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Would it be possible to let users select actual text in casts on mobile?

There is this tendency in mobile apps to prevent selecting text. Many SNS apps like that, as well as web sites (used to it in a country where a lot of text has been *images* for decades to “protect” copywriting IP).

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In a cast or such kind of “software container” developers can ask the system how to react to events like long press, etc. Here the events seem consumed by the cast, and not passed down to individual “word objects”, if this jargon makes sense.

nice list! for sure, copy and paste into a quick app like Drafts not too bad but def extra steps. I too have wondered how apps prevent normal text selection. also I wanted to mention the longtap bc I didn’t know about it for a long time 🙃

Thank you, yes. I target single words.

Like when I don’t understand clearly what a word means. E.g. solipsism, serendipity, ersatz, umwelt, zeitgeist, homeostasis, gestalt, democracy, shanzai, ad hominem, reductionism, gerrymandering…

On iOS text, long tap a word and “look up” is often super helpful.