Consider hiding links to Studio on mobile devices?

[LukasKalbertodt]

We just noticed that on iOS and Android, clicking on the "select files" of the video uploader shows an option to record a video right there. It's also possible to cut the video before uploading (proper cutting, not just sending cut timestamps to Opencast, like Studio does). On Android, it doesn't seem to depend on the browser. On iOS it certainly doesn't.

Adding to that, capturing the screen is still not supported on mobile devices and I don't expect it to change anytime soon.

Which begs the question... what purpose does Studio serve on mobile devices? All it can do is record the phones camera and upload it to Opencast. Which is possible via Tobira in combination with the mobile operating system already. Bringing up the native camera app is also better than the custom recording interface we have in Studio (also regarding cutting and encoding).

I only see two small reasons for Studio:

• You can pause during recording (which was not possible on iOS at least).
• Studio can try to ask the browser to use a video format that Opencast understands. We have less control via the uploader route I think.

But these are not majorreasons.

So maybe we should think about hiding the Studio link on mobile devices? Or have an explanation pop up saying that users should rather use the uploader? (To be clear: this is only for mobile devices. For all other devices, Studio obviously still has lots of uses.)

[oas777]

Answer is "yes". But don't hide but grey it out (maybe with an alternative text "This feature is not available on your device."), otherwise people will ask where it is.