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I wish there was a solution for Android. Sliders for fine grained selections are horrible in touch interfaces.

by acjohnson55 3y ago

layer8 3y ago
Same on iOS.
- benjijay 3y ago
  At least in Android you can pull the slider up for finer control, though every now and then they tweak how well this works so YMMV
  - atorodius 3y ago
    Same on iOS
    - _thisdot 3y ago
      I doubt there's any Android exclusive feature to apps developed by Google. Sometimes feels like they even prioritise iOS over Android.
AlexErrant 3y ago
"fine grained" is relative, but you can go forwards/backwards 10 seconds in YouTube Android by doubletapping to the left/right of center on a video. If it's paused, doubletap to the left/right of the play button. It should also work on iOS, but I don't have an iPhone so can't confirm. https://www.majorgeeks.com/content/page/youtube_double_tap.html https://www.majorgeeks.com/content/page/youtube_double_tap.h...
- codetrotter 3y ago
  I use iOS and can confirm that double tap on left or right side works to jump forward backward there too. I often use it when I watch a video and I miss what was said so I jump back a bit and watch again.
- shilgapira 3y ago
  You can also set the skipping jumps to 5 seconds in the settings
benjijay 3y ago
You can pull the slider up for finer control, though every now and then they tweak how well this works so YMMV
joshspankit 3y ago
I wish we had standardized on “the longer you leave your finger, the finer the control”, but it seems like no one even adds that modality.
- pests 3y ago
  Its swipe up while moving the trackbar to go into fine control and down again for coarse. YT also has Premium Controls whcih is a widget but I think it's experimental and not on mobile yet.
  - joshspankit 3y ago
    Swipe up only works when: 1. There is enough room. Works fine for media controls where the bar is near the bottom of the screen, but not for sliders in most other places 2. The control is not close enough to the bottom of the screen for swipe up to trigger the multitasking action There are many other reasons to have fine-grain control for sliders and imo “hold longer for finer control” works in more places than “slide up for finer control”
    - pests 3y ago
      When is the slider not at the bottom when you want fine-seeking? In cases when its not fullscreen, I don't ever need fine seeking. It's not really "slide up" its just a very tiny motion, maybe less than 1cm of travel to enable it. We already have long press and 3D Touch events via the "hold longer" action, which might work, but I've had no real issues with the YT solution.
      - joshspankit 3y ago
        > When is the slider not at the bottom when you want fine-seeking? When your slider is not controlling video playback
        pests 3y ago
        I'd consider that a different UI component completely. YT implementation turns the fine-tuning seekbar into a series of thumbnails to help find where you are. Stuff like this obviously doesn't make sense for controlling something that is not a video. I do like some tools which let you fine-control slider once you have click-and-held by scrolling the mouse wheel, but no solution here for mobile.
mFixman 3y ago
Can't you double click the left or right edges of the video to scroll 5 seconds to the past or future? This works in my modded old version of the YouTube app; Alphabet might have removed it in newer versions.

I wish there was a solution for Android. Sliders for fine grained selections are horrible in touch interfaces.

layer8 3y ago

Same on iOS.

benjijay 3y ago
At least in Android you can pull the slider up for finer control, though every now and then they tweak how well this works so YMMV
- atorodius 3y ago
  Same on iOS
  - _thisdot 3y ago
    I doubt there's any Android exclusive feature to apps developed by Google. Sometimes feels like they even prioritise iOS over Android.

AlexErrant 3y ago

"fine grained" is relative, but you can go forwards/backwards 10 seconds in YouTube Android by doubletapping to the left/right of center on a video. If it's paused, doubletap to the left/right of the play button. It should also work on iOS, but I don't have an iPhone so can't confirm. https://www.majorgeeks.com/content/page/youtube_double_tap.html https://www.majorgeeks.com/content/page/youtube_double_tap.h...

codetrotter 3y ago
I use iOS and can confirm that double tap on left or right side works to jump forward backward there too. I often use it when I watch a video and I miss what was said so I jump back a bit and watch again.
shilgapira 3y ago
You can also set the skipping jumps to 5 seconds in the settings

benjijay 3y ago

You can pull the slider up for finer control, though every now and then they tweak how well this works so YMMV

joshspankit 3y ago

I wish we had standardized on “the longer you leave your finger, the finer the control”, but it seems like no one even adds that modality.

pests 3y ago
Its swipe up while moving the trackbar to go into fine control and down again for coarse. YT also has Premium Controls whcih is a widget but I think it's experimental and not on mobile yet.
- joshspankit 3y ago
  Swipe up only works when: 1. There is enough room. Works fine for media controls where the bar is near the bottom of the screen, but not for sliders in most other places 2. The control is not close enough to the bottom of the screen for swipe up to trigger the multitasking action There are many other reasons to have fine-grain control for sliders and imo “hold longer for finer control” works in more places than “slide up for finer control”
  - pests 3y ago
    When is the slider not at the bottom when you want fine-seeking? In cases when its not fullscreen, I don't ever need fine seeking. It's not really "slide up" its just a very tiny motion, maybe less than 1cm of travel to enable it. We already have long press and 3D Touch events via the "hold longer" action, which might work, but I've had no real issues with the YT solution.
    - joshspankit 3y ago
      > When is the slider not at the bottom when you want fine-seeking? When your slider is not controlling video playback
      - pests 3y ago
        I'd consider that a different UI component completely. YT implementation turns the fine-tuning seekbar into a series of thumbnails to help find where you are. Stuff like this obviously doesn't make sense for controlling something that is not a video. I do like some tools which let you fine-control slider once you have click-and-held by scrolling the mouse wheel, but no solution here for mobile.

mFixman 3y ago

Can't you double click the left or right edges of the video to scroll 5 seconds to the past or future? This works in my modded old version of the YouTube app; Alphabet might have removed it in newer versions.