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[Tim Peeters <tim.peeters@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

What if you have a listview with a list item near the bottom of the screen,
which can be deleted by doing a horizontal swipe? It will conflict with
this back gesture.


On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 8:54 PM, Zsombor Egri <zsombor.egri@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

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> On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 9:44 PM, Alberto Mardegan <
> alberto.mardegan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> On 03/26/2014 08:15 PM, Jouni Helminen wrote:
>> > speaking of Android, their back button is pretty much in the exact same
>> > place - top left. Same with iOS
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>> > Agreed there could be a "back" gesture, but what would it be? one finger
>> > horizontal swipes are usually reserved for something else
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>> My suggestion would be to use a one finger horizontal swipe from the
>> right edge towards left, on the lower part of the screen. The whole
>> right edge is currently used to switch between applications; we could
>> use the lower third of the screen for the back gesture (and indeed we
>> should leave the back button on the top left, since the gesture won't be
>> easily discoverable).
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> I second to this idea. But the gesture does not need to start at the right
> edge. Detecting the swipe in the lower third from somewhere around the
> middle of the area (from a safe distance from the edge not disturbing the
> right edge gesture) would be easier with one hand especially if you are
> right handed, as you don't need to move your finger to the right edge.
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> Yeps, it's not gonna be easily discoverable, but it could be listed in the
> intro, right ;)
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> Cheers,
> Zsombor
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