Permanent Launcher/Dock? - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Does anyone know of any launchers that have a permanent dock at the bottom? So that when I open an app or something else I don not have to go back to the home screen to access to docked apps?
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Use wave launcher ..
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Thanks for the suggestion, but not really what I was looking for. I really need to add a permanent blank space to the bottom of the screen so I can place button savior there on my nook color.
I can do this with launcher pro, but the dock leaves when you go in to an app.
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U not gonna find it buddy..use the wave launcher or dock4droid ...watch a video to see how it works...its always there with any app u using..trust me and try one of them cuz u wont find a permanent dock..
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michaelg1030 said:
Thanks for the suggestion, but not really what I was looking for. I really need to add a permanent blank space to the bottom of the screen so I can place button savior there on my nook color.
I can do this with launcher pro, but the dock leaves when you go in to an app.
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I think that has more to do with apps opening full screen rather than a launcher.
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txtmikhail said:
U not gonna find it buddy..use the wave launcher or dock4droid ...watch a video to see how it works...its always there with any app u using..trust me and try one of them cuz u wont find a permanent dock..
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Kinda figured that, but wave launcher doesn't give me any advantage over button savior. Thanks again for the suggestion though.
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Could u suggest me any other app or launcher except from wavelauncer or dock4 droid?

I don't that functionality can be added without a rework of the system components

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[APP] Samsung Facebook App

found this on the captivate forum. i have installed and tried this and works. the UI looks real nice. but there's some things that dont seem to work properly or doesnt show. but ill throw it over here and see if any of you like it.
Facebook S!
original thread here
any screen shots?
Just tried it out. For some reason, it constantly redownloads data everytime you switch tabs. Looks nice tho.
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works great!.
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bigfkncee said:
Just tried it out. For some reason, it constantly redownloads data everytime you switch tabs. Looks nice tho.
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yea i must agree with that..
screen shots???
At work. I can post screenshots later
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I prefer the one from the market. Here is a screen shot for the curious.
Thanx greg for putting up a screen shot. Tried doing it from my phone it just gave me wrong format. Iono. Thanx again
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It works awesome takes a while to load but still nice work x_x
The guy on the couch
interesting, seems basic from what i can see. What are your thoughts on this vs the Facebook app?
I prefer the one from the market.
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huasamaya said:
I prefer the one from the market.
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Me too. Did they make this so international users could access fb w/ an app? If not, I dont see the point
With this I can upload videos to facebook something I either couldn't figure out or missed On the market app, I like facebook $ better so far but will keep both
The guy on the couch
Yea at first I really liked this. Its originally I think from the samsung wave and its android market. But this thing lags a bit. I too went back to the original one. Anyone else and their thoughts on this
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gregc2009 said:
I prefer the one from the market. Here is a screen shot for the curious.
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Hey, which battery app is that? I have battery indicator which is fine but it takes up a slot in the notification bar. I like the one you have that just takes the spot of vibrant's battery meter.
Looks pretty good. I loved the messages tab.
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bigfkncee said:
Just tried it out. For some reason, it constantly redownloads data everytime you switch tabs. Looks nice tho.
I had the same problem. You should go to the link in the post. I know its not supposed to matter, but I made my screen timeout longer. It was stuck each time.... So try that out, it might work for you
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I spoke too soon. Its very slow and doesn't have alerts. The best alert facebook app is bloo from the market. The Samsung facebook app is really nice but it loads everytime you go to a new tab or actually update your status or reply to an update.
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I also suggest bloo 1.5 but it's not on the market, gotta Google the apk. I hate the official app because it takes you to the mobile version mostly.
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[REQUEST] Lock/Power effect from GBread?

Howdy folks, any way to port the very cool screen effect fom Android 2.3 over to Atrix? The one where the screen turns off and then goes to a very small dot like the old TV sets used to do?
Thanks for the help.
nope only gb can do it
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OK, thanks for letting me know.
On open home 6 there is a setting for that. Real good launcher too
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Actually, there are several apps in the market that reproduce this effect. Just search for it.

[Q] App for quick shortcuts to other windows?

Hi guys was wondering if there is this app out there that can do the following...
You know when you swipe left or right you go to different windows from the home screen. Is there an app or something that wil allow you to swipe up or down from the homescreen to go to the window to the left x2 or to the right x2. I'm basically trying to find a way to get to my other windows in just 1 swipe as opposed to 2. It might not be much but I would much prefer it that faster if possible.
Anyone know of anything that can do this for me?
I use the "pinch and pick" method. (At least that's what I call it.)
Or hit the Home button twice (or just once if you're already on the Home screen).
That's an interesting idea but I would assume it would have to be built into the launcher you're using. Like home screen replacement Apps have swipe up for this and down for that but I haven't seen them have an option for swipe up for page x.
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Try an app called Wave Launcher. It's not exactly what you described as what you're looking for but may be another solution, it's a fantastic app! Here's a link for you:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.mobilemerit.wavelauncher
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Swipepad is free in the market
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Go launcher, set it to show previews on swipe up (you can even make it so it only does that when you swipe up on a specific dock icon, too!)
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docmalc said:
Try an app called Wave Launcher. It's not exactly what you described as what you're looking for but may be another solution, it's a fantastic app! Here's a link for you:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.mobilemerit.wavelauncher
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And yeah, wave launcher is freakin amazing!
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Swipepad is the shizzle, too! Good find! Swipepad + wave launcher + go launcher = totally covert homescreen! No statusbar, no dockbar, just secret areas to swipe from!
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Will that all eat up my battery a lot if I'm running stock everything non-rooted?
I'm really enjoying being non-rooted because surprisingly everything just WORKs. Battery life is great as I can get an entire 12-13 hour day out of it before it goes red.
Also...why Go Launcher? When I use to have it on my old Evo 4g whenever I would press the "home button" it would close Go Launcher and go back to the stock launcher...also...I have to use their own Friend widget (people widget) if you use it right? Or has that changed? When I used Go Launcher before the People widget I use to use from Sense disappears.
I'm completely stock.... Just download Wave Launcher and try it, if you like it then excellent, if you don't then uninstall... It's a free app so you lose nothing trying it. Good luck!
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syypher said:
Will that all eat up my battery a lot if I'm running stock everything non-rooted?
I'm really enjoying being non-rooted because surprisingly everything just WORKs. Battery life is great as I can get an entire 12-13 hour day out of it before it goes red.
Also...why Go Launcher? When I use to have it on my old Evo 4g whenever I would press the "home button" it would close Go Launcher and go back to the stock launcher...also...I have to use their own Friend widget (people widget) if you use it right? Or has that changed? When I used Go Launcher before the People widget I use to use from Sense disappears.
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Stock unrooted, too. GO Launcher (like any alternate home app) doesn't allow the use of Sense Widgets but they have an alternative to most of them and the widgets are themeable. Battery usage is no more than usual and if you REALLY wanna squeeze all the juice you can from a charge, check out Juice Defender. And why GO Launcher? It takes the best parts of all the paid launchers (ADW, Launcher Pro, etc), improves on them, adds in even more functionality, offers tons of themes or the ability to create your own, and it's free! I use GO SMS, GO Contacts and GO Dialer, too. The GO Weather is borked though lol dunno why
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Making CM7 look sweet

Hey guys, I'm just posting some links from the nook color forum. The first will give you honeycomb buttons, and the other helps you setup your screen. These forums were helpfull when setting up my tablet, and if they help you, thank the develper in the forum!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1311339
For honeycomb buttons
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1039586
for screen setup!
I use both for my nook tablet, and love it!
actorman46 said:
Hey guys, I'm just posting some links from the nook color forum. The first will give you honeycomb buttons, and the other helps you setup your screen. These forums were helpfull when setting up my tablet, and if they help you, thank the develper in the forum!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1311339
For honeycomb buttons
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1039586
for screen setup!
I use both for my nook tablet, and love it!
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How do you install and use this theme? I installed it, but it does not show in my app drawer. What am I doing wrong?
Look in your app drawer..Then look for Theme Chooser and select. That should do it for you.
You can find it in Theme choser. It's greyed out. It will say its the wrong size, do it anyways.
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You can find it in Theme choser. It's greyed out. It will say its the wrong size, do it anyways.
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I did, and it worked, but I still have the "bar" at the bottom of my screen. How can I get rid of that bar so that it really looks like ICS?
moukazwina said:
I did, and it worked, but I still have the "bar" at the bottom of my screen. How can I get rid of that bar so that it really looks like ICS?
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That's an issue that goes above themeing. If anyone knows different let me know but as far as I've read this is about as close as you can get.
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actorman46 said:
That's an issue that goes above themeing. If anyone knows different let me know but as far as I've read this is about as close as you can get.
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By "bar", I mean the bar that's in portrait mode. The one you have in phones and not tablets. The bar that has the phone icon on it.
moukazwina said:
By "bar", I mean the bar that's in portrait mode. The one you have in phones and not tablets. The bar that has the phone icon on it.
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Post a pic of what you're talking about.
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Ate you talking about the dock? I don't know if you can turn that off in ADW, but I use ADW EX and you can turn it off with that. Other launchers may allow turning it off as well, but I can't name any.
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I think he's talking about the bar that the buttons themselves are in. That you're stuck with as far as I know. We can get our tablets close to looking like CM9, but CM7 still has limits.
But some more fun things...
I'm using SPB shell 3d with a live wallpaper and I'm still getting good use out of the battery.
Normally SPB as cool as it looks is a resource hog, but I still have lots of free ram with the tablet.
I am including a screenshot showing what I am talking about.
It is the bar that has the app drawer and the phone icon
moukazwina said:
I am including a screenshot showing what I am talking about.
It is the bar that has the app drawer and the phone icon
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Look for an option in your launcher settings to hide the dock. I know ADW EX has that option. Not sure what you're using there.
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In adw XL go to settings then themes and select no theme for dock bar.
To change the apps in the bar hold down on them, drag them out and add what you want.
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For the dock bar go to Settings -> Adw launcher -> UI settings -> main dock style. Just select "none"
Yeah, that dock is kinda out of place on a tablet. Just so you can still access your app drawer, just long click on the screen, select launcher action, and pick open/close app drawer. I put one on every screen so that the app drawer is always accessible.
thx,ICS theme is pretty cooooolllllllll
I had to switch back to ADW, and now I got rid of the dock completely.
I have a couple of requests still: How do I add the apps drawer as the guy had on the top right of his NT?
Another thing I would love to do: make the soft home button actually display the apps, as of now, it only pulls the home screen.
moukazwina said:
I had to switch back to ADW, and now I got rid of the dock completely.
I have a couple of requests still: How do I add the apps drawer as the guy had on the top right of his NT?
Another thing I would love to do: make the soft home button actually display the apps, as of now, it only pulls the home screen.
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Long press on the home screen and select launcher actions. You can control what the home button does though ADW settings.
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I just rooted, so I haven't had a chance to play with this new launcher. Totally different look, extremely customizable...
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.ss.launcher&hl=en
Here's an XDA thread about it:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1452225
.....
same problem with me
mrVuHoa said:
same problem with me
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What's the issue?
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Is there a way to make a widget persistent?

Is there any way to make a selective widget, like the DuckDuckGo widget, persistent in the place of the Google search widget? I ask this because the Google search widget that is persistent doesn't take up a complete grid like it would if I was to add the DuckDuckGo widget to every page at the top.
Adding the DuckDuckGo widget drops everything down much further, even with another grid space added on Nova, than just having the persistent widget does.
I saw with Lightning Laughed you could "pin" a widget in place and it is almost like using a persistent widget, in that it stays in the same place as you scroll through homescreens, but its still very very different. I have also seen Overlays but that is completely different as well.
So is there any way to modify Nova, and of the other launchers, or a ROM to use the DuckDuckGo widget as persistent instead of the Google search bar?
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Agreed, would love to do this.
Any thoughts?
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Any thoughts?
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I've been researching for the past couple of days and the closest thing I have been able to find is Lightning Launcher. Sadly that isn't even close to what I'm wanting. I'm going to keep looking and see if I ever run across something, which looks doubtful at this point...
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Apparently SS Launcher allows pinning as well, I am currently emailing the Dev and discussing persistent widgets but I don't have much hope because he doesn't seem to know what I am talking about or the differences.
I am going to start looking for a way to edit it but I'm not very hopeful I'll find a solution.
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Been looking for this too
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I've been searching for exactly this for a while now - no dice. Has anyone here had any luck?
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I've been searching for exactly this for a while now - no dice. Has anyone here had any luck?
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Not at all, the ssLauncher Dev has no idea what I a, talking about, he doesn't speak English as his first language so its extremely hard for me to explain things to him. I eventually gave up.
I've heard that the Dev responsible for Action Launcher adds just about anything his users ask for so I am going to email him later today and see if he can and would add that. Ive been trying to figure this out for quite a while and no one knows anything about it and the few that do, I've found 2 people who supposedly know, don't want to explain what edits need to be made.
I'll post back when I get dome talking with the Dev over Action Launcher!
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I have contacted the Action Launcher developer and am awaiting response. I will post with updates as soon as I hear anything.
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shangrila500 said:
I have contacted the Action Launcher developer and am awaiting response. I will post with updates as soon as I hear anything.
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Nice. Action launcher is beast. I don't always use it but it's one sick launcher
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why don't you use a launcher that allow for widget overlapping so you don't have to worry about grid size?
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Try this http://goo.gl/WzjRK
Or a side bar with widgets like this http://goo.gl/ySNsZ
Good luck
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