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Spamming taps on the 4 corners of every screen of an embedded app (with a rich UI at least) will always do something interesting. Across the aeons embedded dev
by BoorishBears 4y ago
Spamming taps on the 4 corners of every screen of an embedded app (with a rich UI at least) will always do something interesting.
Across the aeons embedded developers are always drawn back to the simple corner tap. I've personally seen it work everywhere from a gas station air dispenser to an airplane infotainment unit
- hammock 4y agoWow I just had a throwback memory to the “hot corners” of ..windows 95 I believe it was?
- chocolatkey 4y agoReminds me of when Windows 8 had recently been released, and all the laptops on display at electronics stores had a kiosk app installed on them for the demo. Clearly the kiosk devs hadn't really thought things through for the new world of touchscreens, because you could swipe from the right side to expose that godawful windows 8 bar (the one with start in the middle), and escape the kiosk from there.
- grishka 4y agoI'm gonna try that everywhere now :P I've also seen some fast food order kiosks have a "manager mode" or simply "settings" button in plain sight. It asks for a password when you tap it.
- insonable 4y agotry "guest"
- ddalex 4y agojust call a manager to help you, watch the code they tap in - they don't give a shit about secrecy and security - and enjoy raised privileges next week
- BoorishBears 4y agoHaving designed these screens before, often times the password is something mindless like zeros. If you luck out and it's a pin rather than unbounded input, try zeros or sequential numbers. Usually a well meaning engineer adds the functionality and rigorously tests it... then customers not wanting every technician to ask the local store for a password have every unit set to the same exact easy to guess password. Or so I hear.
- kfarr 4y agoBored on a Virgin America flight back in the day I somehow stumbled on this with their infotainment unit.