Whiteboard text shifts/moves when revealing answer

AnkiDroid (Android) Help
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I’m using the AnkiDroid app on my Galaxy Tab S9. When I use the whiteboard tool to write on the front of a card, the text I’ve written shifts along with the screen when I reveal the answer. I’d like the annotations to remain fixed in their original position on the card, independent of the screen reveal scroll. Is this possible?

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If I understand you correctly, your whiteboard writing scrolls along with the rest of the card – as though you wrote it on that part of the card. While you want the writing to stay in the same place – as though you wrote it on that part of the screen – even when that part of the card scrolls away. Is that right?

I’m asking because in my AnkiDroid, it’s already happening the way you are asking – the whiteboard writing stays in a fixed place on the screen, even though the card scrolls when the answer is revealed.

That makes me think this is either (a) note-type/card-template specific, or (b) device specific.

Let’s do the easy one first – Will you go to Settings > About > Copy debug info – and paste that result here to see if anyone can spot a reason for the difference?

Version info

AnkiDroid Version = 2.20.1 (e32a82c33646807ea19623c9c88be38965bc07e6)

Backend Version = 0.1.48-anki24.11 (24.11 c47638ca36f99dd4f3b81ae82d964aec66e392e0)

Android Version = 9 (SDK 28)

ProductFlavor = play

Manufacturer = Amazon

Model = KFONWI

Hardware = mt8168

Webview User Agent = Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 9; KFONWI Build/PS7321; wv) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Chrome/94.0.4606.71 Safari/537.36

ACRA UUID = 55ae3c0a-d60c-451d-8dfa-6b0426c97b63

FSRS = 1.4.3 (Enabled: true)

Crash Reports Enabled = true

As far as the note type –
Do you know if there’s anything unique about your note type/templates? For instance, does your back template start with the usual –

{{FrontSide}}

<hr id=answer>

– or something else? Have you seen this same behavior on other note types?

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Yes, you’ve understood my problem perfectly.

Here’s my debug information:

AnkiDroid Version = 2.21alpha15 (c9c58c3efb8adf535fdfb4a7237ae56a870fafef) Backend Version = 0.1.52-anki25.02 (25.02 038d85b1d9e1896e93a3e4a26f600c79ddc33611) Android Version = 14 (SDK 34) ProductFlavor = full Device Info = samsung | samsung | gts9fewifi | gts9fewifixx | SM-X510 | s5e8835 Webview User Agent = Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 14; SM-X510 Build/UP1A.231005.007; wv) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Chrome/136.0.7103.125 Safari/537.36 ACRA UUID = 16a209ca-1deb-469a-9d29-0679d1667771 FSRS = 2.0.3 (Enabled: true) Crash Reports Enabled = true

Regarding the note type, my primary cards are image-based. When I click to edit a note on my tablet, the field shows the image URL, like this: <img src="paste-20cf2ce52af4d03caab3cf230dae2aa1c7014382.jpg">

On my PC, the editor displays the actual image.

Regarding other note types, I created a text-based card to test, and the whiteboard behavior was the same as with my image-based cards (the writing still scrolls with the card).

Interestingly:

  • On AnkiWeb, when using a Chrome extension for whiteboard functionality, the behavior is similar (the writing scrolls with the card).
  • On my desktop Anki, I use the “AnkiDraw” add-on, and with that, the writing correctly stays in place when the answer is revealed.

My workflow for adding these cards is to do it from my computer: I take a screenshot of an image and paste it into the Anki desktop application.

4

Sometimes the differences are pretty clear. Did you enable the “New Reviewer” in the alpha build?

5

It’s not supported yet in the new reviewer.

6

Initially, I was using the version downloaded from the Play Store, not the alpha build.

To try and resolve the problem, I then installed the alpha version, but unfortunately, that didn’t fix the issue. I have now reverted to the version available on the Play Store, and the problem persists.

Here is my current setup information:

 AnkiDroid Version: 2.20.1 (e32a82c33646807ea19623c9c88be38965bc07e6)
 Backend Version: 0.1.48-anki24.11 (24.11 c47638ca36f99dd4f3b81ae82d964aec66e392e0)
 Android Version: 14 (SDK 34)
 ProductFlavor: play
 Manufacturer: samsung
 Model: SM-X510
 Hardware: s5e8835
 Webview User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 14; SM-X510 Build/UP1A.231005.007; wv) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Chrome/136.0.7103.125 Safari/537.36
 ACRA UUID: d9363d51-0e12-493e-a98d-10041d7f20c4
FSRS: 1.4.3 (Enabled: true)
 Crash Reports Enabled: true