Vine is an incredibly simple
application: Choose a subject, point your phone in internet marketing and hold
your finger on screen to record six seconds of video. Even though there are many
apps and social platforms that shoot short, shareable video (Tout, Keek),
another social platform comprised of itsy-bitsy videos is not all that
compelling.
Yet with the addition of the ability to stop and start recording having a tap, Vine for the iPhone became something altogether different: a thriving platform now highlighting some fascinating creative abilities and reworking lives and careers. No surprise Android owners were so miffed it took Twitter almost 6 months to release an Android App.
SEE ALSO: Vine Challenge: Nobody Likes a Third Wheel
When I found the free new app in the search engines Play, I installed it on the Samsung Galaxy S3.
The interfaces are, understandably, subtly different. Where Vine for iPhone keeps a somewhat Spartan interface, Vine for Android provides a persistent menu just below the organization name/logo and the record icon. Menu choices include "Feed," Activity," "Explore" and "Profile." There isn't any "Home" button on the Android app, however your "Feed" pretty much serves the same purpose - company, it's where you start upon launching the Android app.
It's such as this throughout the new app: The majority of the features are there, but not always in which you expect them. Both apps possess a "Find people" option; the iPhone hides it under "Profile" inside a little icon in the upper right-hand corner, as the Android turns it right into a big button on "Profile." "Activity" looks virtually exactly the same on both platforms. As for "Explore," also they are quite similar, but Vine for Android lacks a "Search" box.
Also, if you are hunting around for "Settings" in Vine for Android, it's hidden beneath your profile picture.
Shooting a Vine and gratifaction
Yet with the addition of the ability to stop and start recording having a tap, Vine for the iPhone became something altogether different: a thriving platform now highlighting some fascinating creative abilities and reworking lives and careers. No surprise Android owners were so miffed it took Twitter almost 6 months to release an Android App.
SEE ALSO: Vine Challenge: Nobody Likes a Third Wheel
When I found the free new app in the search engines Play, I installed it on the Samsung Galaxy S3.
The interfaces are, understandably, subtly different. Where Vine for iPhone keeps a somewhat Spartan interface, Vine for Android provides a persistent menu just below the organization name/logo and the record icon. Menu choices include "Feed," Activity," "Explore" and "Profile." There isn't any "Home" button on the Android app, however your "Feed" pretty much serves the same purpose - company, it's where you start upon launching the Android app.
It's such as this throughout the new app: The majority of the features are there, but not always in which you expect them. Both apps possess a "Find people" option; the iPhone hides it under "Profile" inside a little icon in the upper right-hand corner, as the Android turns it right into a big button on "Profile." "Activity" looks virtually exactly the same on both platforms. As for "Explore," also they are quite similar, but Vine for Android lacks a "Search" box.
Also, if you are hunting around for "Settings" in Vine for Android, it's hidden beneath your profile picture.
Shooting a Vine and gratifaction
Shooting a Vine on Android works almost exactly like it does on
an iPhone. Should you hit the icon to record on iOS, you'll instantly begin to
see the record screen. On the Samsung Galaxy S3, there is a momentary lag as the
message "initializing" briefly appears on the watch's screen. Though noticeable,
this happens quickly it's no big deal.
The biggest distinction between the two apps on the video creation side may be the addition of one nifty feature on Vine for Android, and it is not at all obvious. As reported, you are able to zoom in on shots. Initially when i first started shooting clips with Vine for Android, I could not find any reference to this new feature. Like there isn't one.
To focus on an image while shooting, make use of your Android phone's volume up button. Volume down zooms out. Used to do this in between record taps and created this Vine (watch below). Observe that most of the closer shots of these two characters' faces were created by using the volume buttons, not by moving the telephone. It's a neat trick and may come especially in handy for that Vine animators out there.
Unlike Vine for iPhone, Vine for Android can't yet make use of the front-facing camera, and there is no way to tag people or add hashtags (which you'll still do by hand, obviously).
Processing your Vine video is another bit slower, at least for me personally, than on the iPhone platform (I've, by the way, created Vine videos on an iPhone 4 and an apple iphone 5).
After recording your Vine, sharing is, again, almost just like the experience on the iPhone, though Vine for iPhone has more options. For the time being, Vine for Android only enables you to post to Vine and Twitter - no Facebook or location settings. Despite you share a Vine to Twitter, Vine for Android forgets that setting around the following Vine.
There's another odd limitation in Vine for Android. I could not reshare Vine posts in my feed. On platforms, there's a small ellipsis menu under every Vine post. Around the iPhone, tapping the ellipsis menu pulls up share options, during Android, it only allows you to "Report this text."
All the differences between Vine for Android and Vine for iPhone are minor, and sure to be remedied by Twitter quickly.
The biggest distinction between the two apps on the video creation side may be the addition of one nifty feature on Vine for Android, and it is not at all obvious. As reported, you are able to zoom in on shots. Initially when i first started shooting clips with Vine for Android, I could not find any reference to this new feature. Like there isn't one.
To focus on an image while shooting, make use of your Android phone's volume up button. Volume down zooms out. Used to do this in between record taps and created this Vine (watch below). Observe that most of the closer shots of these two characters' faces were created by using the volume buttons, not by moving the telephone. It's a neat trick and may come especially in handy for that Vine animators out there.
Unlike Vine for iPhone, Vine for Android can't yet make use of the front-facing camera, and there is no way to tag people or add hashtags (which you'll still do by hand, obviously).
Processing your Vine video is another bit slower, at least for me personally, than on the iPhone platform (I've, by the way, created Vine videos on an iPhone 4 and an apple iphone 5).
After recording your Vine, sharing is, again, almost just like the experience on the iPhone, though Vine for iPhone has more options. For the time being, Vine for Android only enables you to post to Vine and Twitter - no Facebook or location settings. Despite you share a Vine to Twitter, Vine for Android forgets that setting around the following Vine.
There's another odd limitation in Vine for Android. I could not reshare Vine posts in my feed. On platforms, there's a small ellipsis menu under every Vine post. Around the iPhone, tapping the ellipsis menu pulls up share options, during Android, it only allows you to "Report this text."
All the differences between Vine for Android and Vine for iPhone are minor, and sure to be remedied by Twitter quickly.
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