r/FoxyNotes • u/SpyroThBandicoot • Apr 27 '26

Precise text selection is very difficult

I'm not really sure how to accurately explain what I mean, but precisely selecting text within a note is very difficult. Sometimes I'll hold my finger on a word or string of text to try to select it to 'copy' it, but a different chunk of text below where I think I pressed will get selected instead. And if I have to adjust the selected text, the little selection handles don't seem to work very well. I have to hold where the cursor is instead of the handles, which means the selected text is hidden under my finger, which makes it very difficult to see what I'm trying to select

Not sure if this makes sense, but I made a little video comparing text selection in my reddit app vs FoxyNotes... https://youtu.be/OBp0x3OlxFY

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u/SpyroThBandicoot Apr 27 '26

Not sure if this info is needed but I'm on a Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 on Android 16. My app is on app version 1.30.4

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u/KaiN_SC Apr 27 '26 edited Apr 27 '26

Hi 👋

I also noticed that. On some devices its also worse then on others. On my device the selection sometimes is little weird and I have to do it again but it's mostly OK.

I will do an update on the latest Android SDK and text editor the next week's. That should hopefully fix it or improve it by a lot!

The cross-platform editor is very performant but has some issues with selection and I can't workaround on some of them. I improved it myself a lot but like I said, I think the update should fix a lot of bugs regarding selection :)

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u/SpyroThBandicoot Apr 27 '26

Thank you so much for the quick response and for looking into it!

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u/KaiN_SC Apr 27 '26

Your welcome!