Just curious to know if any of you folks are currently working on a way to customize the stock notification widgets inside the drop-down notification window?
This would be awesome as I personally would LOVE the ability to handle volume settings in the widget versus Airplane mode, GPS, and Sync toggles which are virtually useless to me, and I'd imagine a large group of other people.
Obviously, I'm in no way demanding or even expecting, just checking to see if anyone's doing anything with this from the development side.
Many thanks in advance!
-Ryan
Go Launcher offers I customizable widget to control almost anything including what you've mentioned. Granted it's on screen and not on the drop down, but fit the bill for you.
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Is it possible to move the notifications to the bottom of the pulldown instead of the top? We have this beautiful 4.3 size screen and pulling down to pretty much the bottom of the screen is a pain at times. I occasionally like to pull the notification bar down halfway just to see what a portion of the message says to decide if I want to read it now or later.
We have ways to change it's color, add/remove graphics to it, change how it looks completely but do have a way to change the display order? Also I'd like to be able to delete messages from the pulldown too if that's even possible. I mean actually delete them from the phone not just clear them from the list. This may be a completely ridiculous request but I hope it is actually possible to do.
While I can see your side of this, I'm going to assume it would be a pretty big pain to incorporate all the features you are requesting.
Im interested in seeing what small helpful features everyone is finding buried in HC. Im also making sure there isn't any settings I'm not aware of that could be making my experience with HC even better. This may be helpful to many of us who just recently became acquainted to View 4G through numerous internet fire-sales.
I have 2 helpful tips, though they are small. I don't think these are specific to HC, but i think they help.
1. There is a slight screen animation when you exit an app and return to the home screen. It occurs on pretty much every screen change, its like its growing/expanding. Anyway this animation mixed with straining to see the smaller app icon text and smaller widgets of HC may make you nauseous after seeing it over and over again. Just go to Settings/Screen/Animation and set it to no animations. My stock weather widget still does its cool full screen animations, so i don't think i'm missing out on any good animations by changing this setting.
2. For better battery life:
a. use airplane mode.
b. use a wifi widget for quick, convenient on/off toggle. If i mostly keep wifi off my tablet lasts forever for reading, drawing etc.
c. set your screen to timeout after 1 minute or less. Settings/Screen/Timeout
d. set the brightness to low. I keep mine as low as it goes and turn automatic off. Settings/Screen/Brightness
[Q] if you could just tap the wifi icon in the new hc soft status bar to toggle on/off without it taking u all the way to the settings menu that would be amazing- Am i missing something? If its going to hog screen space it should be a super convenient status bar equipped with this feature-
Hi,
I am fairly new to Android 4.1, I once had a 2.3 device with HTC sense and thought it was horrible. I changed to WP 7.5 which I love, but somehow got bored with it. Now playing with my Gnex, I notice that it's quite cumbersome to get to the clock alarm settings? I would either have to use a widget or put the clock icon on a homescreen. I think it would be great if the pull-down menu had a shortcut to the alarm settings, by tapping on the time/date at the top. Would also be great if the same thing with different function would be implemented for the battery icon, showing a percentage... currently I use a third party app to show % in the taskbar up top. (even Symbian can do this).
Does google have a site for feature suggestions like this?
This might be a bit of a noob question (noob here), but I can't see to find any clear info on this. Is there any point to the Pie controls on the SII? From what I can tell, the main point of using this is to get rid of the customisable hotkeys on other models. If us SII users are stuck with the hotkeys, all that enabling full screen Pie does is loose the status bar, which is a killer I think?
I'm obviously ignoring personal preference here of course - it's a nice enough set of controls which I'm sure some people love, but it seems quite limiting without my status bar (notifications, access to settings, etc)?
DComrie said:
This might be a bit of a noob question (noob here), but I can't see to find any clear info on this. Is there any point to the Pie controls on the SII? From what I can tell, the main point of using this is to get rid of the customisable hotkeys on other models. If us SII users are stuck with the hotkeys, all that enabling full screen Pie does is loose the status bar, which is a killer I think?
I'm obviously ignoring personal preference here of course - it's a nice enough set of controls which I'm sure some people love, but it seems quite limiting without my status bar (notifications, access to settings, etc)?
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You don't lose your statusbar, at least not on SlimROM
Like DE said, you keep the status bar unless you toggle the option to display the status bar info along the Pie grid.
For S2 it's more of a gimmick than actually useful, for the reasons you stated, we're stuck with hardware keys.
Thanks guys - looks like I'm getting the hang of it, now that I'm playing around with Hybrid properties.
So, fresh out of ios for the last few years I really got use to Google maps having banner notifications while in a different app and navigating.
It seems this is missing on the Android app. It must be doable because I get banner notifications for my phone and music apps.
Curious if anyone has any insight on why this great feature is missing, and if there's any word on it possibly being added.
Anyone have any info at all? Even a Google request page where this is being discussed would be cool. I can't find a thing about on the Web, an it seems like a significant thing to be missing.
They don't do the banner notifications in Android because it's in the notification drawer. Just have to swipe the status bar down to see it.
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They don't do the banner notifications in Android because it's in the notification drawer. Just have to swipe the status bar down to see it.
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Hmmmm.... I will give that a shot, but they do banner notification for a couple apps. Phone comes to mind immediately.
Pulling down the drawer is a huge distraction, as is muting the navi voice when a call comes in.
I feel that a banner over my other apps would be more distracting. Different strokes for different folks and all that.
I don't see how on earth directions a person is relying on being hidden is less distracting than being visible. But ya.... Different strokes I suppose.
Given the fact it's on ios and not Googles own OS makes me wonder. I mean, ios is known for having more polished apps, and also known for having better Google Apps in some cases.
Because when I use Maps, it's connected to Bluetooth in my car, thus having no need to see directions. It also tells me where to go via voice controls. If you need to see the directions, why would you be in another app anyway? I sometimes pop into the directions to see a head of time if I'm at a stoplight or something, but just have to double click on the lockscreen notification or the notification drawer and good to go.
To add insult to injury, Google maps will flash a banner notification telling me the route is 'clear', or 'being rerouted'. So..... It seems very very possible to throw in the upcoming turn banner notifications as well.
And for those who use an ear piece, or no blue tooth at all an auto mute function would be so nice.
I just don't understand the lack of these features or the lack of people who find their absence not inconvenient at the least. *sigh *