The launcher preferences can also be customized simply by
swiping up from the bottom, or by a long press on the home screen.
First, accessing the app drawer is now done by
swiping up on the home screen.
You can access the Home screen
by swiping up from anywhere along the bottom edge of the display.
The good thing is that the home touch buttons can be brought anytime into the screen by
just swiping up from the bottom.
To reveal the drawer, users
simply swipe up on the bar, or press a small arrow icon just above the launcher.
In order to use it, you'll need to just add a payment card to the app, and
then swipe up from the bezel to choose your saved card.
In order to pull up apps, you
now swipe up on the lower portion of the home screen to reveal a hidden app drawer.
Now, instead of grabbing that small lock and moving it around, you will need to
swipe up in order to unlock your screen.
You can
also swipe up from the bottom to reveal a tray of apps which are customizable.
It offers space for five go - to apps and a
simple swipe up pulls up the app drawer.
A
quick swipe up from the shutter / record button will expand the white rounded rectangle that sits just above the button, revealing all the manual modes instantly.
While it's responsive to gestures
like swiping up with three fingers to show open apps and scrolling with two fingers, I found myself hitting the edges a lot during simple web browsing.
Instead
of swiping up on an app window to dismiss it, you have to press and hold the window, then tap a close button on the corner.
Users can not
swipe up anywhere on the home screen to open the app drawer or swipe down to pull down the notification shade.
It is officially sold out, so if you did
n't swipe it up on a previous posting, I linked some similar options for you.
It's a necessary change, since
swiping up brings you to the home screen, but it was definitely annoying at first.
The only special gesture supported seems to be the three -
finger swipe up for quickly sharing content.
If you just want the see the battery percentage, swipe down a bit from the right ear, read the battery percentage and quickly
swipe up again.
Instead of pressing your finger to a home button, you now glance at the phone and
quickly swipe up with your thumb.
This doesn't disable the swipe gestures, so you can
still swipe up or down to access the app drawer in addition to using the button.
So swiping up didn't so much take you home as it took you to the card multitasking view.
There's no longer an icon for the app drawer, but you can still see all your apps with a
single swipe up from the bottom of the screen.
The user can tap and hold to preview 15 seconds of each song,
before swiping up to reject the song or swiping down to add the song to their library.
The affected users claim that they have to
swipe up multiple times on the screen for their phone to recognize that gesture.
For one, when viewing the Quick Settings panel on your lock screen, you can simply
swipe up once to close the panel and unlock your device directly.
This is helpful for games
where swiping up may be a means to control on - screen characters or maps.
Just
start swiping up on the screen even before you see the visual confirmation, and you'll get to the home screen faster.
Previously, you could
only swipe up from the dock at the bottom of the screen.
Try swiping up or down on your home screen and you will like it for sure.
Currently, having an endless sea of cards that
need swiping up or across the screen, quickly becomes tedious.
Always brush from the feet up, moving left to right in motion (following natural blood flow patterns), and
swipe up towards the heart.
Of course I can
tell swipe up or down to do do any number of functions.
I
dig swiping up and having shortcuts to my music, calculator and to put it in night mode.
I never reach for a home button that isn't there, but I
often swipe up from the bottom of the screen hoping the control center shows up.
Similarly, a couple of the icons in my app tray double as folders — tapping the icon opens the app, but
swiping up exposes the contents of the «hidden» folder.
Users can also now access it from any app with a
small swipe up from the bottom of the screen, and switch apps with a tap.
In Android 5.1, when your device is locked and you swipe down the notification shade, you can unlock your phone by
swiping up outside said shade.
You'll get a basketball placed in various locations on your screen, and all you have to do just
swipe up toss the ball into the hoop.
Similarly, there's another which can clear your background apps from memory by
repeatedly swiping up and down along one edge.
The only known benefit is that you can
now swipe up from anywhere on the screen to bring up the app drawer.
Meanwhile,
swiping up in full - screen mode will pull up a row of suggested videos so users can browse while watching.
Heck, even three - finger
swipe ups for the task view work with ease.
For both activity and sleep tracking, you can
also swipe up on the app to see a visual and more detailed overview of your progress through different graphs and charts.