As I continue to pollute the airways with my crazy ideas simply because I see a lot of deficiency when it comes to multitasking on a smartphone vs laptop, questions:
Is there a way to change the pinch zoom, so the location and the gesture would be in a specific spot with specific motion to zoom in (go up) and zoom out (go down) like this:
http://i62.tinypic.com/ose3cp.jpg
and it would zoom in and out in the middle of a the screen kind of like google maps
If there is way how about presetting the zoom percentage so if my gesture idea worked I can preset the range of zoom . Would this work across the board or needs programming in each app?
I can see this very useful when holding a pen in right hand and doing quick zoom in and out with left hand.
If impossible maybe there is a way to use a pie control where each section of the pie is mapped with a zoom function so you can progressively zoom in and out.
Cheers
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With the release of the Xperia Play specifically, it'd be nice if we had a way to create system wide, and per-program hotkeys.
For example, the camera app has X mapped as the shutter button. With this program we could set it so when the camera app is running, that R will take a picture (so we can do it with the camera closed) and in the home menu, pressing L and R together will open the camera program.
Some games/apps are programmed to let us map buttons, but very few use the analog touchpad. It'd be nice if we could map the different directions to different keys, so we could get rudimentary support for them in existing apps.
Now for those apps that dont use buttons at all, it could send touchscreen presses to them. You'd need a way to do this within the app itself so you could see where you're going to press it. Perhaps via a something (a widget?) in the notification slider, that takes a screenshot and brings up the menu, to let you select the X/Y coordinate to send. This would work great for the touchpad and virtual on-screen analog sticks
Now I can understand if you guys dont want to waste your time, but if you can provide me the necessary API, when I get the hang of Android development I could do it in time. Assuming it works like Windows, I'd need equivalent API to:
-listen for key presses even when the app is not in focus
-detect which app is in focus
-send artificial key/touchscreen events to that app
-take a screenshot of that app
Also, if you can provide the API to run the current Live Wallpaper in the background, it would help for another project I'd like to do.
Great project, with i could help you out. But i dont understand a thing about programming
Could other users of Touchscreen tune please advise what settings they found to be optimal for them with the Prime.
Also I was wondering which writing app, once the screen has been tweaked, people have found to be better in responding/capturing their writing.
And while I'm on this vein, if there are any lefthanders and what they have done to get around the issue of your palm continually bumping the home/back etc buttons on the status bar when writing. I've not been able to find any app that can hide the status bar under ICS
These work good for me. I take notes often.
To get to the menu box that is open, go to the options on the top right.
As for notetaking apps, I use "Antipaper Notes", its good, you get a 5 page free trial then its a few bucks. The only downside is that registration is not through the market, and it isnt maintained if you wipe your system and restore it with Titanium, you'd have to email the developer.
Have a nice day
Here's the TouchScreenTune settings I use:
Minimum movement amount = 0
Disable movement filtering = not checked (when checked, writing was very squiggly for me)
Touch sensitivity = 25
Palm detection = 50
My favorite notetaking app is LectureNotes. It has a flexible zoom capability, which allows you to write in that zoomed mode, and combined with TouchScreenTune really picks up small movements of the stylus. The developer is very active and responsive in adding features, often by the next day after making a suggestion! Highly recommended!
Id suggest you to try quill,lecture notes ,writepad and antipaper. I tried them all and writepad is really smooth compared to the rest. Here are my settings for touchscreen tuner
And here is one of my notebooks ( my handwriting is not very good)
https://viewer.zoho.com/docs/dXrbu
About system bar,writepad allows you to flip the app layout so system bar stays on top
joxnas said:
Id suggest you to try quill,lecture notes ,writepad and antipaper. I tried them all and writepad is really smooth compared to the rest. Here are my settings for touchscreen tuner
And here is one of my notebooks ( my handwriting is not very good)
https://viewer.zoho.com/docs/dXrbu
About system bar,writepad allows you to flip the app layout so system bar stays on top
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What stylus do you use?!?!
Adonit jot pro with toothpaste on the ball tip xD
Since I'm left handed, I usually wear my watch on my right wrist.
I'd like the camera pointing out towards my hand so I need to flip the display.
I can't find any setting to do this. The "auto-rotate display" doesn't really work.
Any suggestions?
mspohr said:
Since I'm left handed, I usually wear my watch on my right wrist.
I'd like the camera pointing out towards my hand so I need to flip the display.
I can't find any setting to do this. The "auto-rotate display" doesn't really work.
Any suggestions?
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(note: I'm running a heavily modified stock rom)
There's an xposed framework module called gravitybox with an overide to allow all auto rotation orientations. I use this with the auto-rotation enabled in the accessibility settings to swap the watch between my right and left throughout the day. if you want to force it to a specific orientation, I'm sure this can be done with xposed framework somehow.
I've not tried it on the truesmart, but I've used gmd smart rotate (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gmd.smartrotate / http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2045240) to override orientation on touchwiz for years, and there are other similar applications available. these may prove to be simpler to use if you're not familiar with xposed framework
GMD mostly works
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I've not tried it on the truesmart, but I've used gmd smart rotate (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gmd.smartrotate / http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2045240) to override orientation on touchwiz for years, and there are other similar applications available. these may prove to be simpler to use if you're not familiar with xposed framework
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Thanks for this information. Nice app. The GMD Smartrotate does allow me to flip the screen to wear my watch on the right wrist. The only problem is that the camera image is upside down. It does flip the controls and menus for the camera app but the camera image is not flipped and is upside down. All the other apps seem to be flipped just fine. (Oh well, at least when I show pictures to other people, it will be right side up for them.)
It's hard to take right side up pictures anyways, it always seems to rotate them sideways. I just rotate them after I've taken the pictures. It's not like I'm using this thing as a primary camera
Edit: I didn't think about videos though..
Is there a way to change the pinch zoom, so the location and the gesture would be in a specific spot with specific motion to zoom in (go up) and zoom out (go down) like this:
http://i62.tinypic.com/ose3cp.jpg
and it would zoom in and out in the middle of a the screen kind of like google maps
If there is way how about presetting the zoom percentage so if my gesture idea worked I can preset the range of zoom . Would this work across the board or needs programming in each app?
If not, maybe there is a way to use a pie control where each section of the pie is mapped with a zoom function so you can progressively zoom in and out.
Cheers
There's no real way to do this universally -- each app must implement one touch zooming. I'd suggest contacting the apps' developers.
Hello all!
I've seen it somewhat posted throughout the comments here but no thread on it directly. I figure the potential of this this deserves it's own thread and tutorial for those who are coming from Google to try and do exactly this without reading through a few threads.
Anyways:
How to enable Wide View on every app:
Download this app,G8x WideMode.
This puts a new icon in the top bar in the notification shade. If you don't see it, pull down twice and hit the pencil to edit the icons. Find the new one and place it somewhere near the top to keep it close by.
When the dual screen is open, tapping that will force wide screen in every app! There are some limitations:
Intent changes seem to revert the phone back to two separate pages. For instance, the mobile Reddit app Sync closes wide screen if I click any link to an external picture, video or site.
Some apps do f play nice in wide screen due to this, and you can't keep the phone permanently in the mode like a tablet, but it's a great improvement to a great phone idea.
This is super simple so I didn't think pictures were necessary, but let me know if I wasn't clear on anything or if you have problems somewhere!
This is very much appreciated! It works like a charm. It's not the floating dual screen thingy but the toggle buttons that you swipe down from the top. Make sure you add it.
Hey, this app seems to work great! I did have an issue with one app called Steam Link. Steam Link allows you to connect to a computer running Steam and remotely control it from your Android device. When I launch a game and try to use WideMode the Steam Link app refreshes and goes back to a single screen. I would love to be able to play some of my steam games over both screens.
Is there any way to make landscape apps go left/right instead of top/bottom?
bakedpotete said:
Is there any way to make landscape apps go left/right instead of top/bottom?
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I don't understand. couldn't you just auto rotate? you can also use the rotation control app to lock rotation, which helps with wide Mode
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I don't understand. couldn't you just auto rotate? you can also use the rotation control app to lock rotation, which helps with wide Mode
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auto rotation did not work because some apps are forced landscape/portrait.
I did end up using the rotation control app with the per-app conditions. :good:
Next nice thing would be if some apps would restart at the new resolution, instead of stretching the single-screen app - some apps/games work perfectly, but others don't (and I think they should have a similar resolution compatible because I've used the axon M, which has "dual screen" retained through home with those apps).