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Instagram Android users suffer from various issues. And it is that the social network of photography and video has left its version for Android terminals off the hook. Not only because new features tend to reach iPhone earlier, but because there are issues that have not even been seen on Android. Not to mention the problems of having terminals with different screen proportions that ultimately leave Instagram Stories cut off on other screens when they are played.Well, the change has finally arrived and Android users also have guides and other issues to create stories like on iPhone
Using guides
Users of Instagram Stories on iPhone have always had simple guides to measure distances and place content in their stories. We are referring to some simple lines that appear in the margins and in the middle of the screen and that help to know where to place elements in an aesthetic and precise way. Not only do they mark the ends or the exact half of the screen, but they also make the elements that we are moving (be it text, a GIF or an Instagram sticker) stick to them. So we can move these elements without fear and make sure everything looks where it should.
No need to activate anything at all. Instagram has launched these features in its latest version from the Google Play Store. So make sure you update the app to have it. Then create an Instagram Story to use, either photo or video. And now start creating. You can write a text or move a sticker on the screen. When you get closer to the exact middle of the screen by scrolling said text or sticker, a blue line appears. And, if you wait for half a second, the element you move sticks to it. In this way we can move the element along the guide without moving a millimeter from it, unless we force the movement to detach it.
Guides appear on the left and right sides, top and bottom, and right in the middle of the screen. Just move the element to make them appear. Remember to wait half a second next to one of them to paste it and move it without fear and without displacing it.
Using the axes
But there is a second type of guidelines beyond the blue lines on the sides. This is a yellow dashed line that appears through the text or sticker that we are moving. Of course, in this case it only appears vertically and horizontally to indicate whether the element we are moving is completely straight.
It is a guide that allows us to measure the horizontality or verticality of the element (also the diagonals) If we have doubts about whether a text or sticker are crooked, we just have to use two fingers to rotate the element and meet these guides with each 90 degree turn. As with the blue guides, these yellow guides show slightly when scrolling through the vertical or horizontal position. If we wait half a second, its color brightens and activates to anchor the item in that pose.This way we can make sure that it is in a straight position with respect to the vertical or horizontal axis. Of course, with a somewhat more abrupt movement we can unpin it and move it again at will.
Avoiding cut stories
Along with these two types of guides, Instagram Stories now has the response elements to the stories or the top line that marks how many publications the user has. Thanks to these elements, which appear if we move a text or a sticker to the bottom of the screen, or to the top, we can prevent it from appearing cut off in the final publication
Just by bringing it closer to the top or bottom we will see these elements appear, shaded. Enough to know how far we can lower or raise text and stickers so that do not intersect with the rest of the Instagram Stories interface.
