iPhone X and Android Pie Gestures Now Come To Your Old Phones, Thanks To These Apps

Your phone is not an expensive iPhone X or it does not run on the fancy Android Pie, but you still have the desire to know how gestures work on these high-class phones and operating systems?

Fine, you'll get it. The following apps can help you. And they are all available on the Play store.

Fluid Navigation Gestures

This app mimics the iPhone X controls.

This app will provide you with a lot of swiping gestures which allow customization. The app can read swipes from the left and the right edge of the phone, and also three distinct zones along the screen’s bottom border. Each zone has two functions, enable the first one with a quick flick of your finger along it and enable the other by swiping and holding.

X Home Bar

Although this app may make you feel like it mimics gestures from the iPhone X, it actually does not. X home bar will display a home bar at your screen’s bottom and it acts like the pill button from Android 9 rather than any features from iOS. If you pull the pill up, you get “Home”. When you swipe the pill to the left or right, you get “Back” or “Recent apps” respectively. When you double-click or tap on the pill, you can add more actions.

Navigation Gestures

This app is provided by XDA Developer, which is a famous community for making various Android mods as well as utility apps. Navigation Gestures is quite similar to the previous ones; however, it brings about much more gestures, and let you divide the home bar into three areas.

The app gives you a gesture bar which looks like a pill. Tapping the bar will bring you to the home screen. The app can also understand tap-and-hold and double-tap gestures. Swiping the pill to the left is “Back” and to the right is the recent apps list. In addition, you can set up functions for swiping down or up and swipe-and-hold on the pill.

Finally, the pill can be split into three areas, which makes the pill run along the bottom border. You can set different functions for each area, which makes a total of 14 commands.

Swiftly Switch

This one is fun. Swiftly Switch adds bars along the right and left sides of your phone’s display, one of which is free. If you swipe inwards, the bars will expand to reveal navigation controls, recent apps, favorite toggles, and favorite apps. To activate an app, you just need to drag your finger to it. The app allows you to customize both control behaviors and the apps displayed.