Recently I've becoming more and more disappointed with the system bar on my transformer. As you know, there are only 5 "slots" for notification icons to show up despite the large amount of real estate available. With my sd card in and my keyboard docked much of this is taken up my nonimportant icons. Is there a mod available that either increases the number of system bar icons or lets you block certain things from showing up?
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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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Hey everyone!
I was wondering if it was possible to remove the statusbar entirely but retain the notification shade. The notification style is beautiful on lollipop and there's honestly no point of that ugly bar at the top of the screen anymore.
I used expanded desktop before but it requires you to go through multiple swipes before the notification shade opens.
Is it possible to remove the statusbar but keep the "one swipe" notifcation shade funtionality?
One way I thought this could work is to reduce the size of the statusbar to nill or just make it invisible and remove all the icons but I can't seem to find a way to do either of those things however.
Any ideas?
I don't mind the notch but having eaten some serious real estate, the notification icons does not seem to have enough space. On the left top bar, the network name is shown in full, then barely two more icons can fit in, the next new notification icons disappear under the notch. Hiding notch only changes the background colour so that does not help. Any ideas on this guys? Thanks.
I never held a notch phone, but the poco has got my attention because of the price, I was wondering what happens when you've a lot of icons on one side of the notch, i usually have battery %, network signal, vpn icon, wi-fi icon, BT icon, and you could have even more...
My question is: what happens when you have all those things active on a notch this small? do they stay hidden or they go to other place? It looks like it only has enough space for time on one side and enough for 3 or 4 icons on the other side.
Of course the icons will be distributed over the status bar less the notch, I think.
I'm guessing the same thing as happens with a regular phone when you have too many icons on the status bar. They disappear off the screen and you have instead a symbol indicating that several icons are hidden
Should look something like this, weblink can be found in file name.
Google, in its infinite wisdom, has decided that the status bar clock has to be on the left side because of phones with a selfie camera notch at the top. I have such a phone, a OnePlus 6T, but I always have enough free space on the right side of the status bar, but not enough on the left side. With the clock there is only space for four icons, which, on the left side, is not enough. There is no overflow into the free space to the right of the notch, the clock does not move into free space, there is no second row, there is apparently no solution.
I have not found any direct way to move the clock anywhere else, but there is a workaround, provided your phone allows you to remove the status bar clock altogether. On the OnePlus 6T, probably on all phones with OxygenOS, and hopefully in many other phones, you can switch off the clock display with a command similar to: Settings, Display, Status bar, Time, Don't show this icon.
But I always need a clock somewhere, and this is the second part of the workaround. Luckily there is an app, made by Wansoft in South Korea, named "Always on top clock and memo" or, short, "Time and Memo". This app can place a digital time display and a host of other things almost anywhere on screen. I chose to have just a small time display centered directly under the notch.
I chose text size 16 pt, black, not translucent, without any decorations, on a white, slightly translucent background, which I can recommend for a first try. The app offers a wide variety of display options.
Obviously the app needs the right to display over other apps, which you have to grant.
I hate the "Apple" Pie clock on the left. It's NOT a notification. That's where notifications go.
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