Suggestion for Panic Trigger Android app; Add cut-out circle on trigger button and implement haptic feedback.

Repository

https://github.com/tacticalDevC/PanicTrigger

Components

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This suggestion affects the interface of the app. Furthermore, the suggestions will improve user experience.

Proposal Description

Panic trigger app is a very useful app. It helps you broadcast messages to people in cases of emergency. When you launch the app for the first time and have done the required configurations, you can now use the app by tapping the trigger button. However, there's not a button, as the whole screen serves as a trigger. But, on the screen, there's a text "TRIGGER", automatically, people's mind will be moved to tap on the text as the trigger, that is if they are unaware of the fact that the whole screen is a trigger. That is why it is necessary for the trigger button to have a cut-out, which tells the user, that this is a button.

Furthermore, there's no feedback to notify a user if actually the button was clicked. When I used the software and tapped on the trigger, I didn't know if it worked or not. It was until I got the emergency text on my other phone. That is why haptic feedback is necessary.

Here are suggestions concisely;

• Create a trigger button by cutting out a circle on the screen.
• Haptic feedback when a user presses the button.

Some people might not like the idea of haptic feedback though. This shouldn't be forced on anyone. So for those who want it, they can enable it in the app's settings.

Mockups / Examples

If the cut-out circle is implemented, the app will now look like this;

A circle seems to be the best shape to use in this case.

Now for users who want or don't haptic feedback, they can enable or disable it in the settings page. This option can be placed here;

Benefits

• For the cut-out circle, users will now know the actual place to tap.
• With haptic feedback, users would know if the trigger was tapped or not.

GitHub Account

https://github.com/HarryHeights

This idea has already been proposed to the project owner on Github by me. He liked the idea and self assigned himself to fulfil the task of implementing the feature. Hopefully, this would be available in the next release of the software,
Here is the link to the issue on Github