The gyroscope plugin, when included in a tour, makes the panorama wiggly on Android devices. The tour does respond to movement of the Android phone or tablet, but keeps wiggling even if the device is held still on a flat surface.

Obviously the plugin does not work with Android, which would be not such a big deal if it could recognize wether it is running on iPhone/iPad and activate itself accordingly, but now, I can not include it at all. Is there a solution?

Pierre

What is your Android device for information please ?

You can have a look into all the xml files generated and search for "gyro" keyword. Add devices="iphone|ipad" to force gyro only on ipad and iphone on layers and plugins tag linked to gyroscope.

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I have tried that. In the file index_skin.xml I changed the expression

<plugin name="gyroscope"
url="graphics/gyro.js"
keep="true"
devices="tablet|mobile"
...
To:
<plugin name="gyroscope"
url="graphics/gyro.js"
keep="true"
devices="iphone|ipad"
...

That seems to help prevent the activation of the gyroscope for my Android devices, but I did not have the chance to see if the gyroscope still works now on an iPhone or iPad. The tour in which I have tested this is located here: "http://virtualtours.nl/sluis" (which contains work in progress).

If this works, it would be something to implement in a next version of PtP. Or better still, the next version could have a new version of the gyroscope code that works for Android.

Pierre

I have a Samsung Galaxy Note 3 smartphone and a Samsung Galaxy Tab3 10.1 inch tablet.

Hi,

Gyro works on an ipad on the link you provided.

Google updated Chrome Browser for Android yesterday (February 26th). We’ve updated it on our Nexus 7 and tested on one of our own tours. It appears to have cleared up the gyroscope issues.

Chrome 33.0.1750.132

Tested on a samsung s4. It works perfect.