One of the most annoying things about games on Android phones is that they are almost always full screen, and that means you can't easily check your notifications without leaving the game. Bird Bar helps with that by giving you the ability to pull down the notification bar without it being visible.
I'd love to hear your thoughts and feature requests since I always get the best feedback here.
The free version is really basic but in that it does exactly what I mention above and nothing more.
Free Version (no ads, no internet permission, no limits):
****FEATURES
**Simple swiping from any edge of the screen to show your notification drawer. Now you can check your notifications when you hear a sound or feel a vibration while you are playing a game without messing up your progress.
**No ads or internet permissions! It's not a shady app
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.mikedg.android.bar.lite&feature=search_result
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With the premium version, you get a handful of new options.
**LOCATION ENABLER
Only enable the edges of the screen that work best for you. This reduces accidental swipes.
**SENSITIVITY
Is it harder to swipe on your device, then increase sensitivity. Too easy to trigger the notification, then decrease sensitivity. Pick whatever feels best for your device.
**START ON BOOT
Now you can have Bird Bar enable when you restart your phone, so you don't have to remember to enable it before you go into a game.
**VISIBILITY
Did you disable a few edges and forget which edge is still enabled? Then this option is for you! A thing bar will be shown on the edges of the screen that are activated for Bird Bar.
Premium: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.mikedg.android.bar.premium&feature=search_result
There's a new lite version that adds another preset option which adds visible swipe zones along the top and top sides with higher sensitivity. This makes it a ton more usable for users with an onscreen keyboard and gives a taste of what's in the premium version
What is the difference from swipepad
drgopoos said:
What is the difference from swipepad
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Swipe pad gives u shortcuts. This one allows you to access notifications ala Apple's iOSv5 version of notifications.
Very very usefull!
Big Thanks!
Thanks for the explanation Ken. I don't seem to be getting notifications for this thread.
The latest version adds some Honeycomb fixes, even thought it's not really worth using on Honeycomb devices because you always have access to the notification area.
The premium version also adds MORE customization like resizing and anchoring.
I've also confirmed that it works with swipepad and wavelauncher and other swipe from screen edge type apps.
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I'd love to hear your thoughts and feature requests since I always get the best feedback here.
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I've got the paid version and I'm trying feedback but neither of your email addresses work, the one in the graphic above matched the one the PAID app itself provides. This is different from that in the Android market, my emails to both get rejected, you you please check the email address in the app and in the market (and graphic above) and fix them, thanks.
Sorry about the email problem. I'm looking into it now. I didn't dissappear!
I'll look into your other issues at soon as I fix the email too and respond via the email you found [email protected] for now
this looks great, is it compatibel with miui?
It should be compatible with MIUI. If it isn't just email me for a refund if you buy the premium version. But please use my personal email address until I get my DNS issues squared away
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Hello
Mobile Money Manager is what its name suggest. I've created it because none of the existing ones was fit to me. They were either overloaded with functionalities or just poor-looking. In this app, I'm trying to find something between.
Mobile Money Manager is avalible in english and polish language version. Description avalible on Google Play
The beta version is free of charges and adds. It might however include some bugs. I'd appreciate any bug report.
Regards
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Hello
Mobile Money Manager is what its name suggest. I've created it because none of the existing ones was fit to me. They were either overloaded with functionalities or just poor-looking. In this app, I'm trying to find something between.
Mobile Money Manager is avalible in english and polish language version. Description avalible on Google Play
The beta version is free of charges and adds. It might however include some bugs. I'd appreciate any bug report.
Regards
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Why no holo theme?
It's classy and actually pretty easy to implement in an app.
Consider it
I'm considering it. The only thing that stops me is those cute icons (they are cute, you have to admit)
Great application! Works great on HTC Desire. Simple and nice, easy to use
Looks promising. Good work. Here's something I noticed : When you add income or expense and select the category and get the prompt "Insert Value", clicking on the text area opens the alphabet keyboard. Clearly a number is expected so the number keypad should open up.
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Looks promising. Good work. Here's something I noticed : When you add income or expense and select the category and get the prompt "Insert Value", clicking on the text area opens the alphabet keyboard. Clearly a number is expected so the number keypad should open up.
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yeah it's a big pain int the... you know. It's a known issue. Such a simple thing is actually not easy to do. I'm trying to get some clues over the internet and fix it asap. For now I'll just make the keyboard pop-up without clicking on edit, so its at least what I can do to make user's life easier
I cant instal this app on my froyo, maybe you should make version for older phones too?
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I cant instal this app on my froyo, maybe you should make version for older phones too?
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About time you ask. Such version is on the way to Google Play. Should be avalible in couple of hours. Here is the changelog for the newest version. Plenty of changes in
*app is now avalible for devices with android 2.1 and newer
*changed the layout of statistics, added tabs with swipe functionality
*added new functionality - detailed stats
*corrected the automatic keyboard pop-up in expenses
*changed the widget layout to fully transparent
*removed the black frame, that was "eating" the precious screen space
*added the about site avalible on logo click
*changed the red color to less annoying
UI is cute~~
I know many users miss the on screen nav bar and are looking to enable it in the latest aosp builds popping up. Now, personally I am not a huge fan of it because it ends up taking up more space on the phone and I feel that isn't worth it. That got me thinking though, since we usually have space taken by the notification bar, why not merge the two into a hybrid and the space issue wouldn't be that big of a deal. In my concept I am only using the recent apps, menu, and back buttons. I feel that the home button is easily pressed and the only issue I have is with the side buttons.
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Please let me know what you think guys and if you feel it would be possible or useful to you.
I really like this. Good work.
That looks pretty neat! However, would there be a place to hold notification icons for a quick glance? And when there is a notification, will there be any indication on the screen? I know that some people (like myself) kinda like being able to glance at what's new wherever they are in the phone.
Also, if the phone was put into "Tablet Mode" like how Paranoid Android does it, I believe you get all of the softkeys and your notifications.
But don't get me wrong here, I still think you have a cool concept here!
Keep up the good work!
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That looks pretty neat! However, would there be a place to hold notification icons for a quick glance? And when there is a notification, will there be any indication on the screen? I know that some people (like myself) kinda like being able to glance at what's new wherever they are in the phone.
Also, if the phone was put into "Tablet Mode" like how Paranoid Android does it, I believe you get all of the softkeys and your notifications.
But don't get me wrong here, I still think you have a cool concept here!
Keep up the good work!
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Yeah I saw the tablet mode ones but they just feel too squished to me in my opinion. I was looking to make more of a phone version. I completely understand on notifications. I'd say I would need to play with it a bit to find the best way to display them. Thank you for your words of encouragement
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I don't know if this would be a personal preference deal, or functionality, but the black bar that the nav buttons sit in, does it have to be that huge? can it be slimmed down?
Else wise looks amazing!
looks pretty awesome!
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Yeah I saw the tablet mode ones but they just feel too squished to me in my opinion. I was looking to make more of a phone version. I completely understand on notifications. I'd say I would need to play with it a bit to find the best way to display them. Thank you for your words of encouragement
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I'm no real android dev/themer (and by the attached pic, no artist:silly but I do have an idea for the notifications:
You could perhaps have the color of one of the softkeys change if there is a notification waiting. Pretend a text just flew by, the recents key could change color to an assigned color (say red). That way, one would know that a new text has come by looking at a place they normally look at all the time, without opening the notification drawer. I some AOSP ICS roms, the option to change the color of the softkeys is present. This is where I get some of the idea from..
Just a thought though. (If you do use it, all I ask is for my name to be in the credits ) And I hope my using of your picture to demonstrate doesn't bother you. If it does, I'll remove it gladly .
EDIT: Oh wait, oops! I edited the wrong picture... My point was to not open the notification drawer haha... Just imagine it with the notification drawer closed....
Every play a game and wonder what time it is? I have. And while smart status bar and the Galaxy S4 stock have a way to show the status bar, it would be nice to simply have one on the screen!
So i made a very simple app that listens for when you are in a full screen app and it will show the clock in the upper right hand corner.
This is a beta ish release. Meaning, there more than likely will be bugs. I tested it myself and it seems to be working great. But dont expect perfection. If it crashes please let me know and post a logcat.
If you guys like this i may consider upgrading it to include other features, for instance, size of clock font, background color, background transparency, location, auto start on boot, etc. Also, dont hesitate to donate It gets me motivated to improve my apps!!
Just download and install. Run it once select start, and thats it.
UPDATE: 8-11-13
- Code optimization and cleanup
- No message for showing clock
UPDATE: 9-11-13
- It now starts itself on boot
- Fixed layout issue
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Awesome
elesbb said:
Every play a game and wonder what time it is? I have. And while smart status bar and the Galaxy S4 stock have a way to show the status bar, it would be nice to simply have one on the screen!
So i made a very simple app that listens for when you are in a full screen app and it will show the clock in the upper right hand corner.
This is a beta ish release. Meaning, there more than likely will be bugs. I tested it myself and it seems to be working great. But dont expect perfection. If it crashes please let me know and post a logcat.
If you guys like this i may consider upgrading it to include other features, for instance, size of clock font, background color, background transparency, location, auto start on boot, etc. Also, dont hesitate to donate It gets me motivated to improve my apps!!
Just download and install. Run it once select start, and thats it.
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Awesome app guy! Awesome! Waiting for update with more features (for example clock color,size etc)
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Awesome app guy! Awesome! Waiting for update with more features (for example clock color,size etc)
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If there are enough users and high enough interest! thanks for your support! Hope you like it!
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I will certainly be good giving this a shot.
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Future update may include notifications!
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Works as stated. No issues. I find it very useful. Color, size, and 24hr options would be cool.
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Works as claimed, no issues.
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I love my nexus 5 but UIs that require me to touch the top left of the screen are hard to reach. Is there any way to apply a per app hack where the top bar can be stretched or maybe lowered? I appreciate I won't be using all of the screen but it will be worth it for a few specific instances e.g. gmail and hangouts.
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I love my nexus 5 but UIs that require me to touch the top left of the screen are hard to reach. Is there any way to apply a per app hack where the top bar can be stretched or maybe lowered? I appreciate I won't be using all of the screen but it will be worth it for a few specific instances e.g. gmail and hangouts.
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I'm not sure I understand what you're saying your problem is. Everything should be adjustable per your preferences by default. Maybe you can elaborate in more detail.
Had this issue with my Samsung note 2... One of the reasons I bought the nexus 5 is it fits my hands and my thumb can reach the entire screen. This doesn't answer your question but it was my solution to this problem.
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I'm not sure I understand what you're saying your problem is. Everything should be adjustable per your preferences by default. Maybe you can elaborate in more detail.
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I've tried to put it in a picture here, although it looks terrible!
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I've tried to put it in a picture here, although it looks terrible!
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Your picture actually did a great job of explaining what you meant to say. I understand now.
Silly question/statement, but do you know that pressing the "Back" arrow in most cases such as that should take your back to where you were. Most often, that specific option like you displayed, that you can't reach, can be activated the same way by hitting the back button.
There are however, plenty of apps and situations where you need to hit an option in the top left corner and the back button will NOT do this action. I have big hands and have gotten used to being able to tap something on any section of my screen.
You could try installing a mod/app to enable custom gestures in which you can swipe a gesture towards the right and set it to that function. (ex: gesture enabled when you swipe from the center of the right towards the middle, it activates a "back" option.
You can try installing "GMD Gesture Control" for this.
Just a suggestion?
Thanks for your reply! I didn't realise the back button could cater for some of these scenarios. I also didn't realise I could swipe from the left for a lot of these apps. This caters for most of the scenarios so I'm happy now, thanks!
Grabbing anywhere on the left edge of the screen and sliding right does the same as pressing the icon up high. Same goes go for play store.
good day.
Hi
I would like to represent an application which I published on Google Play. It is an SMS application that uses "chat heads" known from Facebook.
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Posielajte sms rychlo a jednoducho pomocou SmsChatHeads!!
Send sms quickly and easily by SMSChatHeads!
Features:
- Keep sms conversation by floating windows even if you are using other apps.
- Supported chat heads
- Change the color of sender and receiver
- Favorite contacts
- Swipe Call
Google play:https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.smschatheads.l
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1.05 fix bugs in full version
Nice
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Good work, i hope to see more customization
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Looking forward to MMS and emoji
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Thank you for the positive feedback I will try to continue to be developed. If you are able to share somewhere applications, such as portal to know your friend I'll be very happy
Look like a rip off version of ninja "hoverchat"
Ill check it out but with out a dark version iy wont be for long
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1st ads in texting app = downfall
2nd feels stiff nothing like facebooks chat head
3 no settings
4 no dark version
Overall id rather not use. In my own opinion.
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immorality said:
Look like a rip off version of ninja "hoverchat"
Ill check it out but with out a dark version iy wont be for long
Edit:
1st ads in texting app = downfall
2nd feels stiff nothing like facebooks chat head
3 no settings
4 no dark version
Overall id rather not use. In my own opinion.
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Thank you also to this view, the application will move on
Stay positive, and press forward.This shows good potential!
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When a lot of people have written me not run from them because they have not set hardware buttons I scored application.Settings were added to the lists. I also added the notification sound and Brazilian language, if anyone would like to add my own language enough to write me on mail [email protected]. In Version 2.0 prepared by adding mms, disable the notification icon and off chatheads and also dark version You can enjoy It will soon be version 2.0 on Google Play
It looks really good but still has some bugs!keep up the good work
Hope to see some update soon. The layout is really good
@zztom is this completely dead or do you have any plans for it?