Why doesn't Snap! Have an mobile version?

The original version works fine for mobile, but the onscreen keyboard keeps appearing every time I select a block, edit a block slot, create a block, or try to do literaly anything.

Both of those require the keyboard, so what do you expect?


In all seriousness, I feel like I understand where the OP is coming from. I personally have use snap on my phone a lot, probably too much, and there are some pain points with when the keyboard pops up. Yes, the keyboard pops up when those dialogs pop up, and I understand why, but when I dismiss the keyboard and move the dialog, the keyboard pops up again, which can get annoying (it's way more annoying in the long form input dialog).

It would be great if moving dialog, at least on mobile, didn't try to refocus the text input. If you want to move the dialog and then edit text, you're going to click/tap the text input, so there's no reason to have it always focused.

I can't imagine trying to program in Snap! on a phone! I think it's important that Snap! projects should run on a phone in presentation mode, but for coding, even a tablet feels really intimidating. People have designed block-language coding environments for phones, and they always work by switching among multiple views rather than trying to show everything at once. If we ever got serious about supporting coding on phones, I'm sure we'd have to do it that way also.

I do understand that there are people whose only computer is their phone, so I see the case for making that a priority task for us, but right now there are too many priority tasks already, starting (imho) with screen reader support.

I absolutely understand that coding on phones isn't supported (and I don't expect it to be), but tablets should be. Tablets have the screen size of a small laptop, allowing everything to show on screen. And the issues I talked about just apply to any device that uses an on-screen keyboard, so tablets included.

Yes, I agree, we can and should support tablets.

Ya i think they stood it is impossible for me to code on my phone!

Exactly! Why not click on the textbox you actually need, to open the onscreen keyboard?
Are you working on this mobile version, and have you considered it before?

I have used Snap! and created projects on Safari for iOS before. Every time the canvas stretches, I go to page settings and adjust the zoom back and forth.

Is this some sort of a newly introduced bug caused by a rework in the HTML? (I will test on mobile later)

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