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"draw over other apps" is to implement chat heads (see http://www.piwai.info/chatheads-basics/ http://www.piwai.info/chatheads-basics/)
by maxr0 13y ago
"draw over other apps" is to implement chat heads (see http://www.piwai.info/chatheads-basics/ http://www.piwai.info/chatheads-basics/)
- aestra 13y agoWait so when you get a facebook message it just bam takes over your screen?
- SwellJoe 13y agoWhich caused me to freak out when it first happened. I was furious. I had to stop everything I was doing immediately in order to figure out how to disable it. I can't possibly state emphatically enough how user-hostile that feature is. It is so disruptive to my thought process...it's nearly as bad as that awful focus-stealing thing that Windows does.
- maxr0 13y agoI can understand it might have been unnerving but on the other hand the feature was documented in the change log and in the list of new permissions the app required (in the version chat heads were introduced). Personally I find chat heads convenient and useful
- SwellJoe 13y ago"Useful" for what purpose?
- npizzolato 13y agoIt makes it easier for me to carry on conversations while also doing other things on my phone. If I'm reading something, and someone responds to a message, I can quickly pop open the chat window and respond, then close it and go back to what I was doing. I find that more convenient than going back to the home screen and launching an app from there or the (rather slow) app switching process. Yes, sometimes it does get in the way of what I'm doing, and in those cases I just swipe the chat head down to the bottom of the screen and it goes away. And considering turning it off is one of the options in the first page of the settings, I'm not really understanding why it would make you furious or think this is user-hostile. Overall it's a pretty unimportant change that is easy to disable if you don't like it.
- SwellJoe 13y agoNotifications in the top bar achieve that purpose for me, without disrupting what I'm currently doing.