Iceraven-browser: Swipe Up to Open Tab Tray

[Raul1198]

What is the user problem or growth opportunity you want to see solved?

an option to open tabs simply by swiping tab like in this reddit post https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/islbb9/added_some_flair_to_firefox_for_android_and_some/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

How do you know that this problem exists today? Why is this important?

i have been using Kiwi browser along side Iceweasel and found Kiwi's swipe to open tab more ergonomic

Who will benefit from it?

user with swipe to change tab

[interfect]

That looks pretty cool, but I can't find any evidence that /u/Behave_or_else has published the code behind their excellent demo. The closest thing I can find is https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/pull/13370 which (also?) adds a swipe gesture as a way to open the tab tray. I'm not sure if @person808 who wrote that code has anything to do with /u/Behave_or_else.

If we can dig up the code for this (maybe by messaging them on Reddit? Maybe it just is that PR?) and glue it to the tab tray customization options that @abhijitvalluri has already written on our side (probably to let it be a swipe down when using tab tray from the top), it would definitely be cool to have more UI improvements.

[person808]

That reddit user is not me and I think that post is just a UI mockup. My PR doesn't have a fancy animation/transition like the post does because AFAIK you can't control the animation when using BottomSheetBehavior. If someone wanted to take a crack at improving my implementation, I would suggest trying to upstream it 😄

[person808]

To see how a more complex gesture with custom animations is implemented, look at ToolbarGestureHandler which implements swipe to switch tabs (with the help of SwipeGestureLayout).