The following list outlines all gestures available in the Prudence Screen Reader, applicable to devices running Android 7 or higher. Multi-finger gestures are supported only on Android 12 and above, and certain gestures are limited to specific functional interfaces.
Table of Contents
Single Finger Swipes
- Swipe Up: Move to the previous item in the selected reading control.
- Swipe Down: Move to the next item in the selected reading control.
- Swipe Left: Previous onscreen item.
- Swipe Right: Next onscreen item.
Single Finger Back-and-Forth Swipes
- Swipe Up then Down: Previous reading control.
- Swipe Down then Up: Next reading control.
- Swipe Left then Right: Scroll back.
- Swipe Right then Left: Scroll forward.
Single Finger Angular Gestures
- Swipe Up then Left: Home screen.
- Swipe Up then Right: Main menu.
- Swipe Down then Left: Back.
- Swipe Down then Right: Main menu.
- Swipe Left then Up: Overview (recent apps).
- Swipe Left then Down: Screen search.
- Swipe Right then Up: Control center.
- Swipe Right then Down: Notifications.
Two-Finger Gestures
- Swipe Up: Zoom in (smart camera interface).
- Swipe Down: Zoom out (smart camera interface).
- Swipe Left: Switch recognition language forward (smart camera interface).
- Swipe Right: Switch recognition language backward (smart camera interface).
- Tap: No action.
- Double Tap: Play or pause.
- Tap and Hold: Start or end selection mode.
- Triple Tap: Start reading from the next item.
Three-Finger Gestures
- Tap: Main menu.
- Tap and Hold: Screen search.
- Double Tap: Copy.
- Double Tap and Hold: Cut.
- Triple Tap: Paste.
- Swipe Up: Previous reading control.
- Swipe Down: Next reading control.
- Swipe Left: Move to the previous item in the selected reading control.
- Swipe Right: Move to the next item in the selected reading control.
Four-Finger Gestures
- Swipe Up: Previous onscreen window.
- Swipe Down: Next onscreen window.
- Tap: No action.
- Double Tap: No action.
- Double Tap and Hold: No action.
- Triple Tap: No action.
- Swipe Left: No action.
- Swipe Right: No action.
All the above gestures, except those specific to the smart camera interface, can be modified and reassigned by the user.
Welcome!
I would like to sincerely thank you for posting this gesture list. Not enough English tutorials are available. Your presence on Accessible Android will hopefully attract more people to your application.
P.S. I love the OCR and smart camera features! Prudence is one reason I prefer Samsung devices to Pixels. Yes, having three screen readers available is clutch!