<< This is the original Bixby button remapper >>
With bxActions you can remap your Bixby button to any action or app you like!
Use the Bixby button launch you camera, open google, toggle recent apps or launch any app you like!
You can even remap the Bixby button to launch google assistant
Theres also an option to disable the Bixby button completely if you like.
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Long Press Launch camera, Single press Take Photo, That would be perfect.
Triple Tap to call Emergency contact!
kingjuice said:
Triple Tap to call Emergency contact!
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Power key should be already dedicated on this with triple clic
Cool, looking forward to testing it out when I get my S8.
Thanks for sharing this - I was looking for a small and fast app to remap the Bixby button on my Samsung Galaxy S8 Plus. I made a tutorial and video on how to use it, you can read it here.
Could you have some Tasker integration? Thus making the uses limitless!
Thanks for all the feedback!
I already have some cool features on the list. I will add more as soon as S8 gets released.
Pedroc1999 said:
Could you have some Tasker integration?
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If app shortcuts were selectable, then Tasker integration is not necessary. You could use a Tasker shortcut.
Tatsch said:
You could use a Tasker shortcut.
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I'm not aware of this functionality: can you point me to some documentation? Thx
Chronocento said:
I'm not aware of this functionality:
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1. Create a task in Tasker
2. Create a shortcut in your launcher (or anywhere else where you can create shortcuts) Select Tasker's "Task Shortcut" and select the task.
So I hope some day bxActions will allow shortcuts.
http://tasker.dinglisch.net/developers.html
You could have Tasker REMAP the button for you dependent on what app you're in, where you are, whether the phone is`locked or unlocked etc
thanx, i will try this out when i get my phone.
I will probably map it to the camera since double tapping the home button always seem off on the s7e and idk how it will feel on the s8
How about assigning the button to a shutter button instead of launching the camera?
Anyone know if this app is affected by the OTA?
https://www.xda-developers.com/sams...to-remap-the-bixby-button-on-the-galaxy-s8s8/
@nest75068
Yes, I guess unfortunately it will be affected :
This news comes from XDA dev Flar2, who was updating his Button Mapper app for the GS8. He notes that his new Telus Galaxy S8 allowed remapping of the Bixby button with Button Mapper when he received it, but an OTA update changed the button's functionality. Now, the Bixby button's action is no longer routed through accessibility. Thus, it can't be changed without root access. I'd expect a similar OTA to hit all the other carrier variants as well.
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http://www.androidpolice.com/2017/04/17/samsung-blocked-remapping-bixby-button-galaxy-s8/
Is this still working for everyone?
I was playing with it and one S8 had an option for flashlight toggle and the other S8 didn't.
Any idea why or how to get the flashlight toggle to show up as an option?
Still working on my TMO S8 I got today.
Edit: Button Mapper from the store has the option for flashlight toggle and it's pretty quick to turn on and off.
Is there a version available that does not have these permission items within Accessibility?
bxActions wants permission to:
- Monitor your actions - Receive notifications when you're interacting with an app
- Observe text you type - This includes personal data such as credit card numbers and passwords
This is a no-way warning for me...
contentryder said:
How about assigning the button to a shutter button instead of launching the camera?
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but the volume buttons already are shutter buttons?
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labyrinthian said:
Is there a version available that does not have these permission items within Accessibility?
bxActions wants permission to:
- Monitor your actions - Receive notifications when you're interacting with an app
- Observe text you type - This includes personal data such as credit card numbers and passwords
This is a no-way warning for me...
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Any app that is used as an accessibility service on a phone auto requires these permissions. The bixby button action is only available through the accessibility service at this point, so there will be no solution that does not require this. Maybe if this or some other app was open sourced people would be more likely to approve of this
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Samsung Galaxy SIII's home button is very rough to press, long press of home button is really annoying, which makes multi tasking very tough, so I have developed this application for my personal use, hope its useful to others too.
Features:
Adds three shortcuts under 'VirtualKeys', HOME, RECENT APPS LIST, SEARCH [rooted device is required for SEARCH key functionality]
How to use:
STOCK touchwiz launcher -> Launcher -> widgets -> virtual key -> drop in desktop and select required shortcut
Why do I need HOME shortcut?
I use these shortcuts along with 'SwipePad: Hyperspace Jump' app, which lets you add shortcuts to its grid, So I can go to home/recent apps/search with just a swipe from any applications.
NOTE:
I AM NOT SURE HOW TO SIMULATE SEARCH KEY PRESS WITHOUT ROOT, PLEASE POINT OUT IF YOU KNOW ANY API.
I have designed this and tested inSGIII but should work in other devices too.
Feedback and thanks are welcome
Thanku...............was searching for this :good:
pics pl
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oyam said:
Samsung Galaxy SIII's home button is very rough to press, long press of home button is really annoying, which makes multi tasking very tough, so I have developed this application for my personal use, hope its useful to others too.
Features:
Adds three shortcuts under 'VirtualKeys', HOME, RECENT APPS LIST, SEARCH [rooted device is required for SEARCH key functionality]
How to use:
STOCK touchwiz launcher -> Launcher -> widgets -> virtual key -> drop in desktop and select required shortcut
Why do I need HOME shortcut?
I use these shortcuts along with 'SwipePad: Hyperspace Jump' app, which lets you add shortcuts to its grid, So I can go to home/recent apps/search with just a swipe from any applications.
NOTE:
I AM NOT SURE HOW TO SIMULATE SEARCH KEY PRESS WITHOUT ROOT, PLEASE POINT OUT IF YOU KNOW ANY API.
I have designed this and tested inSGIII but should work in other devices too.
Feedback and thanks are welcome
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how to add in go laucher
hisee said:
pics pl
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how to add in go laucher
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Its not a widget as he stated it a shortcut just add which ones u want like adding a widget but select short cuts instead and its there
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Great.... It works flawlessly!!! Thank you man....
Perfect just what i needed. Will save wear on the home button
Great job!
Was thinking exactly the same thing about the Home Button!
And nice tip about the SwipePad app too!
Loving the app!
it does not work in the s2
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it does not work in the s2
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Umm it does on the att s2 running any pics from how does it not work for u ?
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I have designed this and tested inSGIII but should work in other devices too.
Feedback and thanks are welcome [/QUOTE]
Thanks recent apps works as mentioned on my galaxy S3... but when using home shortcut nothing happens.. it registers touch and nothing moves .. i mean doesnt go to home screen from other screens.. is there any more i need to know?
this is expected behaviour, main intention of home shortcut is to use along with other app like Swipepad so that we can jump to home from any application
which shortcut is not working, though i never tested in s2 it should work
on my sg3 (stock, non rooted) only multitask button works, home and search don't... but multitask is all I really wanted so :good:
Thanks man! Very useful indeed.
does not work all the time..
maybe because I do not have root access? I'm using swipepad and have added the shortcuts but the home shortcut just takes you out of the application you were in and back to touchwiz, and the recent apps shortcut works only some of the time, you have to keep on retrying before it will open the recent apps.. so a FANTASTIC idea, but frustrating if it does not work all the time
..actually just noticed that if I add the shortcut to the screen for the recent apps it works every time, just not from SwypePad... curious..
..and thank you for the app!
Goran
Great!
Thanks for this mate!
VirtualKeys + SwypePad = awesomeness!
YOU DID IT.
:good:
Thanks for your job!!!!
VirtualKeys + SwypePad now:good:
But recent apps is not working for me :crying:
And need "Back","Menu":laugh:
Nova Launcher has this built in
I love capacitive buttons, but this one capacitive button and two soft buttons is unsettling since they require different pressures to be applied. I would have loved all capacitive buttons. But at this point, I'd rather have had all soft buttons than this mess.
Anyway, I use Nova launcher and I added both the "Recent Apps" and the "Text Search" from the "Nova Actions" to the dock. It's not as convenient as having a button on the phone since if I have an app, I first have to go to the desktop and then click on the dock button. So I also added it to the Notification Drop Down in the Notifications Toggle app.
You guys may also be aware of this, but another annoying thing was that it seemed to take longer than expected after hitting the Home Button to get to the home screen. Turns out that this was because hitting the home button twice starts the "S Voice" app and it was waiting for the second tap before showing the task list. Since I don't use S Voice, I turned it off. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGY3Kp9xga4
Speed and fluency as performing actions on our devices, play an
important role. Gestures is born of those needs providing the users the
facility to access to different functions by drawing a simple gesture on the
screen.
Gestures has its own lock screen, which is optional. This provides a huge
speed performing any action, with no need to unlock the device.
Gestures allows us to:
- Call a contact.
- Run an application.
- Enable / Disable: Wifi, Bluetooth, Sound, GPS, Airplane Mode
- Access to a Website.
- Run system options.
- Lock / Unlock Device
- Access multimedia functions: Camera, Gallery
As far as configuration is concerned, Gestures can:
- Be activated by double touch on the home screen.
- Lock screen gestures sensitive alternative.
- Permanent Notification toggling the floating button (overlay)
- Adjust the sensitivity.
- Position the floating button
The steps are three:
1. Locate the desired option from the menu and access it.
2. Press the option and draw a gesture. (Once saved it appears in
your list).
3. Access to the gestures processor by the overlay, the double
touch option on the screen (home) or the lock screen, drawing the
gesture right there.
Google Play Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.imaxinacion.gestos
Interesting.. I'll try this soon.
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Wow. I'm impressed. I configured a couple gestures and they worked flawlessly.
I am using my tablet and the activation in the corner works great.
On my phone I feel this will be more difficult. Is it possible to create it as an action so that I can use another app to launch the gesture area?
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Interesting.. I'll try this soon.
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Wow. I'm impressed. I configured a couple gestures and they worked flawlessly.
I am using my tablet and the activation in the corner works great.
On my phone I feel this will be more difficult. Is it possible to create it as an action so that I can use another app to launch the gesture area?
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Thank you man, but i dont really understand what you asking exactly. Can you explain it better? Are you asking about a widget?
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Thank you man, but i dont really understand what you asking exactly. Can you explain it better? Are you asking about a widget?
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Like a shortcut.
Here is a picture
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Like a shortcut.
Here is a picture
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The wiget is fully functional, at least for mobile. And think that covers your needs.
And if not, sorry. but the only way to launch Gestures at the moment are: double touch on home screen, the widget and the floating button.
Originally Posted by atrix4g18
Like a shortcut.
Here is a picture
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The wiget is fully functional, at least for mobile. And think that covers your needs.
And if not, sorry. but the only way to launch Gestures at the moment are: double touch on home screen, the widget and the floating button.
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Could you make launching gestures an activity in the main application? Or can you make the application create a second shortcut to launch it rather than use the widget?
I know it's possible, I just don't know how.
I would really like to use GMD to activate this app, once I can do that I can use this all the time.
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Could you make launching gestures an activity in the main application? Or can you make the application create a second shortcut to launch it rather than use the widget?
I know it's possible, I just don't know how.
I would really like to use GMD to activate this app, once I can do that I can use this all the time.
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Ok, i understand you. At this time it is not possible because the application needs a small initialization between activities. But what I have in mind and can be a feature.
If you have any other suggestions ...
If you want to support the project dont forget to rate Gestos and give us some feedback .
Great app! It works perfectly, and I especially like the lockscreen gestures (which I've been badly missing ever since I upgraded from CyanogenMod 7 to CM10.1). :good:
Feature requests:
It would be nice to have some configuration options for the custom lockscreen. (I don't really like the clock, for example; is there a way to disable that?)
Even better, it would be awesome if you could add a lockscreen widget for Android 4.2+, so we can use gestures on the stock lockscreen! Please? Pretty please?
A paid add-free version would be nice too. I'd happily pay for the app, especially if it had better lockscreen options!
Hi Guys,
since xposed doesn't support lollipop i wasn't able to change the menu button into a multitasking button any more but following this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2646304&nocache=1
I found a method that is applyable
In short:
you need a root file managersystemusrkeylayoutGeneric.klkey 139change "MENU" to "APP_SWTICH"save the file and reboot
Worked for me, by long pressing the menu button you can also use it in its original function
Hope I could help
Thanx
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Great, how about long press home button?
Missing 3dot menu
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Missing 3dot menu
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It's only in original Samsung apps and as I wrote above you can still longpress the menu button to access menu
Niklas23Weisz said:
Hi Guys,
since xposed doesn't support lollipop i wasn't able to change the menu button into a multitasking button any more but following this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2646304&nocache=1
I found a method that is applyable
In short:
you need a root file managersystemusrkeylayoutGeneric.klkey 139change "MENU" to "APP_SWTICH"save the file and reboot
Worked for me, by long pressing the menu button you can also use it in its original function
Hope I could help
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hey guys.. finally after a lot of digging i found this useful app on playstore which lets us remap any hardware key besides the gesture features.. just give it a try... i remaped menu key with just tap for recents and long press for the original menu function... also i remaped long press home button with google now...
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.phoenixstudios.aiogestures
meetg22 said:
hey guys.. finally after a lot of digging i found this useful app on playstore which lets us remap any hardware key besides the gesture features.. just give it a try... i remaped menu key with just tap for recents and long press for the original menu function... also i remaped long press home button with google now...
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.phoenixstudios.aiogestures
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Nice, it's working great. It can really remap all hard keys. :good:
meetg22 said:
hey guys.. finally after a lot of digging i found this useful app on playstore which lets us remap any hardware key besides the gesture features.. just give it a try... i remaped menu key with just tap for recents and long press for the original menu function... also i remaped long press home button with google now...
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.phoenixstudios.aiogestures
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I curious to as how you got the long press to work with the original menu, i can't seen to find that option
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I curious to as how you got the long press to work with the original menu, i can't seen to find that option
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actually by default the menu key is not present but you will have to add it.. press the 3 dot menu in the upper right corner -> press custom keys -> tap menu key once and press add.. the menu button will be added to the main screen where u can customize it the way u like... :good:
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actually by default the menu key is not present but you will have to add it.. press the 3 dot menu in the upper right corner -> press custom keys -> tap menu key once and press add.. the menu button will be added to the main screen where u can customize it the way u like... :good:
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you mentioned that you were able to remap the long press to the original menu function
hey guys.. finally after a lot of digging i found this useful app on playstore which lets us remap any hardware key besides the gesture features.. just give it a try... i remaped menu key with just tap for recents and long press for the original menu function... also i remaped long press home button with google now...
What i want to know is the action you chose
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you mentioned that you were able to remap the long press to the original menu function
hey guys.. finally after a lot of digging i found this useful app on playstore which lets us remap any hardware key besides the gesture features.. just give it a try... i remaped menu key with just tap for recents and long press for the original menu function... also i remaped long press home button with google now...
What i want to know is the action you chose
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i dnt exactly get wht u r asking but heres what i did with the menu... as i mentioned i added the menu key to the main screen with custom keys option.. then in single tap feature i selected recent apps and in long press feature i selected menu..
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i dnt exactly get wht u r asking but heres what i did with the menu... as i mentioned i added the menu key to the main screen with custom keys option.. then in single tap feature i selected recent apps and in long press feature i selected menu..
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ok thanKs
I haven't got an option for menu in the action page
which version of the app do you have ,which rom are you running ?
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ok thanKs
I haven't got an option for menu in the action page
which version of the app do you have ,which rom are you running ?
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i m using version 4.8 of the app from the play store.. and im on Dr. Ketan's L17 rom on my exynos note 3.. i dnt understand y the menu option is not available on ur app.. maybe update to the latest version of app, if not yet..
I have the latest app from the Play store, thanks all the same
Ohhhh!! Nice app, wonderful.... working perfect. Someone knows if this app requires a lot of RAM?
If you want 3 dot menu try this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-note-3/themes-apps/mod-tredots-overlay-menu-note-3-t3006924
PsychicJian said:
If you want 3 dot menu try this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-note-3/themes-apps/mod-tredots-overlay-menu-note-3-t3006924
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I want it but not enough to root my phone and follow that long instructions
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kiritiki said:
Ohhhh!! Nice app, wonderful.... working perfect. Someone knows if this app requires a lot of RAM?
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it doesn't use that much RAM, about 2.5MB to 5MB
Tha ks for sharing awesome app!!!
I tested on my SM-N900P, Lollipop, work like a charm!! I didn't lost my menu key, long press menu is now my menu.
meetg22 said:
hey guys.. finally after a lot of digging i found this useful app on playstore which lets us remap any hardware key besides the gesture features.. just give it a try... i remaped menu key with just tap for recents and long press for the original menu function... also i remaped long press home button with google now...
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.phoenixstudios.aiogestures
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Its working but have slow down effect / when open folder with 10 or more apps - not smooth open but with big lag , its very anoying
N9005 Lollipop
Hoping somehow we can get expanded desktop working without root. I have a Nexus 6, and love being able to hide the nav bar.
Yeah I think so
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1BtU3ToNJY
In this video, the guy is using bixby button to enable expanded desktop
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Yeah I think so
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1BtU3ToNJY
In this video, the guy is using bixby button to enable expanded desktop
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UHM...I watched the whole video...am i blind?
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UHM...I watched the whole video...am i blind?
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Oohh indeed, my bad
I must have seen this in an other of his videos. A double tap on his button enabled expanded desktop.
But you can see at the begining of the video, the S8+ (on the right) has expanded desktop enabled, there is no navbar
I will write a tutorial after I finish up with a Google Assistant app I'm working on for work, In short I used a combination of button mapper and Tasker to get the desired effect without root. I also did not install the update which blocks modifications to the bixby button.
you can do it on any version with bixbye, tasker, and autotools.
use bixbye to trigger a tasker task.
in tasker create a profile "event - plugin - bixbye" and have its task be to trigger immersive mode through autotools.
That sounds good.. would the bixby button disable immersive mode too? Ie a second press?
Are you able to put together more detailed instructions?
Try tiles app works great you can add immersive mode as a quick setting
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This is the tutorial I followed for it
http://www.themefoxx.com/2017/04/ho...r-and-status-bar-on-the-galaxy-s8s8-plus.html
No root needed - using ADB commands
I'll try this out, fully immersive experience will look awesome on this phone.
Hey guys, here's a thought I had today: "I think I might like my Bixby button to activate the edge panel!" Is there an app out there that does that? Or is that something that could easily be added on as a feature to such an app? What are your thoughts?
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Hey guys, here's a thought I had today: "I think I might like my Bixby button to activate the edge panel!" Is there an app out there that does that? Or is that something that could easily be added on as a feature to such an app? What are your thoughts?
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bxActions allows you to remap that button. I haven't tried with edge app, but I mapped it to Google Assistant.