Toggle Stack View Command Disappeared from Mobile android

[Shaiya]

What I’m trying to do

I’m trying to use the stacked tabs view on android. until today there was a command in my palette to do that (i had it as the default pull down screen command) and suddenly it seems to have disappeared completely from the command palette - there is no more stacked view option on my mobile.

i’d like to get the toggle stacked view back on my android

Things I have tried

I searched for this in the forum but no one else seems to be having this problem, which makes me think I’m missing something. Or is it a bug?

[holroy]

Lifted from the changelog for 1.5.8, see https://obsidian.md/changelog/:

It’s no longer possible for phones to load stacked tabs. The “Toggle stacked tabs” command is no longer shown in the command palette and loading a workspace with stacked tabs will unstack them on devices that don’t support stacked tabs.

So I reckon your device is one of those not supporting stacked tabs.

[Shaiya]

Hi! thanks for your response. that would explain it. kind of weird, though, no? is there an explanation? the link you shared doesn’t work for me.

[WhiteNoise]

Because the implementation was a refuse of the desktop one and it was broken on mobile.

[Shaiya]

Hi. Interesting. It worked great on mine. I guess behavior varies across devices.

Thanks for the explanation.

[ichmoimeyo]

On Android Mobile this setting …

… has now disappeared from my Android phone.

… is still there on my Android Tablet and Chromebook.

[… so screen size rather than mobile per se seems to be the deciding factor of this change]

However I can make it reappear on my Android phone by making Android “think” that I have a tablet …

For this you need to have enabled developer options.
(… Tap “About Phone/Build number” seven times.)

In developer options scroll down to Smallest width

e.g. on my Android phone I have

Smallest width:
411 dp

On Android the pivot figure is 600 dp.
… anything below Android thinks you have a phone.
… anything above Android thinks you have a tablet.

So I set it to 610 dp (from 411 dp)

Now when I reload Obsidian(no need to reboot the phone) …

… it has a tablet layout with tabs on top and …

ctrl+p toggle stacked tabs
ctrl+shift+s (my personal hotkey)
stacked tabs icon

… are all back.

This developer setting needs to be set each time you reboot the phone …
i.e. you can try it and you’ll be back to normal after a reboot.

CARE: this setting affects everything on your phone … e.g. your Android browser will also have a tablet layout.

PS:
… you can alternate between the two layouts by changing the dp in developer options and reloading Obsidian without needing to reboot.
… I’ve used the opposite on my small 8.4" Android tablet in the past when I wanted my browser to have a phone interface by setting the dp below 600 at 590.