[vi-android] Re: swiping the touch screen
- From: "Christopher-Mark Gilland" <cgwaxhawlover@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <vi-android@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 20:33:12 -0400
Troy, this is one of the biggest problems that all of my students have. What I
tell them is, forget you ever learned the term "swype." It's totally
inaccurate in this context. You want to think more of a flick, than a swype.
So pretend like there is a piece of lent or dust/dirt on your screen. You
wouldn't swype it along the screen would you? No. You'd flick it off of your
screen. So, take one finger on the screen, preferably, your index finger.
Very lightly touch the screen, and quickly flick to the right or left. Kind of
like a thumping motion, only, obviously, as you said, don't have any more of a
heavy finger than you can help. As soon as you make the flick to the right or
left lift your finger.
In other words, don't quickly slide your finger along the screen. You
literally want to quickly tap the screen, move left or right, and lift your
finger kind of in all one swift/quick but steady motion.
You're probably having all of your 3 buttons read because you're sliding, and
as your finger hits each icon it's telling you what's under your finger. BTW,
those buttons cannot be flicked between to the best of my knowledge. You
literally just have to touch them, then double tap to select them. Everywhere
else, flicking should work though.
Hope this makes sense.
Chris.
----- Original Message -----
From: Troy Burnham
To: VI-Android List
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2014 7:38 PM
Subject: [vi-android] swiping the touch screen
Hi All,
I got my new phone today and I can already tell that my biggest problem is
going to be learning how to swipe to activate apps and other things on the
touch screen. Does anybody have any useful tips besides just practice?
One big problem I have is that I have a home button, a previous apps button,
and a back button across the bottom of my screen and almost every time I go to
hit the back button, which is the button on the left, all 3 buttons end up
getting voiced and I have to try again. I guess I have kind of a heavy-finger
syndrome smile.
Troy
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