Hi all,
What's the deal with the "Active Applications" widget?
Is it made by Samsung?
What does the color in the rectangle mean?
Is there a way to resize the widget to a single square?
Is there any documentation?
[wasn't allowed to post my marked up screenshot, but it's b048b.jpg at imgur.com, will try to use forum file attachment instead.]
Why is the listing so much shorter than the listing at Settings > Applications > Manage Applications ?
Thanks all!
this is a great question because this is a samsung thing that they added which isnt on regular android. so i'd be curious to know exactly how it works.
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It's just the widget, you can press and hold Home button and task manager opens, the same thing. It shows the Active Apps but doesn't show them which are Cached or Running in background, so frankly I don't find this very useful.
Regards.
ithehappy said:
It's just the widget, you can press and hold Home button and task manager opens, the same thing. It shows the Active Apps but doesn't show them which are Cached or Running in background, so frankly I don't find this very useful.
Regards.
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Hmm. You're right that the widget is simply showing the count of apps within the "Active applications" list of the Task Manager.
What about the color bar of the widget?
It's usually a green-yellow-red gradient, but sometimes it's mostly green, and sometimes it's mostly red.
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Something really cool just hit the Android Market.
QuickDesk is a fusion of a task switcher and a home screen that is compatible with your current launcher. When you double tap the home button you are greeted with a separate home screen that is transparent and does not interfere with your currently running application.
It fully supports widgets and has a transparent background. It also has what it calls the Quick Panel that lists the currently running apps along with a count of their notifications.
It seems to work a lot better when you change the preferences to forcibly keep it in memory (nice to have a nice phone with ample extra ram like ours).
Can't provide a direct link because I'm posting from my phone, just search for it on the market. Enjoy
Hi there.
I'm looking for a widget task manager (not a task killer, just something that gives me quick access to running tasks), preferably something that shows me running tasks in the widget itself (as oppose to a widget that opens a menu of tasks when pressed).
I use to use the go launcher task manager, that suited my needs perfectly, but as far as I understand it, it's only available with the launcher.
The Active Apps / Task Manager looks good, but only shows the apps themselves in a menu, and not on the "desktop".
So, any recommendations?
I know it is a small issue, can anyone else get the Asus weather widget to display Fahrenheit instead of Celcius?
When you click on the weather widget, it will take you to the settings page.
The third section down, under "Other" there is an option to change the temp units.
trying yr luck said:
When you click on the weather widget, it will take you to the settings page.
The third section down, under "Other" there is an option to change the temp units.
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Yeah, I tried that, but even putting it on F and clicking save it still shows celcius. Reboot, still Celcius.
Go to Settings -> Applications -> Running Services. Chick the "Show cached services"
Find "ASUS Weather" and stop the process. Then do a reboot.
That should do the trick
Hi all.
I'm trying to the following for months now:
You know that most of the tablets with android 3+ have this large black bar at the bottom. I'm not sure how it is called but I mean this bar where the clock, back and home button and the notification icons are on.
On the middle area of this bar there is always much space depending on the number of notifications on the right.
My idea was to use this space for shortcuts to apps or tasker tasks. Just like in windows the Quick Launch Toolbar on the task bar.
But until now I haven't found any solution.
Here is what I have:
I'm using tasker scenes to build my own shortcut buttons. Then I displayed these buttons as always on top and half transparent directly on the screen in the normal application display area. It seems that tasker is not able to display these buttons over the system bar. So this isn't a complete solution of my problem since the free display space on the bar is still not in use.
On the other hand I do know that it must be possible to program apps which are overlayed on the system bar since other apps can be placed over it.
Anyway...
I'm searching for a clean solution to get shortcuts on the system bar to start apps or tasker tasks with one click or touch.
Please help if you can or just post if you are also like to see such a solution. Maybe an app developer picks up this idea.
fpdragon said:
Hi all.
I'm trying to the following for months now:
You know that most of the tablets with android 3+ have this large black bar at the bottom. I'm not sure how it is called but I mean this bar where the clock, back and home button and the notification icons are on.
On the middle area of this bar there is always much space depending on the number of notifications on the right.
My idea was to use this space for shortcuts to apps or tasker tasks. Just like in windows the Quick Launch Toolbar on the task bar.
But until now I haven't found any solution.
Here is what I have:
I'm using tasker scenes to build my own shortcut buttons. Then I displayed these buttons as always on top and half transparent directly on the screen in the normal application display area. It seems that tasker is not able to display these buttons over the system bar. So this isn't a complete solution of my problem since the free display space on the bar is still not in use.
On the other hand I do know that it must be possible to program apps which are overlayed on the system bar since other apps can be placed over it.
Anyway...
I'm searching for a clean solution to get shortcuts on the system bar to start apps or tasker tasks with one click or touch.
Please help if you can or just post if you are also like to see such a solution. Maybe an app developer picks up this idea.
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I would also love to see this solution!
I'm trying to set up a shortcut to open the JB quick settings window (the one you get by swiping the corner of the status bar, or swiping with two fingers, depending on your preference), and I can't seem to find a command for it anywhere. Not in Tasker, not in the Activities list, and no widget in the Play store that opens it with a tap. Oddly, I can use the Nova Launcher "Nova Actions" menu to create an "expand quick settings" button, but it can only sit on the home screen, while I want to add a button to my quick launch. If I could just create a widget or shortcut that toggles that button it'd work fine, but I can't find the functionality anywhere.
I'm running CM10.1. Thanks for any help anyone can offer.
On HTC ONE you pull your notifications down with 2 fingers.