Bring one-handed gestures to your Wear OS app

Wear OS 7 introduces a new Gestures framework letting OEMs map one-handed gestures to primary actions and dismissals, alongside an API for developers. Compose for Wear OS 1.7 beta adds Modifier.oneHandedGesture, which developers can attach to interactive composables like buttons and scrollable lists to enable touch-free control such as play/pause or scrolling. Gesture indicator components help users discover available gestures, and Spotify has already adopted the API to enable double-pinch play/pause control on Pixel Watch devices without touching the screen.

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