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09 JanQuickFlickr 2.0 Alpha Available for Testing

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So this is yet another post about QuickFlickr, but this time we want your feedback. We decided to make QuickFlickr available for testing, but we don’t guarantee that it works, or doesn’t blow up your device. The latter one must be said even though we haven’t noticed that it would do any harm. Here is the latest video about the features that Alpha version contains.

We will push few more features and bug fixes for 2.0 later, but now we want your feedback about how do you feel about it.

What Kind of Feedback?

Yes, we know there are still bugs in Qt 4.7 for Symbian^3 and the performance could be better for Qt Quick on N8. It would also be nice to see a newer Qt version for development purposes, because the one that is available from Forum Nokia, is from October.

As you can see from video too, there are issues related to performance too. So the best way how you can help us to develop QuickFlickr is to download it from the link below, play with it and tell us what you think about it, what other features you’d like to see, are there any issues with usability and bugs of course.

To provide us feedback you can send us email to info(at)d-pointer.com or you can add comment this post. The third way is to use our Contact page.

Installing

Disclaimer: Before you install QuickFlickr Alpha on Symbian device, make sure that you understand that it’s not the final product, it’s missing some features, it may crash or it may make your N8 non-responsive and d-pointer is not responsible of what happens to your device.

  • You need to install Qt 4.7 to your device. Follow the instructions from Forum Nokia.
  • You can download QuickFlickr 2.0 Alpha from the following link: quickflickr
  • Installing should work, if you open the link above e.g. with N8′s opera browser, save it and open it. After this the installer should do the trick.

Happy testing!

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  • Dennis

    This looks great, QtQuick is really going to enable some beautiful applications (once it’s finally properly available for Symbian :)

    This S^3 Qt 4.7.0 developer preview is obviously pretty buggy, looking at jira many bugs have since been fixed, opengl support added, openvg text rendering improved, etc etc. Looking forward to the next iteration of Qt on S^3!

    Otherwise, hmm, well lots of things will be obvious to you already :)
    - Use embedded QtWebkit QML to handle OAuth internally, you can then close browser automatically as soon as the user approved the request for permission, etc, is then more fluent experience
    - When looking at a picture how to go back to photostream (without pressing button at bottom) ?
    - Swiping between pictures directly
    - Zooming pictures
    - Landscape mode
    - Send/save picture
    - More performant (not your fault)
    - I have to say that loading indicator is awesome.. :)

    All in all a great preview of the kinds of apps Qt Quick will enable. Looking forward to seeing more!

    • dpointer

      Thanks for the first feedback! Originally QuickFlickr used QtWebKit (QML WebView) for authentication, but because of a bug in Qt 4.7 developer package for Symbian^3, QtWebKit can’t be used because it complains that QtWebKit not installed.

      You are right about the gestures. We haven’t used those yet, due the gesture problems in Qt 4.7 and N8. We have plans for example provide zooming using pinch. Swiping between full size images is also something that we need to consider and also swiping full size image down gets you back to the previous page (photostream, favorites, etc..)

      According Flickr, the client who is using their API is not allowed cache or save images because of copyrights. We need to check if it’s allowed to save users own photos.

      Thanks for the feedback!

      • Dennis

        From the terms and conditions: You shall not “Cache or store any Flickr user photos other than for reasonable periods in order to provide the service you are providing to Flickr users.”

        It’d be madness if you wouldn’t even be allowed to cache thumbnails between screens, don’t the flickr http responses contain an indication on caching lifetime? Anyway you’ll figure out a good compromise that avoids needless bandwidth use and fast response, for “reasonable periods” :)

        True about webkit-qml and gestures, though all of these, as well as various optimizations, should be in master git, if you want to try on the desktop first. Hopefully we’ll see these on Symbian soon!

        One other issue is that often when going to a new page there is still the previous content visible first, which is then erased and replaced. Probably a QML performance issue, maybe fixed already in Qt.

        The first screen looks cool but it’s hard to see what it’s doing (ie can you easily go to next/previous user or does it behave more like a roulette wheel?)

        The bottom blue bar (which I think matches the default theme blue, except I use the midnight theme) could be less intrusive (bright), maybe some semi transparent mask/gradient.

        When you minimize the app on Symbian there is no way to get it back? (either re-launching it or selected from task manager). Perhaps not really needed feature on a phone.

        But like I said, really promising of whats to come :)

        • Anonymous

          @Dennis Yes, you have a point there when it comes caching. We just need to be carefully that we don’t leave any “old photos” in the cache accidentally. As you said, the old, previously loaded content should also be cleaned before QuickFlickr displays the same view, but haven’t received new content yet.

          We could remove the minimize “button” too, at least when running QuickFlickr on Symbian. It’s originated from Maemo 5 version so it can be considered as a legacy functionality.

          Graphics may still change a lot in the future, but let’s see how it end ups to be:)

          Anyway, this is exactly the kind of feedback we want and we appreciate your effort. Thank you for that.

  • Anonymous

    Will it work on my s60v5 device with Qt 4.7?

    • Anonymous

      Sorry, but we can’t guarantee that. We have done the testing only with N8 and the display resolution may also be a problem. Currently we support only the resolution 360×649, but QuickFlickr will support more display resolutions in the future.

  • matti m.

    I’m interested in a simple technical detail – how did you implement the swipe gesture in the bottom bar? Did you tinker with the Qt Labs GestureArea plugin or is it a Row/ListView/other such element with only one element visible at a time?

    • Anonymous

      It’s a simple ListView with a model and a delegate and that’s pretty much it. No tricks done there:) Using a model there we can have easily configurable menu for example one model of N8 and another model for N900.

  • http://actualasianmale.com Al Pavangkanan

    “Invalid api key or signature”

    What did I do wrong?

    • Anonymous

      Can you install other Qt applications without any problems? QuickFlickr has been built using remote compiler in Nokia server so make sure that you have the latest Qt 4.7.1 installed on your device.

      Sorry did I understood you right. Are you getting that “invalid api key or signature” error when you’re trying to authenticate with flickr?

  • APai

    very well done, definitely worth paying

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