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iOS Gesture Bar - Hide In-Game
I know this is a small subset of people affected, but would it be possible to have VO trigger the iOS gesture bar's "sleep mode"?
I know that happens in some apps, particular apps with videos. You typically have to double swipe for it to do anything when the app triggers the "sleep mode" or "hide mode". I'm not certain of how it's setup in Swift... The gesture bar makes typing extremely difficult, as hitting the space bar causes the game to freeze, or it doesn't register it at all due to actually hitting the gesture bar.
I know that happens in some apps, particular apps with videos. You typically have to double swipe for it to do anything when the app triggers the "sleep mode" or "hide mode". I'm not certain of how it's setup in Swift... The gesture bar makes typing extremely difficult, as hitting the space bar causes the game to freeze, or it doesn't register it at all due to actually hitting the gesture bar.
The most I can promise is that we'll take a look.
For end-users, there is this awkward, hacky way of using Guided Access to get around the problem.
There is also apparently some API support for us to try doing it (we don't really use Swift). The challenge is more of the "Apple says it should only be done temporarily" thing.
Apple can be extremely arbitrary and incredibly frustrating in the way they approach these kinds of issues. One review person will say your game is fine, and the next will say it violates standards and is unacceptable, and block your (critical or time-sensitive) update.
I can't speak to this specific issue, just lots of other, similar challenges in the past. We'll have to take a look.
For end-users, there is this awkward, hacky way of using Guided Access to get around the problem.
There is also apparently some API support for us to try doing it (we don't really use Swift). The challenge is more of the "Apple says it should only be done temporarily" thing.
Apple can be extremely arbitrary and incredibly frustrating in the way they approach these kinds of issues. One review person will say your game is fine, and the next will say it violates standards and is unacceptable, and block your (critical or time-sensitive) update.
I can't speak to this specific issue, just lots of other, similar challenges in the past. We'll have to take a look.
Understood, thank you for considering looking into it. I understand how fickle Apple can be, and how hard it can be to work with their OS. If the API doesn't want to cooperate with hiding the gesture bar in the sense that Photos and full-screen applications typically do, the only other solution that would come to mind is attempting to utilize the iOS on-screen keyboard. I'm sure that would be a whole new host of challenges, though.
This does seem like a gross oversight on Apple's part, as Android hides the on-screen navigation keys perfectly fine. However, Android's implementation is more of its own separate entity on the screen, not an overlay bar... I suppose this is the price we pay for more screen real estate?
This does seem like a gross oversight on Apple's part, as Android hides the on-screen navigation keys perfectly fine. However, Android's implementation is more of its own separate entity on the screen, not an overlay bar... I suppose this is the price we pay for more screen real estate?