Can anyone guess what I'm trying to do?

over_clox , 6 hours ago

It should be law that every device should require a dedicated Escape/Exit/Cancel/Close button of some sort…

NeatNit , 6 hours ago

they already have that (the Back button), guess how effective it is

I guess iphones don’t have it but nobody uses those anyway :P

over_clox , 6 hours ago

I mean like a dedicated physical hardware button, to go alongside the power and volume buttons.

NeatNit , 6 hours ago

How would that be better than a soft-button or gesture that’s always available? (I use gestures, and it’s always possible to swipe from the side to go Back)

over_clox , 5 hours ago

Cuz that’s software side, and they can always reprogram that as a future forced update.

Hell, I just got fucked over on a new phone by the manufacturer because they decided to force a home screen launcher update on me, without my permission, and without even informing me.

And yes, I disabled automatic updates as far as I knew. Still they janked me, and even a factory reset won’t remove this new fucked up DDU Launcher home screen.

I’m about to sling that phone into a brick wall, because they backdoored their version of Android.

Sooo… Why would I trust a software solution to a physical, legally required physical exit button?

Cris16228 , 4 hours ago

Can you program hardware buttons via software too?🤔 Maybe I’m wrong

FartsWithAnAccent , 2 hours ago

You most certainly can! You are not wrong at all.

On Android, you can alter things a lot more than on an iPhone though so you can very likely remap both to your liking if you're tech savvy.

In the early days of Android I completely revamped my UI with custom ROMS and a tool called Gravity Box. It was somewhat similar to Gestures except a menu would fan out from your thumb and you could do all sorts of shit from it.

FartsWithAnAccent , 2 hours ago

On Android there was until gestures, which works fine. You can also just completely close it, which is what I do when I see an ad 9/10 times anyways right before uninstalling it forever and finding something that doesn't use shady ads.