As you can see from the short video below, 3D Touch on Android might be similar to the iOS version, at least when it comes to deploying app shortcuts that would be available on the screen, when performing a specific
gesture on an app icon.
Not exact matches
-- Tour of the Mac interface — video tutorials,
icons, multi-touch
gestures, preferences, the Dock — Using Applications — Launchpad, iTunes,
App Store, Preview, Quicktime — Dictation — use enhanced Dictation to convert speech to text — Screenshots — take a screenshot
on your Mac — Exporting a document as a PDF: In most applications, choose File > Export then select PDF.
Beyond
gestures, this video also gives you a look at the whole user interface - how
apps are treated
on the homescreen, how you can re-arrange
icons, use the PlayBook in orientation mode, and more.
Beyond setting an
icon pack and adjusting your
app drawer grid, you can turn back
on our dock, unread badges or Android O notification dots, and even turn
on a few extra
gestures.
If you go premium, you can tack
on gesture controls, unread count badges for
apps, and
icon swipe actions.
There are two methods to utilize in this theme — completely clear
app icons and
gesture launcher shortcuts — and while the former is available
on almost any launcher that allows custom
icons, the latter is a little harder to come by.
Assigning any one of these applications to a
gesture will open the application normally as if you had clicked
on the
app's
icon.
If you long - press any
app or folder
on your desktop or dock and Edit it, you can add a swipe
gesture, essentially doubling the capacity for every
icon on your home screen.
Spotted in certain Google
apps by enterprising hackers, these shortcuts let you perform a
gesture on an
icon to access shortcuts to different areas of that
app — similar to 3D Touch
on the iPhone.
Plus, if you access any of your
apps using a swipe
gesture or an
icon or widget
on your home screen, you can hide it from your drawer since you have another method of opening it anyway.
A new feature that I particularly like is that you can now swipe up or down
on the home screen to access the
app screen, which not only frees up an
icon on the dock but replicates the
gesture found
on the Pixel phones, as well as popular Android launchers such as Nova.
If you choose to use the OxygenOS default launcher, you get a nice set of customizations there, from changing
icon sizes and
app drawer grid sizes, to enabling quick
gestures and changing the look of the search bar
on your home screen.
Other Pixel Launcher features of note is the swipe up
gesture to open the
app drawer, a new weather widget, and long press
on app icons for quick shortcuts.
Among the standouts are support for
gestures (e.g. swipe up from the dialer
icon to instantly call your favorite contact), the ability to show unread counts
on top of
icons (in conjunction with the TeslaUnread plugin
app), and the ability to hide
apps from the
app launcher.
These
gestures really come handy
on the turned off screen, as drawing alphabets directly open the applications without the user having to unlock the screen and then finding the
app icon to open it.