Add to Home Screen functionality
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Wesley Bush
I shoot soccer games for a high school, and with a different photo sharing site, I've been able to share a link with the parents and athletes, and they are able to "Add to Home Screen" so the gallery appears to look like an app on their iPhone, and they can always just click on that instead of using a bookmark. That way I can just upload after each game, and I never have to tell them - they're just always there.
With picflow, it appears to add an "app" on the home screen, but the download functionality doesn't work when I access the galleries that way. Is this something that can be added in the future?
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Nathan Felix
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Hi Wesley. Good news. This was quite easy to implement. Let me know if it works as expected.
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Wesley Bush
Nathan Felix: It doesn't appear to work the way I'm doing it. Here's what I'm trying:
On my iPhone, while looking at a gallery page that has subgalleries:
- On the safari window tools at the bottom, I click the box with the up arrow coming out of it (that lets me share it, ect.)
- I scroll up on those options and choose "add to home screen"
- This lets me add the picflow icon to my phone's home screen, with an option to rename it or change the url (the other site I previously mentioned somehow uses a photo instead of a standard icon, fyi)
- After adding that icon, I click it, and it appears to launch the gallery just fine (without the safari window tools at the bottom now, which is fine)
- Clicking into a subgallery, the navigation works (zooming, viewing all photos, etc.)
- When I click the download button, it presents the "long press to save image" instructions, however long-pressing doesn't bring up any options to save the photo
(I hope this makes sense)
Nathan Felix
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Hi Wesley, thanks for the feedback. We will look into it.