What's New Project Beta Labs: new opportunities Glance Screen and control gestures Gestures

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As you might guess from the name, the app allows you to control the functions of a smartphone with simple gestures or movements. And yes, you understood correctly, it is understood that there is no need to perform any actions on the touch screen smartphone.

The principle of the application is tied to the work of several sensors: accelerometer (which determines the change of position of the phone), as well as the proximity sensor.



At the moment, the list of available commands is limited to activities associated with the adoption of calls or switching during a call, and is as follows:

incoming calls: to take the call, simply holding the phone to your ear; mute: it is enough to put the phone face down on a flat surface conditionally; < Turn on the speakerphone: all the same as in the previous paragraph, but the screen up; mute a call when an incoming call: used already traditional reception with a simple turn of the smartphone "face" down.
 

The application has a simple settings panel in which the user has the discretion to disable a particular function.

Anticipate your silent cry of "It has been (The Simpsons)!": Yes, sometimes met similar functions on other platforms and devices. But, firstly, it is a debut like control Windows Phone. And secondly, do not forget that Gestures - a project Beta Labs, so you can count on the fact that over time it will get new features, allowing you to control using gestures other functions and perhaps even other applications.

« Our goal in the long term - to create a larger set of managed gestures to connect the various functions without touching the screen or pressing buttons. We want to simplify your interaction with the phone, i> »- confirms our words Martin Jansky, senior manager of product marketing. - « Developing new features for our application, which will appear in the next year we would be delighted to hear user feedback. They help us understand how we can make this technology more reliable before we install it on all devices i> x ». H5>
 You can also contribute to the improvement of Gestures leave your comments and suggestions this link . As practice shows, almost all suggestions by users for other projects, obtained the largest number of votes have been implemented by developers.

On behalf of the editorial board of our cozy blog will express assumption that the application will be included in the pool of Gestures preset with the next update Windows Phone 8.1 or after the release of Windows 10 (which, as you may remember, replace the Windows Phone).

And to support devices: beta version of the application Gestures compatible with all devices based on Windows Phone 8.1 (such as, for example, Lumia 535, Lumia 830 and Lumia 730/735). On the Lumia 630, Lumia 635 and Lumia 530 functionality will be limited. We tested Gestures as amended on multiple devices - in general, everything is stable, but something may not work the first time.

Download the application, you can по this link .

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Annex "Screensaver" or Glance Screen, new options significantly extend the capabilities of the application. For those who have forgotten that it represents the ann recall: Glance Screen - saver is displayed on the screen of a blocked phone (depending on the selected mode, it can operate continuously or only appear when a user's hand movement). She works in a low-power mode and informs the user about the current time, battery and other events selected by the user, such as a calendar, missed calls, incoming messages, notifications from social networks and so on.

The update (version 3.6.1.13) have the opportunity to display on this screen photos and graphics, which extends the possibilities of individualization. This option has already been able to appreciate more than half a million users who tested the beta version of the application. But this is not the most important thing.



Most importantly, we believe that the "Screen Saver" learned how to interact with other applications, displaying and other useful information. For example, one of the first appov befriended Glance Screen, became the MSN Weather . Now, when you turn on the display of the weather data на lock screen , this information will be duplicated on the screen is locked and your smartphone.

This solution, in our opinion, it is convenient and energy efficient, and most importantly - pushing the boundaries for developers of other applications. Imagine if, for example, the tape Habrahabr, Geektimes, Twitter, To-Do lists, news or other useful information automatically broadcast on the screen and at the same time practically ate charge your smartphone. Sounds great, does not it?



And about the bread: this feature will be available on devices Lumia, the display resolution is not lower than 720p. Today it is the Lumia 1520, Lumia 1320, Lumia 1020, Lumia 925, Lumia 920 and Lumia 830. Lumia 930 although it has the appropriate screen, but because of the technical features of the graphics card does not support JavaScript Glance Screen.

Download the application, you can по this link.

Source: geektimes.ru/company/microsoftlumia/blog/243515/