openphoto/mobile-ios — Issue #84: Suggestion from @ezramoore
Author: patricksan
Created: 2012-02-03 23:31:36+00:00
State: open
Labels: Release 1.4

Comments from @ezramoore:

**Here are a list of improvements I'd like to see to the existing feature set:**

* I think the keyboard view should be dismissed when the user taps the main view while uploading an image. Hitting the 'Done' button makes me think I may be submitting the image for upload before I have selected settings that may be hidden under the keyboard view.

* The ability to create new tags during the upload process.

* While uploading an image the option for 'Current Location' is available. This is confusing. If I upload an image (from my smartphone) are the geo-coordinates in EXIF uploaded regardless of my selection here. If I upload with 'Current Location' ON does this overwrite the geo-coordinate data contained in EXIF? I would like the ability to select using a picker (Maybe, 'Location Take,' 'Current Location,' 'Both,' 'Neither.').

* For some reason the user text typed in the 'title' and 'description' text fields is red, seems a little odd to me but maybe there is a reason.

* When in the 'Gallery' view/tab it would be nice to see more photos load automatically when the user approaches the bottom of the view by scrolling. The Facebook app does this when viewing photos.

* Cache the image thumbnails shown under the Gallery view/tab so that when a fresh instance is loaded we don't see the 'No images uploaded' artwork and have to wait.

* When loading a fullsize/single image show a progress indicator rather than an 'in progress' indicator. Again reference Facebook app's handling of photos.

**Additional features I would like to see:**

* The ability to delete an image from the database.
* The ability to modify the behavior of the 'Home' view/tab.
* I see the home view/tab being an avenue of turning your smartphone into a digital picture from of sorts (eg. iPhone in a dock). It would be nice to be able to pick a tag set from which the images are pulled, change the transition delay, perhaps include a few transition effects. Maybe include a way to hide the OP banner on the home view/tab. As it exists now the home view/tab serves to embarrass me when I try to show people a picture of my dog (the latest image in my OP account) and they end up seeing my goofy fat face (the second latest image in my OP account).
* The ability to swipe left/right to manually change the image.
* Perhaps the settings for the home view/tab could be included in the 'Settings' view/tab.
* The ability to select multiple images for upload. I'm not sure if this is a limitation of the API for accessing images in the Photo Roll, but the Apple Photos app allows multiple selection for the purpose of sharing/messaging/etc.

* The ability to edit images (using the built in Aviary tools) that are already stored in the OP database but aren't necessarily on the smartphone.

* The ability to edit meta-data of images already on the server.
* For instance, making a photo (or a bunch, batch editing would be good) private, adding tags to it, etc.

* The option to share a photo, group of photos, or tag via Facebook, Twitter, etc. after upload.

* The ability to save images from the OP account to the phone's camera roll.

* The ability to save photos to Dropbox ("Open in Dropbox"), though this may not be all the useful since the Camera Roll (at least on iPhones) is one of the only shared filespaces available to users.