This is a fantastic product, and I purchased as well to support all your efforts.
A few humble suggestions:
- I think you mentioned you're still working on the search parsing so that the app knows when to do a google search and when to go to a URL; right now, unless somebody can tell me what I am doing wrong, I cannot get XScope to go directly to a URL at all unless I type "http://[url]" - if I leave out the "http" , it defaults to doing a Google search. One shortcut may be to check to see if you have periods (i.e., if I type "cnn.com" and make that go to the URL?
- The tabs are awesome. I am finding that manually entering URL's takes some extra steps. Is there any way to have a short press on the search bar/URL bar mimic the behavior of the stock Android browser? That is, if you select with a finger over the entire URL box, then you select the entire URL address. If you select an area within the box, then you can select a specific character to edit. What I'm finding out in XScope is that I frequently have to take multiple steps to manually put in a URL; I have to first long-press to "select all", then hit the tab again to get the virtual keyboard to show up, then type in the address, push the "Play" button
, and then also push the hard back button to remove the virtual keyboard. With the Android browser, you tap once, it selects the entire address, and the keyboard shows up, you type in the address, go to the site, and the virtual keyboard automatically disappears.
- Also, you obviously can't track compatibility with all websites, but I couldn't get this to work with Yahoo mail, for instance. It states that it's not a supported browser (so maybe Xscope is not telling the website that it's Chrome?)
Thanks for a great app!
@Droiiiiiiiid - at first, I was also having a hard time getting the pin zoom to work consistently. But figured out that it helps to use the edge, or corner of your finger to tap, rather than the flat of the finger. I don't know if you were already doing this - it might be that if we are using the flat part, there's too much surface area, and the screen gets confused (just like typing on too many letters on the virtual keyboard). I've found that I'm much, much, more consistent using the edge/corner of my finger now. (maybe, much later on, the program can let us calibrate the delay/surface area for taps, etc.)