Hey all! I have a collection set to show 1 item. When a user taps the collection, it randomly selects another item from the list. It’s a random name generator so I need the text to be a lot bigger than the collection default. Ideally the text would be overlayed on top of an image. I’m using Cloudi…

[image] Dan76: Does Glide plan to reintroduce the overlay feature with tiles and images that exists with classic apps? I have no idea on this, but wasn’t that also using Cloudinary? [image] Dan76: I’ve found that avatar generators produce urls that can be used with no lag. Can you giv…

Thanks for your quick reply ThinhDinh. I’m not sure if Glide were using Cloudinary for their overlay features, but there were never any issues with lag so…maybe not? I thought the same thing about the avatar generators but they seem to allow for instant rendering. To show you what I mean, I set up …

The first gif is really close to what I need but I can’t get it to overlay the whole word, only the first 2 characters.

if you are on a maker plan or above, you can change the text size using css. if you want the overlay, if you can use a custom collection you can place a rich text component with html inside it to achieve something like this. I have an overlay text if a unit is “Priority Listing” and another overl…

Thanks Abdo, it’s legacy non-profit so no CSS. That looks like it would be ideal though

you don’t need css to do that… i will post a video here to explain how

Ah re-read your comment - thought you meant CSS would be needed for an overlay. Cheers that would be great :slightly_smiling_face: (if you don’t want to go to the trouble of making a video the html code should be fine, I’ll try and figure out the rest).

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abdo April 10, 2024, 5:54am 9

apologies for the late reply, here is the video. To make it work, make sure not to leave empty lines within the html.

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