Well, if I said "only" I shouldn't have. It's used to select text, and a
long press on an embedded link usually shows the full URL along with a list
of options on what to do with the link (copy, open, save to disk, etc. )
Long pressing a word in my ebook reader puts up a mini menu above the
selection allowing me to look up the definition, add a bookmark or save the
selection as a link to a margin note. Long pressing any 7 or 10 digit
number usually shows an option panel offering different phone or contact
actions. There are probably others I haven't remembered offhand.
Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
On August 4, 2016 11:48:05 AM Richard Gaskin <ambassa...@fourthworld.com>
wrote:
J. Landman Gay wrote:
> Note that on Android double clicks are almost unheard of. Android
> uses a long press for alternative actions.
...as long as that alternate action is a tooltip ("toast"). :)
I was thinking about long press recently with an app I'm making, and it
reminded me of our earlier discussion about that gesture. I'd seen
cases where long press had been used to provide a contextual menu, and
you noted that more recently it's used only to display toasts.
The most recent Material Design guidelines very explicitly support your
assertion, with the only thing they say about long press being that it
should not be used to provide a contextual menu. But they don't
describe what it should be used *for*.
The older Android Design Guidelines appear to have been removed from the
dev site (if someone can turn them up please share the URL), so we're
left with no official guidance as to what we should be doing with long
press other than just as a mobile equivalent of tooltips.
What is the iOS recommendation for long press? Does it differ
significantly from their more recent hard press?
What do you folks do with long press?
Supporting it turned out to be pretty easy. Now I'm just unclear as to
what I should be doing with it beyond displaying a label usually too
small to be read beneath my fat thumbs.
PS: Anyone here make a HIG-savvy toast widget for LC? Does iOS have a
similar object?
And is there a way to make mobile-savvy menus from LC popup menus, or do
we need to roll our own for those too? Making them is merely tedious
but not difficult, but the animation to reveal them is something that
takes some effort to try to get right. Might be nice to see supported
in the engine, so newcomers making mobile apps can enjoy the same
benefits LC provides for desktop apps....
--
Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Systems
Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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