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Hi crew,

I'm prototyping my first itch game, and have been struggling dreadfully against the iPad's default gestures: when in fullscreen mode, the slightest downward finger-drag movement exits fullscreen mode, and doesn't register as game control. This is Apple's gesture control kicking in, hijacking the game. It basically doesn't matter where on the screen I make the downward swipe; it (almost) always tries to minimise fullscreen.

For context, I'm coding in p5.js + some CSS/html elements.

On the itch.io side, I've selected "Embed in Page", "manually set size", "Mobile Friendly", and added the built-in "Fullscreen Button".

Here is what I've already included in the code, in an attempt to prevent the dreaded swipe-down:

function touchStarted() {  ... return false;}

function touchMoved() {  ... return false;}

function touchEnded() {  ... return false;}

Here's my html viewport definition:

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no, viewport-fit=cover">

I'm considering switching in itch to the "Launch in Fullscreen" option, which doesn't actually launch in fullscreen (on iPad at least). It instead maximises to the full browser window size, still showing the top web address bar. So you lose some screen real estate. But crucially, the swipe-down gesture no longer minimises, since we're not actually in fullscreen mode.

How have others designed / coded around iPad gestures?

brilliant, really appreciated :)

Hi Fadrik. I was looking for a painting game, and found your cute and fun game :)

I actually have a question though, as I'm trying to develop a painting game for Itch with html5, and I'm struggling so much to prevent my iPad from closing down the window when I drag my finger to paint. iPad gestures Always interfere with the controls. You seem to have solved that problem in PaintVenture, so I'm wondering if I could ask how!

Thanks for all these beautiful games you have made for free!