A dedicated button on the Fire Phone's left side lets
you quickly launch the camera app and take photos (by pressing once) or engage the Firefly feature (with a long press).
Years ago, Motorola integrated my favorite gesture to
quickly launch the camera app on its smartphones.
With the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 edge, Samsung introduced a novel way of letting users
quickly launch the camera app by pressing the home button twice.
With the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 edge, Samsung introduced a novel way of letting users
quickly launch the camera app by pressing the home bu...
The user can
quickly launch the camera app by holding the volume down button.
Not exact matches
Whether you want to call a specific contact with one tap, keep your phone unlocked when you're at home or work,
launch the
camera in a flash to
quickly capture the perfect moment, or search for an
app while in a rush, here are some of the best shortcuts built into Android that you're probably not using.
One of the most welcome improvements on that front is how much faster the
camera app launches, as well as how much more
quickly it snaps and saves photos.
Perhaps the most popular hardware shortcut on Android, «Quick
launch Camera,» allows the user to enter the
Camera app quickly by double - tapping on the power key.
You can
launch the
camera by pressing the power button twice, switch in and out of selfie mode by double - twisting your wrist when you are in the
app, and lift your phone to
quickly check your notifications.
In terms of
camera app speed, I've always been impressed with how
quickly I can
launch Samsung's default
camera.
The option is enabled by default and works pretty well; the
camera app launched quickly the numerous times we tried the shortcut, and it's possible the phone is now keeping the
camera process in memory at all times, similar to the company's latest Android devices.
You can draw various gestures on the screen of the OnePlus One (even with the screen turned off) and
quickly launch apps like the flashlight or
camera.
If you swipe left from the
camera shortcut will open the
camera app and if you swipe right from phone shortcut you will be able to
quickly launch the Phone
app.
It could do anything from a
camera shutter button to
quickly launching their favorite
app.
The
camera app, which can be
quickly launched by doubling pressing the home button from anywhere in the interface, is similar to the
camera app we see on Samsung's Android phones.
How to
quickly launch different
camera modes: If you've got a 3D touch enabled iPhone press firmly on the
camera app and you'll get the choice to Take a Photo, Record a Slow - Mo, Record Video, or Take a Selfie.
It was one of the first times that I had a trouble - free experience with an Android smartphone
camera, and I was able to
quickly grab shots thanks to Google's ingenious shortcut to
launch the
camera app — double - tapping the power button.
For example, the removal of the home button means you double press the
camera button to
launch the
camera on the Galaxy S8, just like Google's shortcut, while double tapping the recent
apps key lets you
quickly switch to the
app you most recently used.
August's live view has a narrower field of view than the other
cameras we tested, focusing on the area right in front of the door.August's well - designed
app launches quickly, supports multiple devices and users, and looks great.
This will instantly
launch the
camera app in one of the two aforementioned modes, and you'll find these shorts of modes on the dialer, which presents commonly dialed contacts, or Chrome which allows you to
quickly open a new regular or incognito tab.
There are a few flourishes here and there that add to the overall usefulness of the phone, like the ability to swipe up from the bottom to access search
quickly and the ability to draw shapes on the locked screen to
launch apps like the
camera and flashlight.
It's a capable
camera that can focus in
quickly on subjects, and there's very little delay when
launching the
camera app and snapping a photo.
Quick access to the
camera is one of the top reasons for this shortcut to exist, but most of the time the phone can't
launch the
camera app quickly enough because of the not - so - powerful hardware inside (which we will talk about after the software section.)