Disable System Gesture Swipes on Android

Kelsonk

Hi, is there currently an ANE available to disable system gestures for Android? Distriqt ones don't seem to have that functionality and I can't find it anywhere else either. I'm surprised it's not out there, my game relies on swiping and the system gestures kind of mess it up.

FliplineStudios

Not sure if this is quite what you're trying to accomplish, but we use distriqt's Application ANE to set the Display Mode to Immersive. This is full-screen without any status bar or nav bar, where swiping from an edge of the screen will pull those back up, and the user will have to swipe a second time to then do a close gesture or back gesture.

Kelsonk

Thanks! I'll check it out!

Kelsonk

Doesn't seem to work, I believe I've done it correctly. A swipe from the edge of the screen will automatically trigger a 'back' command and close the app.

FliplineStudios

Hmm this is what we use during startup:

Application.service.display.setDisplayMode(DisplayMode.IMMERSIVE, LayoutMode.CUTOUT_SHORT_EDGES);

And fullScreen has to be set to false in your initialWindow section of your application XML for this to work.

Kelsonk

FliplineStudios Yeah, nothing. We might be talking about different things. Android since I think 2020 has an option to perform gestures for system commands (swipe from the bottom to go home, swipe from the left to go back and exit app). Most phones don't have this on by default, but I think Pixels do. The visibility of the status and nav bar doesn't have much to do with it, those can be turned off while system gestures are still turned on.

FliplineStudios

Kelsonk Hmm yeah, I do use the gestures for the system commands on my Pixel for testing. At least with our app setup, those gestures (swipe up to close, swipe from side to go back) do not work normally within the app as long as it's in Immersive Mode. Instead, swiping from any edge will bring up the Android UI, and you have to swipe a second time to actually use one of the gestures -- or just tap in the center of the screen to go back into Immersive Mode.

So I guess it doesn't really disable the gestures (I wonder if that's actually possible with Android on an app-by-app basis?), it just makes it a two-step process for players to confirm they actually wanted to exit the app.

Kelsonk

Thanks, not sure what my problem is. Maybe something to do with Xiaomi OS?

I was trying to get Distriqt to implement a functionality like this:
https://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/View#setSystemGestureExclusionRects(java.util.List%3Candroid.graphics.Rect%3E)

Not sure if they will or not. For now I guess I just make the game board 90% of the width of the screen instead of the whole screen.