element-hq / element-hq/element-x-android
Improve download multiple images UX
- Dominant language
- Kotlin
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Description
### Your use case
#### What would you like to do?
download multiple images in a room to my phone
#### Why would you like to do it?
Because someone sent a collection of images that I all want
#### How would you like to achieve it?
Press one button only for each image I download
Or even better: have the option to select a group of images and press download.
### Have you considered any alternatives?
The current solution is to press the (i) button in the top right corner and the download for each image that I want to download.
With the new media swipe feature that would be already good if I there would be a download button in the top right corner (as there was at some point in time)
### Additional context
I think, the download and open in external app buttons could be swapped.
I dont see a situation where i would like to open multiple images after each other externally quickly. So i dont see an issue with pressing two buttons to get it opened externally.
For downloading i can see how one wants to do that as a batch operation. So making it easier to access is useful.
### Are you willing to provide a PR?
No
Contributor guide
Research direction
No files, tests, or entry points are named. Start by locating the Android media-swipe flow and the existing download and external-app actions; agree whether the target is one-tap downloads, group selection, or both, then verify the chosen interaction works for multiple images in a room.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- android, kotlin
- Domain
- design, mobile
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100