Android back button on app

[jimmsy]

Hi,

I hope this is the right forum for app feedback.

When on android if you do the back gesture (swipe from the edge of the screen), it closes the app instead of going back. I believe having the back gesture do the same as the back button up the top left would be a nicer experience.

[Buzz84]

Just started using the app the other day for the forums after a pop up suggest it.

As per Jimmy's post when using the app the use of the phones back button closes/minimises it, Very unintuitive and annoying, especially as the in app back button is in the top left away from where I hold the phone.

Before trying the app I used Chrome browser. In this clicking the back button would take you back a page. (Same as it would in pretty much every app I have ever used)

[paulrockliffe]

I was going to post exactly this yesterday, but there's another post on the Website Feedback section that says the forum integration is a priority for next year so I figured it'll probably be sorted then and if not, complain then.

[MissChief]

They added a back button at the top left because of this.

[Buzz84]

While I am not a programmer/developer I wound necessarily say it's a forum or inegration issue. It's just a basic function of an app that's not right.
Hopefully one will reply to this to confirm but if that is the case and it's not going to get looked at then I'll just uninstall it as it's quite annoying

[paulrockliffe]

Think it's because the app is just acting as a wrapper around the webpage and loads of bits aren't configured to pass through from the app to the webpage. If it's built as a proper app instead it'll work natively,

[Matt Dell]

paulrockliffe said:

Think it's because the app is just acting as a wrapper around the webpage and loads of bits aren't configured to pass through from the app to the webpage. If it's built as a proper app instead it'll work natively,

Correct, and that is the plan for 2026.

We had the option of doing a fully native app with no forums or a partially native app with webview wrapped forum and we decided on the latter. Sorry for the quirks but there is progress behind the scenes.