App Cloud's image transcoding service makes it ridiculously simple to scale down images for mobile and tablet apps. Here are a few examples: Reduce an image to 100x100, ignoring the original aspect ratio: <img src="http://transcode.appcloud.brightcove.com?image=www.example.com/apples.jpg &width=100&height=100" width="100" height="100"/> Reduce an image to 100 pixels in width, preserving the original aspect ratio: Read More →
Speed up your App Cloud apps with image transcoding
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Adam Mark on March 6, 2012
Crop your photos with App Cloud image transcoding
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Adam Mark on February 8, 2012I can't say enough good things about image transcoding in App Cloud: It's a snap to use, it saves bandwidth, it speeds up your apps, and it makes users happy. We just added two new features to make it even better: Cropping You can now crop images on the fly! To crop an image, just add crop=x,y,w,h to the transcode URL, where x,y is the top left coordinate. Take the following image (originally 425x282): Read More →
App Cloud content feeds: Getting to green
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Adam Mark on January 31, 2012I just smashed my personal content feed optimization record in App Cloud. The original feed, a YouTube playlist, clocked in at 176KB. Whoa. Read More →
