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How to Use Gestures And Gesture-based Navigation In Your Android App

Out-of-the-box, Android’s standard UI components support a range of Android gestures, but occasionally your app may need to support more than just onClick! In this Android gesture tutorial, we’ll be covering everything you need to implement a range of Android gestures. We’ll be creating a range of simple applications that provide an insight into the core concepts of touch gestures, including how Android records the “lifecycle” of a gesture, and how it tracks the movement of individual fingers in a multi-touch interaction. Occasionally your app may need to support more than just onClick. To help demonstrate how this information might translate into real-world projects, we’ll also be creating an application that allows the user to zoom in and out of an image, using the pinch gesture. Finally, since  Android 10  is poised to completely overhaul Android’s gesture support, we’ll be looking at how you can update your applications to support Android’s new gesture-based navigation