Improve swipe actions on Mobile apps inside Rooms

[niquewoodhouse]

Related

• swiping right when inside a room should reveal the list of room members #2790

Hypothesis

Following Apple's HIG where possible we help people know how to navigate and use Element on iOS.

Proposal

Better support swiping as a supplementary way to access options within the app, such as:

• Swiping a room tile to see options
• Swiping right within a room to view the room details

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Examples

Room tile

At the moment, swiping right on a tile reveals options that just feature a (possibly unclear) icon, without a label.

Where it could reveal a list with labels, and we could separate them according to convention.

Swipe right on room

At the moment, swiping left on a room goes back to the previous view, but swipe right does nothing. The room has a room details view, which can be accessed via the header.

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It might be easier for users to get to this view by swiping left within the room, and it would reflect the current transition of screen > screen better. The room details view has the back button in its navigation bar. There are alternative swipe content that might be useful for users, such as read receipts on a message but this view already exists so felt easier to implement/add value.

[pixlwave]

There are alternative swipe content that might be useful for users, such as read receipts on a message but this view already exists so felt easier to implement/add value.

@niquewoodhouse I just learnt that Android has a swipe to reply feature (although I don't know in which direction). Not sure if that will stay with the IA work, but if it does it may be nice to have parity in that regard.

[kittykat]

The swipe to reply on Android is on the message (not from off the screen) from right to left

[daniellekirkwood]

We're not looking at actively looking at this issue so I'm going to remove the assignment and add any other tags that may be relevant.