Opinions wanted: new feature vs. app size

[jfmosier]

Features!

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[someone]

I would favor a plug-in. My reason is simple: I have no need for it. For a long time I've used "Image Shrink lite" from within Aquamail whenever I send an image. It works fine, has several on the fly size options, and integrates well with AM.
Maybe the Aquamail version would have advantages. I don't know. But for me personally, ISL has solved my image sending problem for a long time.
Just my 2 cents. (I hope it is OK to mention another app here).

[StR]

Someone needs to wake up: image resizing has been implemented already.

(And as for plugin vs. in-app, - while I had initial slight preference toward the plugin, - I am happy with the way Kostya has implemented this feature the way he did.)

[mikeone]

Someone needs to wake up: image resizing has been implemented already.

(And as for plugin vs. in-app, - while I had initial slight preference toward the plugin, - I am happy with the way Kostya has implemented this feature the way he did.)

😂😂
  and yes,  Kostya is usually (if not always) on the right way with his decisions. 👍

[someone]

Someone needs to wake up: image resizing has been implemented already.

(And as for plugin vs. in-app, - while I had initial slight preference toward the plugin, - I am happy with the way Kostya has implemented this feature the way he did.)

Yes it just appeared in the update I downloaded yesterday. I turned it off for now because I'm so accustomed to using image shrink lite, but I'll give it a try later.
Fwiw, I only read this forum from time to time. Some of us have a life.

[mikeone]

Fwiw, I only read this forum from time to time. Some of us have a life.

Oh, you have a life....without AquaMail.  Really 
Kindest regards
Mikeone

[Mattik]

I'am using my smartphone as a smartphone and not for a cam, and that's what an emailapp should provide. I would like if there come rules and encryption. Thanks Kostya for your perfect work.

Sent from my mobile.

[Kostya Vasilyev]

I'm currently working on message threading.

Re: rules -- it continues to be my belief that message filtering is best done on the server.

[Iceman_jkh]

Thank you for the chance to comment on the integrated function vs plugin situation.
Please bear in mind that I'm only a new user of AquaMail,so I'm not up to speed on all the past history.

I'm more than happy for the aforementioned functionality to be integrated into the app, including the additional filesize that will accompany such a decision.

As I see it, core/key functionality that is to be expected of an (email) app should rightly be integrated into the app itself.
For those extras however, non-core, yet useful, additions could be placed into a single, separate plug-in. This single plugin could house all current and future additions and features, and allow only those users who are interested in said features to opt-in (for the additional resource cost: size, etc).

This would keep the main app as slim and core-featured as reasonably possible, while not preventing more 'exotic' (yet reasonable) functionality for those who require it.
Having a single plug-in (which houses all extras) might also make (future) development easier (once the initial plugin framework was included).

[I'm not a dev, so I admit that I have no idea how difficult implementing a plugin system would be, nor if it would be worth the effort]

Regards,
J

[foresto]

This would increase the .apk size by about 600K (for three architectures, "arm", "x86" and "arm 64 bit"), bringing the total size from ~5.3 MB to ~6 MB.

Install size overhead would be about 800K.
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Oh, and if add support for "x86 64 bit" later, the overhead would go to ~800K for the .apk / ~1200K for the "installed" size.

Kostya, thanks for seriously considering of the impact on users with older phones and limited resources. I installed AquaMail in the first place because it fit and ran well on my little phone. Half a megabyte might seem like nothing to people with recent hardware, but for some of us, it is the difference between being able to install an app and not being able to.

I don't need the image resizing feature, so making it a plugin seems preferable to bloating the app. I'm sure people with capacious devices will feel differently. Whichever approach you choose, I hope you'll keep making these decisions carefully in the future. Some of us really do appreciate it.

[Kostya Vasilyev]

Image resizing shipped a couple of months ago, packaged in the app itself

I'm now getting ready to post the first -dev build with threaded messages, hopefully in a few days.

So far, threading has added about ~30K to apk size.