Greetings 3Speak Community Members,
Here's @sagarkothari88 with a new update for the 3Speak mobile app. We're releasing a new version of the Mobile app for both iOS & Android users. Please find the release notes listed below.
What's New in Release 1.3.1?
Portrait Videos
- This was the feedback from many users - @tibfox, @neopch, @starkerz, @rishi556, @brianoflondon, and many more.
- Not playing portrait video properly in the app was a poor experience.
- With this feature, the Now app will detect the size of the video first & based on that, set the video player size & scale-ratio accordingly
- Here is what a portrait video detail page would look like.
- As you can see in the screenshot below, the height for the mini-player is more for portrait video. As a user, you can always switch to full screen.
3Shorts > Portrait Shorts
- @tibfox, @neopch & many other users kept pushing me to integrate this feature.
- Thanks to @vaultec's mentorship, I was able to integrate a solution with which an app can detect video resolution before playing
- Now, everytime you play a 3Shorts, portrait shorts will be detected & 3Shorts player will scale video accordingly
- Here is the screenshot of a 3Short from @tibfox featuring @arcange
Refresh 3Shorts
- This was the feedback from @starkerz
- Before this release, users were required to go back & open 3Shorts again to reload 3Shorts.
- With this refresh button, users can now easily refresh 3Shorts
Access your account easily
- This was the feedback from @starkerz - difficult to find "my account".
- Added a button on the Dashboard to access your account easily.
- With a tap, you can now go to your account.
Share Button
- Added a Share button on Video Details Page.
- This was the feedback from @starkerz.
- Here is a preview of how it would look.
Refresh My Account Videos
- This was the feedback from @starkerz3
- Before this release, users were required to go back & open My Account again to reload contents.
- Users can now easily refresh My Account Videos with this refresh button.
Preview Before Publish
- This was the feedback from @rishi556.
- He suggested that the user should be able to see the video preview before publishing.
- I added that feature based on input to him.
- Credit goes to him for those who like this feature (@rishi556).
- Here are the screenshots of how it's going to look like.
Refresh feeds easily
- This was the feedback from @starkerz.
- Not being able to reload the feed was a pain for users.
- Home Feed, Trending Feed, New Feed, First Uploads - all support Pull down to refresh.
- Here is what it's going to look like.
My Account > Play My Videos
- It was feedback from @starkerz & many other users.
- Users could not play videos from "my account" before this release.
- Now, with this latest version, users can play videos from My Account.
- Here is how it would look.
3Shorts > Landscape Shorts
- @vaultec guided me on how to integrate this.
- Now, everytime you play a 3Shorts, landscape shorts will be detected & 3Shorts player will scale video accordingly
- Here is the screenshot of a 3Short from @louis88 featuring @starkerz
Automatic Publishing
- In our recent post, we announced that starting from June 15th, 2023, the videos you upload will be published automatically.
- Due to this few users like @virginianavas1 and @jaydr were in an embarrassing situation because they accidentally uploaded something.
- Starting from July 1st. 2023, all the videos you upload will be published as soon as processing is complete.
- So, I request users to be careful when uploading the videos.
- Only upload videos that you want to publish.
- I'm also thinking of a feature in the mobile app that would ask the user at the time of upload - Auto-publish or Manual-publish.
Unwanted links
- Links added to the bottom of the post are unwanted links.
- @vaultec suggested removing those.
- Those links look good on @ecency.
- But it fails to render properly on peakd.com & hive.blog
- I've decided to remove those links from the post template.
@ecency <=> @threespeak integration
- I am working closely with @good-karma & @adesojisouljay to complete the @threespeak integration to @ecency.
- A couple of API changes that were needed & suggested by @ecency.
- I'm implemented all of those suggestions on 3Speak-Creator-Studio & unblocked them.
- You can find those details in the post below under the Legacy Creator Studio Updates section.
Legacy Creator Studio Updates
- DApps API now supports setting beneficiaries.
- DApps API now supports setting 50% HP or 100% HP or Decline rewards.
- DApps API now allows community selection for AutoPosting.
Legacy front-end updates
- I wrote a cron job to update the video metadata - height & width.
- I also wrote a cron job to update the posted videos' status but stay in the
publish_manualstate. - I updated the cron job to auto-publish the videos & set the start date to July 1st, 2023.
Important News:
After processing is complete, starting from Jul 1st, 2023, uploaded videos will be published automatically (only if you've given the posting authority to 3Speak).
How to Download?
- Download iOS App
- Download Android App from Google Play Store
- Download Android App using Firebase
- Download Android App from DropBox
What's next?
- AutoPosting - Planned from Jul 1st, 2023.
- iPad / Tablet Support - research work.
- Allow users to set beneficiaries from the app.
- Allow users to decline rewards for videos from the app.
- Allow user to 100% power-up for the video-post.
- Allow users to set the language for the video while uploading the content.
- My Video Feed / My Subscribed Feed.
- Show the Encoding % of the encoding done in my account.
- Allow users to upvote the 3Shorts.
- Allow the user to provide posting authority to @threespeak using a key-chain session.
- Language-based video filters.
- There is a bug - 3Shorts - info button leads to a blank screen.
- Play ONLY audio of the video in the background.
- and many more action items & feedback items.
Feedback / Info
- Do you want more Info? Please let me know via the comment section.
- Do you have feedback to share? Please use the comment section.
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