Support alternative gestures for shake on Android

[brentvatne]

https://github.com/expo/expo-docs/issues/126
facebook/react-native#13490

[satya164]

I have a Moto X Play. So lemme know if you want help with testing :D

[brunoreis]

When I slide down from the top I see that menu with the notifications and there is also the name of the app in a blue bar with buttons to pin, share and reload. I think there would be a safe place to not conflict. But, I imagine that could run into to risk of unwanted people going to developer menu. But, well, shake gesture also run into that risk. Let's see... what about holding for a while there to open the menu and enable a little movable overlay button over the app screen?

[brunoreis]

Turning of the camera gesture unfortunately does not enable using the developer menu.

[ide]

We show the dev menu only in the Expo client, not standalone apps, so I think we could follow suit and show a dev menu button only in the Expo client.

[Yene-Me]

Can't believe why simple thing like a menu become so complix, K.I.S.S comes to mind.

[ide]

Do you have a simple suggestion?

[satya164]

Also I'm not sure what do you mean by it's captured by native OS. It's most likely some app you configured? Shake works fine for me and always had. I didn't do anything special, and I have that quick capture gesture enabled (which is the default one).

The camera gesture is twist rather than shake. Are you sure you are shaking the phone and not twisting it quickly? Do you have any other gesture enabled?

[brunoreis]

Hey @satya164, you are right! Sorry, I did not realize I had to shake the phone so "intensely" to get to the menu. I got there now. Thanks a lot. Sorry for the trouble. At least this issue will be here to help others as confused as I was.

[satya164]

I did not realize I had to shake the phone so "intensely"

Tell me about it. I broke my phone screen doing that!

[brunoreis]

Well, that sounds like a reason to put a link to debugger menu on that blue bar. Moto X Play is not a cheap device. ;-)

[boarder2]

Microsoft provides an Android image that works with Hyper-V for accelerated emulators on Windows without using HAXM (Which can't be enabled at the same time as Hyper-V is).

Using the Microsoft Android emulator there is no way to access the developer menu. I've tried the adb keyevent commands, using the accelerometer in the emulator tools, nothing works.

Please, please provide an alternative way to access the developer menu that isn't shaking the device.

Even with the devices in hand it requires significant shaking and isn't a good experience in the first place.

[Alexintosh]

In my meizu I've got the same problem. Please provide an alternative to shaking.

[AdamJNavarro]

If you come across this issue, you can switch to 'Two Finger Force Touch' in the Expo Client settings.