If you long-press on the MacroFactor icon from your phone's home screen, a menu will pop up, allowing you to launch directly into MacroFactor's barcode scanner, food search, or weight logging interface. This saves a bit of time versus loading the app, and then selecting one of these actions from the quick actions menu, or your custom toolbar.
Here’s how the long-press menu looks on iPhone:
And here’s how the long-press menu looks on Android:
For now, you can’t configure these options to enable other launch points. We selected barcode scanning, food search, and weight logging as the three default long-press actions, because those are the three most common actions users take. In the future, we may make long-press actions configurable.
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