First, please let me know if you’d rather these be elsewhere—new to Arctic but really liking it.
I’m on a quest to find the perfect Apollo replacement since leaving ‘that place’. Arctic is so nice and close I know this is nit-picking now. But the image view was practically perfect in Apollo and just a couple of tweaks if they’re possible would bring that joy back.
First off, hiding the phone status bar and action buttons on first open—just the image, scaled to fit.
For zooming, double tap to zoom in is great, but Apollo had single tap to zoom out again which combined with swipe to dismiss made getting back to the feed almost a single action—effectively a double tap with drag on the second tap. It was so slick.
The action buttons don’t currently show / hide on single tap when zoomed in so I don’t think that change would break any existing functionality.
The jarring zoom out was not meant to be included in the release, I was testing to see if the zoom transition was interfering with the dismiss gesture and I forgot to re-enable the animation before releasing. I can definitely block the double tap while zoomed though, that may be the solution to the delay in dismissing.
I’ll see if I can’t resolve some of these issues right now and maybe release a hotfix tonight.
That’s great—the image open / zoom / dismiss flow is really smooth now, thanks for taking me back to the best days of Apollo :)
The only two minor niggles, neither of which are high priority at all, are the phone status bar (don’t know if that can be hidden in portrait), and the ‘small drag’. That last one only happens if you move a zoomed in image by a few pixels. It looks like the touch and release point being close to each other is interpreted as a tap regardless of how long it takes.
BTW, can you tell what I do for a living :)
Awesome! Glad you like the improvements. I ended up writing some custom gesture recognizes to handle some of the issues and it seems to flow a lot better now.
I did add another small tweak to the tap gesture this morning that cancels the gesture if the press is longer than a fraction of a second and it also cancels if the touch is moved during the press. I had this in last night’s release, though the timeout was not working properly, and the movement threshold was a bit too high to work as I intended.
As for hiding of the status bar, this is the default behavior. I believe I may have disable this on non-notched devices, but I will have to look back to be certain. What device and iOS version are you using? I’ll test in the simulator and see what is going on.
I’d assume you work with front end development in some way (UI / UX) or perhaps QA testing, if I had to wager a guess. You seem to be finding all of the minor little details that make a big difference for the users.
Yeah, front end UI dev and testing :)
I’m using an SE 3 model A2783 so notch. Note the status bar is a minor irritation in regular view when hide bars is set for scrolling in the feed. The top and bottom button bars go but the status bar overlays onto the post. It only happens in portrait, so I assume that’s an iOS thing.
All the other changes are superb. Thanks again for your efforts on Arctic.