Zap's Gestures

Create shortcuts for easy access you favorite actions. Just select the persistent notification at any time to bring up screen where you draw a self designed doodle which will match against your personal list of actions.
Can also be started with long-press on the search key or optionally with the camera key on devices that have these.

NOTE: After the action you are returned to the exact state you were in before you selected the notification
- not on the home screen. Also, this way you can potentially access a lot more than will ever fit on your home screen.

Currently supports direct calling anyone from your phone book, launching any of your applications, opening many shortcuts, running anything defined in Tasker, toggling bluetooth, toggling wifi and toggling auto-rotate.

Should work on any device from 1.6 to 4.1 (and beyond) and is designed to handle that certain features are missing from some devices (such as calling on tablets or bluetooth on 1.x). Let me know if you find a problem and I'll look into fixing it.

For 4.1 it will use the new Notifications features to hide from the status bar and also expand to show the three first defined gestures as instant shortcuts.

Note that I'm well aware that the nature of this app causes it to require a fair number of permission. Currently there is no way to explicitly make them optional unless you run the latest Cyanogen
- you may want to star issue 6266 on Google Code. For completeness here is what they are used for:READ & WRITE EXTERNAL STORAGE: save your gestures, also easy copy to some other device.WRITE_SETTINGS: toggle auto-rotate screen.CALL_PHONE & READ_CONTACTS: Quick dial to a contactBLUETOOTH_ADMIN & BLUETOOTH: Toggle BluetoothACCESS_WIFI_STATE & CHANGE_WIFI_STATE & WAKE_LOCK: Toggle WifiRECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED: AutostartINTERNET: Error catching, online help and feedback

Category : Personalization

Reviews (23)

Amy. F. T. Jun 1, 2021

It shuld be on main screen

Jus. T. Feb 28, 2017

Very useful way of quickly reaching apps without requiring one of the more heavy custom ROMs. Option to launch from notifications means you can launch from within other apps, as well as the home screen.

Jan. L. Sep 9, 2014

Keeps crashing after a gesture. Using xiaomi 3. Kinda annoying and defeats the purpose of an app meant to help you dial quicker. Please fix.

A. G. u. Dec 18, 2012

Excellent!!! This is probably the most useful app in Android. I can't believe it has only 5000 downloads. This developer doesn't know how to advertise this app. This app is gold I had it for 2 years.

ash. d. Aug 30, 2013

The best app evr.

hem. m. Feb 28, 2014

Good app I was searching 4

Anu. C. Dec 23, 2012

Thank you very much..

A. G. u. Oct 10, 2011

Love the recent change to dark background a selectable ink color. Thank you for being so responsive to user feedback. Adding support for non-contiguous and multi-touch gestures would make this a 5 star app, straight up.

A. G. u. Apr 22, 2012

The recognition is brilliant and the app has more features than I could ask for. The best gesture app on the market. My only complaint is that another app is needed to change colour, it is not important though.

A. G. u. Oct 27, 2011

I love this app. Just needs more options, like adjust volume, set brightness, toggle vibrate/ringer, play/pause music, compose SMS, to name a few.

A. G. u. Oct 22, 2011

Thanks for explaining permissions, wish more devs did that. Could you please do that for Inventory app too? :) Great app. Works well htc wildfire froyo. Very useful, and thank you for colour options.

A. G. u. Jan 12, 2012

All my contacts i use this.my apps i use hyperspace. Waiting for a voice service thats not a hastle with wrongs

A. G. u. Feb 9, 2012

Integerate with Tasker and works flawlessly on devices with cuatim roms, etc.

A. G. u. Jun 22, 2012

Set up with home 2 shortcut and you'll be in heaven

A. G. u. Jul 12, 2012

really nice, thank you

A. G. u. May 1, 2012

Love it!

A. G. u. Jul 17, 2011

Great launcher. Dev is very responsive and more than willing to help with adding features.

A. G. u. Aug 21, 2011

non-continuous gestures not supported like in google's gestures. too bad, wanted this to be the only icon on my minimalist screen. g2x.

A. G. u. Jul 23, 2011

Kewl. Widget and changeable doodle colors plz. Recognizes doodle no matter how I screw with it, just draw it in the same order and remotely similar.

A. G. u. Aug 3, 2011

Great app which makes the phone easier to use

A. G. u. Jul 7, 2011

I would like this a lot more if it didn't have to go back to the white screen of the app.

A. G. u. Jun 18, 2011

Exactly what I needed!

A. G. u. Jul 17, 2012

does exactly what i need it to! the only features i would love to see is the possibility of a transparent overlay, ability to replace the standard launcher when you press the home key, and the ability to control the gesture detection strictness. but all in all a great app!