--- title: "Bring one-handed gestures to your Wear OS app" url: https://daily.dev/posts/bring-one-handed-gestures-to-your-wear-os-app-rjlajvcmn source_url: https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/08/one-handed-gestures-wear-os.html type: article source: "Android Developers Blog" published: 2026-08-12T17:22:43.654Z updated: 2026-08-12T17:23:08.088Z tags: ["android", "kotlin", "jetpack-compose", "wear-os"] reading_time: 5 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Bring one-handed gestures to your Wear OS app **[Android Developers Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/androiddev)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary 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. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### How do I add one-handed gesture support to a Wear OS app using Compose? Use the Modifier.oneHandedGesture from Compose for Wear OS 1.7 beta, available starting with androidx.wear.compose:compose-material3:1.7.0-beta01. Configure it with rememberOneHandedGestureConfiguration to define the GestureAction, attach a OneHandedGestureClickIndicatorState or OneHandedGestureScrollIndicatorState for visual feedback, and implement onGestureAvailable and onGesture callbacks to handle the interaction. The app must run on Wear OS 7 for platform-level gesture detection support. _Developers building gesture-driven Wear OS features can track Compose framework updates like this on daily.dev._ ### Which watches support the new Wear OS one-handed gesture framework? The gestures are currently available on Pixel Watch 3 and newer, with Wear OS 7 providing the underlying platform support for gesture detection. The framework itself is open to all Wear OS device manufacturers to adopt, though the double-pinch and wrist-flick gestures were first introduced on Pixel Watch with Wear OS 6.1 for system-level actions like timers and calls. _daily.dev helps developers deciding which wearable platform features to target stay on top of Wear OS device support._ ### How is Spotify using one-handed gestures on Wear OS? Spotify adopted the Modifier.oneHandedGesture API so users can play or pause music using the double-pinch gesture on Pixel Watch devices, without touching the screen. This primary gesture action triggers the same behavior as the physical play/pause button, giving hands-free media control while on the go. _Teams building similar gesture-based UX can follow real adoption examples like this via daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [What's New in Wear OS 7](https://daily.dev/posts/what-s-new-in-wear-os-7-bolw7vcd1) · Android Developers Blog · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#android](https://daily.dev/tags/android), [#kotlin](https://daily.dev/tags/kotlin), [#jetpack-compose](https://daily.dev/tags/jetpack-compose), [#wear-os](https://daily.dev/tags/wear-os) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/bring-one-handed-gestures-to-your-wear-os-app-rjlajvcmn)