Any of you have issues with applications in landscape view? There doesn't seem to have enough screen real estate to look at content. Most of the time there is one or two rows of content. I have to scroll alot. Alot of apps also does not recognize the dpi to fully utilize the screen. For instance on the nexus 9, in portrait when I am in Google now I am able to see two columns while with the z3tc there is only one column.
I haven't had that problem
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hey guys!
I was wondering if I could scroll vertically through apps, like on the iPhone.
Instead of the horizontal up and down which I really hate.
THanks!
I believe you don't know your up and down from your left and right.
Vertical scrolling is up and down. That's what you already have on your Hero.
The only way to mimic the iPhone's horizontal scrolling that I know of would be to create shortcuts to as many as you can on your home screens.
Sorry this is such a noobish question to start off with but I'm having trouble finding a feature I stumbled across a few days ago. Obviously to move between home screens you swipe left and right and pressing the home key from the main screen displays all 5 (swiping up from the bottom of the screen also does this).
The display I saw was a minimized view of each page, each a bit larger than when you're viewing all 5 at once, but only one was viewable on screen at a time and you could swipe left or right to see the others. I've no idea how I got in to that and I can't find any combination of controls to get back to it. I also can't see any purpose to it but it was definitely a deliberate feature and not a bug or glitch.
Can anyone shed any light on that please?
I believe that would be a bug.. there are several homescreen bugs I encounterd with my razr but all tolerable for me..
Case 1:
Slightly tilted diagonally homescreen when swiping left and right..
Case 2:
Minimize view (5 displays) also all screen tilted diagonally...
Maybe we can consider your scenario as a 3rd case..
The screen you see when you tap the home button twice (when already at the middle /primary home screen)?
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This sounds interesting, but i'm not sure what you want this for?
Is it like when you see all the home screens, but more zoomed in?
For what its worth, i've been hitting the keys, trying to get to something like this, but no luck..
Yeah I can't fathom any purpose for it... The best I can describe it is like viewing a zoomed out version of each page on your home screen. The same widgets and icons are there, you can flick left and right, 1 page displays at a time but it didn't seem like you could do anything useful from that view.
I thought it may have been a deliberate feature but any combination of buttons or gestures won't reproduce it on my RAZR so I guess it was a bug. It seemed completely deliberate though, it wasn't distorted or glitchy... It was somewhat like on samsungs touchwiz (galaxy s II for example) when you can add in widgets and shortcuts from a zoomed out view of each page except all you had was the zoomed out view and no discernible function.
Thanks for the advice though.
I figured it out.
Sometimes, when you are dragging between the homescreens, and press home at the same time, you will get strange zoomed versions of the home screens, and sometimes it was zoomed out, exactly as you describe.
However, i mostly got a heavily zoomed in version or crooked one.
Just try again and again, and you will see a lot of strange things, and eventually the one you describe
I currently have an HTC Flyer which I got after finding my Transformer tablet was just too big. But I found that due to the lower resolution screen of the Flyer, many apps display single panes instead of the side-by-side panes. So I have to hit the back button quite a bit.
Since the Springboard has a higher-resolution screen, could someone tell me if Gmail and Google Reader (the one from Google, not the 3rd party ones...) display in the dual side-by-side pane view like on a 10" screen, or if one pane hides the other like on a phone or my HTC Flyer?
Screenshots for bonus points!
Not sure about the reader but Gmail displays dual panes.
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Not sure about the reader but Gmail displays dual panes.
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Sorry, I should have been clearer.
Does it stay in dual-pane view even when you're reading the body of a message?
My 10" Transformer kept my messages list on the left, my HTC Flyer goes into single-pane view when I actually select a message to read.
Yes. App opens with folders on Left and messages on Right. Selecting a message moves the message list to the Left and the email body is shown on the Right. That's in landscape orientation with the display in high definition mode. No dual pane in in portrait orientation. Also, this is with ICS installed. Don't recall how Honeycomb behaves.
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Yes. App opens with folders on Left and messages on Right. Selecting a message moves the message list to the Left and the email body is shown on the Right. That's in landscape orientation with the display in high definition mode. No dual pane in in portrait orientation. Also, this is with ICS installed. Don't recall how Honeycomb behaves.
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Thanks!
But now I'm wondering if Google will announce the Nexus Tablet next week and if that will have a high-res or a lower-res display...
Decisions, decisions...
I built an html-based seating chart app for use in my classroom. I need to view the seating chart in fullscreen landscape mode for the duration of the class. I've been using Chrome on Android and I have some problems. The first is that the address bar takes up too much screen real estate, and it seems the only way to make it go away is to scroll down the page. So I added some space on the page above the seating chart and put a jump link at the top of the page. But still, when my screen turns off and I turn it back on, it automatically rotates into portrait mode and jumps back to the top of the page. Any ideas for a good solution? I have control of both the web html and my phone, so there should be lots of options. Maybe a browser on Android with a fullscreen option?
Is it possible to use multi window feature in portrait mode so that the windows are placed in portrait instead of landscape view?
I see no point using multiwindow in portrait if windows are placed side by side. they are too narrow to be used conveniently imo.
On my phone (Note 10, Android 11 OneUi 3.1) multiwindow apps are automatically rotated if you change phone to portrait or lanscape, but my tablet always keeps the windows side by side. On portrait it doesn't flip the windows to one at top, one at bottom half of the screen.
Desired way of rotating shown in attachment
Thanks
Edit:
I found out that by pressing the "three dots" icon in middle of the two open apps, there is a button to rotate the screen to vertical view. Still not doing that automatically depending the rotation of tablet