Reading a recent article about the Nook Color on Anandtech I would like to ask if it's possible to view 360° spherical panorama images on the Nook Color with the CyanogenMod 7 - since the Nook's IPS display should be excellent.
With its price tag the Nook Color would be perfect for me as a personal ebook reader and a portable unit to showcase images and 360° panoramas to clients.
Perhaps some good soul could test a panorama on 360Cities.net or a panorama in HTML5 and Flash on my website and report if these images are visible on the Nook clicking on the image of this webpage:
_thomaskrueger.eu/600/caruggi-genova-labyrinth-altstadt-genua
I tried Panoramas.dk and 360cities.net on my Nook Color running Cyanogenmod 7.03 stable with Flash 10.3. It didn't work very well. I was able to view a few panoramas. I had trouble with some of the controls, particularly zooming and panning. In general all of the motion was jerky. After trying three or four panoramas the browser would not load any web pages, not even the Google home page. I had to restart the Nook Color to get the browser to work again.
Would none of these work?
http://www.androidzoom.com/android_applications/panorama
@brucemcl: Thanks a lot for testing. The jerky movement is probably related to a too large cubesize of the panorama which fills up the ram of the Nook.
@ace7196: Good and usable viewers for 360° panorama are actually:
Pano2VR
Krpano
FPP Flashpanorama Player
I just can't post the URL's as a new user.
This Flash panorama has reduced tile sizes for the screen resolution of the Nook, with the button on the right side of the icon bar you can switch to fullscreen resolution:
http thomaskrueger.eu/work/nook/index.html
ThomasKru said:
This Flash panorama has reduced tile sizes for the screen resolution of the Nook, with the button on the right side of the icon bar you can switch to fullscreen resolution:
http thomaskrueger.eu/work/nook/index.html
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Works nicely on my rooted NC with flash 10.3 with standard kernel and stock browser.
Switching from/to full screen works in both portrait and landscape.
You can use the n button as a back button in the browser to get out of full screen mode.
Movement is smooth.
You might have to space the buttons a bit further apart for a better "touchability".
Vielen Dank für das Feedback!!
Now, where can I get a Nook Color here in Italy....
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I've just recently noticed (after using my camera more frequently) that the default gallery app causes the photos to be slightly blurry when viewing in full size. This problem is alleviated as soon as you zoom in, even slightly, but when you pinch out to full size again, the photo gets slightly hazy again. What is even more strange is that B&B Gallery off Marketplace does not demonstrate this fuzziness as all images are crisp regardless of if it is zoomed in or not.
Is there a setting that I can switch on the default HTC Gallery app to have all photos appear at full sharpness even at full screen size?
I see what you're saying. I took a few pictures of dinner with the family over the weekend and when I view the images in the default landscape view, they look a little fuzzy.
If I zoom in the fuzziness vanishes, and if I resize it to fit the relative size of landscape view, no fuzziness. If I tilt my phone to portrait and back to landscape, the fuzziness returns.
It is even more frustrating when you look at the photos through B & B Gallery. It isn't as integrated into the OS - ie having a shortcut within the camera view, but all the photos are clear from the start and they don't require zooming in slightly to capture the detail. Of course nothing is as bad as the stock Android 3D gallery, but it is disappointing all the same.
Just use Gallery3DMT.apk if you're having quality issues with HTC Gallery.
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Just use Gallery3DMT.apk if you're having quality issues with HTC Gallery.
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Is that different from:
http://phandroid.com/2010/04/13/images-look-blurry-on-android-2-1-theres-a-reason-for-that/
Just loaded it and answered my own question: no. The UI on Gallery3DMT is great, but the picture quality - especially when zooming at all - is just bad.
I too can see this. my eyes aren't great but i notice it and its pretty apparent.
Anybody else notice that images in Dolphin & stock browser appear somewhat blurry and pixelated, particularly on Honeycomb tablets? It appears that these browsers try to fit the page to the screen and end up stretching images out a bit resulting in a soft appearance. I've tested this on my own Web site which uses 900px images and no matter what I can't get Dolphin or the stock browser to render it 1:1 as 900px. Instead the images seem to stretch the entire screen on my Galaxy Tab 10.1 (1280px wide). The result is a soft and pixelated images.
Alternatively, Opera Mobile seems to do a better job at rendering the images. As they do appear 1:1 and look every bit as sharp as how I see it on my desktop monitor.
I tried disabling 'Fit Web page to screen' in Dolphin's settings but that did not change anything in regards to the image rendering. Is there any way to achieve sharper images using the stock browser or Dolphin?
The default browser (and Dolphin) try to scale images to fit the width of the tablet. I figured out that by going into the browser's debug mode and toggling "Use Wide ViewPort" it disabled image scaling. The result is you get sharp images that are at 1:1 pixels. I just wish that there was a way to have this permanent instead of always having to go into the about:debug mode whenever the browser is loaded.
I'm not sure how to go about doing this in Dolphin HD or Pad versions though, since I'm not familiar with how to get into their debug modes.
I assume you are on KG6, if so you could either modify the framework or since he seems like a nice guy you could ask froli13 to mod it for you to run wide viewport, there is a thread in the dev section that changes the user agent to desktop http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=17437874&postcount=110
I use dolphin for pad exclusively and never had any problems (except some sites with drop-down menus don't work).
Does anyone know of any way to set the gallery to only display portrait, cause I use it to view comics (since it loads in real-time, as opposed to actual comic viewers), but the only bummer is that reading them while lying down causes the images to switch to landscape mode. Anyone know a work around to this? I've tried other gallery apps, but they all load slowly:/ The default gallery app is SOO good!
How do you HTML5 videos to play full screen when viewing them via chrome?
The flash ones, I would usually click the corner icons and it would stretch out to full screen.
Even pinch to zoom doesn't display correctly..
-CC
Hi,
I have a Nexus 7 16gb and have recently started getting a problem with the way photo's are displayed in the gallery. When holding the tablet in portrait orientation and viewing portrait oriented photos, they no longer display full screen, rather they get compressed into the landscape display size and lose their aspect ratio!?!
This didn't happen at first and I'm not sure why it's happening now. Any ideas?
Any help appreciated!
Thanks,
Gareth