Ogesture

Gesture navigation for all.

Ogesture adds gesture navigation to Android phones that don't allow gesture-based navigation with third-party launchers. E.g. Xiaomi phones.

You can now use gestures even with 3-button navigation enabled.

Gestures supported

- Gesture: Swipe inward from the left or right edge

Action: Back

- Gesture: Swipe up from the bottom edge Action: Home

- Gesture: Swipe up from the bottom edge and hold Action: Recents

How it works

Ogesture draws thin, invisible overlays along the edges of the screen and uses an accessibility service to perform the navigation actions when it detects a swipe.

It needs three permissions:

1. Display over other apps — to place the edge overlays that detect swipes. 2. Accessibility service — to perform the Back, Home, and Recents actions. 3. Unrestricted battery usage — so the system doesn't kill the gesture service in the background.

The app guides you through granting all three on first launch.

Things to remember

- This app is free, open source, and collects no data. Everything runs locally on your device. - Android's security policy blocks gestures on certain screens, such as your phone's Settings pages.

License

GNU Affero General Public License v3.0