Hey! Why don’t we overlap buttons on purpose! What a great idea!

  • pedz@lemmy.ca
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    1 month ago

    Mild guess. The dev(s) don’t know about navigation buttons. Gestures have been “standard” for a while now so maybe someone forgot about this as a possibility?

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        1 month ago

        Yes. You just swipe left from the edge of the screen to go back. You swipe up from the bottom to go to home. And a smaller swipe from the bottom, dunno how to describe it, for the square menu thingy. Easier than the buttons and you also gain extra screen space.

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          1 month ago

          Except when laying down and your blanket touches your screen and it loses its God damn mind.

          Fuck I hate gestures

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            1 month ago

            Oh…dunno. Mine’s not that reactive to objects. I just tried touching my screen with a piece of cloth, even wrapping my finger in one and I still can’t make it react.

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              Maybe it’s just shitty phones ¯_(ツ)_/¯ either way though, if your feature makes my phone unusable it’s def gonna trigger me. Obviously that’s very self centered, but I believe accessability should be for everyone. Far too often devs remove beloved features from their software and it breaks so many legacy features.

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          1 month ago

          I don’t care about that small amount of extra screen space, and I don’t like gestures, and I should have the ability to choose which solution I prefer.

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            1 month ago

            You do get to choose. That’s what the settings are for. Someone commented the solution to the issue.

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            1 month ago

            You’re writing this comment as if someone just took your phone, changed the setting and removed the ability to change it back

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              1 month ago

              I’ve found myself in a similar situation to OP, where a given app presumes that everyone is using gestures and conflicts with the buttons, and I don’t appreciate it.

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      1 month ago

      Nah, you just have to pick android or iPhone in the settings, which is just laziness on the devs part.

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      1 month ago

      God, this might be why a certain micro rental car company in Los Angeles has the same problem in their app. Fuck them gestures!