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Full screen photos from Unsplash for your iPhone

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Full screen photos from Unsplash for your iPhone

6 followers

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Launch tags:iOS•Photography•Tech

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busbud

This is awesome! What's the idea behind the sizing/cropping of the images? It seems that the pictures saved are squares and then you have to readjust when you set them as wallpapers. Since I can adjust the view in the app with the clever horizontal scroll, it would be neat to save that view as a picture, it would fit the screen size perfectly?

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10yr ago

BatFi

Maker

@unchumbelge "What's the idea behind the sizing/cropping of the images?" During development, the first version was downloading photos cropped to size equal to phone resolution. But I found out, that sometimes it missed important element of photo :( That's how I figured out horizontal scroll. Dimension of photo is 2x width, height of screen resolution. "Since I can adjust the view in the app with the clever horizontal scroll, it would be neat to save that view as a picture, it would fit the screen size perfectly?" Well, you can do it later, after saving photo. Of course I thought about saving that view as a picture, but gyro is so sensitive that is a lot easier and accurate to do it later, when setting wallpaper.

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10yr ago

@rurza @unchumbelge I realize this is probably an OS limitation, but is there any way to keep it scrollable? I'd love to set an over-sized image and then go to different parts of it when swiping left or right.

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10yr ago

BatFi

Maker

@tyjayo you mean after setting it as a wallpaper or in app?

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10yr ago

@rurza Scrollable as wallpaper. The tilt for horizontal scroll is great in the app.

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10yr ago

BatFi

Maker

@tyjayo not possible :(

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10yr ago

BatFi

Maker

Hi! I've made this app because I love Unsplash. I wanted super smooth, 60fps scrolling experience where I can see photo optimised for my device. And I made it. Scroll vertically, tilt device to scroll photo horizontally, touch and hold to save it. Simple :)

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10yr ago

Polarr

@rurza this really looks like Polarr's Logo, but better and bolder. Polarr also has an filter collection made by Unsplash and it supposely gives your photos the "Unsplash Look".. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/...

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10yr ago

@rurza thank you thank you thank you!

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10yr ago

@bwang29 @rurza I actually thought it looks like the Android Boot screen

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10yr ago

BatFi

Maker

@bwang29 Wow, I never ever seen this app. :) Fascinating! Background logo was inspired by Siri waveform, especially color blending.

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10yr ago

BatFi

Maker

@plexkits @bwang29 never seen this as well :( Everything is a remix

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10yr ago

Sidedoor

I can appreciate the simple UX used here, kudos on the intuitive scrolling - but not at the cost of a search feature. Am I supposed to just scroll until I hopefully find something I might be interested in? Seems like that would be key to your MVP, both from product and data perspectives. Or maybe I'm taking this too seriously.

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10yr ago

BatFi

Maker

@jimmyamash Hi Jimmy, don't worry :) I'm thinking about: a) native profiles, b) search, c) curated collections (patterns, seasons, main color etc.)

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10yr ago

Todolist

This looks awesome. I put it on my wife's iphone and she loves it. Any chance for Android support as well?

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10yr ago

BatFi

Maker

@gammons nope, sorry :( I don't know nothing about Android :(

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10yr ago

Goody

God yes this is awesome. I'm tired of using sketchy ad-filled apps to find backgrounds. Great work. Would love to see scrolling be "paged" in the sense that scrolling down will scroll image-by-image, not a continuous scroll (think home screen, not Instagram).

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10yr ago

BatFi

Maker

@markbao There is paging, kind of. If you use inertia with scroll, photo will stop exactly on edge. I was experimenting with typical paging (like on iOS home screen) and it felt a little clunky :)

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10yr ago

Goody

@rurza Hmm, I don't think I'm seeing this on my side (latest iOS, iPhone 7+) - when I try to inertia-scroll (that means quickly scrolling, right?) the view just goes past multiple photos.

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10yr ago

BatFi

Maker

@markbao right, but eventually it will stop on full photo :)

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10yr ago

BatFi

Maker

I know that there are some problems with API request limit :( Working with @unsplash to resolve it :)

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10yr ago