A Dad’s Plea To Developers Of iPad Apps For Children

Re:A Dad’s Plea To Developers Of iPad Apps For Children by tocomment on Monday March 12, 2012 @10:56AM (#3693717)

I would add that kids hold the side of the iPad. So don't count that as a touch.

In fact my daughter hasn't figured out to use one finger so if you can hack the touch interface to ignore stray fingers or hands that would be great.

Also if you ate presenting some kind of activity that two people could conceivabley do at once eg building blocks, moving shapes around allow two fingers to mover separate objects at once. The same thing with drawing.

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Re:A Dad’s Plea To Developers Of iPad Apps For Children by jarrettcoggin on Monday March 12, 2012 @11:30AM (#3693865)

My daughter does this all the time on my Kindle Fire and my WP7. She routinely has her thumb just sitting on the edge of the screen and she wonders why the game won't work for her, but works for me. You could program dead zones on the edges of the device in applications you develop, but that doesn't work for other apps.

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