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Long tapsLong tapsPosted Apr 20, 2011 7:29 UTC (Wed) by rvfh (subscriber, #31018)In reply to: Long taps by corbet Parent article: Xoom and the Android tablet experience
Damn! 9 months working on Android and having an Android phone and I need to read LWN comments to find out about this. May be I should RTFM some day...
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Long taps Posted Apr 20, 2011 14:00 UTC (Wed) by nevyn (subscriber, #33129) [Link]
I wouldn't surprise me if this was the main reason they are moving away from the "long press" functionality. I only found out about the long press on home feature by accident, after having my phone for 6 months or so (and then it must have taken me 5-10 minutes to find out what I did to get it).
It's also kind of slow (I'd guess you have to hold the press for 2 seconds), and out of the way enough, that I rarely use it.
And I didn't know about the "long press for numbers" functionality, until I read this review.
Long taps Posted Apr 20, 2011 15:14 UTC (Wed) by nye (guest, #51576) [Link]
>And I didn't know about the "long press for numbers" functionality, until I read this review.
Eh? Does your on-screen keyboard not show you the shifted version of each button in a lighter colour above the main button? Mine has '1' above 'Q', '!' above 'A', '_' above 'Z', etc. Trying to type on the thing would be excruciating without those.
I think this is Froyo (but maybe the keyboard is an application independent of the OS version?).
Long taps Posted Apr 20, 2011 21:36 UTC (Wed) by edgewood (subscriber, #1123) [Link] I discovered the "long press on home" by accident after a month or two of owning an Android phone, by being distracted into not raising my finger quickly enough to complete a regular press.Being an analytical person, I then wondered what long taps on other buttons would do, and discovered the "long press on search to bring up voice search". But I could see other people never discovering the difference that a long tap can make.
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