Circuitous 1.0: A multitasking app with gestures for iPhone & iPod Touch

by @iPhoneate / March 16, 2010 1:45 AM EDT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=798NXlvfilg

Hello iPhone user, this application is a multitasking tool like Pro Switcher, Dock, or Kirikae, and it works with Backgrounder and LibActivator. For those unfamiliar with the topic, it allows you to have several applications running simultaneously without having to close them to access them.

Requirements:

Get a jailbroken iPhone/iPod Touch if you don't know how: https://iphoneate.com/jailbreak-3-1-2-iphone-ipod-touch-en-mac-windows/
Download Circuitous 1.0 from Cydia; it is available for free and does not require adding a source.
Have Backgrounder installed, available in Cydia from the BigBoss source that comes installed by default.

How is it used?

Once installed, you can access and customize the application from your Settings menu:

The menu that appears offers the following options:

Dock Activation: This option allows us to choose how the background application menu will be opened, which can be from the Home button, by shaking (as seen in the video), with the Power button, with gestures on the screen by sliding from the bottom of the screen to different sides, from the springboard by pressing the icons with two fingers, from the status bar by pressing and holding or a double tap, and from the volume buttons.

Cycler Activator: Allows us to choose how the application will be activated in the background, with the same options already explained.
Reverse Cycler Activator: Allows you to choose how to deactivate a background application.
Springboard Enabled: This icon always appears in the Circuitous background menu. It allows you to exit a background application to the springboard, but if you tap it while on the springboard, your iPhone or iPod will respring. It can be enabled or disabled.

Once you have customized your app access, open an app and hold down Home until you see a message that says Backgrounding Enabled. The app will immediately close and leave you on the Springboard. You can then open as many apps as you want in the background.

Now you can activate your Circuitous with the option you selected. In the video, "Shake" was selected, and doing so brings up the applications menu that we left running in the background.

We can navigate between them, and as I mentioned before, at the top appears the Springboard option; this will respring you if you press it on springboard, so be careful. You can also disable it in the menu.

NOTE: I recommend that if you use any other multitasking software such as Dock or ProSwitcher, etc., you disable them before using this one, as their functions may overlap.