App drawer interaction with home view usability issue

asked 2015-09-30 14:26:16 +0300

Mohjive gravatar image

If I scroll down to bottom of home view and accidentally activate app drawer (e.g. I don't realize I'm at the bottom and try to scroll), when I close app drawer I'm at the top of the home view again.

Use case: I tried to reach a cover at the bottom of the home screen, so I flicked to scroll. When the scrolling stopped I flicked again, which made me activate app drawer. When I closed app drawer I was at the top of the home screen again. As the home screen is dynamic in length, a user can have an unknown count of covers, it's impossible to know where scrolling stops due to reaching end or when the "inertia" of the flick is consumed.

There are some solutions I have thought of. Either make the app drawer not reset scroll position, so that you end up where you were when the app drawer is closed, make the end much clearer, like the dimming effect in list ends or add a hysteresis before activating app drawer with a pull.

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I would like to do a swipe from outside of the bottom of the screen to invoke the app drawer instead of a simple pull. It would (a) solve your problem and (b) be consistent with the current behavior in 'lock screen' and 'opened app' modes in which you have to do a swipe.

OT: also the devs could add a possibility to do a half-swipe from bottom and hold the finger to invoke the first row of app drawer ("just like it was done in N9" ©).

ScumCoder ( 2015-09-30 20:22:20 +0300 )edit

@ScumCoder: the first item is already implemented. But that doesn't stop home screen scroll position to be resetted on return. The second has a thread somewhere here in tjc.

Mohjive ( 2015-09-30 20:28:09 +0300 )edit

@Mohjive:

the first item is already implemented

I don't get it :-( I have 1.1.9.28 and I can invoke the drawer from home screen with a simple pull. Do you already have early access to the next version?

ScumCoder ( 2015-09-30 20:31:34 +0300 )edit

@ScumCoder: from home screen I can both invoke the app drawer with a pull, when I reach the end of home screen, and with a swipe from the bottom, regardless of scroll position on home screen.

Mohjive ( 2015-09-30 20:34:03 +0300 )edit

@Mohjive: well I meant "use swipe only", sorry for being inexact

ScumCoder ( 2015-09-30 20:41:01 +0300 )edit