Edge-swipe camera controls with opposite-side feedback—cleaner than Halide's gesture scheme.
Mobile photographers frustrated with native camera UI complexity
Halide · ProCamera · Native iOS Camera
All night I kept getting up and writing down ideas about how the camera app could be easier to use.
Here's the result — a proposal for a smartphone camera interface that uses exclusively easy and obvious gestures, and an app that embodies the principles.
My hope is that the app will succeed, but also that other camera app programmers will pay attention and adopt some of these principles.
In the past few months I've taken many pictures that I never could have gotten with the regular camera app:
• nicely framed images of friends rock climbing
• a super zoomed-in and contrast-boosted photo of a fish that I wanted to identify
• hundreds of artistic black-and-white photos
• some weird photos of brutalist architecture with neon colors overlaid
If users like the interface, the next step will be to add RAW support and really concentrate on the quality of the images.
Let me know what you think!
If GitHub notifications are drowning you, this puts the decision surface on your phone: swipe to archive/keep, view inline diffs and CI status, and scan full timelines without context-hopping. The feature set (Enterprise support, multi-account queues, diffs-in-place) shows practical thinking, but it's still an incremental solution in a crowded niche rather than something wildly new.
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Procedural soundtrack generated from slide-to-unlock gestures on iOS.
Rotation-invariant calibration that stays zero when you rotate the phone — most apps fail this.
Game Boy Printer emulation over USB-C to pull photos straight from 1998 hardware.
Zapier on your phone—genuinely mobile-first design instead of responsive web.
