Screen-Edge Gestures and the Quick-Access Panel

Open Settings, the Management tab, and turn on Gesture overlay - "Show up to 4 thin gesture strips at the screen edges, over other apps." Tap Configure gestures below it to open the edge-gesture window.

The edge-gesture window has four tabs - Left top, Left bottom, Right top and Right bottom - one per band, each covering roughly the upper or lower stretch of its screen edge. A swipe on a band is read as one of three directions: up, inward (shown as Right, since it points right on the left edge and left on the right edge) or down. A small map at the top - "Edge gesture map: tap a zone direction to assign an action" - shows all twelve slots at a glance, and tapping one jumps straight to its tab.

Turn on a band's own Show the gesture strip switch and a faint gray guide appears along that stretch of the real screen edge - handy while you are still learning where a band starts and ends; leave it off once you know.

Touch down on a live band and a small legend appears showing its three directions - up, right, down - each with its icon and the action it currently runs, and the one your finger is heading toward highlighted as you move. Let go over empty space instead of a direction and the gesture cancels with nothing happening, so trying a band out costs nothing.

In a band's tab, set Down gesture action, Right gesture action and Up gesture action independently, each opening the same Gesture action picker. The list covers a lot of ground: the screenshot actions from Taking screenshots and what happens next, camera actions (take a photo, and send it, edit it, or run OCR translation on it), starting or stopping screen recording or a quick voice note, launching a chosen app, opening the quick-access panel, and a long list of device shortcuts such as the flashlight, volume and brightness. Leave a direction on Do not use and that swipe does nothing.

Set a direction to Launch a chosen app and pick any installed app - that swipe opens it, or brings it to the front if it is already running, with no screenshot and no consent prompt along the way. Leave no app chosen and the gesture opens FastMediaSorter itself instead.

Set a direction to Open quick-access panel and that swipe opens a fixed grid of large tiles - 3x5 in portrait, 5x3 in landscape - for one-tap launching, again with no screenshot or consent prompt. A tile you have not filled in yet shows Empty - tap to add.

Every edition, including the ones without screen capture, can add a Quick launch tile to the Android Quick Settings shade - pull it down, tap Edit, and drag it in. Tapping that tile opens the same quick-access panel as the gesture, so it works even where the edge gesture itself is not offered.

Open the panel's Edit screen - or Edit quick-access panel in the edge-gesture window - and tap any tile, filled or empty, to add, Move, Replace or Remove it. A tile can point to an Android app, an Android OS settings screen (Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Display, Sound, Battery and more, whichever exist on your phone), a FastMediaSorter feature (the calculator, the mini-game, Camera OCR translation, Streams, Favorites and others), or a FastMediaSorter resource. The panel ships already filled in with the app's own features first and Android settings after, leaving the remaining slots open for whatever you add; Reset panel puts that starting layout back at any time.

Quick capture, Voice recording, Screen video recording and Download by link - the same items already in the main window's Programs menu - can sit on the panel as their own tiles, so a swipe or a Quick Settings tap reaches them directly. Screen video recording and Download by link still need the Standard or noLegal edition, the same as everywhere else on this page; the camera and voice tiles are not tied to screen capture and follow their own, wider set of editions.