From MCPE-122270:
Unlike Windows 10 - PC when punching the air the player's hand moves but on mobile it doesn't.
Steps to Reproduce:
Open Minecraft on your mobile device.
Punch the air.
Nothing happens except it makes a sound.
Observed Results:
When punching the air on mobile devices the player's hand doesn't move but a punching sound plays.
Expected Results:
It should do a punching animation just like in Windows 10 - PC.
Original Description:
The bug is not too serious but the animation when player try to touch the screen while facing the air block can't make a punching animation even in all perspectives. This only happen on mobile devices.
Linked issues
is duplicated by 20
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MCPE-174357
Hitting or punching air isn't working on mobile.
Resolved
MCPE-173003
Unable to hit the air with all touch controls
Resolved
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Comments 13
Afaik :
It was never a thing for mobile, just especially for mobiles ( Im a mobile player since year 2012~ and I only remember once being able to hit air, unless I have really bad memory )
though, before the official release of the new controls for mobile, someone created a texturepack which enables the early version of it ( by making the textures to select it visible ). But, in that "early version new controls", you were actually able to hit air with the attack/hit button ( the hand animation played, but im not sure if its registered as a hit or not ). This gives me some hope that this can be fixed, or is not an intended feature.
BUT
I hope that this is actually a bug because, It will be really useful in addon making. In other words, all platforms EXCEPT MOBILE has a hit trigger which complicates thing when you cant register the arm swing/hit for only mobile players. Thus, any addons/mods that uses the hit trigger to execute something would be very hard to use on mobile, as the only way to do so is either by
hitting a block, or
hitting a mob/entity
It also doesn't work on ios devices