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Partially remap the Pixel 4's Motion Sense gestures without root
You can now partially remap the Google Pixel 4's Soli radar-based Motion Sense gestures without root, by reading the logcat output. Follow along for steps!
The Google Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL are Google's newest flagships, featuring some worthy upgrades and a few cutting-edge technologies like Soli. Soli is a radar-based gesture recognition technology, which works on Pixel 4 through the sensor located on the top bezels of the device. Soli can sense motion around the device, and Google has leveraged this for the Motion Sense feature, allowing users to control music, silence alerts, or check their phone by waving their hand over the Pixel. If you are looking to do anything more than this, you need root, which is not something we recommend to each and every user. However, you can still remap the Pixel 4's Motion Sense gestures without root, albeit in a limited fashion, following either of the methods mentioned below.
XDA Spotlight: Button Mapper, an App to Remap your Phone's Hardware Buttons
In this XDA Spotlight, we review Button Mapper. This application allows you to remap any of your hardware buttons to do a wide number of actions.
Hardware buttons are increasingly becoming harder and harder to find on Android devices, with most devices these days retaining only the necessary power and volume buttons. Though some users prefer the sleek designs that on-screen navigational buttons offer, others miss having tactile buttons that could be utilized for specific purposes. Thankfully, you can have the best of both worlds with an application called Button Mapper.