One of the many cool features that modern smartphones support is the use of gestures.

Simple gestures are things like swiping down from the top of the screen to view your notifications.

Other, more complex gestures can involve swiping shapes or letters on your screen to perform actions.

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Frustratingly, neither Android nor iOS offer built-in support for configuring custom gestures.

On Android, however, there are apps that can help to provide that option.

One such app is Full Screen Gestures, available on the Google Play Storehere.

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There are five parameters for each edge, although the bottom edge is slightly different.

There are a range of swipe options that you could configure for each edge.

There are a range of action options, some of which require a minimum version of Android or newer.

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Use the trigger bar sensitivity setting to configure how wide the activation point is for the gesture.

The trigger bar size is used to configure how far up the screen the swipe region extends.

Use the trigger bar size to configure how far up the screen the activation zone extends.

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A blue line is used to show where the switch would take place.

Use the far swipe threshold sensitivity to configure where a swipe becomes a far swipe.

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