[ Andriod Q ] How to Access Google Assistant's New Gesture Navigation?

Dinesh Vishwakarma

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[div id="J_shareDesc"][div align="left"][font color="#000"][br]Android Q Beta 3 introduced a new iPhone-esque navigation bar with back gestures at the left and right edges of a phone‘s display. While this redesign of Android's most fundamental feature will take some time to get used to, one question was left open from the beginning: How to invoke Google Assistant on devices that don't have the Pixel's squeeze option? Well, it turns out there's a rather hidden gesture for that.[br][br][div align="center"][font color="#000"][a href="https://c.mi.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=2144278&aid=4205661&from=album&page=1"][img id="aimg_4205661" width="728" height="485" src="https://u01.appmifile.com/images/2019/05/09/ba0ad027-e0bf-4685-880b-b38c65d15aef.jpeg" alt="ap_resize (29).jpeg" title="ap_resize (29).jpeg"][/a][/div][br][font color="#000"]We've received word from our tipster Zachary who first found out how it's done. You need to swipe diagonally from the right or left bottom corner of the display and hold until the Assistant shows up. (Make sure you're really starting in the corner if at first you don't succeed).[br][br][font color="#000"]There currently isn't any UI that helps you find this obscure gesture and it appears to be hard to invoke consistently, so hopefully, Google makes it more discoverable before the stable release of Q. However, the Assistant has had its own button right on the home and multitasking screen for a long time, so it's not like it's completely hidden away now.[br][br][font color="#000"]This leaves us with five distinct options to start the Assistant now:[br][br][ul][li]Squeeze the Pixel 2, 3, or 3a.[/li][li]Shout "Hey Google" or "OK Google" at the phone.[br][/li][/ul][/div][div align="left"][font color="#000"][ul][li]Install the Google Assistant shortcut app from the Play Store.[br][/li][/ul][font color="#000"][ul][li]Swipe from either bottom corner of the screen.[br][/li][/ul][font color="#000"][ul][li]Touch the Assistant icon on the Pixel's search widget on the home screen or multitasking view.[br][/li][/ul][font color="#000"][ul][li]Google really wants to make sure we find a comfortable way to talk to its AI.[br][/li][/ul][br][font color="#000"]Another bug related to the new system navigation shows up when you watch videos on YouTube, Netflix, and other apps that support PiP. Usually, when you exit them, content continues to play in a small floating window. However, if you exit these apps using gestures, playback will stop completely.[br][br][div align="center"][font color="#000"][a href="https://c.mi.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=2144278&aid=4205664&from=album&page=1"][img id="aimg_4205664" width="315" height="560" src="https://u01.appmifile.com/images/2019/05/09/523e77bb-3e0d-41fa-a1db-ecf2db554ea2.gif" alt="edge-swipe-assistant.gif" title="edge-swipe-assistant.gif"][/a][/div][br][font color="#000"]A tipster tells us that you can only enter PiP on YouTube if you open a notification. Since I don't have YouTube Red Premium, I can't test this for myself. For me, Netflix completely breaks the Android UI when I try to open a notification while watching a movie, so YMMV.[br][br][font color="#ff0000"][strong]Note:[/strong][font color="#000000"]Keep in mind that this is a beta OS, so all of these problems and quirks will hopefully be ironed out by the time we see the stable release.[br][br][br][font color="#000"][a href="https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/05/08/how-to-access-google-assistant-with-android-qs-new-gesture-navigation/" target="_blank"]Source[/a][/div][/div][div id="thread-thumbup-wrap"][div id="thumbup-btn"][br][/div][/div]

irfan_kolkata

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Thinesh

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