# SwipeBack

DevFeed: [SwipeBack](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/swipeback-25467.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://hannesdorfmann.com/android/swipeback/>)

Author: Hannes Dorfmann

Published: 2013-12-27T09:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Hannes Dorfmann](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/hannes-dorfmann.md>)

Topics: [Android](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/android.md>), [navigation](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/navigation.md>), [android-apps](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/android-apps.md>)

Tags: [android](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/android.md>), [android-apps](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/android-apps.md>), [navigation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/navigation.md>), [rotation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/rotation.md>), [switching](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/switching.md>)

## AI overview

This tutorial presents SwipeBack for Android Activities, a swipe-gesture alternative to the Android navigation bar's back button. It discusses approaches using a ViewPager and Fragments, their limitations, and an activity-based implementation using sliding animations and gesture detection.

## Source excerpt

SwipeBack for Android Activities does pretty the same as the android "back-button" does, but in a really intuitive way by using a swipe gesture The Samsung Galaxy Nexus was one of the first device without hardware buttons for "back", "home" and "app switching (multitasking)" but used the androids navigation bar on screen (introduced in Android 4.