Gesture Navigation: Easy way to switch between the current and previous app? - LineageOS Questions & Answers

Just installed LOS 19.1 on one of our POCO X3 NFC and since Gesture Navigation was the default in the install wizard, I went for it the very first time.
So far I like it, but what puzzles me:
Previously I always only used the 3-button navigation, and double tapping on the square button allowed quickly switching between the current and the previously used app.
This is not possible with gesture navigation?

not sure if this is what you mean as its been while since I used the buttons, but..swipe on the bottom from left to right?
there some nuances to it though. swiping left and right in quick succession will switch between two windows(or more if you swipe twice both ways) but once you actively use one window, the position of previous one will always on the left

rocketda7331 said:
not sure if this is what you mean as its been while since I used the buttons, but..swipe on the bottom from left to right?
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Yes, that's what I was looking for, thanks.
rocketda7331 said:
there some nuances to it though. swiping left and right in quick succession will switch between two windows(or more if you swipe twice both ways) but once you actively use one window, the position of previous one will always on the left
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Interesting, though to be expected, because the active app will then always the the last, so it makes sense to only swipe from left to right from there.

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How to switch between last 2 used apps

In HTC's advertising blurb for the OX they state "With a 3-finger swipe, easily switch between the last 2 apps used"
I can't seem to get this to work and wonder if I'm missing a setting somewhere.
Any help greatly received as this would be a really useful function.
3 finger swipe is used to start screen sharing with the HTC media link HD, not the last two apps. to switch apps use the task switcher button
where does the blurb say that?
phil112345 said:
3 finger swipe is used to start screen sharing with the HTC media link HD, not the last two apps. to switch apps use the task switcher button
where does the blurb say that?
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/HTC-One-Sim-Free-Smartphone/dp/B0078LXM4A/
About half-way down the product description under Sense, Dynamic multi-tasking
Good spot - never noticed that before and I've certainly never found that feature!
Edit: Just seen in the Team Pkmn Rom that there have included an option to map a certain feature to the three finger swipe, when swiping Up, Down, Left and Right. One of the options is go to previous open app. Not sure if this is what HTC seem to have planned to implement but it works a treat!

Suggestion for new fullscreen mod.

Hi, i didn't want to make trash of development section so I came here to ask or suggest of making mod that will allow us to use 100% of the screen without any on screen buttons visible.
I know that there is a mod that is doing same thing, but it's uncomfortable to use. (You press on the screen corner and then on screen buttons magically appear)
So here's my suggestion how could it work.
You will have to put your finger under the screen on the left, right or center depending on which action you want to launch. Then swype your finger up and release it.
For example I want to go back from settings so I press back button:
I put finger on the bottom left of the phone and then swype it up to the screen and release it.
If any developer could make that kind of gesture readable by phone, and attach it to a proper action would be great
Sorry for my "not best English" I tried how I could to present my idea most clearly.
And please don't say that screen is big enough so this kind of mod is unnecessary..
Edit: See attached image below
Tapped from Defy
This actually has been suggested before and I thought it was a really good idea, but the majority of the community ripped the OP of the other thread a new one and told him to just use button savior or LMT launcher or something. It was pretty messed up. Hopefully we can actually get that sooner or later!
I completely agree. I use LMT, but it seems like it would be more convenient the way you suggested. Also less accidental presses if you swiped from the bottom.
joshuajones said:
I completely agree. I use LMT, but it seems like it would be more convenient the way you suggested. Also less accidental presses if you swiped from the bottom.
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I thought of extending lmt to support also that feature. But I would more see completely configurable touch/swipe areas. They could be placed on the left, right and also at the bottom. What do you think?
Sent from my Nexus 7
Have a look at GMD gesture control. It does exactly what you want
I also did that for myself.
App Thread: google "gmd gesturce control xda" (I cannot post any links)
Thank you for comments
I've attached image showing my idea (go to first post), so everything is clear now. I'm sure you can't do this with LMT.
Krokogator said:
Hi, i didn't want to make trash of development section so I came here to ask or suggest of making mod that will allow us to use 100% of the screen without any on screen buttons visible.
I know that there is a mod that is doing same thing, but it's uncomfortable to use. (You press on the screen corner and then on screen buttons magically appear)
So here's my suggestion how could it work.
You will have to put your finger under the screen on the left, right or center depending on which action you want to launch. Then swype your finger up and release it.
For example I want to go back from settings so I press back button:
I put finger on the bottom left of the phone and then swype it up to the screen and release it.
If any developer could make that kind of gesture readable by phone, and attach it to a proper action would be great
Sorry for my "not best English" I tried how I could to present my idea most clearly.
And please don't say that screen is big enough so this kind of mod is unnecessary..
Edit: See attached image below
Tapped from Defy
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hmm... interesting
greivel2 said:
Have a look at GMD gesture control. It does exactly what you want
I also did that for myself.
App Thread: google "gmd gesturce control xda" (I cannot post any links)
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I've just installed lite version of GMD gesture tool and it seems to work
Unfortunately, to use custom gestures I will have to buy full/paid version but it's worth it's money!!
Yeah its really worth the money
I tried your way of gestures and it works a hundred precent
i like the idea
now i use button savior (not good as your idea)
greivel2 said:
Yeah its really worth the money
I tried your way of gestures and it works a hundred precent
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It's very accurate. Even if someone is having problems, try to recalibrate borders, changing border detection area and gesture size
I found this apk very useful on my Motorola Defy to activate recent apps by swyping from the top of the screen

What's everyone thoughts on the gesture swipes?

You guys using them?
It is good and I wanted to use them badly but one main thing I am missing is the additional gestures that the navigation buttons had with them.
I use to double tap on recent button to switch screen off which is not possible to do with new gestures.
Having additional app or using the physical button is what I wanted to avoid.
have been using them long time ago with the app swipe navigation. Works perfectly once you get used to it.
I'm a minimalist. I have my dock & notification bar hidden also. Love that clean approach. Best part is if anyone finds/steals it, that are clueless.
Has there been a port of the new swipe guestures to nougat? I'm on 7.1.1
I am using gesture swipes, it is nice way to use phone without buttons... For double tap to lock, there is way if you are using Nova for example.....
With Beta 7 you can double tap to sleep without nav bar
You lose all of the additional gestures you have with the navbar, but in my opinion it looks way cleaner and really emphasizes the big display. And also one less spot risking permanent burn-in!
While I do like the off-screen gestures, and do use them, I actually prefer Motorola's gestures where you can quickly 'wave' you're phone in the air and the flashlight turns on, or how you can give the phone a flick and the camera app open. It's faster IMO.
But I still would prefer a Oneplus 5t over any Motorola anyday.
Love em, with an advanced launcher like Action or Nova you've got a ton more gestures that can be assigned covering the lost shortcuts on the nav buttons and then some. Speaking for myself I've got leftover swipes and taps that remain unassigned and can get to anything I use with regularity with a single touch. I liked some of the Motorola stuff myself, like Oneplus they've kept to a mostly stock experience with genuinely useful adds that don't detract from the "stockness". For some reason I really liked being able to change the ok google command to whatever I wanted and that would probably be my top pick if Oneplus were to, ahem, borrow, something from them.
Disabled them all got tired of accidentally turning the flashlight on
What I think would be the most useful feature is iPhone's double tap (not click) to bring down UI on top. Android should support this native long ago...
Needs tweaking..Still using xposed edge gestures, because I'd like for swipe up Near back button for back, swipe up near home bottom to home, and swipe up near recents to recents. i only use this mode to disable annoying nav bar easily
Siljorfag said:
What I think would be the most useful feature is iPhone's double tap (not click) to bring down UI on top. Android should support this native long ago...
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This can be done with many of the launchers although swipe down (anywhere) fits in better with the notification shade as it already expands via swipe down. I suspect the reason it and many other things aren't standard is a lack of consensus. With the shade already working with swipes many of us have double tap allocated elsewhere the most common usage probably being for sleep and wake purposes.
It's always hard to tell the level of experience users have so don't take this the wrong way... Your post suggests you might want to consider taking a few launchers for a test drive because no matter what you like there is one that works better than what came stock.

Question Get old OnePlus gestures back?

Coming from a OP7Pro, I have to say that these new Google gestures suck. Can no longer swipe from the sides to call up a side menu in various apps because swiping in from the sides now takes me back. I miss the old gestures where everything was done from the bottom:
Swipe up, bottom left/right: back
Swipe up, center: home
Swipe up and hold, center: recent apps
Trying to find a way to get those back but can't. Thought I hit the jackpot with the process in the link below, but I have an issue afterwards where swiping up from left/right of bottom combines both back and home commands and always takes me home.
Anybody have any ideas?
Revert back to old swipe gestures on OnePlus in Android 10 (OxygenOS 10) update
Here is how to get th old swipe gestures from Android 9 Pie on OnePlus phones running Android 10 (OxygenOS 10). Revert back to old Oxygen OS swipe gesture navigation on OnePlus 5/6/7/8.
www.androidsage.com
I think this method just disables the "swipe from left/right = back" function.
It does not enable "swipe up from bottom left or bottom right = back" like in the good old days.
I'm coming from a one+ 6... So also an adjustment for me...
I think OnePlus is trying to default all the things, left and right swipe is Google's implementation.
Me too i'm coming from a OP6 and want those gestures back, i already made a suggestion on OP site but i don't think it will happen since there were people on op8 who also wanted them but didn't get it.
Also with gestures app, i couldn't hide the navigation button bar with adb command so it wont work too
I personally like swipe from side for back. What they could do is make it work only in bottom 2/3 of the screen while the top 1/3 would be for bringing up hamburger menus. That's how it was with my old honor (which I hated) but this one feature really made sense.
elodin_89 said:
Coming from a OP7Pro, I have to say that these new Google gestures suck. Can no longer swipe from the sides to call up a side menu in various apps because swiping in from the sides now takes me back. I miss the old gestures where everything was done from the bottom:
Swipe up, bottom left/right: back
Swipe up, center: home
Swipe up and hold, center: recent apps
Trying to find a way to get those back but can't. Thought I hit the jackpot with the process in the link below, but I have an issue afterwards where swiping up from left/right of bottom combines both back and home commands and always takes me home.
Anybody have any ideas?
Revert back to old swipe gestures on OnePlus in Android 10 (OxygenOS 10) update
Here is how to get th old swipe gestures from Android 9 Pie on OnePlus phones running Android 10 (OxygenOS 10). Revert back to old Oxygen OS swipe gesture navigation on OnePlus 5/6/7/8.
www.androidsage.com
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I got it to work.
With Substratum Lite, NoNavbar.apk and the app Fluid Gesstures.
LINK to thread.
Bunecarera said:
I think this method just disables the "swipe from left/right = back" function.
It does not enable "swipe up from bottom left or bottom right = back" like in the good old days.
I'm coming from a one+ 6... So also an adjustment for me...
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Actually I think that method do bring back corner swipe = back gesture, the problem is that swipe up from bottom = home takes the whole bottom, it will get triggered with the back gesture.
You can confirm that by swipe from corner slowly, if you careful enough, you can only trigger back without trigger home action, or at least see two gestures are being triggered at once. Another proof is that after getting back home by swipe up from corner, if you open the app from recent apps switch, you can see that the app indeed got a back action(return to last page)
So I think if we can find a way to narrow the range for bottom swipe = home action, we can get this to work almost perfectly.
zjhjack123 said:
Actually I think that method do bring back corner swipe = back gesture, the problem is that swipe up from bottom = home takes the whole bottom, it will get triggered with the back gesture.
You can confirm that by swipe from corner slowly, if you careful enough, you can only trigger back without trigger home action, or at least see two gestures are being triggered at once. Another proof is that after getting back home by swipe up from corner, if you open the app from recent apps switch, you can see that the app indeed got a back action(return to last page)
So I think if we can find a way to narrow the range for bottom swipe = home action, we can get this to work almost perfectly.
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I have no idea what you mean dude
With Fluid Gestures, I have 3 areas at the bottom.
Left is back.
Middle is Home and Recent apps with Swipe&Hold
Right area is Back
And then I also have the Right Side set up to switch between apps.
See screenshots.
Bunecarera said:
I got it to work.
With Substratum Lite, NoNavbar.apk and the app Fluid Gesstures.
LINK to thread.
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Nice, thanks for the tip. I'll try this. I have previously tried gesture apps but since Google removed that overscan item starting with 10/11 that rendered 3rd party gesture apps useless, they didn't work and I gave up. But I did not try with substratum or run in to that thread you linked.
Bunecarera said:
I got it to work.
With Substratum Lite, NoNavbar.apk and the app Fluid Gesstures.
LINK to thread.
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Got it working. It wasn't working initially, then I realized I had to change from Gestures to Nav Bar Navigation within the phone settings. Thanks so much! It's getting closer to feeling like my 7 Pro!
Bunecarera said:
I have no idea what you mean dude
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What I mean is by using "settings put system op_gesture_button_side_enabled" method you do get the swipe up from bottom left or bottom right = back gesture. The only problem is you will always trigger swipe up from bottom = home/recent gesture alone with it, so it seems swipe up from bottom corner is not working.
I think if we can find some way to change the swipe up from bottom = home/recent gesture area, just trigger it by swipe up from bottom center we might get the original OP7 gesture to work.
Tell me the system version number, maybe I can make changes
mlgmxyysd said:
Tell me the system version number, maybe I can make changes
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I'm now on oos 11.2.4.4.LE15AA
zjhjack123 said:
What I mean is by using "settings put system op_gesture_button_side_enabled" method you do get the swipe up from bottom left or bottom right = back gesture. The only problem is you will always trigger swipe up from bottom = home/recent gesture alone with it, so it seems swipe up from bottom corner is not working.
I think if we can find some way to change the swipe up from bottom = home/recent gesture area, just trigger it by swipe up from bottom center we might get the original OP7 gesture to work.
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Sorry, misread.
I thought you were talking about the NoNavbar route.
That's true.
The "settings put..." method does not work.
I do not think you can alter the bottom area to consist of 3 different touch area's. Left, center, right. And change the width of them.
But the link I provided does work.
Substratum lite, NoNavbar, Fluid Gestures.
I am using it right now...
Bunecarera said:
I do not think you can alter the bottom area to consist of 3 different touch area's. Left, center, right. And change the width of them.
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We don't have to split the bottom area to three parts, just limit the home/recent gesture to center so it wont be triggered by swipe up from bottom corner should do the trick.
zjhjack123 said:
我现在在oos 11.2.4.4.LE15AA
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I've done that but still have Home+Back bug and settings pref display bug (8T 11.0.8.13)
Bunecarera said:
I got it to work.
With Substratum Lite, NoNavbar.apk and the app Fluid Gesstures.
LINK to thread.
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I love you.
I like "Lift phone to ear to answer a call" gesture.
I posted on Oneplus. They answer to talk to Google...
O posted on Google.., no answer.
I upgraded from OxygenOS (android 10) to KOSP 2.3 (running android 12) on my OnePlus 7 Pro. Everything about KOSP is better than OEM OOS except the stock A12 gestures. I wanted to run "Vivid Navigation Gestures" but the damn navbar was baked into the ROM.
This was the first solution I found that worked to hide the navbar! Thanks for posting!

Question Old Gestures?

I recently upgraded to a op9 pro from a op6, I love everything about this phone besides the new gestures. I'm used to swiping from the bottom left or right to go back and bottom middle for home/recents. It's now swipe from the sides to go back and I figured I'd get used to it but the amount of times I accidentally trigger it or try to trigger the gesture and don't infuriates me lmao. Any apps or setting to change it back to the old oxygen/android gestures? Thanks in advance!
it's easier to get used to the new gestures.
You're not going to buy old, older, older phones, so old gestures will be useless.
Jebarnes said:
I recently upgraded to a op9 pro from a op6, I love everything about this phone besides the new gestures. I'm used to swiping from the bottom left or right to go back and bottom middle for home/recents. It's now swipe from the sides to go back and I figured I'd get used to it but the amount of times I accidentally trigger it or try to trigger the gesture and don't infuriates me lmao. Any apps or setting to change it back to the old oxygen/android gestures? Thanks in advance!
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You are not the first dude.
Do a little search, there are already threads about this.
Substratum Lite, Nonavbar.apk and Fluid Gestures...
null0seven said:
it's easier to get used to the new gestures.
You're not going to buy old, older, older phones, so old gestures will be useless.
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yes, with gestures it is very convenient to use the side menu in Telegram or stock file manager, goodluck
gestures are terribly inconvenient, the last convenient gestures, these are two buttons, but they cannot be on at 12 oxygen
Unfortunately you can't use One handed Operation plus. It's very useful on a curved screen.
In the link above they claim there's a similar app, Edge Gestures. I haven't sampled it.
UI is everything. So anything less than optimum for the individual with the UI really screws up the usability of the device. Samsung is keenly aware of this and goes to great lengths to achieve it.
Google, less so with their absurd one size fits all global mentality.
Personally I like virtual physical buttons. I use gesture navigation occasionally to back out of poorly written software where the virtual buttons are disabled saving me a reboot.

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