So I've seen how to emulate taps and swipes with tasked using a shell command... But I wanna have tasked emulate a -><- ie index finger at x,y moving to x,y and thumb at x,y moving to x,y (this would make my device zoom in while on a web page for say) I would also like to beable to make tasked read a webpage, click the address bar in my browser and type in a page I say or send the page to it (http post?)
Anyways biggest one right now is getting it to do the pinch... The rest I can probably manage to figure out. The pinch is killing me though.
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I have found the trackball so hard to maneuver to the most simple locations in any kind of compose window -- to go from beginning of a line to end of line, top of composed text to end of text block... I would really like for it to move much faster in those situations.
Also in scrolling up/down a web-page for simply reading.
At the same time. I find it way too hair-trigger and uncontrollable when trying to locate the link you want to click, or the field you want to edit on a form or any page.
Is this all Android-controlled, or does HTC hardware and its Sense UI add controllable refinement and adjustments?
Thank you.
(Bonus question which I will search for by myself: Are the hard buttons remappable to other functions. If so, is it possible to multi-function a hard-key by having it do one thing with a very light touch, and another with a press & hold ? )
These issues, as well as my Q re capacitive vs resistive screen are all about discomfort from Repetitive Stress having to place fingers and finger tips is positions completely different from using Windows Mobile devices. I am sure there much be advantages I am missing. I really look forward to those.
I was impressed by the way the mouse cursor is controlled in the Remote Desktop application called "Xtralogic Remote Desktop Client for Android"
It uses what I am referring to here as "touch based relative cursor control" to allow you to control the mouse movements when connected to your remote desktop PC.
"Touch based relative cursor control" means that where ever you touch the screen, you are moving the mouse. Its basically like layering a transparent touchpad on top of the screen. Your finger doesn't have to be right on top of the cursor for it to work...
here is a video from their website to illustrate what i'm talking about:
I think that this could be very handy for certain things in android like browsing the internet.
the folks over at android-x86.org already have the code to add cursor support to android, their source code is freely available.
so here is what I would like to see:
-relative touch cursor
-for use in android browser (or other parts of the OS)
-while in browser, can be controlled via some sort or swiping gesture, menu option, or triple clicking
I just wanted to get a feeling on how the xda community would be open to such an idea, and maybe see if it sparks the interest of any devs (since my android coding skills are relativity limited at the moment.).
Good idea, but you're not the first to mention this.. i just hope some one make this happen
This would be great as an option for interacting with flash apps that rely on mouse hover.
Using the default browser I've been finding it very hard to edit text fields at times - ie: Google Docs and generic web forms. On one site in particular I needed to remove a comma from a list of emails in a textbox, and it literally took me 10 minutes to position the cursor correctly. Since the box was scrolling off the screen, clicking in different positions kept jumping around and in general not reliably scrolling, let alone selecting a given character.
I've noticed that a number of Android Apps have that little magnifier-thing to simplify editing, but that doesn't seem to work for the default browser. Is there some other way of accurately editing text in the default browser, or do one of the other browsers work better?
In more generic terms, is there a better method of moving the cursor in Android, given that the Atrix lacks any physical trackpad? There do appear to be a few premium keyboard alternatives out there that include cursor keys, but I don't particularly feel like paying for something that should be part of the stock system (particularly on a phone without arrow keys!)
I couldn't agree more. Having the delete key as the only positioning key sucks. Given the four different keyboard screens on the stock virtual keyboard, each having only a delete key, it's clear that this was a decision rather than an oversight. Stupid. Sure makes me appreciate all of the things I took.for.granted in WinMo.
Hi,
I had a PDF document opened in Moon+Reader Pro (on Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 8.0) in Portrait mode. With this PDF if I swiped from Right to Left the pages transitioned over the page borders. If I removed my finger mid way I would be able to see part of left page, a thin border and part of the (following) right page. If I swiped again I would progress to the next page. Swiping in the other direction allowed me to do the reserve. This feature was fantastic for viewing wide photos that span two pages.
Putting it differently I could have part of page x and part of page x+1 on the screen.
After reading this PDF I deleted it and then decided to tinker the settings. From this point on wards any PDF I open no longer supports this function. Now as I swipe the pages do shift as described above but the moment I remove my finger the page "adjusts" so that a single page is visible.
This feature is really useful to me. I really like Moon+ Reader but would consider any Android app that supports this feature for PDFs.
Thanks for your help
Hi,
This is a thing that has annoyed me with Android from the start, but after a lot of searching, I have not found a way to disable or stop the behavior.
So my problem is that with all versions of Android and all the web browsers for Android I have tried, web pages always zoom in when you select a text entry field on a web page.
So for example on my Note 3 and Nexus 7 I go to, say theregister.co.uk. The phone /tab is in landscape mode and the page is set to a zoom where all the article titles are legible. There is a search field at the top right hand corner of the web page which is also a a legible size. I select it to enter text and the screen is zoomed in so that the field fills the whole of the screen, that is not filled by the keyboard.
If any of the text I start to enter brings up any suggestions, due to the zoom level, they are lost behind the soft keyboard. I zoom out to look at them and they dis-pear. I select the text field again to add or delete text, to make those suggestions come up again and I get zoomed in to far again. I then give up put the phone or tablet down and use a windows laptop etc instead.
Now I understand why this would have been desirable initially in Android, when phones had small screens and on ones with small screens today, but why is this needed on larger screens or even tablets?
It makes things like posting this forum post very frustrating on an Android device. I know there is an App for XDA, but is is not a powerful as using the forum direct through a web page. So I cannot replace having a windows etc PC around as Android does not give comparable web page interaction experience.
So I wanted to know if anyone knew of a way of disabling this behavior if so desired? Or if there is a browser out there where this does not happen?