METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING QUICK ACCESS TO DEVICE FUNCTIONALITY

An apparatus comprising: means for receiving an indication of a swipe gesture being performed from a first predefined portion of a display to a second predefined portion of the display; a gesture classifier configured to classify the swipe gesture as a trigger gesture based on an insertion of a motion delay of at least a threshold period of time in connection with the swipe gesture and to classify the swipe gesture as a functional implementation gesture based on the swipe gesture extending beyond a threshold distance; and a response manager configured to, in response to classifying the swipe gesture as the trigger gesture, cause a display of a predefined set of functional elements that cause execution of a corresponding function when a respective one of the predefined set of functional elements is selected, and, in response to classifying the swipe gesture as the functional implementation gesture, cause a change of state.