banner photo upload option.
I currently use carrierwave for all photo processing in my app.
Any advice/solutions to get me started will be much appreciated.
Kind regards
You will need some kind of client editor for the banner. I mostly used the Jquery UI Plugin (JqueryUI), which helps you with some nice methods. You can easily add some draggable, resize or position functionality.
After the user finished the banner, you can upload the whole banner to the backend. For the storage and configuration of photos in rails, I recommend to use the gem 'paperclip' (Paperclip). You can set a minimum or maximum size in paperclip when pictures are uploaded.
I'm looking into porting my iPhone application to the BlackBerry and have run into a wall with the out of the box UI components and UI animations available for the BlackBerry. One feature that I really, really need to figure out is how do I flip over a UI component on the BlackBerry. For example, lets say that I have a UI component for a playing card. When the user selects that card I would like to flip it over to reveal what's on the other side.
Also, can anyone point me to any resources (books, websites, etc.) that deal with animation on BlackBerry devices?
Thanks.
You can achive effect in two ways:
BitmapField layout animation with image switch in the middle
BitmapField (or any custom field with image) image animation with image switch in the middle
See animation related articles:
BB KB - How To Display an animated GIF
The BlackBerry Graphical User Interface: Part 2 - Direct Screen Drawing
SO - Blackberry - fields layout animation
SO - Blackberry - background image/animation RIM OS 4.5.0