Hope you’re all well. I’m new to the site and have just recently begun designing my first app. It is centred around football (soccer) shirts and memorabilia, predominantly retro shirts.
I want the app to possess a tinder like swipe format, wherein users can swipe through 1000’s of different football shirts, saving the ones they like along the way. I am currently getting to grips with the basic functionalities of bubble, but would love some guidance as to how I would go about introducing the swipe feature. I would also need to create a large database of shirts, that will provide each user with a different and random picture of a shirt after they swipe the last one, any guidance on this would also be greatly appreciated.
I look forward to hearing your replies and feel free to ask any questions, if you feel I have been unclear.
Well, there’s a Tinder pile swipe thing that Bubble implemented. Find it in plugins section of your app and install it and see if it does the job.
Getting your own content is your job, of course. Randomizing a lot of objects that represent shirts isn’t really any sort of issue as there are random functions in Bubble, such as you can sort a list of Things by sort criteria “random”.
(Note, however, that the issues involved in randomization are not well documented in Bubble, but that’s not really Bubble’s job. I’ve not run into problems with randomization myself, but it would seem that sometimes/often folks hit issues with the seed being the same in certain sorts of randomization options. The trick seems to be randomize the list sort and then return a random item from that randomized list:
I’m sure that searching about here in the forums will reveal interesting observations about randomization… though I doubt it will turn up anything much about footie jerseys. (ARE there even thousands of vintage soccer jerseys? I suppose there might be. The mind reels.)
Thanks a lot for your help. Yeah I’ve already collected the majority of my database, I was just unsure as to how to implement it direct to the app, but what you said makes sense. I’ll add the tinder plugin and see if that does the trick.
I’ll have a little search throughout the forum also like you mentioned. And you’d be surprised about the number of football shirts out there, tens of thousands haha.
I figured that should be crowdsource-able (the vintage soccer content).
One thing you might find with Bubble – there’s a somewhat surprising LACK of nifty interface libraries that have been converted to Bubble plug-ins. The “tinder pile” plug-in from Bubble seems to more of a proof-of-concept that one can do this sort of thing, but it’s not forkable, so one doesn’t get a look at the innards of how they did it. (I’m sure it’s just some popular-ish library.)
There’s both a lack of developers willing to devote time to this sort of thing as well as a lack of volume in the audience of potential consumers. Perhaps that’ll change, but there’s no equivalent to something like MuseThemes.com and its relation to Adobe Muse at present. (Muse itself is dead, but my point is that when it was a going thing, there was rather a lot of very intense and highly-professional development of plugins to meet the needs of front-end designer types who wanted more sophisticated user interaction components for Muse, but did not have the capabilities to develop them themselves.)
That being said, there are some potentially interesting alternatives to Bubble’s “tinder pile” plug, including an implementation of Metafizzy’s “Flickity” library:
Apologies for the slow reply Keith. Thanks a lot for all the information, it’s really appreciated. I’ll have a look at the different plugins you’ve mentioned and have a play around.
