Subscribed User New Content Slider Hard to Interact With
Summary
Interacting with the Slider for Subscribed Content Creators with New Content is difficult to select for Android Devices. The emulator makes it easier to select the slider, which exists visually hidden below profile avatars, than it actually is on a physical device.
Steps to reproduce
Go to Home, underneath Your Avatar and Search Minds text box you'll see
+, subscribed_user_avatar_1, subscribed_user_avatar_2, subscribed_user_avatar_3, etc...
In order to interact with the component, you need to catch the very thin visually hidden slider just right in order to drag around. It is exceptionally difficult to do so with a physical device, and emulator is easier as you have the precision of the tip of your cursor.
Platform information
Using Pixel 4 (Android) as an emulator and my LG8 ThinQ LM-G820UM (Android) as a physical device.
What is the current bug behavior?
Selecting and holding the screen for grabbing the slider is difficult as most of the time you miss.
This will grab the whole page and if pressing, holding, and sliding left -> right will open up your navigation bar for your profile.
Press, hold and sliding right -> left while holding either nothing will happen as you did not select the slider you will successfully select the slider and move down the list of your subscribed content creators and see more of them.
What is the expected correct behavior?
In my opinion, pressing and holding the screen anywhere within the component should cause you to select the slider and allow the user to swipe/drag left -> right or right -> left and easily navigate around your subscribed content creator's with new content.
Possibly providing faded clickable/pressable arrows that will shift the slider/carousel around a set number of spaces could provide a better user experience.
Relevant logs and/or screenshots
It's hard to see as I could only have a few seconds before exceeding the 15MiB size limit and the flickering of the screen is not an effect of the app that I have, but of the recording I am taking. My apologies.
I am using the cursor in the emulator to capture the actions. I successfully grab the slider a few times.
With a physical device and grabbing it with my finger is several times harder to do than what I just did.
slider-carousel-issue
Another example, hopefully a bit better of a clip
slider-carousel-issue2
Possible fixes
(If you can, link to the line of code that might be responsible for the problem)