Let’s pretend today, April 27th, a fictitious development agency’s oldest and best client finally read about the awe inspiring iPhone and its weirdest camera feature. The article mentioned Apple developed a camera feature with the ability to capture motion pictures! The client was so shocked, he fainted. When he came to, he wasted no time calling his agency contact and began demanding the ability use these Live Photos on his Sitecore site ASAP. In this “pretend” situation, I decided to solve the issue by pretending he was the type to own a ‘non-explody’ maybe even a ‘possibly-explody’ Samsung phone instead of the iPhone. No Live Photos for him and he was bummed.
You probably pretended (or ignored the 1st paragraph entirely) a more realistic scenario. The client does own an iPhone and he’s just “Live Photo’d” every product in the warehouse and he insists you upload these cool moving assets to his Sitecore/E-Commerce powered site ASAP!
Live Photos represent any new, lame piece of tech people think might help them stand out from the competition.  Who knows if it would, but our jobs as developers is to be ready, have fun and solve this types of challenges. Continue reading “Appleâs LivePhotosKit, Sitecore & Glass: Chapter 2 â Sitecore, Custom Fields & Code”