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Hi,
What touch screens are you asking about please? As to my knowledge Touch screens are all ready supported.
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read the blog post on xbmc.org again
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Obviously i'm talking about android touch screens, tablets and phones.
I have the Gotham beta on both my phone and tablet, where the playback is beautifully smooth I just cant use it as the menu’s and player controls are either to small, in the wrong place or hidden behind other menus. XBMC has been written with a remote control, keyboard or mouse in mind, not a touch screens, this is the problem.
Yeah I read the article on new themes but I’m not talking about making something look slightly different which is really all these tend to d. An example is DRIOD this is really a help at all as it still has all the small player controls for instance. The setup and browsing / menu parts of the current themes are generally ok, we just need some very specific changes in three areas. Also, most theme makers (it appears) tend to go for something that looks nice over ease of use. For instance, you’d think the swiping action would be good for touch screen but it isn’t, I still prefer a list of fixed options to menus that take a few seconds to settle down or stop moving before I can select them. It looks great but is very annoying.
Four things we need now.
1. Big fat seek / time elapsed bar at the top of the screen on startup and screen touch / pause.
2. All commonly used controls on screen at one time at the bottom, all large or resizable for small screens. E.g - Play, Stop, pause, nude ahead, nudge back, next chapter as minimum.
3. All controls should appear on screen when any media is started, music or video, like windows media player classic or other Android media players. This already happens with Videos but the seek and play controls are too close together and too small in all themes.
4. There are no player controls when music is played unless you right click and choose to play with video player. Scrap this and just have one player.
Making everything else touch- tastic would just be gravy and you don’t need this really as once you have setup XBMC all you will be doing from then on is playing media, this is the important area where changes need to be made.
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Advise. Get a bigger touchsreen
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2014-03-06, 19:06
(This post was last modified: 2014-03-06, 19:07 by nooryani84.)
Then you will have to make a theme yourself or hope someone else does. I wouldn't want to watch movies on anything smaller than my Nexus 7 2.gen and even then it's too small IMO.
Edit: Works flawlessly on touch screens.
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2014-03-06, 19:07
(This post was last modified: 2014-03-06, 19:08 by Martijn.)
Then i suggest you start making your own theme to fit your needs. I'm sure over time more tablet skins will come but that's not our main job.
And using XBMC on a < 7" is just stupid. I use it on a 7" with several skin and i do not have any issue.
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Asking for themes designed for something < 7" is like asking for Native Object-Based Storage Support for XBMC when you have 512 TB without any RAID.
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There are plenty of alternatives that are far better if you want to play music on your phone. The way XBMC works - if a someone wants feature X for XBMC then they will have to make it themselves or hope that someone else wants to develop it. Asking for XBMC to perform better on sub-7 inch devices is rather demanding and it would cater to a very niche user base.
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Billions of users want to watch movies on their Android phones? Did you just completely ignore my last post?