Hey! Why don’t we overlap buttons on purpose! What a great idea!
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Go to settings - appearance - theme- device mode (scroll down)
Select android or apple depending on your device
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?
Wow, this just fixed so many issues. Thanks!
I don’t have this option available. ChatGPT makes up options that never actually existed. “Don’t ask it how I know”
It’s there! The theme sub menu is at the top, I missed it the first time.
Found it in a different location. It’s set to the correct OS.
What version are you on? I’m on 2.44
Same version.
I’m noticing this in more and more apps :(
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?
Nah, you just have to pick android or iPhone in the settings, which is just laziness on the devs part.
People use gestures…?
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.
Except when laying down and your blanket touches your screen and it loses its God damn mind.
Fuck I hate gestures
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.
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.
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.
You do get to choose. That’s what the settings are for. Someone commented the solution to the issue.
You’re writing this comment as if someone just took your phone, changed the setting and removed the ability to change it back
I’ve found myself in a similar situation to OP, where a given app presumes that everyone is using gestures and conflicts with the buttons, and I don’t appreciate it.
God, this might be why a certain micro rental car company in Los Angeles has the same problem in their app. Fuck them gestures!
I gotta gesture for ya right 'ere, pal!
If this true this means they purposely ignore default APIs and reinvent the wheel. Android adjusts the viewport automatically in order not to overlap the navigation area, regardless of the actual navigation method. Sounds like incompetence
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).Btw, any lemmy app that isn’t a webrender?
Jerboa
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.Damn, you’re right. Last update was exactly 2 years ago.
Connect uses flutter, which I’m pretty sure isn’t web render based
I’m on iPhone, so don’t know about Android apps, but Mlem is solid for iOS!
It works properly on my phone. Does the APK work?
I don’t recall where I installed this one from. I think its form the googslop play store.
Voyager does this to me occasionally. I just endtask it and re open.
Try rotating ur screen landscape, then back to portrait, seems to temporarily fix it for me.
Thanks for the tip. Will try next time.
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.
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.
Its not not a meme about not being able to get up because cat.
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
Rotating my phone’s screen by turning it sideways temporarily ‘fixes’ this problem for me.
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!
Do you smell toast?
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?
Like this?
I also enabled gestures LOL fuck Android’s buttons!
No no, I meant the cat is sitting on the inbox, if you tilt it to left, you might empty the outbox in the trash…
Damn cat!
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!
Indeed!
Wait, is that on purpose?
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.
It’s the Voyager app.
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.
I did both, then Restarted and logged back in.
Then I guess it’s your ROM…
What kind of android phone do you have?
