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Show HN: Forget Flash, Skip GIF, Control iOS

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Re: Show HN: Forget Flash, Skip GIF, Control iOS

#11
Jon Skinner implemented a similar technique to create and display screencast animations on the Sublime Text homepage. I was just reading his article[1] last night in which he discussed his technique.

It's similar to this implementation, and his source is available on Github[2] (written in Python).

[1] http://www.sublimetext.com/~jps/animated_gifs_the_hard_way.h...

[2] http://github.com/sublimehq/anim_encoder

Re: Show HN: Forget Flash, Skip GIF, Control iOS

#12
Maybe this is a dumb question, but I'm probably not the only one wondering that: how do you capture the video from the iPhone screen in the first place? [Edit: oh, just realized you're probably just using the simulator?]

Otherwise, awesome app. I can definitely see myself using this to add short videos to my designs.

Re: Show HN: Forget Flash, Skip GIF, Control iOS

#13

Maybe this is a dumb question, but I'm probably not the only one wondering that: how do you capture the video from the iPhone screen in the first place? [Edit: oh, just realized you're probably just using the simulator?] Otherwise, awesome app. I can definitely see myself using this to add short videos to my designs.

For that demo, we used the iOS simulator app that's part of Xcode, along with normal screencapture tools (Screenflow in this case). I think that's the way most iOS devs do screencast content, though jailbroken devices can also do native screencapture.

Re: Show HN: Forget Flash, Skip GIF, Control iOS

#14

Maybe this is a dumb question, but I'm probably not the only one wondering that: how do you capture the video from the iPhone screen in the first place? [Edit: oh, just realized you're probably just using the simulator?] Otherwise, awesome app. I can definitely see myself using this to add short videos to my designs.

Check out http://www.airsquirrels.com/ they have an app that let's you mirror your iPhone to your desktop. It's very smooth. I use that, and then use a standard screen cap tool to capture the screen on OSX. Result is the ability to do full app demo on your iPhone and have everything mirrored to your screen. Also handy for sharing via a projector... Since it all goes over AirPlay you can demo without needing a cable/dongle off the iPhone.

Re: Show HN: Forget Flash, Skip GIF, Control iOS

#16
Thanks! I've been debating doing something like this on one of my app pages. So I've gone and done it now: http://awesomeputioapp.com

Feedback: I didn't like that there isn't a nice way to put all of the Phosphorous code in a subfolder (warning my HTML isn't amazing, I do iOS.) without a find & replace and hunting for the things to change. Overall I'm a happy customer though! Good work guys.

Re: Show HN: Forget Flash, Skip GIF, Control iOS

#18
post #16

Thanks! I've been debating doing something like this on one of my app pages. So I've gone and done it now: http://awesomeputioapp.com Feedback: I didn't like that there isn't a nice way to put all of the Phosphorous code in a subfolder (warning my HTML isn't amazing, I do iOS.) without a find & replace and hunting for the things to change. Overall I'm a happy customer though! Good work guys.

I just took a look at the site, glad it's working for you! As for the moving, perhaps we should emit sample code with a location string you can fill with your path prefix? Sounds good to me.

As for your composition, I took a look and the atlas images seem large compared to what we tend to see. Perhaps try turning down the quality slider in the main page - all that affects is the post encoding jpg compression. 60-80% tends to look good.

Re: Show HN: Forget Flash, Skip GIF, Control iOS

#19
post #16

Thanks! I've been debating doing something like this on one of my app pages. So I've gone and done it now: http://awesomeputioapp.com Feedback: I didn't like that there isn't a nice way to put all of the Phosphorous code in a subfolder (warning my HTML isn't amazing, I do iOS.) without a find & replace and hunting for the things to change. Overall I'm a happy customer though! Good work guys.

I just took a look at the site, glad it's working for you! As for the moving, perhaps we should emit sample code with a location string you can fill with your path prefix? Sounds good to me. As for your composition, I took a look and the atlas images seem large compared to what we tend to see. Perhaps try turning down the quality slider in the main page - all that affects is the post encoding jpg compression. 60-80%…

I'll give it a re-run in the morning, sounds like a good idea. As does the path prefix :)
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