u/Tricky_Raspberry_864

Touch controls (Android) feel off, double tap conflicts between skip and play/pause

Hey everyone, I wanted to bring up something that's been bugging me with the touch controls on Android (think iOS has the same problems, but I use Android tablet), and I'm curious if others are experiencing the same thing.

The current double tap gesture setup feels really inconsistent. Double tapping to skip forward/backward and double tapping for play/pause constantly conflict with each other, and I find myself triggering the wrong action pretty much every other time. It honestly feels like ~80% of the screen is treated as the play/pause zone, so even when going for a quick skip, I end up pausing the video instead.

It would be great if the team could look into improving this. One approach would be to handle play/pause with a two finger tap, similar to how Infuse does it, which avoids the conflict entirely. Alternatively, shrinking the play/pause tap area to a smaller zone in the center of the screen would already make a big difference.

Anyone else running into this? Would love to know if it's a wider issue.

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u/Tricky_Raspberry_864 — 2 days ago