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Reachability Cursor makes it easy to use tall Android phones One Handed [XDA Spotlight]

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  Every day, many developers post new apps or games on our Apps and Games forum.  There are so many apps released each day that finding a truly unique and fascinating app can be like picking a needle out of a haystack, but that’s exactly what we’ve done today. A developer on our forums came up with an innovative solution to the problem of using tall Android phones with one hand. Called “Reachability Cursor,” the app creates an on-screen cursor that you can drag to perform taps, long presses, and drag gestures.  The easiest way to understand the brilliance of this app is by watching a quick demo:   Smartphones from Huawei, Samsung, and Xiaomi have built-in one-handed mode features, and at one point, Huawei even tried contributing their one-handed mode feature to AOSP. We made an app that uses Android’s built-in overscan function to try bringing one-handed mode to any device, but Reachability Cursor takes a different, and admittedly better, approach to solve the