The store mostly relies on all
the same swipe gestures that Snapchat users are already accustomed to.
As far as I can see this uses
the same swipe gestures and page buttons on my (much heavier) 650.
Not exact matches
iBooks has good support, as does Mantano Reader, but the Kobo app always starts reading from the beginning of the chapter (no matter where your location is), page turns do not automatically synchronize (
same with Marvin), and the two finger
swipe down
gesture conflicts with Kobo's brightness adjustment
gesture.
The second generation of this tablet looks the
same, but this time it has multitouch baked in, so you can make iPhone-esque
gestures with multiple fingers, such as rotating and zooming, instead of just, say,
swiping with a single finger.
Like Google Now Launcher's
swipe - right - for - Now
gesture, the
same action on Action Launcher 3 will bring up an alphabetical list of everything installed on the handset, along with a quick way to sort through them by dragging across the letter bar on the right side.
Essentially, this
gesture acts the
same as tapping /
swiping to the right, and
swiping to the left, respectively.
A
swipe up from the bottom is the new home
gesture (which also unlocks the device) on Apple's flagship phone, but that
same gesture brings up the dock on the iPad.
Once you've added a card, you can access Samsung Pay from the home screen or lock screen by
swiping up from the bottom of the display; the
same gesture works for accessing Samsung Pay when the phone is locked and the screen is off, so it's always at your beck and call.
Those
gesture controls will feel oddly familiar to anyone who's used an iPhone X: It's the
same kind of upwards
swipe to go to the home screen, and a
swipe - and - hold for multitasking.
You still
swipe up from the bottom (dragging your finger up the screen further than when you trigger the app dock with the
same gesture), but the quick settings are now all right - aligned, while a multitasking grid appears on the left side.
Many of the touch
gestures such as
swiping left and right for different screens are the
same, although there are some new ones such as
swiping down for a «back» command.
In fact, the options for these
gestures are largely the
same as for app and folder
swipe actions, but the list of
gestures is much broader:
swipe up,
swipe down, double tap,
swipe up with two fingers,
swipe down with two fingers, pinch in or out, and rotate clockwise or counterclockwise.
In the
same commercial, another student can be seen using an obscure
swipe gesture that lets you switch between apps with four fingers, similar to the single - finger
swipe along the bottom that achieves the
same result on the iPhone X. Not once does anyone use the traditional home button.
It integrates with all the
same great apps as the web version (like Pocket and Buffer), and the forward - thinking
gestures on iOS are something to behold — e.g., double - tap to close stories,
swipe down to go to the next page.
As iOS 7 taught its users to
swipe right from the left side of the display to return to the previous layer, apps built like cards on top of one another, the iPhone 6s and iOS 9 will teach us to seamlessly
swipe between apps using that
same gesture — just applied with a bit of force.
By default, a
swipe down on the home screen functions the
same way as a
swipe up, opening your app drawer, but with a quick tweak, you can make the
gesture a bit more useful.
Now iPhone X users will have to
swipe up from the button to wake the phone, and the
same gesture will bring up control center once the phone is awake.
The
same swipe down
gesture that expands Android notifications.
Oddly, despite having the
same processor and RAM as the standard second - generation Moto 360, the Sport version offered a noticeably higher frame rate in daily use, smoothly responding to
swipes and
gestures (wrist
gestures to move through notification cards were enabled by default, by the way).
There are keyboard shortcut counterparts for most of the available commands for
gesture customization, but simply
swiping or tapping on the touchpad is a more intuitive way to launch the commands compared to pressing several keys at the
same time.
Well,
swiping up from the bottom up activates both home and back actions, so if you
swipe up from the bottom up while sticking to the middle of the phone's bottom, you will activate the home
gesture, and if you do the
same on the left or right sides of the phone's bottom, you will activate the back key action.
It is the
same gesture as accessing the Home screen, however, you need to
swipe up and pause to access the app switcher.