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The one thing that really sucks about all Android phones is how they scroll. It's _really_ distracting and makes reading long content pretty unsatisfying. Here
by pkulak 16y ago
The one thing that really sucks about all Android phones is how they scroll. It's _really_ distracting and makes reading long content pretty unsatisfying.
Here's how it works: when you put your finger down on the screen it could be either a tap or the start of a scroll. The phone doesn't know at that instant which. It has to wait to make the call until there's been some amount of motion, about 1 or 2 cm, and until that time, the screen can't move (you don't want the screen bouncing around when you tap on things). So, when you start a scroll, when the phone actually knows it's a scroll, your finger has moved a couple cm but the screen hasn't. Android, for some damn reason, takes that instant to "catch up" to your finger, so that every time you scroll, the screen jerks up a line or two. No animation or anything. One frame it's down there, and the next it's up here. Try keeping your place when that happens, it's really annoying.
There is another way to do it too. The iPhone just doesn't bother to catch up. It works great and seems like no more difficult to implement.