[Q] Nova Swipe Gestures - General Questions and Answers

Greetings all,
I recently upgraded from a Galaxy Nexus to a Nexus 4, and I came across an issue with Nova Prime implementing a swipe gesture for the stock messaging application. Upon long pressing the application going to Edit>Swipe Action>Shortcuts>Activities I am completely lost. I look for the messaging application in the list, and it is nowhere to be found. When I set up the gesture on my GNex, I remember it being super easy to locate.
To clarify, I do not want to just launch the messaging application after swiping up from it, I had it set to open a new message upon completing the gesture.
If anybody could help me with this, I'd be extremely grateful. Thanks
Best,
AG

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[Q] App Switching Gestures?

After using iOS's beta gestures and QNX/WebOS's card switching.. I'm of the opinion that Honeycomb badly needs a way to quickly switch between apps, vs tapping, scrolling and tapping.
Are there any mods/launchers/whatever that enables a quick way to jump between apps?
Thanks.
Pressing the recent apps button is one... but I'm guessing your looking for something else. ;-)
Here's some options:
"Power Strip: Multitasking Dock" (app in market that I had on my phone a while back)
SwipePad seems to be more what you're looking for though. It's in the market: https://market.android.com/details?id=mobi.conduction.swipepad.android&feature=search_result
Edit: I digress, SwipePad does not seem to support the Transformer for some reason.
Try Wave Launcher... it works for the TF, but is a paid app unlike SwipePad.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.mobilemerit.wavelauncher&feature=related_apps
Thanks guys, I'll check them out when I get home.
To help clarify, I'm looking for a way to switch between applications with gestures vs tapping the recent apps list (which, I find organizes apps oddly at times).
On iOS 5 (and in 4.3 beta) there are 4 finger swipes to switch between apps. I have this enabled on my jailbroken iPad and it works wonderfully well.
QNX you swipe from the bezel (can't really be pulled off on the TF, but its an example) to switch easily between apps.
WebOS you swipe up and switch apps.
Ideally, I'd love to see the iOS method as a possibility, it's incredibly quick and smooth. It's about as fast as alt+tab/cmd+tab program switching on desktops. The HC recent apps list is nice visually, but I don't feel like it's a very quick solution.
Anyways, don't take any of this as complaining, I'm just wondering what's out there, and thanks again for the suggestions, I'll check them out.
i was able to get swipepad working on my transformer. I pulled the apk from my phone and sideloaded it on my tablet. It's not optimized for Honeycomb so it doesn't use the entire screen but it worked well without any FCs. Even the Tasking and MorePad addons worked well. Addons available to purchase from market.
Dorkington said:
After using iOS's beta gestures and QNX/WebOS's card switching.. I'm of the opinion that Honeycomb badly needs a way to quickly switch between apps, vs tapping, scrolling and tapping.
Are there any mods/launchers/whatever that enables a quick way to jump between apps?
Thanks.
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i know exactly what ur talking about and unfortunately, none of the apps mentioned do this. they are just like little shortcuts to the app switcher just wrapped around in different UIs. it wont do what u want it to do. im looking for a gesture app that overlays the whole screen and can use 5 fingers to swipe to another app or something of that sort. none of these apps do this.
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[Q] Disable icons from automatically adding to home screen

Alright guys, I have to ask because this is driving me crazy. Is it new to honeycomb or is it an asus add-on that put an icon on the home screen for everything downloaded from the Android Market (Amazon Appstore doesn't do it). I have used ASUS, Launcher Pro, and ADW as my launchers, and they all do it. I keep my default launcher home clean only to be plagued with messages every time I install an app saying "No Room Available On Homescreen" because unwillingly, android is still adding them to each launcher's homescreen even when they're not running.
I've force-closed each while not in use and tested, and they still add. Its driving me crazy, how do I make it stop?
ALso, does anyone else find "Refresh failed" messaging popping up randomly?
In the Market navigate to "my apps" then hit the menu butto in the top right. There should be an option there to add shortcut for new apps, just uncheck it and presto no more annoying shortcuts. As for the refresh, yep I get it every once in a while when my weather tries to update. Haven't figured that one out yet, although I read a thread somewhere that had that fixed. Don't quote me on that as I have been busy with my Evo 3D the last few days and haven't kept up here.
Ohhh man thank you so much. I'd gone through the menu in Market before, but didn't think they'd change it up under my apps!
No worries, glad to help

[Q] Setting up fresh install

Hello, I'll try to keep it short.
I have a nexus 5 since mid-august and the first thing I did was install CM11 using the installer.
There was a guy that helped me set it up back then, and I have no way of contacting him now. This is where you come in
I know I had the nova launcher installed but I also had the google now screen (when you swipe to the right). Also you could bring down the notification panel by swiping down in the middle of the screen.
Do any of you know how I can get the same functionality back? I've been searching the past hour but there doesn't seem to be a way to add the google now cards to the nova launcher even though I'm pretty sure that's what I had before I installed the new ROM.
Chances are you had either https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.launcher&hl=en or or Cyanogenmods CM Home launcher instead. I think both of those support what you're asking about.
Google now, no idea about but ye Nova has a gestures menu where you can set gestures to actions.
Nope, I had the nova launcher for sure, and now if I think about it I may have only had the google cards (some sort of widget), not the entire google now "page" .
Edit: Nevemind .. I just found the google now widget in the widget menu.

Need advices (Launcher + Gestures)

Hello everybody,
First of all, Big thanks for all the comunity for the outstanding job :good:
I am an owner of S7 Edge international version and also a Oneplus One (I will explain why I'm mentionning that). On the OPO, I experienced the Sailfish OS and it's a unique experience. What is really interesting is that this OS is swipe and gesture based and I consider that this will suites more the S7 edge because of the edges of the screen. The functions that I would like to import are :
- The swipe and gesture of course (I think that there are already apps who can do that so it's not a problem).
- A minimalist experience with just the Locksreen, Main screen with tiles of all the running apps (Like in Huawei P8 for example) and App drawer.
- A page with notification feed to replace OR in addition to the Notification drawer.
Due to the fact that I have 0 experience in coding and not enough time because of my professionnal life, I would like to know if there is a Launcher (I already searched) or an app or Xposed module that could do that.
How about Nova launcher pro?
I use the swype down for notification bar and swype up for settings. Also double tap to sleep (but you need to use root there! If not your fingerprint unlock wont work correctly and you always have to use the pin code)
Sent from my S7 EDGE
After rooting the device, what did you do for the fingerprint unlock to work after double-tapped sleep? Any extra steps?
What exactly do you want to do by gestures? There are powerful apps like GMD gesture control etc. I personally use glove box as appdrawer/multitasking tool by a swipe from the edge accessible from everywhere and as mentioned above swipe down for notifications and swipe up for standard appdrawer in Nova launcher. That's all I need to keep my homescreen clean and speed up the work flow.
Please take a look at Sailfish OS to understand what I meant especially for the notification page. I can't post a link yet due to the rules but a quick search on youtube is enough.
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After rooting the device, what did you do for the fingerprint unlock to work after double-tapped sleep? Any extra steps?
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I use nova and greenify : in the nova settings I make sure that a double tap hibernate apps and turn off the screen (with greenify option in nova). I also use the alternative screen off mode in the greenify settings.
So when I double tap, the screen turns off, and then I can unlock it directly with my fingerprint
WiredBrain said:
After rooting the device, what did you do for the fingerprint unlock to work after double-tapped sleep? Any extra steps?
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If you use double tap to wake the normal way and have unlock issues go to:
Settings / device security / other security settings (at the bottom) / device administrator
Untick nova launcher and try to lock it with double tap.
It should now ask you if you want to do it with root.
Sent from my S7 EDGE
And how about going back to the Topic's subject ?
Foxhound91 said:
And how about going back to the Topic's subject ?
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If you want a minimalistic look the only app I know is KLWP.
But it won't be the same.
The last advice I can give you if you find nothing with the search is post your question in the Apps section http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games.
There are a hundred times more people around.
Sent from my S7 EDGE

Fullscreen gesture problems

I have been playing with the fullscreen gesture feature that came out in Android 10. I like it a lot. The screen area on my 7 pro is even bigger now. The back screen gesture is almost as reliable as the button.
Except for one problem- the gestures that involved the bottom edge seldom work reliably. I notice the problem is more pronounced if I am using an app that has lots of screen stuff it can scroll. Examples include facebook (web page), Google Maps, weather radar apps... The bottom gestures (Go To Homescreen, Go To Multitasking View) work reliably if I am using an app that is only one page long and does not have any scrolling involved, like a calculator app. I get the same reliability (or lack thereof) if I use the bottom bar or not. But using Chrome, Maps, etc. and trying to get into the multitasking view, or "back to home" is almost impossible.
Am I the only one having these problems? Any solutions offered?
I'm running Oxygen 10.3.3, no root, stock everything. I've tried both the Oxygen Launcher and Apex, same results with either.

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