3Speak Mobile App - Tips - Save Internet bandwidth by changing these settings when you're on mobile Data

Hello 3Speak Community Members,

Supporting low internet usage is very important & that we kept in mind when designing the 3Speak Mobile application. In many occasions, you're required to use low data. I can few examples

• You're about to reach the limit of wifi-internet-usage & you want to use as minimum data as possible
• You are using mobile data & you want to be mindful about using mobile-data when using 3Speak application.
• You're travelling & connected to temporary wifi which are very slow but you still want the 3Speak App to load faster.

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You're lucky. With 3Speak Mobile app, you can manage above described scenarios very well. With this post, I'll share some 2 tips with which you can save your mobile data.

Launch settings

• Open 3Speak Mobile app
• You'll find a Quick action menu item with ⚡️ icon at bottom right.
• Tap on it.
• When you tap on it, you'll find few action items.
• You can find settings. Tap on it.

Changing Default image resolution

• This settings is used to set the default size of the video-thumbnail.
• When you are scrolling list of videos, at first you see the thumbnail of a video.
• These thumbnails are uploaded by user & sometimes it can be huge in size.
• Due to which, it can drain your data.
• 3Speak Mobile app is smart - by default, it keeps 480p as a video thumbnail size even if content creator has uploaded huge thumbnails
• We achieve this using hive-image-proxy.
• You can change this to - 360p, 480p, 720p, 1080p.

Changing Default video streaming resolution

• This settings is used to set the default video streaming size.
• When you're playing the video, based on the settings, 3Speak mobile app streams video based on your settings
• You can change this to - 480p, 720p, 1080p.
• You may wonder how does it work. Let me explain by example.
• Default play url of any video ends with manifest.m3u8 (HLS format)
• Instead of using that default, we pick .m3u8 based on user's setting.

bla-bla-video-url/manifest.m3u8
bla-bla-video-url/480p/index.m3u8
bla-bla-video-url/720p/index.m3u8
bla-bla-video-url/1080p/index.m3u8

• Each resolution folder represents scaled/encoded video & each has index.m3u8 file.
• We point to index.m3u8 file directly based on user's settings instead of manifest.m3u8
• With this, user don't have to change to lower resolution for each video when playing the video.
• WHY - 3Speak Mobile App autoplays videos when scrolling & don't expect user to change settings for every single video.
• Source code reference - https://github.com/spknetwork/Android-App/blob/newDevelop/lib/src/models/home_screen_feed_models/home_feed.dart#L59-L70

What do you think?

• What do you think about these data saving features?
• Have you tried it out?
• Did you encounter any other bugs? Please share.

How to download the latest 3Speak Mobile App App?

• Download latest version of the app to get the latest features of the app
• iOS Users - https://apps.apple.com/in/app/3speak/id1614771373
• Android users - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=tv.threespeak.app

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