I realize that there is already an app like this on the market called "Smart Taskbar", and its a good app. I just dont like the UI, and it seems really cluttered. So i was wondering if a developer could rip the side app-docks from pandahome and turn them into an app. The pandahome side docks, are smooth, simple and elegant. i attached some screenshots of what they look like closed and opened. you can have up to 3 seperate docks on each side of the screen, and they are scrollable so you can put unlimited apps in each one. they are accessible from any homescreen (not a widget or shortcut, nor do they impede widget or shortcut place as they are not part of the homescreen layout).
i know the coding would be tough, but damn they are sexy.
PS - hate pandahome, but i love this feature....just in case anyone wants to say "just use pandahome, then".....its buggy as hell
Anyone, just me i guess?
bump againnnnn...ive wanted this for so long
Have you heard of the new SwipePad app? It only has one screen for shortcuts, but the upside is it can be activated from ANY app you have open. It's still in beta, and was put on the Market less than a month ago so it's still in the very early stages. Later they may implement more screens.
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Have you heard of the new SwipePad app? It only has one screen for shortcuts, but the upside is it can be activated from ANY app you have open. It's still in beta, and was put on the Market less than a month ago so it's still in the very early stages. Later they may implement more screens.
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i just downloaded it and i actually really like it. thanks for the suggestion
as far as my request goes though, it still stands. ever since i stumbled across pandahome ive been in love with those appdocks. just the way they look and function.
As a new member of XDA, I would like to begin by thanking all of the devs for their great work, as well as all others for their advice and knowledge. Whenever I have problems with my phone or something I want to get done, I have learned that the great people of XDA always have an answer.
But now, on to my request: I'm sure many of you have seen the sphere transition that launchers such as GO Launcher EX have for their app drawers. I think it would be a great idea for someone to evolve this idea, and transform this sphere effect into full app drawer (preferably in the format of a standalone app, so that it may be used in any launcher). I imagine this would be fairly simple for someone to make, but quite frankly, I have no knowledge of programming and could not begin to undertake this task myself.
I imagine the app drawer would function much like the transition in GO Launcher EX does, but would not revert to the flat pages of the app drawer. Curiously enough, in GO Launcher, the transition can be rotated fully as long as you don't let go of the screen. This told me that it must be possible for someone to make this the actual UI for an app drawer, rather than just a transitional effect. In my opinion, this could be a versatile and modern interface, not to mention it being very classy in appearance. Thank you in advance for any help you guys may be able to offer.
Here is a link to a quick video I made, demonstrating how GO Launcher EX's sphere app can be rotated fully (the launcher is free on the market if you want to experiment with it on your own). Shouldn't this be able to be ported into a standalone app that STAYS a sphere? (Sadly this is my first post, so using a picture of the link as a workaround will have to do for now... Sorry!)
What he said.
No one has any idea how to get this option without Go Launcher? I'm surprised I've been trying to find any way to do this on my Nova pro launcher and can't find anything anywhere even about it really. I guess it must not be possible. It would be the nicest look though for sure.
The first, I've made a thread about before. It would be a tap recorder plugin for tasker. This would automate anything. once the app starts querying, to stop, there will be a notification bar "entry" to stop recording.
The second is much more universally useful, I got the idea when i realized how much the Touchwiz 4 music player widget sucks. Basically it will be a launcher with apps for pages. Meaning lets say the first page has icons. Now when you swipe left, the music player app IS the page. And to go back, we can have a two finger swipe, just in case the app placed uses single finger swipes. I might make a youtube video better showing this.
If we decide to price these, we will split the profit 60 you, 40% me. Solely because without you my idea is nothing but without me, your app is nothing. Pm me if youre interested and we can talk more.
Hey everyone, while I had a long day at work yesterday, I had vented out my stress and created a launcher concept I thought of. My bad if this thread is in the wrong place, I thought this would be the most relevant place to post this. I wanted it to keep it simple and more swipe gesture based kind of launcher. There's nothing new in terms of design except for a few tweaks nor any crazy innovative ideas. I just rearranged some stuff so everything is 'more available in a single place.' So here's a picture:
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Center Screen
It is the homescreen. I've lost ideas on customization and I dearly miss that Meego homescreen on the N9. I also find myself opening the app drawer a lot so this goes hand in hand. I just added in the option to add apps you want to pin to the top of the app launcher.
Left Screen
Swipe into your app of choice. I choose my text messaging app cause it's my most frequently used app.
Right Screen
It's like a 'center' for giving you quick info about everything all in one place. You get to read news on Flipboard while also changing to your next favourite song and checking Facebook all in one place. You would also be able to add, remove, rearrange your widgets on this screen. How cool is that? Maybe I'm just lame, I don't know.
So that's pretty much it. Quite simple and straight forward. Just wanted to share my idea with an awesome community. If anyone is interested in developing this into an actual app or something, let me know =) or I can just keep this in my little portfolio
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...
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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.
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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...
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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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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