Do you have a picture on your iPhone that you want to send to a friend? Is the latest media you took a video? Try firing up your messaging app to send the picture and looking at the Album thumbnail.
If you set UIImagePickerController‘s source type to UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypePhotoLibrary but are only looking for photos, the album’s thumbnail will show the last media contained within that album.
In this album I have a photo and video as the last media taken.
Case in point, if the user is looking for photo media, the video thumbnail is shown; confusion entails.
Apple should include an option for UIImagePickerController to adjust the thumbnails and title of the picker view to reflect the relevant media that the user is looking for.
A call such as source = photo vs source = video when the user only need one type of media.
That being said, the the title of the album picker list in the first screenshot should not be “Photos”, but rather “Media” when the user is browsing for both types of media.
Both photos and videos are being stored in the Photos app. The Photos app should be renamed to reflect the new types of media being stored in it. A few years ago, the iPhone only took still images so the Photos app was appropriately named at the time. Again, renaming to “Media” would be a good alternative.
App Quitting UI Abnomally
If you like to mass quit apps on you device by using multiple fingers at once (three fingers works the best), you’ll need some practice to adjust for Newsstand apps.
I noticed that the NYTimes Newsstand app’s red quit button is slightly lower than the standard apps’ quit buttons.
We are proud to release Geometry Stash – Cheater Edition™.
Using the Apple iOS’s built in UIDeviceAPI*, we can turn on monitoring of the devices’ proximity sensor.
[[UIDevice currentDevice] setProximityMonitoringEnabled:YES];
When the student places a finger over the device bodys’ upper portion, the iOS system turns off the display as can be seen below.
Puzzled instructors will never know the difference between a phone turned off and Geometry Stash – Cheater Edition™!
