🚀 Feature Request

📝 Description

When debugging mobile views, it's important to understand the cursor target size and simulate, as much as possible, the native behaviour of touchscreens.

✨ Describe the solution you'd like

I believe that it makes sense to emulate as much as possible the real behaviour of pointing devices. My suggestion is to allow the user to define what is the preferred cursor mode for any device. This way, I could say my mobile view has Touch Mode enabled by default and desktop would have the usual cursor.

✍️ Describe alternatives you've considered

Changing input modes when debugging mobile and desktop at the same time is time consuming but that's the only alternative I've seen so far.

May 07 '21 17:05 geiras

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May 07 '21 17:05 open-collective-bot[bot]

Right now the "Touch mode" is activated at app level:

https://github.com/responsively-org/responsively-app/blob/c5e74180108796760fcfa3f98b001083e8c49f7a/desktop-app/app/components/ToggleTouch/index.js#L43-L45

we can do exactly the same per device (per <webview/>) On WebView component:

this.getWebContents().debugger.sendCommand('Emulation.setEmitTouchEventsForMouse', {    
    enabled: isTouchMode,  
    configuration: "mobile" // (or "desktop") 
});

more info: https://chromedevtools.github.io/devtools-protocol/tot/Emulation/#method-setEmitTouchEventsForMouse

⚠ check this issue: https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/18438

cc: @manojVivek

May 18 '21 15:05 jjavierdguezas

we can do exactly the same per device (per <webview/>)

@jjavierdguezas We have tried this but it didn't work as expected. It still enabled touch mode for the whole app.

Ref: https://github.com/responsively-org/responsively-app/issues/31#issuecomment-642577602

May 19 '21 04:05 manojVivek

we can do exactly the same per device (per <webview/>)

@jjavierdguezas We have tried this but it didn't work as expected. It still enabled touch mode for the whole app.

Ref: #31 (comment)

yeah that's the electron issue I linked too

May 19 '21 07:05 jjavierdguezas

you can try https://www.npmjs.com/package/iohook