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Setting that enables Controllers for Mobile Devices

Score + 10
Greetings,  I'd love to suggest the following Idea: Introduce a setting to enable mobile controllers. Those controllers help users on mobile devices to move their tokens more easily. The controllers should work the following way: The light-blue button allows you to pick up the token you have currently selected. Sort of like the Q - key on the current version of the tabletop. Once picked up, you can move the token via the controller-cross, drawn here in yellow / orange. The movement should look something like the ALT + ArrowKey combination on the current tabletop. A preview shows you where you would currently move your token, showing you the distance that token went at any time. This is demonstrated with the purple arrow. Once you've found the desired location, you can put the token down there by pressing the light-blue button again. And just by that, you moved your token with way more precision that you could with a tablet or smartphone pen - or even your bare hands Advantages This would heavily improve the experience for mobile users both on smartphones and tablets. You can use currently working systems for the movement and preview and just have to add UI elements to control them. That way we would enable all those cool key-combinations on devices that dont have a keyboard.  Use Cases I for example play my weakly D&D session in person. To improve the experience for our players, we use Roll20 for battlemaps and visualization. But since its not affordable to have a computer for each player and using laptops on a small table takes over most space, we instead use tablets with roll20 to control our tokens. Yet, it sometimes really is hard to move tokens and measure distances since you can't use many of the key-combinations like the Q - key. We would very much love this new feature, and I am sure there are more users of mobile devices here as well!
Comment for the algorithm! Let's improve this sh*t! :D No but seriously, measuring distances while using mobile devices is a complete pain in the ass and DESPERATELY needs improvement!