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Facebook Paper's gesture problems

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Re: Facebook Paper's gesture problems

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On a separate matter, how does Facebook Paper get its permissions? I have the Facebook app installed on my iPhone, but I don't have Facebook linked to the operating system. When I installed Paper, I was never prompted to login. Are they able to read a piece of information shared by the normal Facebook app in order to authenticate Paper users without requiring an additional login? Doesn't that violate the sandboxing o…

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Re: Facebook Paper's gesture problems

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post #29

On a separate matter, how does Facebook Paper get its permissions? I have the Facebook app installed on my iPhone, but I don't have Facebook linked to the operating system. When I installed Paper, I was never prompted to login. Are they able to read a piece of information shared by the normal Facebook app in order to authenticate Paper users without requiring an additional login? Doesn't that violate the sandboxing o…

Yep! The Facebook app and Facebook Paper have access to the same keychain because they both are from the same publisher and register the same `keychain-access-groups` entitlement.

Re: Facebook Paper's gesture problems

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post #29

On a separate matter, how does Facebook Paper get its permissions? I have the Facebook app installed on my iPhone, but I don't have Facebook linked to the operating system. When I installed Paper, I was never prompted to login. Are they able to read a piece of information shared by the normal Facebook app in order to authenticate Paper users without requiring an additional login? Doesn't that violate the sandboxing o…

They're signed with the same distribution keys and have the same app identifier prefix, so they have access to the same shared keychain storage on the device.

Re: Facebook Paper's gesture problems

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post #8

I've been fascinated with phone placement in hands for product shots. It always seemed like a little bit of a cheat - especially when the elongated 5 came out - just to show one handed use of a device is possible. For me at least, the way the phone is positioned is hardly comfortable. The bottom right corner at the base of the thumb exacerbates the problem the author's talking about. When I hold the phone higher in m…

Personally, I never hold my phone in the position described in this post. For a start you can't even press the home button from this position. I hold my phone (in my right hand) with the bottom right corner much closer to the bottom of my ring finger.

Re: Facebook Paper's gesture problems

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post #17

Simple solution: swipe up on the carousel to make the cards full-screen, then browse. The whole UI works on this paradigm, so it may not be obvious at first, but it will be if this style of app continues.

I'm sure he's aware of that. This is a major element of the UI which shouldn't require you to move to another screen to enjoy. Swiping near the bottom with my thumb hasn't bothered me so far, but the text is quite hard to read at that small of a size. I would also like to those cards a bit larger in the future.

Agreed about the text size. Things look great, feel good and it's easy to follow what's going on after a short amount of time but it can be hard to read.

Re: Facebook Paper's gesture problems

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Am I the only one who is right-handed, but doesn't hold their iPhone like that? I rest the bottom of the phone on the top side of my pinky finger, which puts it higher in my hand and doesn't require the "hook" to swipe right-to-left in the bottom half of the screen.

Re: Facebook Paper's gesture problems

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Facebook Paper is a great example of ignoring ergonomic design to achieve a more aesthetically pleasing view, a trend all too common in app design these days.

It's a shame when what is pleasing to the eye and what is pleasing to the touch are such different things.

Re: Facebook Paper's gesture problems

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Now I'm paranoid that I might be a weirdo for holding my phone primarily in my left hand even though I'm right-handed. Am I alone in that? I think the reason I do it is because text and navigation are generally left-to-right, so having my thumb on the left side of the screen feels more natural. The animation in this post seems to confirm that.

Re: Facebook Paper's gesture problems

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post #38

Now I'm paranoid that I might be a weirdo for holding my phone primarily in my left hand even though I'm right-handed. Am I alone in that? I think the reason I do it is because text and navigation are generally left-to-right, so having my thumb on the left side of the screen feels more natural. The animation in this post seems to confirm that.

You're not a weirdo. Left-handed people are smarter anyway.

(South paw here who uses his phone with his right hand.)

Re: Facebook Paper's gesture problems

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I don't have an iPhone and have used one maybe twice, but the region the article is talking about is where the software keyboard is, isn't it? I find it difficult to imagine that the most common way of holding an iPhone is one that keeps the user from typing.
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