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Crop Tool - Allow to change size via pinch to zoom gesture

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
Half a day
Newbie friendliness
68/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
kotlin
Domain
mobile-dev

Research direction

Locate the crop tool implementation, likely in a CropActivity or similar class. Examine how the crop window is drawn and how touch events currently resize it via corner handles. Add pinch-to-zoom detection using ScaleGestureDetector and apply the scale to adjust the crop window size. Verify by testing the crop tool with pinch gestures.

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feature request needs triage
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Feature description

I would like to have the ability to change the size of the cropping window/border by an pinch to zoom gesture.

Why do you want this feature?

Many people have thicker phone cases or disabilities and it's hard for them to tap the very small corner at the edge of the screen.

Additional information

A bigger touch area for the four corners would already be a big help.

Although I would prefer the pinch to zoom gesture, as I think, it's more intuitive, easy to understand and is used by many other apps. A standard for changing all kinds of sizes - so to speak.

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