Zephyr Jailbreak Tweak Swipe Multitasking & Gestures

If you're an iOS user, you probably give your home button (and your thumb) a grueling workout on a daily basis. Every time you want to use multitasking to switch apps, you have to double-tap the lone physical button on the device's front face. Apple has implemented multitasking gestures for the iPad, but has done no such thing for the iPhone or iPod touch. You can rack another one up for the jailbreak community, as it has released a new app that allows you to multitask on the iPhone with single-finger gestures.

Zephyr is the creation of Cydia developer chpwn, and the premise is simple: swipe up from the bottom of the screen to bring up the app-switcher (normally activated with a double tap of the home button), and swipe left to right to switch back and forth between recent apps.

Apple has likely opted out of iPhone and iPod touch multitasking gestures due to the small size of the screen. How many gestures can you implement on a 3.5-inch display? Zephyr, however, makes a strong case against that argument. The left to right swipe lets you start the gesture from the bezel, which frees up a bit extra room. As you can see in the video below, both gestures are simple, intuitive, and exactly the kind of function that Apple will wish it released first:

In fact the tweak fits so naturally into iOS that this could be another jailbreak feature that Apple steals and uses for itself. We've seen this previously with iOS functions like multitasking (it closely resembles an old Cydia app called Circuitious), notification banners (a spitting image for Peter Hajas's MobileNotifier), and Wi-Fi Sync (Apple didn't even bother changing the name of that one). Of course, as the Zephyr gesture tweak borrows heavily from the iPad's multitasking gestures, it wouldn't be as blatant a move for Apple to "borrow" it.

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[CSSCder]

@hons19hons what other tweaks do you have installed. I have zeppelin and it works fine. You could have a conflict which will cause a respring loop.

[cffa]

I'm not sure if this tweak has been changed, but what I previously found is while the concept is sound you have no idea what you are swiping to either way - so unless you know exactly what is open you swipe to app that you don't want - which starts to open, then you swipe again etc. But using the stock iOS multitasking bar you can see what apps are available and choose from that - which actually becomes more efficient if you use a variety of apps all the time.

[HonsHons]

hi i have a question.
i use cydia and wanted to download Zeppelin yesterday but when i downloaded it and my iPhone4 respringed, it didn't stop to respring itself. I had to connect it to iTunes and use a old Backup. But in many Videos i see that Zeppelin works without problems.I have iOS 6.1, and used cydia for downoading zeppelin.
what could be the problem?

[Minesharts]

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[myspace]

thing trash crashed my ipod so badly i had to rejailbreak