Bug in dissapearing Sync button when photo sync interrupted about inaturalistandroid HOT 5 CLOSED

Once this bug is fixed, I think one could argue that improvements to the Sync process might be in order. One route would be to try to resize photos. @budowski, is the app doing any photo resizing at all currently?

Alternatively, we could explore replacing the little bird icon progress indicators with something more obvious. For example here is what the iOS app does which displays big progress indicators which partiall lock the UI (ie lock the observations view controller) until things are synced as shown in these screenshots

Before sync

During sync stage 1 (initiating)

During sync stage 2 (syncing observations)

During sync stage 3 (syncing observation photos)

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I am all in favor of a modal progress indicator. Background syncing seemed like a good idea, but I've witnessed numerous people completely confused by whether or not it was happening, and not knowing to check the notifications.

I'd also like to see some resizing if it's feasible, at least to a max of 2048x2048 since we resize all images on the website to that size anyway.

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I'm working on fixing this bug now.
Regarding resizing - we're not resizing the photos at the moment.
Regarding new sync behaviour - yes, I agree with @kueda that a sync initiated by the user (as opposed to just a "pull-to-refresh") should be with a modal indicator.

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Also regarding resizing - I'm not sure if this is something we want to do - because it might mean the users won't have a high-resolution version of the photos being uploaded. What do you think?

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We currently resize everything on the server to a max of 2048x2048, so I think we can safely resize that much at least, without violating some expectation of keeping exactly the original photo taken. We don't want to resize the original on the user's phone, though.

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