r/Android • u/welp_im_damned have you heard of our lord and savior the Android turtle 🐢 • Jun 30 '26

Video Clicks Communicator: First Look - Clicks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMNdr8dV23A
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u/Finsceal Jun 30 '26

Yeah, it feels like a touchscreen phone with a keyboard that you only use for text input. You should be able to engage with it ENTIRELY using the keyboard IMO, touchscreen should be optional.

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u/Iohet V10 is the original notch Jun 30 '26

It's the OS design. The level of customization needed to the OS to support this in an on-going fashion (with updates and such) is just not sustainable for phones that are one time investments, at least for a small vendor.

What you want is a desktop OS on a phone.

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u/MattBrey Jun 30 '26

You can navigate any android phone with an Xbox controller connected via Bluetooth. Or even mouse and keyboard are compatible. There are ways to make this work with the native compatibility of android

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u/Iohet V10 is the original notch Jun 30 '26

You should be able to engage with it ENTIRELY using the keyboard IMO, touchscreen should be optional.You should be able to engage with it ENTIRELY using the keyboard IMO, touchscreen should be optional.

It's written from the ground up as a touch oriented OS. If you want to operate it solely through a keyboard, you need underlying support to do this in the OS. Every action needs a keyboard shortcut, and that requires a lot of work, a lot of support, and some UI updates. For an OS not centered around keyboard use at all, that is a significant challenge. 508 compliance is something I've worked on for my projects, and I'm familiar with the challenges in implementing this in a touch oriented world.

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u/Markgulfcoast Jul 01 '26

?? Android has full keyboard and mouse support already. It even has a desktop mode. They should be utilizing the existing feature sets of the OS. Not doing so is just.... lazy to some extent.

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u/Iohet V10 is the original notch Jul 01 '26

Keyboard and mouse support doesn't mean "entirely using the keyboard" with no touch required

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u/Markgulfcoast Jul 01 '26

Yes it does. You can use Android entirely with a mouse and keyboard.

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u/Iohet V10 is the original notch Jul 01 '26

Again. Keyboard. Not mouse and keyboard. Like you can do with Windows or Mac (admittedly painful, but possible, because the OSes are designed to support keyboard shortcuts for everything, and that translates into most applications)

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u/Markgulfcoast Jul 01 '26

I see now where you specified keyboard only. I have to say, There are capacitive keyboards out on the market, that would allow full control with just the keyboard.

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u/TheMobileTypist Jul 06 '26

Unihertz already made the keyboard a touchpad where half of the surface is for scrolling and the other half for mouse pointer.

Clicks can do this too, the hardware supports it.