As the title states, is there any good home screen switcher widget? It would be awesome to have like a small pop up to quickly switch between launchers rather then the old way.. Just looking at cool things to do on my phone
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Sometimes i forgot i left some apps running in the back ground.
and not all apps can hibernate, some of them cause wake locks.
so it will be nice if there's a widget that display how many apps are currently running.
the default touch widz has a widget called "active applications"
it works and get the job done, tapping on it launches the task manager, another good thing about it.
the problem is, why on earth is it a 2x1 widget?
its a real waste of screen real estate.
is there any widget out there in the market that is 1x1 and does the same function?
Closest thing I know to what you're looking for is this. Install System Tuner Pro from market (costs a few bucks. This might even be possible with the free/non-pro version). Once installed, you can put a shortcut to Task Manager on your homescreen which is a 1x1 icon.
From task manager you can show only non-system apps currently running, or you can include system apps & even kernel processes. Click on an app/process & you can kill it with one button press.
Hope this is kinda what you were looking for
Edit to add - This is possible with the free version, but you have to put up with annoying ads :-/
Ray1 said:
Sometimes i forgot i left some apps running in the back ground.
and not all apps can hibernate, some of them cause wake locks.
so it will be nice if there's a widget that display how many apps are currently running.
the default touch widz has a widget called "active applications"
it works and get the job done, tapping on it launches the task manager, another good thing about it.
the problem is, why on earth is it a 2x1 widget?
its a real waste of screen real estate.
is there any widget out there in the market that is 1x1 and does the same function?
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I'd been a big fan of ADW Launcher EX for a long time.
It seems the development has died unfortunately though.
My favorite feature was the ability to quickly switch between 2 dockbars. One had the standard 4 + app drawer button, and the other was a scrollable dock which effectively could contain many more.
This was great for phones (not really needed in tablets) where I needed 6-8 quick access apps.
The very last versions of ADW completely removed this feature, inexplicably. I'm running the version that last had this feature, which runs okay, but was hoping for more ICS features.
I cannot find any currently maintained Launcher that also has this feature (Apex and Nova Launchers don't to my knowledge). Many/most have scrollable dockbars, but no quick-switch alternate ones.
Anyone know of any?
I know Zeam Launcher (free from the market) has scrollable dock, but not sure what you mean with alternating docks.
Zeam's a known entity. Nice and quick. But no alternate dockbar.
The dockbars can be switched with a button press, or gesture. I linked mine to home. Press home while in launcher-->5 other apps pop up as a dockbar. Press home again-->back to the original 4+app drawer button. Repeat.
Ah,never knew this was in the old ADW Launcher! I use CircleLauncher to popup more apps from my home. But can't use hardware button.
waylo said:
The dockbars can be switched with a button press, or gesture. I linked mine to home. Press home while in launcher-->5 other apps pop up as a dockbar. Press home again-->back to the original 4+app drawer button. Repeat.
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I tried out TSF shell briefly, still needs some development but was a nice change from the norm
Has all apps on the main home screen with some great looking scrolling animations
Coming from stock jelly bean on my Nexus I miss being able to go straight to Google Now with a swipe... if there was a way to add an additional icon to the lock screen for this purpose that would be awesome. Any ideas?
Put the Google Now (Google) shortcut in your dock. Not entirely the same, but works with a swipe
Thanks! This is my first sense phone, didn't realize whatever you put in there also showed up on the lock screen. Duh :silly:
Honestly, I think I will be adding a shortcut myself. I kind of miss my Gnex swipe up.
This is what I do that has worked well for me. I use Nova Launcher to bring me back to more of a nexus look. Because I do this, I set my camera and google icons on the dock of my sense launcher and those two icons show up on my lockscreen, and this way I also don't waste dock space on Nova launcher. Works like a charm.
Here are my home and lock screen to show what I am talking about
Holding the home button for a second opens Google Now... its not the same as swiping from lock screen but it works
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Holding the home button for a second opens Google Now... its not the same as swiping from lock screen but it works
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This does not work from the lock screen though.
DonBrizzel said:
This is what I do that has worked well for me. I use Nova Launcher to bring me back to more of a nexus look. Because I do this, I set my camera and google icons on the dock of my sense launcher and those two icons show up on my lockscreen, and this way I also don't waste dock space on Nova launcher. Works like a charm.
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I agree, although I added two activities to the list. With Nova you can drop activities to directly access features of apps without opening them fully.
I use one activity from Handcent called quick compose. It opens a tiny window with a "to" field and a "message" field. Very handy. Also I use the toggle feature of TeslaLED to give me quick access to a flashlight.
Then using Nova I can have 6 completely different apps on my dock plus app drawer.
And today was payday so that rocks.
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There is also Holo Lock for anyone who wants the stock JB lock screen, although it does not work perfectly...
I use apex launcher, much the same as nova. I have a Google search in my sense dock, so it shows up on my lockscreen.
It doesn't show up on my dock in apex. I set a gesture in apex, however, that store up items Google search. Makes it almost the same ad my galaxy nexus
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I just got my S4 and am really enjoying the upgrade from my GNex but am having a few problems with dash clock. I switched from Touch Wiz to Nova launcher. When I launch an app from dashclock and hit the back button it takes me to my touchwiz home screen and not Nova, I actually have to hit the home button to get back to Nova. Only seems to happen with apps I open through Dash clock, any ideas on this one?
Also Im having an issue with the Dash clock widget on the lockscreen. I have it full size on a home page but in lockscreen it will just stay small and I have to draw it down everytime to expand on it then click on it to open whatever it is I wanted opened. Same thing when I get a message using the stock messaging app and it shows on lockscreen, I have to slide down on it then click on it to open Messaging. That just how the lockscreen widgets are supposed to work or am I missing something?
Thanks for any help in advance
I'm always looking for new apps or mods as it's fun to tinker your phone to just how you like it
Navbar animations:
Plays a little animation when you hit the home button and there's loads of options to choose from.
Rocker locker:
Makes it so when you hit the volume keys it changes the media volume instead of ringer on default.
Quick keyboard Viet:
After coming from iPhone I really missed being able to swipe along the keyboard for cursor control. This app allows that
I know Google keyboard allows spacebar for that but I'm super picky haha!
Feel free to add anything
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Locus Map Pro- the best offline topo maps for outdoor activities.
Tasker is by far my favourite app as I have a ton of profiles to do a bunch of different things for me to make my life easier
I have lots of the AutoApps plugins to go with Tasker as well!
Wunderlist..... It is nice to have when going shopping or have a "honey do"list. It also comes with a nice widget that you can work from without opening the app.
Kurtyyyyyy1 said:
I'm always looking for new apps or mods as it's fun to tinker your phone to just how you like it
Navbar animations:
Plays a little animation when you hit the home button and there's loads of options to choose from.
Rocker locker:
Makes it so when you hit the volume keys it changes the media volume instead of ringer on default.
Quick keyboard Viet:
After coming from iPhone I really missed being able to swipe along the keyboard for cursor control. This app allows that
I know Google keyboard allows spacebar for that but I'm super picky haha!
Feel free to add anything
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Heads up, Rocker Locker plays a low volume white noise constantly keeping your device awake and draining the battery. This tricks the phone into thinking music is playing so you always control media.
dubt17 said:
Heads up, Rocker Locker plays a low volume white noise constantly keeping your device awake and draining the battery. This tricks the phone into thinking music is playing so you always control media.
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Oh damn, really?! Thanks for that!
What's some good launchers that have themes? Cm launcher looks pretty customized...any one have some recommendations would be appreciated...less ads the better obviously TIA
aaronrw said:
What's some good launchers that have themes? Cm launcher looks pretty customized...any one have some recommendations would be appreciated...less ads the better obviously TIA
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Here are a list of good custom launchers:
Nova Launcher
Lawnchair Launcher
Action Launcher
ADW 2
Pear Launcher
Lean Launcher
Unfortunately now of them work as well as stock pixel Launcher. But they are way more customizable ?
Fingerprint Swipes: I've configured swipe up to switch between apps, swipe down for recent apps and swipe left for back
Navbar Apps: changes the color of the navbar. I've set it to change based on the app open (tbh I installed it to reduce burn in but it's nice to see the navbar change color)
Nwsty: Shows you the top 5-6 news for the day. Not too much detail. It doesn't let you expand on the news in the app. You'd have to google them yourselves. Great app if you just want to see what the top news is about.
Fleksy keyboard: gesture based keyboard. Super fast for typing. I believe the fastest message(or something) was recorded on this keyboard..
kaped31 said:
Fingerprint Swipes: I've configured swipe up to switch between apps, swipe down for recent apps and swipe left for back
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Thanks for this post. This app is great!
I love Swiftly Switch.. Best shortcut launcher app.
Kurtyyyyyy1 said:
Thanks for this post. This app is great!
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+1
Can't believe how convenient this is; I've only had it for about 12 hours but I'm already asking myself how I went this long without it lol