Touch Pad

Touch Pad

The touch pad is a translucent pointer overlay so a wall tablet can be used without greasing the glass. A finger moves on the pad; the cursor moves on the screen. The dashboard is only for looking.

Available since 0.7.6. Requires Android 7+. No root. It uses the standard overlay and Accessibility APIs.

Path: Ava Settings → Device services → Sidebar → Touch pad

There is also a sidebar entry. Triple-tap the bottom-left corner of the screen to raise the pad.

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Why it exists

A wall panel is the most-touched glass in the house. Every tap leaves a fingerprint. Small HA buttons miss on the first try. Flour, oil, and water from the kitchen end up on the dashboard.

The pad keeps the finger on a dedicated surface at a comfortable height. The rest of the screen stays clean.

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Gestures

Gesture	Action
Slide one finger	Move the cursor (acceleration curve: slow lands on a pixel, a flick crosses the screen)
Tap	Click
Long-press	Hold / drag
Two fingers	Back, or scroll
Three-finger pinch	Resize a floating app window
Three fingers down	Collapse the pad. The same gesture walks the cycle back open (0.7.7)
Four fingers down	Open the system notification shade (when enabled)

Every move has haptic feedback on devices that have a vibrator.

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Automation slots

A second pain is the same morning path every day: open this page, scroll here, tap that button.

1. Press Record on the pad title bar
2. Do the path once — taps, swipes, Back, and the pauses between them
3. 0.7.7: keys typed on the keyboard are recorded too, and playback follows that pace
4. On play, Ava returns to the page it was recorded on, then steps through. Each landing point flashes a mark

Five slots. Loopable. While the pad is shrunk small, slots 1–5 stay available — swipe sideways to see them. Deleting a slot, the trash can travels across to the item (0.7.7).

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Voice and the pad

While an AI voice card is auto-scrolling a long sentence (“turn off the light and play some jazz”), a finger press on that card stops the scroll (0.7.7).

The pad itself does not raise an Overlay escape row. It cannot trap the panel.

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Requirements and limits

• Android 7 or newer
• Overlay permission
• Accessibility service enabled (for click / swipe injection)
• No root, no Shizuku required
• The spoken language engine can replay a recorded slot as a pawn move — see LLM language engine

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FAQ

The pad does not appear

1. Android 7+ only
2. Overlay permission granted
3. Accessibility enabled for Ava
4. Triple-tap the bottom-left corner, or open it from the sidebar / Settings

Clicks miss

Slow the finger near the target. The acceleration curve is steep on a flick. Recalibrate by lifting and placing again on the pad.

Recorded automation plays on the wrong page

Playback first returns to the URL / overlay that was active when you pressed Record. If that page is gone, open it once, then play again.

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