Folio LauncherEvery gesture, and the two that need a permission
Most of them work the moment Folio is your home app. Two do not, and it is worth knowing which.
The gestures
| Gesture | What it does |
|---|---|
| Swipe left or right | Changes page. It works over widgets, the dock and the Side Bar, not just empty space. |
| Swipe right from your first page | Today View, or Google Discover if you picked that in Settings. |
| Swipe past your last page | The App Library, with every app you have, including ones that are not on Home. |
| Swipe down, lower on Home | Spotlight. Tapping Search does the same thing. |
| Pull down from the top left | Notification Center. |
| Pull down from the top right | Control Center. |
| Swipe down on an icon | Fans out its Icon Stack, if that icon is one. |
| Long press an app | Its menu, with Edit Home Screen, Rename and the rest. |
| Long press an empty spot | Add Widget, Wallpaper & Appearance, Add Page and Folio Settings. |
The two that need a permission
Pulling down from the top left and top right is the one part of this Android does not hand to a launcher. Those corners belong to Android's own shade, and reaching them needs Folio's accessibility service.
- Open Folio Settings › Privacy & Permissions.
- Turn on the gestures service. Folio sends you to Android's Accessibility settings to do it.
- Come back and swipe down from a top corner. If it just started, swipe again.
Folio never turns that on by itself, and everything else on this page works without it. If you would rather keep Android's shade, leave it off: nothing else changes.
A pull-down did not do what you expected
Android's shade opened instead
The accessibility service is off, or it has just been turned on and has not taken effect yet. Swipe again.
Nothing happened, and the dock had been scrolled
A dock that is part way through a scroll keeps the downward swipe for itself. Let it settle, then swipe.
Spotlight opened when you wanted Control Center
The corners are Notification Center on the left and Control Center on the right; a swipe that starts lower down the screen is Spotlight. Start the swipe in the very top corner.
The Today View bounced back
If you picked Google Discover instead of Folio's own Today View, Google handles swipes inside its own feed, so a short swipe starting inside it can bounce. Folio's Today View has no such problem and works offline.
Unfolded
The gestures do not change when the phone opens. What changes is what they reveal: unfolded in landscape you get two pages side by side, and portrait unfolded gets one page with the dock along the bottom.Giving each screen its own layout is a separate setting.
Written for Folio 0.6.7. If something here is wrong, out of date or missing,open an issue and it gets fixed.