Display images and videos in your app

Display images and videos in your app as described in the following sections:

• Supported image and video column types
• Allow users to draw on an image
• Display images or videos using Show type columns

Supported image and video column types

The Image and Thumbnail types can be used to capture and display images in the app. The Video type can be used to display video (video capture is currently not supported).

These types should be used when image capture is needed or you want to display the URL or file name values that are stored within your table data. If you don't already have a column reserved for your image or video, you'll need to add a new column first and change the column type. 

Allow users to draw on an image

Allow users to draw on an image when editing an Image column by turning on the Allow drawing on images property.

Drawing tools include:

• Android devices only: Free draw, oval, rectangle, arrow, and text drawing tools, and standard color options for shape outlines and text
  
• Desktop and iOS mobile devices: Free draw and standard color options for shape outlines
  

See Configure column properties.

Display images or videos using Show type columns

You might want to show a particular image or video within a form view whenever users are creating or editing a record, but without including it in the data as part of the record. In this case, you can use the Show column type. In the Category field of the Show column choose Image or Video, then place an image link or video embed link in the Content field.

You can control whether Show type columns appear in other view types, such as detail views, when you configure the view settings.