Increase the side-menu "swipe to reveal" area

DaSpood

Hello,
With Android 9 and the new and spreading navigation gesture, some common functions of many apps can be affected by some implementations of the gestures.
In my case, I have a Huawei phone, and the "back" gesture is pulling from the border of the screen towards the center, which also happens to be a very common gesture in many apps including discord to reveal the side menus (server list / member list).

I know not all phones have this specific conflict, but I still think it would be a nice improvement to increase a bit the area in which you can pull from the side of the screen : instead of having to pull from the very border, you should be able to pull anywhere within 5-10 % of the screen's width from the border of each side.

It would cancel the conflicts with Huawei's (and probably some other manufacturer's) "back" gesture, and in general make it easier to reach for phones with wide screens and/or curved edges (Mate 20X, Galaxy Note...). As phones get taller, I assume fewer people will want to reach for the top corner buttons and rely on the swipe functions to see these menus, so a lot of people would benefit from this.

Thanks.

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  • goof

    my phone case has a border around the screen so its rlly hard to pull on the edge so this would be super cool!!!

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  • GameGlitz

    I would see this in a similar fashion. Make a 19pt transpsrent handle on the left and right, and make them pull out the menu. Also, add customizability to this, between 0 (disabled) to 40pt, so users have control over it. Also, allow users to customize what the handles do, e.g Open the members list or Show channels and servers, just so that people can move around what everything does, so it is a feature that just shortcuts to actions that are normally possible but hard to do.

    This will really increase the productivity of the Discord mobile app. Also, NOW THAT SLACK HAS DONE IT, Where is End-End Encryption? ADD IT!

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  • MEKL_NA

    Note 10+ user. I'm struggling hard to swipe either edge in the app. My curved screen is making life difficult to navigate the app. Widening the swipe area would be absolutely awesome for me.

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  • Amber Dixon

    Oppo A54 user here. I second your thought. This model has the same loop holes in his shape as you mentioned in yours. So every model has its own pros and cons. We should adjust on it. 

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