Hi
I frequently use Pleco by reading with a book or iPad in one hand and searching Pleco with the other (I'm not sure whether this is a fairly common way of using the dictionary during intensive study, but I would think so.) More generally, having the ability to search the dictionary one handed is often convenient. However, having switched recently to using an iPhone 6 I can't help but notice searching with one hand is now somewhat more awkward. It's not a huge problem (though might be a bigger one for iPhone 6 Plus) and overall it is still a more pleasant experience on the larger screen, however, when you are looking up a lot of words over time it can slow you down. Obviously the iPhone has its Reachability mode, but because the screen jumps back up within a few seconds you generally have to use it multiple times within a single search (e.g. hit search delete button to clear current search field contents, wait for screen to move up in order to access keyboard, enter search contents, double touch to bring the first result within reach, from dictionary entry double touch again to press the back to Search button/add to flashcards). In essence, the positioning of high use buttons (Search field delete button, <Search, add to flashcards +) at the very top of the screen seems to make less sense of a large screen device than on previous smaller screen versions of iPhone, particularly when so much of the space below is being used up by low frequency dictionary entries.
This got me thinking, it would be really convenient to have a one handed feature that could be switched on to bring the search field and the first few search results within one handed reach, and to stay there until switched off again. For example, moving the search box to just above the keyboard (with dictionary search results ascending from below in order of frequency) and the <Search and + options to the button of the screen in dictionary entries, would make one handed use significantly easier. Alternatively, the search field could move down as it does currently with Reachability mode, but without hiding the keyboard. Although this would chop out quite a lot of the search results, this doesn't seem a big problem given the accuracy of Pleco's frequency based search results.
Anyway, I'm not a coder and there could be well be coding or design issues with these suggestions. And of course, issues regarding the use of Pleco on larger screen devices would not be unfamiliar territory since large screen Android devices have been around for ages. However, perhaps given a large number of iPhone users are going to be increasingly moving onto larger screen phones, one handed functionality, or at least the option for it, might be something that's worth considering (and in a sense, worth preserving, given it was not an issue on previous iPhones).
Keep up the amazing work!
I frequently use Pleco by reading with a book or iPad in one hand and searching Pleco with the other (I'm not sure whether this is a fairly common way of using the dictionary during intensive study, but I would think so.) More generally, having the ability to search the dictionary one handed is often convenient. However, having switched recently to using an iPhone 6 I can't help but notice searching with one hand is now somewhat more awkward. It's not a huge problem (though might be a bigger one for iPhone 6 Plus) and overall it is still a more pleasant experience on the larger screen, however, when you are looking up a lot of words over time it can slow you down. Obviously the iPhone has its Reachability mode, but because the screen jumps back up within a few seconds you generally have to use it multiple times within a single search (e.g. hit search delete button to clear current search field contents, wait for screen to move up in order to access keyboard, enter search contents, double touch to bring the first result within reach, from dictionary entry double touch again to press the back to Search button/add to flashcards). In essence, the positioning of high use buttons (Search field delete button, <Search, add to flashcards +) at the very top of the screen seems to make less sense of a large screen device than on previous smaller screen versions of iPhone, particularly when so much of the space below is being used up by low frequency dictionary entries.
This got me thinking, it would be really convenient to have a one handed feature that could be switched on to bring the search field and the first few search results within one handed reach, and to stay there until switched off again. For example, moving the search box to just above the keyboard (with dictionary search results ascending from below in order of frequency) and the <Search and + options to the button of the screen in dictionary entries, would make one handed use significantly easier. Alternatively, the search field could move down as it does currently with Reachability mode, but without hiding the keyboard. Although this would chop out quite a lot of the search results, this doesn't seem a big problem given the accuracy of Pleco's frequency based search results.
Anyway, I'm not a coder and there could be well be coding or design issues with these suggestions. And of course, issues regarding the use of Pleco on larger screen devices would not be unfamiliar territory since large screen Android devices have been around for ages. However, perhaps given a large number of iPhone users are going to be increasingly moving onto larger screen phones, one handed functionality, or at least the option for it, might be something that's worth considering (and in a sense, worth preserving, given it was not an issue on previous iPhones).
Keep up the amazing work!