Signal-android: Feature request: Settings for media quality

Created on 22 Jul 2017 · 4Comments · Source: signalapp/Signal-Android

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Bug description

Need an option for media qualities

Steps to reproduce

send image taken form within the signal app
add image from your album

Actual result: Different image qualities are sent to the recipient.
Expected result: The app should send images of the same quality or at least ask the user should be able to specify the qualities somewhere in the options

Screenshots

picture added from my album app
picture taken from within the signal app

Device info

Device: Sony E2303
Android version: 6.0.1
Signal version: 4.8.1

Further explanations

The quality of media sent varies with the chosen method (e.g. attach an image file from your album app, take picture within the app).
There should be options in the settings menu that specify the default media quailty and maybe one can even specify qualities on the fly like so: this specific image should be in a lower quality (saving data volume) or this one should be 100%.
Same goes for video and audio..

Source

PaulXiCao

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Most helpful comment

It's not only about the quality of the in-app camera but media quality in general. Say, you took an image with your phone's camera app in super hi-res (>=5MB?) and you want to send it via signal. Then there is no option to lower the quality in favor for lower bandwidth usage.

PaulXiCao on 23 Jul 2017

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All 4 comments

If I understand you correctly, you complain about the quality of images taken directly in-app (camera button in the input panel). It's kind of a feature, that the quality is worse but the image can be taken faster.

There is a forum discussion on dropping in-app image capture in favor of using the camera app:
https://whispersystems.discoursehosting.net/t/does-anyone-like-the-quick-camera-functionality-on-android/791