Comments on: Snappy – iPhone Camera App Launches Instantly via the Status Bar from Anywhere (jailbreak only)

By: Janick

Janick — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:20:36 +0000

I downloaded this app and it won’t work on my iPhone 4. When I tap the icon the screen just refreshes. Is the app not iOS 4 compatible?

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[…] Snappy – Quick camera access This could likely be replaced by a saved state or perhaps even a faster processor on the next-gen iPhone. I think the iPhone camera is pretty much as good as it gets for cellphones, but the four second load time still feels three seconds too long. […]

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 06:05:13 +0000

In reply to Diego Petrucci. I noticed a faster drain in battery after installing this app. No other apps are running in the background and even "push" is set to off.

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By: patrickj

patrickj — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:14:14 +0000

In reply to John Steele. That would be another nice way to switch over and have it always ready, but I think the Snappy method probably still wins out for shortest time to launch and be ready. Haven't tested though.

By: John Steele

John Steele — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:06:47 +0000

Could I accomplish this same thing by setting camera (I actually prefer Camera Genius) as a backgrounded app using the new multiflow thingy that you also wrote about today?

By: Diego Petrucci

Diego Petrucci — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:15:26 +0000

In reply to patrickj. I think it's ok the way it is. If you start adding features you lose the main reason why you use this app, ultraquick capture.

By: patrickj

patrickj — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:05:16 +0000

In reply to Erik. Cool - glad you found the post useful.

By: patrickj

patrickj — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:04:54 +0000

In reply to Zan. Hmmm - yeah that might be quite interesting.

By: Erik

Erik — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:22:03 +0000

Hey Nice Find! Thanks for sharing with us. I'm going to pick this one up too. It seems like lately Im using my 3gs to take pictures more often than my digital canon camera. This will come in handy because I've always wished the darn camera would load faster.

By: Zan

Zan — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:10:45 +0000

Would be nice idea if the developer opened it up so that you can tell it which app you want to run when holding the status bar, so you could use it with third party camera apps, or even another type of app altogether.

By: martin

martin — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:01:08 +0000

Why cant i find it in Cydia?

By: patrickj

patrickj — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:47:43 +0000

In reply to sysrage. So far I see no noticeable impact at all on free memory / general system performance. Too early to say anything much at all on battery life - sorry.

By: sysrage

sysrage — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:34:44 +0000

What kinda resources does this use? Only thing holding me back from buying it is that I figure keeping the camera ready to take pics all the time probably uses up a decent amount of memory or processing power. Have you noticed any battery drain, significant memory usage, or anything else?

By: patrickj

patrickj — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:17:28 +0000

In reply to Josh Gard.

Cough – 3GS – cough, cough 🙂

By: Josh Gard

Josh Gard — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:13:34 +0000

Oh nice find! Ok, this has almost made me want to go back to being jailbroken. The slow camera app is one of my major complaints and I've frequently missed shots just waiting for the app to launch. Seems to take it nice time when I'm most needing it to open NOW! LOL! I may have to check Snappy out. If only I could convince myself to stay jailbroken for longer than a few days. 😉

By: patrickj

patrickj — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:57:37 +0000

In reply to John Smith. The dev just confirmed that yes it does work with 3.0.

By: patrickj

patrickj — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:55:29 +0000

In reply to John Smith. Not positive, but i imagine yes as there is nothing stated about any firmware version required for it on its Cydia page. I've asked the dev via Twitter.

By: John Smith

John Smith — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:33:10 +0000

Do you know if this works with 3.0?

By: patrickj

patrickj — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:26:34 +0000

In reply to Diego Petrucci. Nope, not at all.

By: Diego Petrucci

Diego Petrucci — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:18:33 +0000

Does it interfere with sbsettings?