When switching to other views, very often a text field in the left panel gets the focus.
On touch device this leads to opening the soft keyboard, which covers a lot of info / buttons.
In most cases I do not want to enter anything in the text field, but have to tap twice (2nd tap to close keyboard).
Example:
- “Plan” view, no route loaded
- tap on “Cloud” → close keyboard (covers folder list)
- tap on folder → close keyboard (covers route list)
- tap on route (no keyboard
) - press “back” button in left panel to go to folder → close keyboard (covers route list)
- press “back” button in left panel to go to folder overview → close keyboard (covers folder list)
Therefore I suggest not to focus the text fields in left panel on touch devices - in the cases when I want to enter text, I have to tap on the text field, but in most cases I do not use them.