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The scroll in webview is still a little buggy

@wheredidmysleepgo KEYCODE_MENU

@wheredidmysleepgo Since this update my system ui crashes during scrolling it’s a Chinese phone (qin f21pro) and I’ve had issues with some other apps crashing my UI (24six) it’s not an issue with the app but rather with my phone… But just to troubleshoot what the issue is do you know why this happened only with this latest version?
Also @TripleU do you know a fix for this issue in general with the qin?

Never had that problem :man_shrugging:

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I’ll think about it

Any more information? How fast are you clicking scroll?

The crash might be due to how I’m trying to fix out of control scrolling. This latest apk tries to pause in one spot at the end of a scroll, which actually crashes my emulator too. I’ll adjust this.

Interesting that this previously gave invalid key last time because KEYCODE_MENU is not used at all in the app.

Are you able to remap to this button without issue?

Its not too fast its just buggy not looking so nice its very jerky movements

Now I’m able to in the last version no

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The improvements are great.
On my Kyocera the scrolling made it crash and reboot, on my Sonim no problems.

Sometimes I can’t activate the pointer, and I have to toggle the grid on and off to be able to use the pointer.

This is only in the new version correct?

I think so.

What are your activation keys’ keycode? And do you strictly use the pointer only or do you use both modes?

Call for grid, * for pointer.
I use both modes.

I don’t have an updated apk yet but here are the main things that are going on:

  • fixed UI crash when scrolling
  • fixed bug with pointer activation
  • implementing long press and drag, which should allow text selection, using Android’s copy and paste, etc
  • working on a more controlled scrolling gesture instead of what is more or less a flick gesture right now

There were two similar feature requests:

Doesn’t Android already let you do this by holding down the d pad (with the cursor disabled)? Right now I am leaning towards not implementing either of them, mostly because I would prefer the user to use what is already there in Android and not have to maintain multiple mental models of continuous scrolling.

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In certain yes but in most apps that does not work well for flip phones for example Waze which is a very important app for flip phones

Can’t wait!!!

Hmm okay. Using Waze as an example, would this be to make smaller adjustments?