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I think it's great that they've identified cursor placement as one of the trickier aspects of coding on a phone. The joystick is a great idea, I found it a bit
by csmeyer 4y ago
I think it's great that they've identified cursor placement as one of the trickier aspects of coding on a phone. The joystick is a great idea, I found it a bit hard to use at first (kind of flies around the screen) but the little buttons are good for getting your cursor inside a string literal, for example.
I'm excited to get my students trying this, many of them only have a school issued iPad. I'm also curious about how well the autocomplete can be tuned. I think right now suggestions are a bit rough, I'm hopeful they'll start using language server suggestions soon. (Something like System.out.println, you should definitely get out as an option after System.)
- Firmwarrior 4y agoHow's it compare to the "space bar trick" on iOS? That thing usually seems to work to let me position the cursor how I want
- Jtsummers 4y agoJust tried it, you can use both within the text editor. I prefer the spacebar "trick". It was much smoother, I had trouble stopping at lines in the middle because it seemed too sensitive for up/down movement. The spacebar long press let me position the cursor anywhere within the text on the screen.
- tobr 4y agoThe joystick feels like a worse and redundant version of iOS’s built in spacebar-as-trackpad feature, but having buttons to step left and right is useful.
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