iPhone. Home button is no longer needed?
As you know, iphone has a minimum of keys. However, according to majun3 , at least one, namely Home, is superfluous. “Apple does not let us feel the full power of the touchscreen!” He decided and wrote the iHome application, which makes the only key on the front panel of the device unnecessary.
Indeed, multitouch is great for controlling gestures. But in the existing iPhone firmware all its potential is not revealed. Yes, there are some gestures, but they cannot be changed or reconfigured, you cannot assign the launch of a favorite application to a specific gesture. I think that sooner or later such functionality will appear, because, for example, PalmPre developers promise to add recognition of complex gestures to their phone, and this is a direct challenge to Apple.
But back to iHome. The program is available in Cydia from the iSpazio repository. The size of her only 9.3 KB. The application has no desktop icons or settings. The program will best describe the author’s demo:
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As you can see, a narrow bar at the bottom of the screen is used to control the program: a short movement to the left - exit from the program or go to the first screen (analogous to pressing Home); long gesture to the left - opens the iPod control (analogous to double pressing Home); a short gesture to the right brings up the program menu, from which you can make a Lock (press Power), Respring, Reboot or turn off the phone; A long gesture to the right will put the phone in standby mode. If you hold your finger on the iHome strip for more than 5 seconds, and then remove it from the screen, you will get a screenshot.
Everything works quite correctly and logically. But not without a fly in the ointment. When typing on the keyboard, the bottom row of keys is not always pressed, because they are partially intercepted by the iHome. This is quite unpleasant.
Summarizing, I can say that the program, although it works satisfactorily, doesn’t make much sense, because in most cases pressing the button is still more convenient. If it were possible to customize your own actions on gestures, the utility of the utility would be more. However, if Home or Power stopped working in the phone, this program will help you use the device before the repair.
Indeed, multitouch is great for controlling gestures. But in the existing iPhone firmware all its potential is not revealed. Yes, there are some gestures, but they cannot be changed or reconfigured, you cannot assign the launch of a favorite application to a specific gesture. I think that sooner or later such functionality will appear, because, for example, PalmPre developers promise to add recognition of complex gestures to their phone, and this is a direct challenge to Apple.
But back to iHome. The program is available in Cydia from the iSpazio repository. The size of her only 9.3 KB. The application has no desktop icons or settings. The program will best describe the author’s demo:
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As you can see, a narrow bar at the bottom of the screen is used to control the program: a short movement to the left - exit from the program or go to the first screen (analogous to pressing Home); long gesture to the left - opens the iPod control (analogous to double pressing Home); a short gesture to the right brings up the program menu, from which you can make a Lock (press Power), Respring, Reboot or turn off the phone; A long gesture to the right will put the phone in standby mode. If you hold your finger on the iHome strip for more than 5 seconds, and then remove it from the screen, you will get a screenshot.
Everything works quite correctly and logically. But not without a fly in the ointment. When typing on the keyboard, the bottom row of keys is not always pressed, because they are partially intercepted by the iHome. This is quite unpleasant.
Summarizing, I can say that the program, although it works satisfactorily, doesn’t make much sense, because in most cases pressing the button is still more convenient. If it were possible to customize your own actions on gestures, the utility of the utility would be more. However, if Home or Power stopped working in the phone, this program will help you use the device before the repair.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/52844/
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