Create Custom Gestures In iOS 5

hey everyone today I'm going to show you

how you can make yourself custom

gestures within iOS 5 and this works on

the iPhone the iPod touch as well as the

iPad now in a previous video a while

back I showed you how to do something

similar and that was with assist of

touch in iOS 5 that was the beta but the

custom gesture feature

wasn't really working the best then and

it was hard to give you a complete demo

and since then I've come up with some

other uses for it so I kind of want to

show you how to really use the custom

gesture feature it's actually a pretty

powerful feature so to set it up first

thing you're going want to do is go into

settings and this is the same whether

you're working on an iPhone an iPod

touch or an iPad and then from there

General and then you're going to want to

scroll down until you find accessibility

and you hit that and then scroll down

some more until you get to assist of

touch and you can select assist of touch

and you're going to have to turn it on

this feature does use assist of touch

and when it's turned on you'll see this

little dot down in the corner and you

can press that to activate a couple

different things and then hit the center

to go back but the feature I really want

to focus on today is this custom

gestures feature so I can select create

new gesture and a menual will pop up and

on the bottom here I can play the

gesture that I'm working with or I can

stop stop a certain one and in the

center of the screen here you can see I

can touch to create a custom gesture so

let's say I want a scrolling gesture all

I have to do is scroll with my finger on

the screen and it'll record the gesture

and if I hit play I can play the gesture

back and you can see it uh follows

exactly where my finger was and then of

course I can go up here and I can hit

save and then all I have to do is give

my gesture a name so in this case I'll

just call it

scroll and hit save so when you go back

out this gesture will appear right under

your custom gestures so if I go back

into settings here and I'm going to go

all the way out back to the main menu uh

to use this for scrolling all I have to

do is tap the little square for assist

of touch and then click on favorites and

these are all gestures that either have

been recorded or already in here the

default one is pinched that one's always

there and I'm just going to select

scroll so now up here you're going to

see this little blue dot on your screen

and that's where the gesture is and I

can move this gesture around or whatever

and whenever I let go it'll perform the

gesture so let's say I'm at the bottom

of the list and I go in and I select the

gesture scroll and I just tap you can

see It'll scroll right up the page for

me and I guess this could be useful if

you're going to be scrolling along a

long list of information and you don't

really want to just sit there and keep

flicking your finger so if you want to

turn this gesture off you can just hit

this little square down here again and

it'll turn it off so this might be

something that you'd like if you read a

lot of text on your iOS device uh for

example this long list right here I can

just touch the screen and it'll keep

scrolling for me and in this case I

wouldn't have to just keep flicking my

finger to get through this list I can

just use the gesture and it'll scroll

for me just like I recorded I can even

use this gesture to bring down not I can

even use this gesture to bring down

notification center if I wanted to you

can see there it just slid down from the

top of the page uh just like that so now

the uses for these gestures are pretty

much Unlimited

as far as your imagination can go uh

there's not a ton of things that I can

personally see myself using these for uh

but once again this is an accessibility

feature so officially it's meant as a

feature for people who have hard time

using the device but it can actually

kind of assist you in everyday tasks

another thing I thought of to do with

this and it's kind of Impractical use

but you can actually kind of make a

gesture to play Angry Birds for you uh

so that's something if you just kind of

make the gesture let's try that again if

you just kind of make the gesture you

would as you you know pull back the

slingshot for the birds and I'll save

this as Angry Birds so now you can see

here when I'm in Angry Birds and all I

have to do is take the gesture and tap

on the bird it'll kind of swing it back

and uh play the game for me so not

useful on every level uh but it's kind

of neat and uh it's a little proof of

concept

thing that you can use this for uh

specific purposes so it looks like a I

might be able to beat this level uh

pretty much handsfree and there you go I

beat the level uh by not really playing

the game at all so whether you consider

that cheating or not I guess that's up

to you so there you go there's how you

can use the accessibility features

within iOS 5 to create custom gestures

and use those to your advantage if you

have anything you'd like to see me do a

howu on especially regarding iOS 5 which

was just released make sure to send me

an email I hope you found this video

useful and thank you for watching

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