[WIP] skin.touched (touch screen skin currently iPad 4x3)

This is so beautiful and sexy! Are you using an iPad1 or 2 in the video, because on my iPad (1) XBMC is nowhere near as smooth? Or would it just be that your skin works way better?

iPad 1 and maybe also have an advanced setting to cache the thumbs at 256 pixels instead of the default 512 so thumbs load a little quicker

Will the skin only be compatible with the ipad? I've a car PC that i'd love to run xbmc on but the touch screen support is lacking, I'm guessing the gesture support is an apple api and not part of the standard xbmc code?

Jezz_X clearly stated it's not going to be an only iPad skin, so it will work for different touchscreen based devices.

@Jezz_X Looks really neat and simple to use so far. Really looking foward to get my hands on it now that you hyped us up!.. Will there be a swipe enabled progress bar as well? If so this is going to be nasty, give us a preprepre alpha! ahah Jokes apart, keep up the good work!

tungmeister Wrote:Will the skin only be compatible with the ipad? I've a car PC that i'd love to run xbmc on but the touch screen support is lacking, I'm guessing the gesture support is an apple api and not part of the standard xbmc code?

It will work on any xbmc but as far as I know only iOS and windows 7 have gesture support so far that side is not a skin thing

Great job!

I'be eagerly awaiting for that alpha-release.

Probably being a muppet. But if this is on an ipad, do you ave to create an app for it?

For nstance i use soulmate which is good but the inteface is abit ropey, however it controls xbmc ok.

Or is it a skin whereby you have to watch the content on the ipad?

garyi Wrote:Probably being a muppet. But if this is on an ipad, do you ave to create an app for it?

For nstance i use soulmate which is good but the inteface is abit ropey, however it controls xbmc ok.

Or is it a skin whereby you have to watch the content on the ipad?

It is a skin for any touch device able to run XBMC. On screenshots it's an iPad running XBMC. You are in skin development section :-)

pecinko Wrote:It is a skin for any touch device able to run XBMC. On screenshots it's an iPad running XBMC. You are in skin development section :-)

Indeed it's not an application to control xbmc it is xbmc running on the ipad so all playback happens on the ipad I just hadn't skinned any of that yet so didn't show it

And here we go very much ahead of the "In a couple of weeks" schedule that I promised is the first Alpha release of the skin for people to test

Do not install or use this skin unless you have either touch screen or a mouse connected or you will lose navigation and have to manually change to another

Bare in mind that only the main things people would use in day to day use are done (and even then maybe not) if you plan on doing other things like setting up sources making play lists and other sort of things do it in confluence then switch back.

Nothing is final
* I don't really want to hear anything bad about Looks or bugs in things that are obviously not finished if you
* I do want to hear about usability issues in stuff that looks like I have skinned it


EXTRA STUFF

* Make sure you are using a iOS from here dated 11-Jul-2011 or newer [AppleTV2/iOS] Unofficial semi-nightly build FAQ/info/issues older versions of XBMC will not work!

* Technically gestures should also work on windows 7 with a recent git master build of xbmc but its not tested so use at own risk

* LINUX IS NOT SUPPORTED. Linux does not have the gesture API hooked up yet so you wont be able to navigate around your media with a touch screen its currently iOS and windows 7 only

* I suggest adding this to your advancedsetting.xml and starting with a fresh userdata dir XBMC's default is 512 and a 256 will make your thumbs load much quicker when scrolling and they never get displayed that big int he skin anyway see here http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=Advancedsett...umbsize.3E


And here is the link
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So here are some screen shots of the stuff I have already done.
http://imageshack.us/g/171/screenshot000h.png/

And here is a really really bad quality video I made with a shitty 10 year old camera to show it actually being used so you get the idea of how it works. Trust me its much nicer in person
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmaFiQ5ysAg