Whenever I explain my #research at Google into mobile text editing, I'm usually met with blank stares or a slightly hostile "Everyone can edit text on their phones, right? What's the problem?"
Text editing on mobile isn't ok. It's actually much worse than you think, an invisible problem no one appreciates. I wrote this post so you can understand why it's so important.
https://jenson.org/text
#UXDesign #UX
@scottjenson huh, I get intensely frustrated by text editing on mobile, especially on iOS (it's one thing that's actually better on Android, IMO). Thought that feeling was universal.
The hardest thing for me is pasting text. When you tap to bring up the contextual menu with the paste button, the cursor position often moves. Often takes me multiple tries to get it right.
I miss arrows on the iOS keyboard that allow you to move the cursor position left or right through the text!
The default Android keyboard (Gboard I think it's called?) has an option to let you slide left and right on the space bar to move the cursor, it's a godsend.
Editing text on mobile is awful though.
@adaliabooks @Brendanjones @scottjenson
AnySoftKeyboard lets you move the cursor with arrow keys, and if you swipe up on the space bar you have the option to expand a text selection left/right by individual characters.
@Parienve @adaliabooks @Brendanjones @scottjenson
I use Hacker's Keyboard on Android. It has cursor keys.