Virtual Photo Booth (Flex AppBlock)
Overview
This type of Flex AppBlock (formerly known as "Augmented Reality") lets you, as the app builder; upload images that your app’s end user can use to overlay on top of images that they create with their devices. There are tons of interesting use cases that this functionality could be used for. Here are just a couple, but it really could be anything you can think of!
- Landscaping company to show off backyard designs
- Photo booth at an internal corporate party
- High end retail to ‘try on’ merchandise
- Take a photo with a mascot for a sports team
The app user will be able to combine a photo of his own with any of the overlay images you upload into the platform. The combination is known as a "composite image".
Photo
Overlay
Composite Image
Configuration
Global
On the Configuration page, on the Global tab, you can answer the configuration questions.
Overlay Images
On the Overlay Images tab, you can upload your overlay images.
Data Mapping
Canvases
In Phone Canvases, there are three pages:
- Input View
- List View
- Detail View
Device Behavior
Initial Screen
Edit Window
Once the app user takes or selects a photo, it will be displayed in the Edit window. The user can use the swipe bar to look at the different overlays.
When the app user finds the desired overlay, he can manipulate it by touching the screen and using gestures to move, pinch, zoom, and rotate the overlay. The overlay moves while the photo stays still. At the bottom of the screen, "Overlay" is selected by default. If the user taps "Image", he can manipulate the image while the overlay remains still. **NOTE** The image can be moved and zoomed but not rotated.
Crop Image
Input Page
Finally, the user comes to the Input page. He can enter data for the fields you put on the lower part of the Input canvas. When finished, he can tap the Save action button you added to the navbar.
List Page
Detail Page
On the Configuration page, if you answered "Yes" to the question "Should the App User's content items be sent to the server?", then the app user's composite image will show up in AppOffice.
If you also answered "Yes" to the question "Should the Administrator/Moderator approval be required to publish the App User's content in the app?", then the user's composite image will be inactive - this means it will not show up on any user's List page. You can make it active in AppOffice. Look under the "Active" column and all active items will have a check, while all inactive items will have a minus sign. Click the check/minus to toggle the item's active status. When you change an item's active status, there is nothing to save - the change occurs immediately.