[guardian-dev] scrolling while reading on mobile devices

[Steve Wyshywaniuk]

+1 to Instapaper. They also allow both long scrolling and page swiping. I
imagine that's a pretty significant effort to get working well in all three
of those scenarios.

On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 12:27 PM, noel hidalgo | gProject <
noel at guardianproject.info> wrote:

> Also, Instapaper has a really cool "tilt to scroll" function. It is super
> handy while reading one handed...
>
> https://www.instapaper.com/apps
>
> > On 10 Jun 2015, at 11:28, Hans-Christoph Steiner <
> hans at guardianproject.info> wrote:
> >
> >
> > I'm a long time reader on digital devices (Palm!) and the scrolling in
> Android
> > just sucks on almost all apps.  A good reading app provides a dead
> simple way
> > to turn "pages".  Manually scrolling is a terrible experience because it
> > requires focusing on a tricky physical task.  It requires much more
> focus than
> > turning a book page (maybe that's because I'm 41 and grew up reading
> books ;).
> >
> > Both Kindle and Google Books on Android provide a simple double-tap to
> turn
> > the page, for example.  That is pretty good, but it still requires
> aiming on a
> > small target on the screen.  I'm a big fan of Courier's side scrolling,
> it
> > just takes a simple flick left or right anywhere on the reading area.
> > Apparently, some people get confused by the side scrolling.
> >
> > I just was trying out Al Jazeera Magazine app, and they have found a nice
> > compromise:  it scrolls vertically, but page by page.  And turning the
> page is
> > done with a quick flick up or down.  Quite nice:
> >
> > https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aljazeera.ajemag.andro
> >
> > .hc
> >
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