In my hunt to unGoogle my Life and find the perfect cloud solution I´m right now in the evaluation of Nextcloud…
BUT, I´m not happy that the app must downloads the images to the device unlike the rest of the cloud services available.
Is there a way to prevent the app from doing this?
Not at this very moment in the stable release but the beta release available on f-droid.org has a preview mode which will exactly do what you are looking for
Hi,
have testet the android app
extern memory card does not work, but is okay, in beta
Have seen the app is creating thumbpictures in my user account.
i use many pictures.
if i share any folder with other users in my nextcloud, and they look also pictures with the android app, does the app load the thumbpictures from my account, or re-create the thumb images for each user?
that is probably a question for @oparoz. The Andorid client is requesting the previews from the server and I would bet the server is caching these so they won’t be generated for each request to one file.
Hi Andy,
have used now any days the beta from the android app.
Will the photo preview function find the way also in the “stable” version?
By the pictrure preview function is not so good that you always have to wait until all thumb pictures are created
If you want to see the pictures before in big It remains with the last thumbpicture.
That interferes extremely.
Will this be improved, so that the preview is also created thumbpictures in the large view?
Greetings!
Do you use nc 11? As there is a new iPreview system integrated that should save small and big previews as they are created once. Along with this you could use the Preview Generator app from app store to auto create previews as files are uploaded. It also contains some command to generate previews for all existing files.
At least for my gallery app with newest pull requests integrated and web ui files browser this works really smooth now, so small and big previews seem to be stored and used :).
https://github.com/nextcloud/android/pull/69 I am working on it
It is already working in nightly, but it needs some more fine tuning before we can put it in the official version.