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Try the latest launcher for Android...
Found this over @ Desire section and it works pretty well.
Just unzip, Install, set as launcher
and enjoy.
It looks great =)
Video running on evo: http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/06/dells-stage-ui-leaks-out-for-streak-also-works-on-evo-4g-vide/
Screenshots from HD2 coming up.
Lucas0511 said:
Modaco had somewhere reformatted apk's for Froyo. Try these links http://www.multiupload.com/5MF6GFC2GX
http://www.mediafire.com/?b9ta2kza5tgmu2g
Need to unzip the package and install the apk's
Stage UI on EVO http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NnvL22Y_gg
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Nice, that looks ... fancy
Thanks for sharing mate
Thanx. Will give it a go!
I have been trying it out most of today. It is pretty good looking but thats about it. I find it to me too big and cluttered of a UI.
I much prefer MIUI over this. But then again, I am a sucker for simplicity.
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I have been trying it out most of today. It is pretty good looking but thats about it. I find it to me too big and cluttered of a UI.
I much prefer MIUI over this. But then again, I am a sucker for simplicity.
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I didnt like the miui launcher. Missing an app drawer there. Things got messy quite quickly...
for me, on the dell launcher, the recent apps widget is a huuuge win!
I installed this on my HD2 running Bluetopia 0.6.1 and ruined my process.com.htc.launcher.
Hmm. Its okay. Still buggy I think, landscape wont work on MDJ's kernel. The launcher could still use some work though dell!
EDIT: Apparently, the DPI needs to be @ 160. Landscape should work then. <3
This looks really cool, alas I noticed a difference in speed on the miui build. Great concept though. I'm using MIUI w/ launcher pro plus on it so I could keep the speed and the app drawer. I can't wait for Dell to make this thing faster!
On the whole, this is fugly. The music widget, on the other hand, is pretty awesome. Anyone know a way to use this with Launcher Pro?
Is anyone else getting a force close from the Email widget? That is the only Dell Stage widget that causes Dell Stage launcher to force closes when I tap to add an account. I tried running fix_permissions but it didn't help.
The Facebook Social widget won't sign in either. It keeps coming back with a message saying the account couldn't be verfied.
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Is anyone else getting a force close from the Email widget? That is the only Dell Stage widget that causes Dell Stage launcher to force closes when I tap to add an account. I tried running fix_permissions but it didn't help.
The Facebook Social widget won't sign in either. It keeps coming back with a message saying the account couldn't be verfied.
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Same for me.
Its an early leak. Looking forward to release...
force close issue...
I'll try it in few minutes !
MartyLK said:
Is anyone else getting a force close from the Email widget? That is the only Dell Stage widget that causes Dell Stage launcher to force closes when I tap to add an account. I tried running fix_permissions but it didn't help.
The Facebook Social widget won't sign in either. It keeps coming back with a message saying the account couldn't be verfied.
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email is not shown, says to add account, i have 2 and none of them is shown.
twitter is ok here, facebook not sign in.
does this work with sense andriod releases??
force close issues
Esa.syt said:
I installed this on my HD2 running Bluetopia 0.6.1 and ruined my process.com.htc.launcher.
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Hi there,
I've just installed on my HD2 with Android and it's running fine, everything works for me, except fecabook log in and e-mail widget gime an error when I try to add a new account (force close).
I'm using [BUILD][04.11.2010] [Core Droid V0.6][SUPERSONIC (EVO 4G)][Kernel Hastarin #R8].
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Hi there,
I've just installed on my HD2 with Android and it's running fine, everything works for me, except fecabook log in and e-mail widget gime an error when I try to add a new account (force close).
I'm using [BUILD][04.11.2010] [Core Droid V0.6][SUPERSONIC (EVO 4G)][Kernel Hastarin #R8].
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Errr... if Email and facebook widgets aren't working, everything isn't working fine....
Btw, same thing here. Those two widgets don't work.
Installed on my JDMS android build and it seems to work okay, twitter logs in and basic mail sems fine.
cant use our exchange 2010 as the default exchange support in froyo doesnt support the extra security requirements we have. Ho hum.
Two things though, cant make it show up on my Mdeejay Sense build at all (home switcher doesnt see it), and I cant make it go landscape on JDMS.
Cheers for the link. I gave it a try but it seems very cumbersome and inflexible in comparison to ADW Launcher.
I know about handcent and chomp, but what other options are there?
I'm after something a bit different, with a good popup and inbox that doesn't look so..iphone like?
deepside7 said:
I know about handcent and chomp, but what other options are there?
I'm after something a bit different, with a good popup and inbox that doesn't look so..iphone like?
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That's all you get really. And you do know Handcent has option to change EVERYTHING right? It doesn't have to be iPhone-y.
I do believe I've seen some other options on the market...but they didn't look too inviting to me, for whatever reason, at the time.
If you're considering apps that don't actually function as the app for your messaging, I use an SMS app that I enjoy and find helpful.
SMS Backup + will backup all your Text Messages to your gMail account under a label SMS. Here's the AppBrain link:
http://www.appbrain.com/app/sms-backup/com.zegoggles.smssync
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That's all you get really. And you do know Handcent has option to change EVERYTHING right? It doesn't have to be iPhone-y.
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Yeah, I used to use it, but reverted back to stock after a while. Not sure why, but haven't really liked either option.
Just tried goSMS.. seems pretty good.. again, iphone style, but I like this one for some reason... Will see how it goes
I use SMS composer. Its free in the market, simple to use and the only non-threade SMS app I could find. Its only 500-600 kb, so less resource hungry also. Its also buggy but usable.
I still prefer threaded. The standard SMS app is good, it's threaded, but it doesn't look like i'm reading a comic.
Now I remember the reason I stopped using handcent.. It became very slow after a while to get into the inbox etc.
deepside7 said:
I still prefer threaded. The standard SMS app is good, it's threaded, but it doesn't look like i'm reading a comic.
Now I remember the reason I stopped using handcent.. It became very slow after a while to get into the inbox etc.
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I've also noticed that. But I deal with it cause the stock app was much worse for me.
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I've also noticed that. But I deal with it cause the stock app was much worse for me.
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Give Gosms a try. It seems to be much faster so far, and i've got a reasonable amount of sms's in my inbox right now.
em,I really preffer to GO SMS,not just because its simple UI style,but also it can give me some other feels.Good!
I also tried GOSms , it seems nice, the UI,contacts and speed is better than handcent, it runs smoothly for me till now. Keep an eye on it.
Seems to have a problem with notifications.. Doesn't always play the full notification ringtone
But other than that, I like it
Yeah, for its lighter, beautiful popup window, search, contact, and even the new smileys, I will Support it!!
Have you tried PingChat? It's available on iPhone, Blackberry and on Android.
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Have you tried PingChat? It's available on iPhone, Blackberry and on Android.
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That's not SMS. That's more or less another instant messaging service like AIM, Yahoo, or Windows Live.
I tried Go SMS also and like the looks, speed and small overhead compared to Handcent (which I use since I had my HTC Legend, about 7 months or so).
Problem with Go SMS, it FC's all the time for me. Sometimes every 5 minutes, without any activitiy. It just runs in the background and I receive the crash message and can make an error report.
There is nothing happening when it crashes, no SMS coming or going. When it's in the foreground it usually doesn't crash, but it's pretty unusable for me at this point. And the neon bubble colors hurt my eyes, they need to change those or give coloring options.
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I tried Go SMS also and like the looks, speed and small overhead compared to Handcent (which I use since I had my HTC Legend, about 7 months or so).
Problem with Go SMS, it FC's all the time for me. Sometimes every 5 minutes, without any activitiy. It just runs in the background and I receive the crash message and can make a error report.
There is nothing happening when it crashes, no SMS coming or going. When it's in the foreground it usually doesn't crash, but it's pretty unusable for me at this point. And the neon bubble colors hurt my eyes, they need to change those or give coloring options.
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Honestly GO-Sms is pretty solid I will admit that it's buggy but it's still being improved so theres plenty of room for improvement. Once the app stats to mature I think it will be nearly unstoppable.
Until then im sticking with handcent ...
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I'll give go sms a try!
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why would this phone not have swype not installed? the evo got it via an OTA update and every phone has swype on it that htc has released after the incredible... luckily I'm still enrolled inthe beta so I just dl it and I'm fine but I still have to switch keyboards to get swype to work...
HTC hub? where is it? is it not supported in USA yet? I had it on my incredible from a z rom and it was nice to have but not really a necessity.. I'm hoping for an update within a month to add these 2 things at least
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why would this phone not have swype not installed? the evo got it via an OTA update and every phone has swype on it that htc has released after the incredible... luckily I'm still enrolled inthe beta so I just dl it and I'm fine but I still have to switch keyboards to get swype to work...
HTC hub? where is it? is it not supported in USA yet? I had it on my incredible from a z rom and it was nice to have but not really a necessity.. I'm hoping for an update within a month to add these 2 things at least
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+1 on swype. I still have my swype beta email so I guess I could technically still download it for my TB, but I assumed that swpye would come preinstalled on the phone. I thought i read somewhere that it was suppossed to, but I guess I was mistaken.
I installed the swype beta and it doesn't seem to space words automatically (no matter the setting) in the sense text messaging window - real annoying.
Possible to get that beta apk from one of you so I can theme it?
I don't know if it works like that or I certainly would.
The APK is an installer. Once installed, you launch the installer where you log in and it downloads the files to your phone.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the website looks like it's open enrollment for the beta?
beta dot swype dot com
Lets continue this discussion under the thread in applications...
I see a moderator moving this thread soon anyways.
Bodero said:
I installed the swype beta and it doesn't seem to space words automatically (no matter the setting) in the sense text messaging window - real annoying.
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I noticed this too. Very strange.
I had this problem on first install I rebooted and it spaces correctly now but I have to switch back to ht,.keyboard and back to swype to allow me to swype again... My bootleg I have works better than the beta
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Bodero said:
I installed the swype beta and it doesn't seem to space words automatically (no matter the setting) in the sense text messaging window - real annoying.
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i just posted a note about this issue in the main forums. good to know i am not the only person having the problem. i guess we need to submit a bug report to swype about it but not sure where to do that.
Hi guys,
Since the AOSP ICS builds I noticed that when the Phone app is not in memory it opens very slow. The next time you open it is almost instant. I thought that it would be fixed in the OTA, and even if it is a little faster it is still quite frustrating sometimes. Tried many roms/kernels and even if in some configurations it open faster, it is still slow.
Since I dont use the Phone that much, almost every time that I use it it is not in the memory and it is slow. Anyone has an idea to fix it, like a hack to make it persistent in the memory?
Thanks.
Bump. Is there a way to keep it in memory ? Maybe giving it a special permission like the launcher will help. I will take a look...
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This is my only problem with ICS - I've tried a few memory management programs to see if I could keep the dialer, or contacts, persistent in memory, but nothing works. When I launch the dialer, the application 'Contacts' ('com.android.contacts', which seems to be the new ICS 'People' app) is shown as an 'active application' in my 'SystemPanel' app off the Market, and as long as that stays as an active app then the dialer usually re-launches straight away when pressed the next time, sometimes with only a small bit of lag if the screen has been of for a minute or two. When the 'contacts' app is shut down by the system, I guess when you open other apps up that need memory, the dialer lags again.
All the time, the process 'Phone' ('com.android.phone') seem to be sitting there as an 'Internal System Process' and seems to be persistent, but that alone doesn't make the dialer launch quickly, the 'contacts' app needs to be active as well.
My observations, but I am not a techie.
actually i recently read a thread here on XDA that addressed this issue. it involved a command on the terminal that allowed you to prioritize certain apps. too bad i can't seem to find that thread anymore!
found it! it involves using the Renice command. you can run it as an init.d script
or demo it out using the prioritzer apk (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1224125) kind thanks to this developer for creating the app. it works great!
all i did, was set the phone and contact app to -20 priority. it loads MUCH faster... try it and report back.
here are more links related to renice
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1271637#17746874
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1401858
Great, thanks for coming back on this, this sounds interesting - I'm not rooted at the moment, I will look into doing this as I think it would be worth it just to sort out this problem, as well as the other benefits. I will report back with my results!
I decided not to root in order to fix this, I've gone a different way with the dialer - exDialer has a polished looking ICS theme and I installed that to see how it would work, and it works great. It opens up consistently quicker, maybe due to the 'Keep in Memory' option that it has. I haven't had one laggy episode with it yet. Most other third party dialers don't look so good but this has a great ICS look, has smart dial, and a great call history function, and it's free (or you can donate as I did). Worth a look for anyone having similar problems.
I would still go back to the stock dialer if it worked properly, maybe a future update will solve this without having to root.
Hi guys,
an old thread, but i would like to now if there is something new about the "bug" that the Phone app opens slow if it is not in memory.
I'm new to the nexus s and running the newest skank Version.
On my Desire S the phone app opens much faster .
Cheers
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Hi guys,
an old thread, but i would like to now if there is something new about the "bug" that the Phone app opens slow if it is not in memory.
I'm new to the nexus s and running the newest skank Version.
On my Desire S the phone app opens much faster .
Cheers
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One thing to keep in mind is that the Desire S has more RAM.
Mine opens up instantly however. Have you rebooted after installing the rom?
I remember on GB it was instant! On ICS it is indeed very slow. Hopefully JB fixes it...
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I remember on GB it was instant! On ICS it is indeed very slow. Hopefully JB fixes it...
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That's funny because mine doesn't even take a second. :silly:
Same here if not in memory, i can easily notice certain lag on ics roms on my phone, when opening certain apps.
Yeah i did.
Hm Sounds like i have to live with it, or does someone have an alternative way to Set the priority for apps. The one mentioned earlier does Not work for me.
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Thanks for the suggestion to try exDialer. The phone lag was really irritating me and this did the trick. With ics dark theme, it's a perfect complement to bugles beast. Hopefully this will be fixed in 4.1, but till then ...
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So this morning I noticed that 8.0 is available for my device, single SIM XZ Premium. So I immediately upgraded.
After testing things out, I found out that there is no way to get notification dots and PiP to work.
As for the dots, the dot does appear on the App icon. However long pressing the icon doesn't bring up any notifications. I only get the standard delete and app info options. And for certain apps the quick launch functions, such as New Tab for Chrome etc. I can't get notification dots to work. I made sure I didn't disable it accidentally, as it took me a couple of hours to comprehend what the hell notification channels are, and what Notification dots are called in my language (hungarian).
But no, I have it enabled on a system level, and on an app by app level as well. For the apps I've tested. Messenger, Viber, some misc. apps I use. I've read that on Pixel phones, only the stock launcher supports the dots. Is it possible somehow the Xperia stock launcher didn't get support? Would be a major oversight, but I mean it is possible.
Also PiP doesn't work either. I checked, and it is enabled for all my apps that support it. Tried it with Netflix, Chrome playing full screen video, VLC player. For VLC you have to also enable an in app setting, but it still doesn't work with any of them. I can't try with YouTube since my country still doesn't have Red. Also I heard the Google Maps app is still rolling out pip in updates, so I didn't bother with that either.
Is this an issue for anyone else too, or am I missing something?
So far I'm enjoying Oreo, my phone became super fast, which shocked me, as I didn't expect this much of a speed difference. Animations look a lot smoother. And I'm really starting to dig this new notification channel thing. Really helps me customize all my different app notifications.
I have only been able to get pip working with google maps and chrome when playing a video, but I had to try it twice for chrome to actually do it, since then it has been working without issue though. For notifications I have the same thing where the quick options show up but not the notification, to view the notifications I still have to pull down the notification bar. I tried netflix and youtube but pip refused to work, it just kept going to the homescreen, I haven't tried vlc.
I will also say that I am enjoying Oreo and how much faster the phone is, it shocked me as well because it really is significantly snappier when jumping between apps or going back to the homescreen and opening something new. I have also actually started using the google assistant and some of the features it provides.
Just install internet beta from Samsung... And you have picture in picture...
reiriop said:
I have only been able to get pip working with google maps and chrome when playing a video, but I had to try it twice for chrome to actually do it, since then it has been working without issue though. For notifications I have the same thing where the quick options show up but not the notification, to view the notifications I still have to pull down the notification bar. I tried netflix and youtube but pip refused to work, it just kept going to the homescreen, I haven't tried vlc.
I will also say that I am enjoying Oreo and how much faster the phone is, it shocked me as well because it really is significantly snappier when jumping between apps or going back to the homescreen and opening something new. I have also actually started using the google assistant and some of the features it provides.
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Interesting. I've tried out Maps just now and it indeed does work. I don't know what's the problem with the other apps then...
Notification dots still don't work though. Also I haven't been able to use the instant apps either. The option never comes up. Wish shopping app supposedly has an instant app version, but no matter what, I can't use it in instant version, Only full install.
Also adaptive icons aren't that adaptive, as the stock Xperia launcher has no option to choose which icon variation I want to use (square, round, teardrop etc)
I also haven't been able to figure out how to use the Autofill framework, which would give me the same options for autofill within the OS as I get with Chrome on web forms.
These features seem to be just straight up missing, or I don't know where to find them.
reiriop said:
I have only been able to get pip working with (...) chrome when playing a video, but I had to try it twice for chrome to actually do it, since then it has been working without issue though.
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How did you do that by the way? I'm trying, but I can't seem to do it. I almost got it once, but the PiP auto closed as soon as the transition animation finished. Tried it with Chrome and Chrome Beta.
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Just install internet beta from Samsung... And you have picture in picture...
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This applies only to the browser scenario, and NoChromo is better. Also, biometric login not supported on non-samsung devices = useless.
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How did you do that by the way? I'm trying, but I can't seem to do it. I almost got it once, but the PiP auto closed as soon as the transition animation finished. Tried it with Chrome and Chrome Beta.
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I went to a gaming site that I knew had videos, once there I started playing a video in full screen and then double tapped the home button and it put the video in pip mode. Maybe it only works with certain websites or online video players? I will try a couple other sites and see if they all work or not.
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This applies only to the browser scenario, and NoChromo is better. Also, biometric login not supported on non-samsung devices = useless.
I went to a gaming site that I knew had videos, once there I started playing a video in full screen and then double tapped the home button and it put the video in pip mode. Maybe it only works with certain websites or online video players? I will try a couple other sites and see if they all work or not.
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Sorry... For me internet beta is very fast... And i have picture in picture... And no ads on.... And no lag when scrooling...
reiriop said:
I went to a gaming site that I knew had videos, once there I started playing a video in full screen and then double tapped the home button and it put the video in pip mode. Maybe it only works with certain websites or online video players? I will try a couple other sites and see if they all work or not.
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Okay I managed to make it work with IGN videos in Chrome. So it does work after all... sort of. I think we can still agree this isn't working as intended, the fact we have to pry to make it work.
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Sorry... For me internet beta is very fast... And i have picture in picture... And no ads on.... And no lag when scrooling...
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Do you not know what NoChromo is? I have no problem with speed,pip,ads, or scrolling.
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Okay I managed to make it work with IGN videos in Chrome. So it does work after all... sort of. I think we can still agree this isn't working as intended, the fact we have to pry to make it work.
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Ya there seems to be something missing here, hopefully they will fix this within the next couple of weeks. I was really looking forward to using pip with video streaming apps.
Is there any way to use YouTube in PIP mode?
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I can't move apps in menu wtf? When I press and hold app and move its go to home...
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Is there any way to use YouTube in PIP mode?
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I can't move apps in menu wtf? When I press and hold app and move its go to home...
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That's what we're saying, we can't get pip to work with youtube, netflix, or vlc. I really want to use pip mostly for youtube and netflix, so until I am able to do that I really don't care that much about this feature.
You can still move or delete apps in the menu, but you can now decide what press + hold on an app does when going to the settings of the app folder/launcher.
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I have downloaded Nova launcher and Lawnchair launchers, and neither seems to support the Oreo features, but instead it seems they have their own implementation of app shortcuts and badges.
So the problem has to be with the Xperia Home launcher.
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Is there any way to use YouTube in PIP mode?
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Youtube currently blocked the workaround with the 'window' keycode. however there's OG Youtube - it's a modded youtube which has a recent youtube version as base. It has PiP, background playback and an option to download the video. Although the PiP is what i'm looking for. So far there are no downsides. You need to get XDA labs which has a pretty cool repo.
Try it here https://labs.xda-developers.com/store/app/com.google.android.ogyoutube
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That's what we're saying, we can't get pip to work with youtube, netflix, or vlc. I really want to use pip mostly for youtube and netflix, so until I am able to do that I really don't care that much about this feature.
You can still move or delete apps in the menu, but you can now decide what press + hold on an app does when going to the settings of the app folder/launcher.
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PIP works with VLC. Enable background playback in VLC settings . Only thing is it doesn't work like chrome where you just have to press the home button. In this case you have to select PIP mode(bottom left option in the attached screen shot) before you switch to any other app.
You need youtube red subscription for pip.
1. PiP works fine. Though you need a red subscription for Youtube in order for it to work with Youtube.
2. Instant apps work fine for me. There was this tetris game I was able to play without installing.
3. Autofill works fine too.
4. Long tapping the app icon doesn't seem to bring up notifications. Disappointing, since I was really looking forward to that feature.
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1. PiP works fine. Though you need a red subscription for Youtube in order for it to work with Youtube.
2. Instant apps work fine for me. There was this tetris game I was able to play without installing.
3. Autofill works fine too.
4. Long tapping the app icon doesn't seem to bring up notifications. Disappointing, since I was really looking forward to that feature.
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There are plenty of features that are not here..... Another obvious example is the xperia dialer app. which is on the same 3.0.0 version as it was in August and looks nothing like it's advert.
It's more of a marketing thing. Look here! Look here! Shiny!Yet I believe most of those presented features will arrive at some point in time under Oreo and that's why they were presented - not as a done thing but more of a 'soon to arrive'. FYI notification dots are still not available on the beta release. Hopefully more updates will come.... sometime.... maybe spring next year? :laugh:
Didn't know PiP required YouTube red, useless, it's like YouTube is trying to destroy itself with everything they do recently.
It seems like we are in a full beta test, and would go on until oreo 8.1 would be released.... It's astonishing Google Pixel and Pixel 2 have a lot of problems and bugs with oreo update XD