cache card images offline about mtg-familiar HOT 12 CLOSED

All of them for every set?

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At least for a set. :)

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Latest set? Ask for choice? That could still be a lot of space, but it's worth looking at I guess

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Here's my use case: I was standing in line to board a plane and i wanted to browse magic cards. Unfortunately, none of the pictures worked when I had to go into airplane mode. It would have been great to ask for the pictures to be cached/downloaded for a few sets.

We might also want to have a least-recently-used cache of images, if only to avoid all the network traffic and speed up the app.

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A cache is doable. The app already handles card prices with a 24 hour expiring cache. I just don't want users to be chewing up space on their device without realizing it. Pre-caching on a per-set basis is also simple enough. Nothing a multi-choice alert dialog can't handle.

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I think it's reasonable to say "cache XX of data" as a user pref, to transparently reduce network traffic and speed up the app. Default to 100 MB? How big is each image?

As a user, I want to explicitly say "store all the images for this set", which is separate than the transparent LRU cache. I don't want images to disappear if I've explicitly chosen to get all the images for, say, M15.

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Any idea on where to choose what set to download entirely? It doesn't seem to fit anywhere in the flow of what's there so far

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Somewhere in the preferences I think. Maybe under search and results?

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I think that's good for caching, but should we put full set download in there too? I guess that might be the most sensible place based on the other fragments

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I added caching in d128008. It still needs a slider to control the cache size, and a way to precache images.

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Added the seek bar preference in e8fefa8

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Thanks!

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