This came up when I discovered tab stacking on my PC and went to do it on my Android and was not able to. The default method to switch tabs in mobile is to move all the way down to the bottom of the screen, tab the tabs, and tap the tab you want to go to. It’s slow and clunky.
Another thing you can do on desktop is grabbing tabs and dragging them to sit anywhere you please, including inside the collapsible status bar. I never use the right side bar anyway, and having it’s tiny list of useless features bound to right-swipe instead of a tab I nest there is really a waste of mobile gestures. These are just two features not available on phones, but I’m sure there are many others.
Proposed solution
There should be a toggle in Advanced Settings (put a warning on it if you want) that makes mobile run with the full feature set of desktop. It would not change the UI (that should be a separate toggle, between desktop/tablet/phone, available on all devices, see related FRs), it would only return the features and commands that were removed, and gives them back to the people that want them.
Current workaround
I’ve been told that on android, you can enable developer options and set your DPI higher to trick Obsidian into thinking it’s a tablet. This breaks every other app in the process, so can barely be called a “workaround” as it is missing the operative “work”, and it addresses only the tab stacking issue.
I got the same problem, the tab manager (not sure if it’s called that way) is so clunky. I had to change the mobile quick action to open quick switcher cause otherwise was cumbersome.
And can’t find the Developer Options on my Mobile devices I want to try it.
Thanks I tried it, but my tablet got really buggy after changing the smallest width. I even couldn’t unlock it. After re-starting everything came back to normal. Thanks anyway.
I only use this workaround on my 3 Android phones because their smallest width default is set to 411 dp and I change it to 611 dp.
On my ($29) 7" Walmart Onn7 tablet I do not need to change the smallest width as its default is 600 dp and Obsidian is running like on my desktop with my tabs aligned on top next to each like in a browser and making switching between them easy; when I am in stacked mode I can also easily switch using the “vertically” displayed tabs.
So if your tablet’s default smallest width is already at 600 dp or more then there is no need to alter this setting.
Not quite sure why you are experiencing issues when switching tabs but your solution of changing the mobile quick action to open up quick switcher instead of the command palette seems a good one.
As I mentioned in the request, I have tried this method and it ruins a lot of apps on my phone, so It’s not a feasible workaround for me. I’d rather the developers simply allow the app to be more consistent across devices.