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Arctic is a Lemmy client for iOS built on pure Swift. It currently supports iOS 15+ and Lemmy v0.17+

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Media improvements (self.arctic)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by dave to c/arctic@lemmy.world

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Loving the new link preview position option :)

Is there space for a couple of media tweaks?

Images, once zoomed in, have this unfortunate feature where moving them by a few pixels brings up the controls layer, and then it’s hard to get rid of—single click zooms back to full image (which is great for quick dismiss). Maybe the controls could be completely disabled if the zoom is anything but ‘fit to screen’ or whatever that default state is known as?
Videos when rotated often fail to scale properly to the new aspect, getting progressively more and more zoomed.
Tapping a video in the feed to show it full screen leaves the playback controls visible, then another tap brings up the share / dismiss controls over the top, and then finally a third tap leaves just the video. This feels like it could be smoother—again maybe start with no controls visible?
Dismissing a video should probably pause playback, as it can be hard to hit the tiny pause button back in the feed.

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[–] dave 2 points 3 weeks ago

Thank you for all of that—I’ve tried very hard, but can’t get it to misbehave at all now :) Which means the only thing be got left is the layout between feed and post, which honestly isn’t a huge deal but might be good to have an option like for link previews to keep the order consistent—see this:

feed

Vs:

post

But even now, the media experience is so much smoother and more enjoyable.