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I'm not sure this is a problem. Android supports precise text-selection via automatic zooming and start and end block markers, like this: https://www.dropbox.co

• dsirijus 14y ago
  It still isn't precise enough (well, not unless you're selecting monospace font type), and even ignoring that, it's a level of abstraction extra, because you don't just click and get where you want in just one step.
  • KiwiCoder 14y ago
    Stabbing at the screen with my sausage finger works fine for me, in fact it works so well that I hadn't thought about it until now. Of course, I don't code or write on my touch devices and when I do code/write I use a different machine (a laptop or desktop) and have no impulse to touch the screen. Different modes. I don't understand your comment about monospace font type.
    • dsirijus 14y ago
      I personally have troubles with either iOS or Android around small width characters in variable width fonts (like ',il.;:). Fixed width font would help me greatly around those.
• fudged71 14y ago
  While I agree that it is possible, I don't think this method (or Apple's) is anywhere near as efficient as a mouse. It will always be 20 times slower to select a part of a word, compared to a mouse, because you have to hide the word with your finger, see a popup of what's underneath, and then somehow select the letters.
• Evbn 14y ago
  It is also extremely failure prone, bordering useless due sensitivity bugs. But that is fixable in theory.