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iOS 4 Android-like screen scrolling

Joz3d

Joz3d

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Jul 19, 2008
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Does anybody else hate the Android-like screen scrolling in iOS 4?

If you flick at a slow speed between home screens, it no longer continues the scroll at that speed, but rather scrolls fast instead. Also deteriorates the experience in the weather app, for example.

I can't understand why they would do this. You always had the ability to scroll fast if you wanted to. Now it doesn't correspond to your finger movement anymore and it feels like it lost that connection between person & machine, the type of attention to detail that Apple is known for :(
 
The scrolling has not changed for me.

Maybe you have some crud on your screen that is interfering with your scrolling?
 
It changed for me too and my phone is clean. Doesn't bother me though, it actually made it seem like my phone was running faster. I was never really the slow-scrolling type anyway...
 
Yeah, it changes for everybody, that second poster probably didn't pay close attention to the way it used to work. I've been demonstrating it to people at work against their un-upgraded iPhones.
 
Actually, I like it. I find it reduces the number of flicks required to navigate a large page from about a hundred to about ten.
 
fourmi said:
Actually, I like it. I find it reduces the number of flicks required to navigate a large page from about a hundred to about ten.
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That's not what we're talking about at all. Scroll through different cities on the Weather app on iOS 3 vs. iOS 4.
 
Joz3d said:
That's not what we're talking about at all. Scroll through different cities on the Weather app on iOS 3 vs. iOS 4.
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i don't have this problem. pages continue to flick and track my finger at fast and slow speeds properly to me
 
Nykwil said:
i don't have this problem. pages continue to flick and track my finger at fast and slow speeds properly to me
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No they don't, unless me and everyone else in my office's iOS 4 is different from yours, across all versions of iPhones that support it. You're NOT talking about in the web browser, right? You're talking about left/right home screen, weather app, app store screen shots, etc scrolling, right?
 
Joz3d said:
No they don't, unless me and everyone else in my office's iOS 4 is different from yours, across all versions of iPhones that support it. You're NOT talking about in the web browser, right? You're talking about left/right home screen, weather app, app store screen shots, etc scrolling, right?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAAMWcs2HJ8


dunno, tell me what i'm missing here.

seems to be working the way it always has worked.
 
Nykwil said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAAMWcs2HJ8


dunno, tell me what i'm missing here.

seems to be working the way it always has worked.
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Yeah, you're holding for too long. You should be able to let go at a slow rate, after just touching half the screen or so and it should take a full one second after you let go for the screen to finish the scroll. It's really quite a beautiful effect/attention to detail they had. I'll try and post a basic video tonight, and then I'll make a more comprehensive comparison video sometime this week or next week.
 
Joz3d said:
Yeah, you're holding for too long. You should be able to let go at a slow rate, after just touching half the screen or so and it should take a full one second after you let go for the screen to finish the scroll. It's really quite a beautiful effect/attention to detail they had. I'll try and post a basic video tonight, and then I'll make a more comprehensive comparison video sometime this week or next week.
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From what I've experienced on android, the scrolling on iOS is nothing laggy like that on android.
 
Nykwil said:
From what I've experienced on android, the scrolling on iOS is nothing laggy like that on android.
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No, it's not. This is not about lag, this is about programming to lock you into going fast, for no good reason.
 
Video of iOS 3 Scrolling

I didn't get a chance last night to make my video showing the iOS 3 ability to shift screens at whatever pace you desire, but I made it tonight.
 
No difference scrolling between home screens here. Tracks finger at the speed it moves, just as before.
 
Apple changed the animation rate and curve/acceleration of the UIScrollView class that is used wherever scrolling/pinching happens. I guess so it seems snappier.
 
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