Gaia/Gallery

The Gaia Gallery app is a gallery web app, for the front end of B2G

Status

• Feature Name: Gaia Gallery App
• Stage: Development

Team

• UX: Frank Lee (IRC: flee)
• Dev: David Flanagan (IRC: djf)
• Platform: Jonas Sicking (Media Storage API)

Requirements

Gaia v1

• User has the ability to swipe through the thumbnail view of photos
• Full screen view of photos
• User has the ability to pan between photos in full screen view
• User has the ability to delete one or multiple photos at the same time
• Pull photos from both on-board storage as well as the SD card (if applicable)
• User has the current sharing capabilities (ability up to select 5 photos if the service supports multi-photo sharing):
  • Create an extensible menu for adding app services
  • Email is going to be a P1
  • Social Networks/Storage services will be P2
• User has the ability to set the wallpaper with any photo
• User has the ability to set a specific contact with any photo
• Respect exif orientation data when viewing photo in full and thumbnail view
• User has the ability to export/copy photos off the device when plugged into a desktop machine
  • This should appear on the desktop like a USB thumbnail drive and the user can access the 'Photos' directory

Gaia v2

• User has the ability to move photos from SD card to on-board storage directory
• User has the ability to create collection of photos
• User has the ability to click 'play' to view a slideshow of photos

Issues/Risks & Dependencies

• Media Storage API? bug 717103
• Orientation API?
• Web Intents?

• Where should photos be stored? Currently being stored as files in IndexedDB, but there is discussion around a possible Media Storage API bug 717103
• How should the gallery app integrate with or interact with the camera app to capture new photos? https://github.com/andreasgal/gaia/issues/291
• How to get photos on and off the device? https://github.com/andreasgal/gaia/issues/58

Development

Source code on Github

Design Specs

• IxD specs v1
• VisDe specs v1