The smaller chipset generally nipped along fairly well when
swiping between home screens, but when waking up to the camera or loading slightly larger apps, the Samsung Galaxy Fame struggled really quite noticeably, to the point where we were feeling rather frustrated.
Swiping between home screens and digging through the settings is a pleasure, rather than a chore, with the handset never letting up for even a single second.
Not only is it an easy way to find apps without
swiping between home screens, the Dock is also now the linchpin of multitasking on the tablet.
However, we did note a bit of lag when
swiping between Home screens and the App Drawer.
Swiping between home screens is pretty similar to 3.0.1, but the experience is far more consistent.
Swiping between home screens was responsive, but there was noticeable lag when opening some apps such as the Silk browser, Amazon's App Store and especially the camera app.
Some things didn't feel especially different (like
swiping between home screens), but scrolling in iTunes felt faster, as did navigating photo galleries, for example.
Performance was quick for the most part, though some delay occurred when switching between apps (when exiting the browser) and sometimes
swiping between home screens.
The nice thing about the keyboard is that it also doubles as a track pad, so you can actually use to scroll through a web page or your social media feeds, and also
swipe between home screens.
On quite a few occassions, I was left pawing at the EPD trying to unlock it or
swipe between home screens.
Not exact matches
There are 5
home screens to choose from and you
swipe left or right to move
between them.
There are seven
home screens you can customize and
swipe between.
You get five
home screen panels that you can
swipe between, and the handset feels smooth and fast.
From the
home screen, users can
swipe their finger through thumbnails of currently running apps, cycle
between app categories, and view all those essentials like time and battery life.
The Fire tablet offers a conventional view with the
home screen letting you
swipe between different categories of content from books to video, apps, games and so on.
Between using the sleep / wake button and
swiping on the Z10's
screen to wake it up through gesture control, the gesture control will get you directly into the device's
home screen, while the sleep / wake button delivers the Z10's lock
screen.
You can tap on the name of these content pages, or
swipe from left to right (on the
home screen) to switch
between them.
And once I mastered the four - finger gestures that allow you to pinch in to return to the
home screen and
swipe right to hop
between open apps, I didn't desire «real» multitasking.
I often had to
swipe several times to scroll through the list of applications or switch
between home screens.
The ability to
swipe away windows or minimize them with an upwards
swipe makes it easy for users to bounce back and forth
between multiple applications, their
home screen, and the Hub.
Icons can now be rearranged right on the watch, and the
swiping gestures have been reduced to just side to side for scrolling
between home screens and down to go back a step.
These aren't Android's widgets: There's no way to place widgets on your
home screen, and there's also no way to create multiple different
screens of widgets you can
swipe between.
At first blush, I can't say that the idea of
swiping up from the bottom to return
home is particularly intuitive, and neither is the distinction
between a
swipe down from the left of the
screen's monobrow (for notifications) and a
swipe down from the right (which pulls up the iOS Control Center).
And multitasking in iOS 11 is a little more feasible than in iOS 10, thanks to a grid of open app windows accessible with a double tap of the
home button, a Mac - style Dock of favorite and open apps you invoke with a
swipe up from the bottom of the
screen, and the capability to drag content
between apps.
However, when you are allowed to
swipe between five different
screens along with an awesome new 3D look for the
home screen is definitely fun and this is what the new version offers!
At the 3:10 mark, Peterson gives the iPhone X its first closeup, moving
between home screen pages before
swiping down from the top right corner to open Control Center.
Swiping between pages on the
home screen of the Galaxy S8 active is an easy way to accidentally
swipe over to the Bixby page, which the Bixby button also directs you to.
Apps wouldn't open, the app switcher just didn't work and I couldn't even
swipe between the pages of apps on my
home screen.
Android users will actually prefer the new system - wide gestures that return to the
home screen with a
swipe up from the bottom or switch quickly
between apps with a horizontal flick of the thumb.
This will present users with eight different options for the animations displayed as the user
swipes left and right
between home screens.
To access
swipe down from the top of the
home screen > hit the settings cog icon > tap Home Screen Style (visible within first page) > choose between Standard and App Drawer opti
home screen > hit the settings cog icon > tap Home Screen Style (visible within first page) > choose between Standard and App Drawer op
screen > hit the settings cog icon > tap
Home Screen Style (visible within first page) > choose between Standard and App Drawer opti
Home Screen Style (visible within first page) > choose between Standard and App Drawer op
Screen Style (visible within first page) > choose
between Standard and App Drawer options.
This essentially changes the animation or transition
between each of the
home screens when you
swipe through them.
Users can also take advantage of iOS 7's
swipe functionality that enables quick navigation
between the messaging
screen and the
home feed.