03.04.2022 20:46 Uhr, Quelle: Engadget

Twitter’s Android app may finally get tweet text selection

Twitter’s Android app has lagged behind its iOS counterpart for years, but at least in one way, the two clients could soon be on equal footing. In a tweet spotted by Android Police, Jane Manchun Wong, who’s known for reverse engineering apps to find new features before they’re released, said the company is working on allowing Android users to freely select text within tweets. That’s something Twitter’s iOS client has allowed you to do for a while.Huh. Good! I always assumed the lack was some kind of Dark Pattern to encourage the built in link sharing— Dieter Bohn (@backlon) April 2, 2022The discovery initially lead to some confusion among Android users as a handful of devices already allow you to do that. For instance, Google’s Pixel phones come with a feature called Overview Selection that lets you select text from any screen for copying and pasting, but as former XDA Developers editor and Android expert Mishaal Rahman points out, that tool isn’t available ever

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