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How do tooltips even work on a touch based OS?
by flukus 9y ago
How do tooltips even work on a touch based OS?
- grzm 9y agoThe only place I can recall using tooltips (if I understand what you're referring to) on iOS is to read the extra caption on XCKD (the title attribute of the img element), which you access by press and hold.
- kevin_thibedeau 9y agoAndroid has long has deep support for keyboard and mouse navigation where this could be more useful.
- digi_owl 9y agoIndeed. It is one of those things that seems to go unspoken of, because even Google don't want to acknowledge that they once tried to pitch Android as more than a media consumption platform (Android 3.0, aka honeycomb, aka the tablet/landscape focused Android variant).
- pjmlp 9y agoWhich lead to the situation that although Windows Phone failed in the market, Windows 10 seems to be on good track to win the hybrid tablets market. All the consumer stores on my city have mostly Windows 10 hybrid laptops on sale, with the exception of a few Samsung and Huawei ones with Android.
- digi_owl 9y agoIn particular as Microsoft has waved the license on smaller screens. The other day i found a 10" tablet with a keyboard dock and no less than two A ports on the tablet part. I am presently contemplating grabbing one to use with a RTLSDR dongle i picked up on a lark.
- mlnj 9y agoDevices with a stylus (like the Galaxy Note series) can use it by hovering on the element.
- thanksgiving 9y agoSpeaking of the note series, I wonder if the note 8 will ship with Oreo and if so how well it keeps the treble stuff.
- mlnj 9y ago:(
- arrayjumper 9y agoIn android it works right now on the app toolbar with a long touch of a button for which you want to see the tooltip (if it is programmed right). The text shows up sort of like a toast message.
- veeti 9y agoChrome OS has first class support for Android apps nowadays. You can use a keyboard and mouse through USB OTG or Bluetooth on an Android as well.
- digi_owl 9y agoSomething that has been with Android since 3.0. Really wish i could find an android tablet with a full size A port these days that didn't run a ancient version...
- digi_owl 9y agoDunno exactly what they are referring to, but on Fragment UIs one can tap and hold on buttons to get a small popup/tooltip.
- andrewaylett 9y agoJust put LineageOS on my Note 3 and it turns out the touch screen is sensitive enough to implement a "Touchscreen hovering" feature.