Landscape mode in balllin'

Rotating to landscape in balllin'.

One of the cool challenges and solutions in balllin' was figuring out how to deal with 400x300 pixel images. For dribbble, unlike photos from instagram or whatever, you'd rather not downscale images b/c you're going to lose the fidelity and sharpness (keep in mind when we first worked on the app, there weren't any retina screens too). But you can't display the full 400x300 shot in portrait without scaling down the image. You have to put the user in landscape mode to view the full pixels. There were a couple of early dribbble clients that as a result stuck people in landscape for the entire app. The problem with that is that browsability of the app goes out the window when you make everything landscape.

So the majority of the app takes place in portrait. And when you want to view the full resolution pixels, you can quickly rotate to landscape wether you're viewing the grid, or drill down to a specific shot and then rotate back when you're done.