One of my favourite apps atm:
SwipePad: Hyperspace Jump
"Open a shortcut to anything with a single swipe from within anything
SwipePad is a launcher panel overlay. With a single swipe action, you can launch anything from within any app."
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=mobi.conduction.swipepad.android&hl=en
May I suggest an app called GestureControl. I used to use swipepad but GestureControl takes it to a whole new level. It has a launchpad for apps and can use custom gestures to launch certain apps. I am using it on my 4G Xoom running team EOS nightly 72. The app is worth the price and is still in development. There should be a lite version in the market or in XDA. It can also hide your status bar.
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Hey guys,
I've been giving a GSM RAZR a thorough going-over this past week for an upcoming review, and in doing so have found a few interesting hidden features. Thought I'd start a thread about 'em, since I haven't seen anything mentioned here (Or elsewhere).
- First up, installing an alternate launcher automatically sets the new launcher as the default. Odd that Moto would do this. Also odd is that the long-press home task switcher/app drawer is specifically part of the Blur Home, so you get whatever task switcher your new home app feels like defaulting you to (Usually Android's standard one).
- You can still create shortcuts to the Blur Home's app drawer and app drawer groupings in alternative launchers (Long press on empty home space/add shortcut/app groups), so you can - for example - use Launcher Pro or ADW with the Moto app drawer by placing a shortcut to 'All Apps' in the dock.
- The above shortcut business also applies to stock Blur Home, letting you use the app drawer groups like folders. That's not really 'hidden', though.
Next up, we're going to need to install Launcher Pro. I'm not a huge Launcher Pro fan, since its development seems to have dried up, but this works regardless of whether Launcher Pro is your default launcher or not. As above, however, installing a new launcher will automatically set said new launcher as the default, and short of uninstalling it or installing a third launcher/a home switcher app, you cannot set Blur Home as the default again.
You can get around that by placing a shortcut to the Blur Home itself on the Launcher Pro desktop. It'll also pop up in 'recent apps' once you have Launcher Pro installed. Strange.
Anyway, the reason we want Launcher Pro installed is that it gives you many more options when placing shortcuts on the desktop of any launcher. Under shortcuts (Or in Blur Home's case, Shortcuts/App Actions/) is a new category called Activities. This lets you place a shortcut to any part of an app that can be called as a separate activity. Effectively, you can place a shortcut directly to one part of another app - although, be warned, some of these turn out to be shortcuts to 'Force Close', or 'Reboot the phone' because the OS doesn't expect these apps to be opened in this manner. Some are genuinely useful, however, and some are a little more interesting..
Of note:
- You can create a shortcut directly to Universal Inbox, rather than having to tap Messaging, then Universal Inbox. Yay!
- You can get directly to the Albums view of the crappy stock music player, or the Folders view of the gallery, avoiding those awful splash screens you get when launching either of these normally.
- You can get directly to different views in the calendar, like the Diary/Agenda view.
Now, it gets really interesting. Some of the app activities you can make shortcuts to aren't accessible through the apps themselves, the very definition of 'hidden'. Some of these are obviously hidden because Moto cheaped out on the firmware and bundled things like an FM Radio app into the stock Music player, which doesn't work because the RAZR doesn't have an FM Radio to the best of my knowledge (Even if it did, the app doesn't do much beyond demand you insert headphones and endlessly scan for channels).
- There's a debugging tool for the homescreen, which has settings for things like 'orientation changes', acceleration factor, and 3D widgets. None of these seem to work, unfortunately.
- The most interesting - profiles for the homescreen. If memory serves, a few previous Moto phones had this, and it has of course been an element of Sense for some time. You can choose from Home, Work, and Other, and they do work - widget layouts will be saved. It tends to force close when switching back to one layout from another, and occasionally changes the wallpaper to the Droid 3 stock with the three lines (Funnily enough, that wallpaper isn't in the wallpaper gallery for the GSM RAZR) but it does work.
I'll chuck some screenshots up shortly, and additional features as I find 'em.
Looking for a good "Quick Launcher" to use with GestureControl. GestureControl has a "Launchpad" which is pretty good, but a little basic, and slow to come up. I've seen videos on youtube with nice launchers for Acer devices ( Looks like a circle type launcher ) and also one for the Iconia which runs the Windows OS, it's also a circle type launcher. Was wondering if anyone has any good apps for assigning a gesture to the app via GestureControl then having the app overlay pop up and you can select an app to run that you've configured to show there.
This would be a great addition to use in conjunction with GestureControl, couldn't find much looking on the play store due to the fact that searching for "launcher" even with modifier words shows mostly desktop launchers( ADW, Go Launcher, Apex, etc... ) and their themeing counterparts.
I've seen SwipePad in the app store, although thats a "Drag circle onto app" type launcher, not sure how this would work with GestureControl. I'm using the Transformer Prime with a dock, so I'd like to just make a gesture, see a small popup with icons( would be really nice if we had an app that showed apps you wanted to quick launch and running apps underneath that or something to that effect ) so I can choose the app with the touchpad or touching the screen( or keyboard shortcut would be nice too but I can hack that part out after I find a good app )
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Have you tried wave launcher?
novo2393 said:
Have you tried wave launcher?
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Looks pretty interesting ... Can you assigne a GestureControl gesture to it, so I could do, say, a 3 finger expand to see it, or a 3 finger drag down from top border to show it instead of the default settings?
Good find, still interested in what other people have tried out too though
EDIT: Checked out "Smart Taskbar" which is pretty good, but couldn't get a gesture to activate it ( Even tried Nova Launcher's "Activities" but there isn't one to activate the overlay ) that app would be pretty decent, although kinda big for a tablet screen. Yea, I know, maybe I'm just beeing too picky lol
Wave launcher stays at bottom always and opens when you tell it to. Really think itd suit your needs. If you do try it let me know how it goes. I use it and it saves alot of time.
If you try go launcher you can set swipe up or swipe down in order to launch gesture launcher.
Since we all love our giant devices, I figured I would bring a bit of a recommendation to those who may not already know.
For a couple years now, I have been using an app called SwipePad on all of my android devices. This app allows you to launch apps with a quick swipe from the edge of the screen. You choose a swiping "Hot spot" (location for the gesture to begin), determine which apps should appear there, and viola! You can either set specific apps to appear, or you can have it set to recently opened apps. The app is free, but there are a couple of bonus add-ons for $1 each. I personally only purchased the dynamic pad add-on, which lets you change the amount of apps that appear when you swipe.
Now, I know that this is a really popular app already, and im sure most of you have heard about it before. There are 2 reasons i bring it up though. For those who dont know about it, this app is INCREDIBLY handy, especially on a bigger device like the Z Ultra.
The second, and in my opinion more important reason, is that swipepad has introduced a theming engine for this already awesome app. I just so happened to stumble upon some themes made by dev FlyingRhinoCMG. I also happened upon his Google+ community for swipepad themes. He does AMAZING work. Not only that, but he takes requests. I asked him for a Super Mario theme as perhaps an idea, and he had one made by the time i got home from work the same day. He only charges a buck for the themes, and they are well worth it. If you havent used swipepad, or you have but wanna spice it up, please take a moment to check both out. Links Below.
SwipePad - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=mobi.conduction.swipepad.android
SwipePad Themes - https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=FlyingRhinoCMG
Theme Community on Google+ - https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/101937177419262658145
TL;DR? Click these links, try these apps. Cheers!
Xblast Tools also not has an "AppBar" option where you can put shortcuts to the bar, and can be launched from just about within any app too
Since the last update added the larger multiwindow size and enabled virtually every app on the play store for multiwindows, I use windowed apps constantly. I have a vast array of apps I use throughout the day, side by side. It's fantastic.
The biggest hassle was having to goto the app drawer constantly to open apps, just to then minimize them until they were needed. That got me thinking that an app launcher would be great to keep minimized instead. I pondered creating one on my own, but thankfully there is a perfectly suited one already on the play store.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gradrix.quicklaunch
No ads, no IAPs. Super simple interface with just enough customization to tweak it to your tastes. I just keep this app open in window mode, on the task bar all day, and I never need to hit the home screen or app drawer to open an app.
I've started using it and like it - thanks for the tip! I'm using Nova Launcher so don't have the app drawer at the bottom of the screen, but instead have an icon on the desktop. The app saves returning to the desktop each time to open a new app. As you say easy to use and just enough customisation to do what you want it to do.
One super cool feature on the Samsung Internet Browser, was a release back in Springtime, that allowed the status bar to hidden. It looked so modern and nicer on new phones like a Galaxy S8 or V30, with minimal bezels etc...
But since then all the newer Samsung Interest .apks don't have that option anymore. I went back to that older .apk build, but it's a bit buggy in other areas, and the newest release is much smoother and overall better. But I miss that hide status bar option, don't understand why they got rid of that option ? It give you a little bit more space to view the web page at the top. And I also then have the Nav keys hidden while in the browser, so the browser takes up the entire screen, making the phone look very iPhone X'ish.
I run Nova launcher on my V30, and it has the option to hide status bar on the home screen, which I have set, but not while in an app itself, or in the browser. I wish there was a way to do that ? Any opinion ?
There is an app I use with success with my V30 on the playstore. It's called GMD Immersive.
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There is an app I use with success with my V30 on the playstore. It's called GMD Immersive.
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I was using another app which I had to get rid of due to excessive battery drain. Does this drain or any other significant issues for you?