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In this video, we check out 30 easy, fun gestures for Android and Google Pixel phones. You probably know many of these, but hopefully, there’s a couple you didn’t know about. Check out the written version above to see an even bigger list.
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Timestamps:
0:00 – Intro
0:22 – Faster app switching
0:47 – Hamburger menu trick
1:09 – One-handed mode
1:29 – Power button camera trick
1:42 – Quick tap
2:04 – Google Launcher gestures
2:25 – Quick profile switching
2:44 – One finger pinch to zoom
3:07 – YouTube gestures part 1
3:38 – YouTube gestures part 2
4:12 – YouTube seek by gesture
4:29 – Google Photos swipe gestures
5:33 – Google Camera gestures
6:34 – Gboard gestures
7:21 – Chrome tab switching
7:39 – Google Messaging gestures
7:54 – Google Calendar gestures
8:18 – Google Maps gestures
8:52 – Google Keep list gestures
9:18 – Google Calendar and Files gestures
9:49 – Outro
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Hello friends. I thought I had posted a corrections comment but I guess YouTube deleted it.
So here we go.
1. In the hamburger menu gesture, you can diagonally swipe up or down. I said one direction and showed another, and then upon rewatch decided that it could be confusing for some folks. That's my bad.
2. In the "Files by Google" gesture, you don't need to double tap to change the volume. It's a single tap with two fingers. That's entirely my fault. When you've read a script with the words "two", "finger", "double', and "tap" that many times, it's easy to get tongue twisted.
3. The "faster app switching" is doable with the 3-button softkeys. Tap the recent apps button twice to quickly swap between two apps. In the video, I was trying to show that you can do the scrolling quick switch like you can with the gestures.
4. The one-fingered pinch to zoom actually works in any app that has a pinch-to-zoom functionality. I misread my source on that one and I should've tested it more thoroughly first.
5. During the Google Camera gestures segment, I say "double tap to zoom" when I mean "double tap to switch camera". That's not even a typo in the script, I just said it wrong and didn't notice.
I see you all have started listing your favorite gestures off as well. Happy to see them and keep 'em coming!
Thanks Joe, rapid but fulfilling video. All the best
Hmmm..
Very amazing gesture trick's. 👍
0:55 That looks like up to me.
I have been using that YouTube gesture to go full screen for a long time, but many times it goes back for some reason. It goes full screen, but not even a second later it goes back to portrait. Does anyone know why?
Hey dude do u know why it doesn't show the ram in a10
Most gallery apps can do that.. I don't like Google photos as my gallery app.
Many non-google apps does most of these things. Many did it before Google too.
But nice video!
Great Tips
Hey dude it's superb work and really useful
Motion photo = avideo or a gif
You can also minimize the expanded YouTube player by swiping down on from the middle of the screen
You can keep swiping all the way left from the delete key to delete more words in Gboard
If you rotate your phone without auto rotate a small rotate icon will show which you can press to rotate the device
wow, very useful video! I thought I already know lot of stuff from android devices, but sadly no thanks to this tips and trick! thankyou😁
this is the content i subbed for
Using a pixel 6 and done of these don't work for me. Specifically the hamburger menu and the space bar cursor gestures. Any idea why?
Is that quick tap on the back still available? Is it there on Pixel 4a?
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Super helpful. Longtime Android user but even some of these 'old school' ones were new to me. Heading off to read the article! Thanks!!
I watched this video at 2x speed and learned a ton
I went and enabled gestures now thonks
Alternative title: Android users finally get gestures
5:33 Oh look, accidental back action cause the half-arsed "gesture" implementation
I HATE the swipe from the side action for back. It leads too so many accidental swipes, which if you're doing something like filling out a form etc can be super annoying.
First off, this is a really helpful video and I wanted to thank you for teaching me some really useful gestures.
Second, regarding the Google Keep indent function, you don't need to press the 6-dot box to indent. You can press anywhere to the right of it, including the checkbox or list item and indent it from there. Hope that spares some frustration.
the most annoying thing about using the spacebar to move the curser in GBoard is that if you're doing it slowly to try and move just a few characters over, Google has an un-disablable language changing box that pops up to remind you you're not fast enough at micro gesture movements 😑😑😑
Click back space key and slide towards left without lifting the finger, it deleted entire sentence .. if you want everything should be deleted at once…. 🔥
I've been using Android for years. But there's always those new gestures they add over time that you never realize.
Great video. There were a bunch of them that were completely new to me and will be using, especially the YouTube ones.
Wow! This video just made using my phone that I already knew how to use. Very well even easier. Thanks!
I actually tried the "minimize video" for YouTube that you mentioned, and it actually worked. But instead of continuing to play the video, it closed it instead haha
This looks like so much FUN.
1:42 – I wish Quick tap was universal across all OEMs 🙁 It would be the best way to take screenshot for me.
If you double tap the recent button on old navigation bottom bar, it will quickly switch to your last app.
Thanks, this video is so useful 👏
Another one for YouTube:
If your video is in PiP mode, you can drag from the top left corner to resize it.
Have known most of these but some others like hold on viewfinder to invoke Google lens are new to me.
This was handy thanks 😊
Deleting text by swiping backspace button too)))
When you're watching a YouTube video in landscape mode you can swipe down on the video to exit out of landscape mode
iPhone has all this features
I hate the pixel gestures. Wish there was an option to get the one plus one
Good video
Wow the YouTube one is definitely useful. I always hate looking for the smol button for videos. Now I just need to perform the gestures and then get it done fairly easily.
I know it existed before but iphone x made it mainstream. Nobody gave a bloody shit about gestures before. So thank you apple.
You did not mention "hidden menu" by holding on the opened tabs button inside Chrome. It lets you close the window, open a new window or open incognito mode.
Hello. Did you trapped to phantom navigation strip bug?
José
Cool.