If you open the timer app on a Xiaomi phone, you can click on a recent time to set the timer. Here I click on “19:00” and get 13 minutes. Why? Because if you click “go” before their gee-whiz animation is finished, you get whatever time happened to be on the dial at the time you pressed the button. Like, all they had to do was just have the button set the timer. And God forbid you just want to type a number. Nope. You have to spin a dial. It’s literally easier to do this right, but they chose to make it suck because it has to look cool.
Oh it’s the same issue that google’s alarm or clock or whatever had. Because the time select dial had to actually move to the position you clicked it could do the same as here and select whatever it was on when you clicked okay.
Separating animations from the actual selector is just too hard I guess.
That’s not the Google one.
Which one was it then?
I have no idea. You’re the one that used it.
I watched a video about it. If you have nothing to add apart from saying I am wrong don’t bother replying.
Don’t bother spouting incorrect information then. You made an incorrect assertion. I called it out. Simple as.
Not sure what else I’m supposed to say. You saw a video about some app with timer dials. I have no way of knowing what app that is, but I know what it isn’t. That video you watched is incorrect based on my familiarity with the Google clock app.
I am pretty sure spin dials constitute torture according to the Geneva convention and Cruel and Unusual Punishment according to the US Constitution.
I am particularly salty at the stupid spinners for year when you have to enter birth year. I am old enough that it takes a minute to scroll to my birth year, and every second of it I hate the person that decided spinners are a great UI. Entering a date by keyboard takes 10 seconds, and the spinners multiply that time without providing any advantage.
Those suck. Even worse are the calendars that force you to scroll by month (or hide the secret menu to pop up the year selection.)
Just let me enter a date!
I forgot about those! Enter birth day: pops up monthly calendar of January 2026, and you cry trying to figure out how to scroll back in time.
