Basically earlier the support for touch experience was really bad. Before March 15, sliding of thumbnails with inertia was not supported sliding with XAML slider in the thumbnail view was not supported the sliding of images in normal view was weird and full of bugs sliding of folders after we add a lot of folders was not supported, and the sliding in full screen image viewer mode was not supported either. touch experience support added after March 15 for this existing appīefore March 15, the touch experience was not supported well and some important touch experiences were not supported at all.
Now the app has already got more than 200,000 user in Windows Store. It is actually much more difficult than a light image editing tool. It is no easy task to design a photo viewer.
Great support for gif animated pictures What I learned Accomplishments that I'm proud ofĮasy an intuitive operation support for mouse and touch Since it is on PC/tables, it needs to support both touch and mouse well, I have to do a lot of low level interaction detection. The gestures by touch need to be recognized with complicated algorithms. This needs a lot of low level coding using C++. psd, tga, dds, and most of the raw files that the default "Photos" app cannot open.Įasy operations with both mouse and touch.Ĭan stop a gif or magnifying animate gif files by each frame. View various kinds of pictures, including. We can see a lot of 1 star reviews for the "Photos" app but there are not good alternatives in Windows Store. There have been many desktop applications about viewing images but I was just not able find a single one that supports touch well.Īlthough Windows 10's "Photos" app support touch, many users do not like it for many reasons.
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