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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0009712 | MMA | Action bar | public | 2012-09-16 06:54 | 2022-12-19 18:51 |
| Reporter | rusty | Assigned To | |||
| Priority | high | Severity | tweak | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | feedback | Resolution | open | ||
| Target Version | 2.0.4 | ||||
| Summary | 0009712: Click-hold for context actions takes long / is complicated for some users | ||||
| Description | Push-hold actions take extra time for users to carry out. It would be preferable if there was a means of immediately selecting tracks for contextual commands. One idea would be to place a 'triangle' on the right side of every track, and upon clicking the triangle, the regular context menu opened. And if the users click-hold an item, the triangles along the right-hand side are replaced by checkboxes. It's not critical, but I think it's a great way of solving this issue without any really major changes. Set to 'urgent' for feedback. | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
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I think that a much better approach to resolve the extra time for push-hold is that taken by MS in Win8, where selection is made by a short swipe over items. As for extra clickable area, I don't like it much, particularly in case of smaller phones it would occupy some screen area. We could consider this for larger screens of tablets, but still, I think that the MS approach is preferred, although probably not yet used in Android (which might change after Win8 release). |
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I think that 'swipe to select' is much more usable, but I'm not sure if it'll be understood by most android users. Although the current UI complies with google's guidelines, I'm not quite sure if it's really their intent that the click-hold pattern be used as the primary selection mechanism for single-selection, since few of their apps actually implement this. http://developer.android.com/design/patterns/gestures.html http://developer.android.com/design/patterns/selection.html Another possibility is to place a dot just above the mm:ss indicator? That area isn't used, and such a UI element wouldn't stand out much. On the other hand, it would clutter the UI. So perhaps we'll see what users say, and move from there... |
