Platforms and Media
Epicollect5 mobile app is available for Android and iOS.
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Epicollect5 mobile app is available for Android and iOS.
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The mobile app is currently available for both Android (10+) and iOS (14+)
We support phones and tablets on Android 10 and onwards.
If Epicollect5 does not work for you and gets stuck at the splash screen, you can try to update Chrome and the WebView as explained .
You could also try to install an older version
We do not support older versions of our app, apps sideloaded or running on rooted devices.
We support iPhones and iPads with iOS 14+.
Photos taken/imported to Epicollect5 will be resized to a resolution of 1024 x 768 px (landscape or portrait, aspect ratio 4:3). They will saved in .jpg
format.
When using the web application, accepted formats are jpeg,jpg,png
but the resulting image will be resized and saved as jpg.
We found this size to be reasonable for data collection purposes, it is stable across devices with low memory/specs and easily viewable via the web application. Due to modern devices taking pictures at crazy resolutions and with file sizes up to 20MB we had to come up with a consistent solution.
As technology evolves, we might raise the resolution limits at some point in the future.
Audio files are stored as.mp4
on Android and .wav
on iOS.
They are coded as AAC with 44100hz audio sampling.
The maximum file size is 100MB.
Video files are stored as .mp4
files, coded as h.264 on iOS, and on Android it depends on the platform and device, but it is sent always as a mp4
file.
The maximum file size is 500MB.
As a side note, the popular app does use a similar approach.