Gesture Shortcut Launcher: Use Gestures To Control Your Android Devcie

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Sometimes when you have to find a particular application from the drawer of your Smartphone which is full of various different other applications and you keep messing with your Smartphone especially when you’re in hurry, it irritates a lot. Also when you have to find a particular contact from your contact list and when you have to write the whole URL of the particular site you want to visit in your browser or you have to search it on the Google, its total waste of time. So it’s better to have some shortcuts to access any particular application, website or contact directly from your main screen without going through those little but time consuming processes to access them.

Introducing “Gesture Shortcut Launcher”:

No, I am not talking about futuristic hi-fi gesture control gadgets. Gesture Shortcut Launcher is what I’m talking about. This may not be one of the best 6 Android launchers but it does have promises. This application provides you a really effective way to access many things on your Smartphone using shortcuts. It’s already clear from the name of the app that the shortcuts are the “Gesture Shortcuts”. Run applications and other device features like WiFi, Bluetooth etc. by drawing a quick gesture. You don’t have to scroll from the lists and drawer anymore. Just draw a gesture signed for the application you want to run and it’s done.

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There are a lot of things to talk about “Gesture Shortcut Launcher”. Like, you don’t have to fill your main screen with your favorite applications to run them directly from there. Just add their widget on the main screen. Every time you want to access any application, contact or anything else, just open the widget and draw the assigned gesture. This easy-to-use gesture shortcut applications works very smooth and quick. It’s a less space consuming and no time lagging app. Other thing to talk about this application is that many other gesture applications have limited the number of gestures in free versions, so you’ll have to buy the pro version of such apps to add more gestures. Oppositely, this app has no limit to number gestures you can add. Add as many as you want.

Features:

Talking about the features let me start with the list of things you can add a shortcut of:
• Run any Applications
• Open any Websites
• Open any File like png, mp4 etc.
• View any Contact
• Directly Call any Contact
• Directly Message any Contact
• Directly Mail
• On/Off WiFi
• On/Of Bluetooth
• On/Off Airplane Mode
• Set Silent Ringer Mode
• Set Normal Ringer Mode
• Set Vibrate Ringer Mode

Some other features:

• Add Home Screen Widget
• Create Home Screen Shortcuts
• On/Off Toast Message when running a Shortcut
• Set Confirmation before the application runs
• Set Gesture Sensitivity
• In case you’re unable to recognize the correct gesture, the app will list the next highest possible matching gestures. You can set that after how many fail attempts (up to 12) the possible matching gestures list displays. And also how many possible matches (up to 12) list shows.

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Download and Get Started:

The Gesture Shortcut Launcher application is developed by Project Trinity and available for download for free on .

Install and launch the app. Add gestures and their respective shortcuts as many as you want.

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After that, you’ll have to add the widget on the home screen of your Android Smartphone. To do so, long press on the home screen on empty space, tap on “Widgets” and then select the “Gesture Shortcuts” from the list.

Now as you’ve added the widget, open it and draw the gesture for the app or anything else you want to access. That’s it, now you have Gesture Shortcuts working properly on you Smartphone. Developers also mentioned in the description of this application on the Google Play Store that less you take your finger off the screen while drawing the gesture, better it works.

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So overall, Gesture Shortcut Launcher is an amazing application for you to get shortcuts for almost everything on your Smartphone and saving your time. This application is not so old in the market and has been rated 4.4 out 5 yet. After trying, if you do not like it, you can change back to default Android launcher easily.

So I advice every reader to check out this application and enjoy its features making your Smartphone experience more easier. Comments are always open below for crucial feedbacks of our readers.

How to set or change default launcher in Android [Galaxy S2]

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Android Logo Linux Windows 150There are several beautiful launchers available to replace the default launcher provide by Android. I had downloaded this stunning Go launcher Ex and I really like it. I had set it as my default launcher. I have also installed Launcher Pro installed on my Galaxy S2. Now the situation is I want to change the default launcher from Go Ex to another launcher.

When I selected Launcher Pro it was changed but as soon as I pressed the home screen, the launcher went back to the previous one (goEx). I wanted my new launcher to be set as the default launcher. Here is how I changed the default launcher and set a new launcher as the default:

  • Go to Settings
  • In here, go to Applications and choose “manage applications”
  • Go to the “all” tab
  • Look for the launcher application which is the default one
  • Click on it and look for the option of “Clear Defaults“
  • Now select your favourite launcher again to launch it
  • Press the home screen. It will ask to set the default launcher. Choose whatever you want

By the way, the above suggested steps are valid for changing any default application on any Android based phone and not just only Galaxy S2.