Don’t worry, it all ended perfectly fine.
But it is something worthwhile keeping in mind while you are developing software for others.
Backstory.
I’m an animator and I deliver a massive amount of content to all kind of people. The other day I had to deliver 500 different animations; to 500 different people.
So I used Glide to make this interface; people would access a page with their own unique code (no need for login) and get the file dedicated to them (email them the files wasn’t possible for multiple reasons).
It was build and I tested it a couple of times on different systems. Except on Iphone.
The mistakes:
- I made a button which said “Download” - but in reality it was just a link towards the file. That is a bad call on my side; but I tought it would work out fine because on every system I tried; I was able to download.
- Apparently when you open a link on Iphone; a direct link towards a video file. You cannot save it from safari! Which is completely mindboggling to me. Every Iphone user I ask to download a specific file; can’t do it.
Next steps:
- Considering buying an Iphone to test this stuff as well. Already got android, apple and a pc.
- Find a better way to make sure users can download files from Glide to their device.
Feature Request (will make seperate post)
Can we have a download action? That downloads the file instead of opening it?