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Option to disable swipe to scrub through a video

Open Cris-Edmundson opened this issue 10 months ago • 1 comments

Is Your Feature Request Related to a Problem?

When I'm watching a video in landscape it hides the android navigation bar (the circle square and triangle soft keys) which is helpful so I can watch the video without distraction

But then I often try to swipe from the right edge of my phones screen to show the nav bar and it scrubs through the video and I loose my progress. I'd rather just use the seek bar than have a gesture that causes issues for me

Feature Description

It'd be nice to have an option to disable the gesture. There might be other ways the problem could be fixed though

Alternative Solutions

Maybe the swipe could be replaced with a doubletap gesture? I also frequently try to do that and realize it doesn't work

Additional Context

Thanks for the wonderful app! ❤️

Cris-Edmundson avatar Feb 23 '25 07:02 Cris-Edmundson

Thanks for the feature request!

For devs:

I believe this only happens with the YouTube player. Since we don't control the internal logic of the YouTube player, we might not be able to access the logic to disable the swipe gestures. It could be a worthwhile effort to migrate from the YouTube player over to Thunder's built-in player (which doesn't contain swipe gesture controls)

hjiangsu avatar Mar 18 '25 16:03 hjiangsu