Hey! Why don't we overlap buttons on purpose! What a great idea!

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[–] 48 points 7 months ago (13 children)

Mild guess. The dev(s) don't know about navigation buttons. Gestures have been "standard" for a while now so maybe someone forgot about this as a possibility?

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  • [–] 16 points 7 months ago (9 children)
  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (8 children)

    Yes. You just swipe left from the edge of the screen to go back. You swipe up from the bottom to go to home. And a smaller swipe from the bottom, dunno how to describe it, for the square menu thingy. Easier than the buttons and you also gain extra screen space.

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Except when laying down and your blanket touches your screen and it loses its God damn mind.

    Fuck I hate gestures

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Oh...dunno. Mine's not that reactive to objects. I just tried touching my screen with a piece of cloth, even wrapping my finger in one and I still can't make it react.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    Maybe it's just shitty phones ¯_(ツ)_/¯ either way though, if your feature makes my phone unusable it's def gonna trigger me. Obviously that's very self centered, but I believe accessability should be for everyone. Far too often devs remove beloved features from their software and it breaks so many legacy features.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    I don't care about that small amount of extra screen space, and I don't like gestures, and I should have the ability to choose which solution I prefer.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    You're writing this comment as if someone just took your phone, changed the setting and removed the ability to change it back

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  • [–] 39 points 7 months ago* (7 children)

    Go to settings - appearance - theme- device mode (scroll down)

    Select android or apple depending on your device

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  • [–] 27 points 7 months ago

    Oh snap! I've been putting up with this for over a year! I had no idea there was as a toggle. Why doesn't the android build installed from FDroid default to the android compatibility mode?

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  • [+] [S] -6 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    I don't have this option available. ChatGPT makes up options that never actually existed. "Don't ask it how I know"

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    It's there! The theme sub menu is at the top, I missed it the first time.

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  • [–] 18 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    At first I thought this was a meme akin to not being able to get up because cat.

    App devs have a tendency to not take into account mobile OS design. It's aggravating.

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Voyager does this to me occasionally. I just endtask it and re open.

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  • [–] [S] 0 points 7 months ago

    I tried this several times and even restarted the phone... Is restarted even politically correct anymore? It should be Sturptid or Durmt or Merntally Charlentged....I merntally charlentged my phone! And it still overlapped the buttons.

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago

    I'm noticing this in more and more apps :(

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I have this issue but at the top of the screen. The title bar sometimes overlaps the time, notifications, etc.

    I have the navigation buttons turned on at the bottom of the screen but I don't think I've seen this problem

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (13 children)

    Looks like the developer doesn’t know about the env(safe-area-inset-bottom) variable in CSS. Voyager is a web app, which is why it has this problem to start (I think), but that variable can be used as margin/padding to clear those buttons (and similar on other OS-es).

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (10 children)

    Btw, any lemmy app that isn't a webrender?

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I've been using blorp, AFAIK it isnt

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    Blorp dev here. Blorp actually is too 😅

    I wanted to build a universal web and native app. I started out using react native on iOS/Android and react on web. I realized that I was spending most if my time trying to get native to work as well as web. For example, the markdown renderers/editors on web are far superior to native imo. Making native a web app solves a lot of problems, but obviously it creates new issues like this post mentions.

    The biggest issue with being a web app is I will likely never be able to get Liquid Glass working on iOS. I’m guessing same for voyager. But Liquid Glass kinda sucks, so we’ll call it a feature instead of a bug. I think these web apps can work around most other issues, including the one this post mentions.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    This was last updated Mar 26, 2024 and the developer has been AWOL ever since.
    Much as I love the app, Lemmy has gone through multiple API changes (and has more to come) such that staying on an outdated app isn't viable. Last I used it, it was already having issues loading pictures and comment threads.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Damn, you're right. Last update was exactly 2 years ago.

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  • [–] [S] 8 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    How the heck am I supposed to use the app if I keep clicking the desktop/main page? Actually, how is the desktop called on a phone? Hold that thought, its not useful to me rantnow! All I rant to do is rant!

    Rant this ranting rantotanter app!

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    I'm more concerned why there isn't an Outbox button, but I digress..

    I don't have an exact answer, but have you tried turning the screen sideways?

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    Wait, is that on purpose?

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    This is it. The cat is a bit more heavy than it looks, and is pushing the buttons down into the bottom of the phone. Try feeding it some snacks filled with helium, the problem should disappear after a couple of days!

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (5 children)

    Is this Voyager? Is it the Webapp or the App Store App? If it’s the Voyager webapp you may need to tell it you are on Android in the settings.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 7 months ago (4 children)
  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

    I just turned on Android buttons for the first time in 7 years to confirm your issue. Couldn't replicate. Either something wrong with your particular app (if full restart doesn't help try clearing data) or your ROM.

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