tgauchat
January 12, 2015, 7:36pm
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Shaking also “works” (I use the term loosely…) on Android; but…
I strongly feel that Shake is really not an acceptable user interface, imho…
It is not intuitive, nor is it labelled (i.e., there is no way to know that shake is available to perform the described function… the Things screens do not say “Shake to view labels”). To the best of my experience, I can think of only a handful of apps that use shake anywhere in their user interfaces (one example, perhaps, are music players that use shake to switch to a random track: If this is intuitive, then I would expect shake to cause SmartThings to turn on a random switch…).
Android devices are not required to have shake as a mandatory hardware function. In an extreme case, we can be running the SmartThings app from inside Chrome or via an Android emulator (“Andy” or “BlueStacks”). My PC gets a tad u…
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@urman (and @solardave1 ): Really PRO tip: If your GUI client device is a tablet mounted on the wall, it is handy to live near a major earthquake fault in order to periodically reveal the device labels. {Heck, if you’re really lucky, the wall might fall 90% and give you a functional landscape mode.}
I’m a straight-talker, and I must be annoying as frack quite often…
So pardon if I hurt anyone’s feelings: “Shake the device”, is, IMHO, IMHO, IMHO – NOT A VIABLE GESTURE / USER INTERFACE CONTROL OPTION. No no no! (Seriously, even if the device is a phone and not attached to the wall, “shaking” just looks ludicrous, it is not accessible (i.e., not ADA compliant to the best of my knowledge…), and takes inordinate amount of energy.
The correct interface?: Please offer a pull-down or click-togg…
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Well… a few dozen threads on the Community Forum regarding labels on tiles, and probably just as many responses from me that shake
(POLL: How many new gadgets at CES use shake as a gesture? Perhaps SmartThings should patent it!)
Respectfully,