I don't even want to compare Android 5.0 to iOS or Windows Phone. Let's compare it with Android 4.4:
1) In new Android long pressing a power button only shows "Switch Off" whereas in Android 4.4 you could enable/disable flight mode and enable/disable silent mode/vibration. In new Android to do the same you have to use a volume slider and then press the screen at least several times.
1a) How can you hide the panel which changes the priority mode? Nothing works - it just hides on its own after a while!
2) Recent Apps button shows phantom apps I removed from the recents.
3) Recent Apps button often shows bad previews (visually distorted).
4) The lock screen doesn't automatically show an unlock widget - once again, an extra swipe just to unlock your phone.
5) To remove all removable notifications you have to scroll them all down! In Android 4.4 the "Mark all read" button was always present at the top!
6) There's too much white everywhere and the whole palette feels inconsistent even among different Google(TM) apps.
7) Quick settings which you pull from the top totally suck. In Android 4.4, e.g. long pressing Wi-Fi icon called a Wi-Fi networks dialog - in Android 5.0 you have to go to settings (a tiny icon at the right top corner).
7a) Quick Settings occupy 100% of the screen estate and they are ridiculously sparse (it looks like 75% of screen space if filled with void).
8) The flow of notifications is totally ****ed up. New temporary notification appear on top of the list and hide permanent apps, so to view the latter you have to scroll the list. I don't know why but permanent notifications at least for me are equally or more important.
9) 12 and 13 Wi-Fi channels for 802.11n are totally disabled no matter which Nexus device you own (US or the rest of the world).
Other annoyances:
1) There's no way to configure the keyboard click sound or its volume - in Android 4.4 I could clearly hear keypresses, in Android 5.0 they are practically mute.
2) There's no gallery app and the Photos app is an abomination. The Gallery app from 4.4 hardly works (it crashes when you try to edit a photo).
3) Backup settings have been modified and now they don't allow to specifically backup /sdcard/DCIM - now it's done via Photos.
To tell you the truth I cannot find a single worthy Android 5.0 feature that I really love and appreciate.
I only use my gmail account for the play store and hangouts. I have zero interest in my gmail email, I've got my own exchange server and work's. So I don't have the gmail syncing emails, contacts or calendar so why is it that the new calendar is full of gmail entries and emails from my wife show her gmail image rather than the image I've added to her exchange contact? The contact app shows the right image so why not when accessing my own exchange server? If I get an email from her work address which is on the same exchange contact I get the right image.
In the new form over function calendar there's no option for month view. Sure you can tap the month but in 4.4 you could open it up at the month view and see exactly what days had events on them.
Unless someone who's played around with it more than I have has some solutions I'll be heading back to 4.4 as 5 adds nothing for me.
Hello everyone, I'm using Samsung S6 (T-Mobile variant) running marshmallow 6.0.1, I found an issue in recent apps. To explain it briefly, first make sure that there are no minimized apps and then hold recent button, Once you see a message that there no apps in split screen view. Click again on recent apps button then you'll see some minimized apps hiding. Every time you make a call/uninstall an app/opened an app info or some other actions, you'll see them hiding under the recent apps. They were showing up only if use Good Lock app.
Hello folks,
I've just received this latest OTA update for Oppo F3 Plus (India)
OTA Release Date: October 27, 2017
ColorOs Version: v3.0.0i
Latest OTA: 171013
Android Security Patch Level: October 5, 2017
Attaching pictures of update notif & changelog
F3 Plus: Bug n Suggestion
Bugs:
1. swiping on homescreens the transition effect is laggy by most of the time but after yesterday's ota update lag was reduced by 50% but with a 4gb of ram n QC chipset, one could never want to see a bit lag on this powerful device
1.1 i just noticed while using messenger when i minimizes the messenger chat head the transition effect is laggy. (already mentioned similar prob with homescreen transition which now says this device animation effects are at low level even though having sexy adreno graphics)
1.2 Again another poor transition effect lag: applied a theme from store which has huge clock on lockscreen and when i turn on the display the clock effect(zooms forward like a bloom) is laggy all the time. when i press on music on left bottom the appearance of music buttons is laggy and swiping up to unlock transition is laggy too...
2. while trying to lock apps from recent apps menu, entire mob gets freeze. rarely happening but didnt faced it after this latest OTA update
3. using Google's «wallpaper» app and setting wallpaper in "Daily wallpaper" mode shows a corrupted photo icon in In-Call background while calling
4. in camera the Bokeh effect is not croping properly which is bluring some upper hair edges n hands part... need to improve the Algorthm to fix it
5. [major] the notifications sound is unchangeable . so irritating to hear the default sound over n over again where there is no option to change it
6. assume im using whatsapp or any other app and a email received and i navigate to gmail via notification and when i press back the OS totally backs to homescreen but not to previously used app which is whatsapp. fix it!
7. in developer options > running services> at bottom the bar view of RAM shows absolutely 0 usage all the time... ram usage code is not linked to it. this is total rubbish . fix it.
8. in dev options> disabled apps> i disabled YouTube app but it still shows up and opens well and works well. what id that disable option suppose to perform? fix it!
9. when swiping down on home screen promotes to search and it shows MEMOS in search list but where is the memo app to search a memo? oops! i have installed Google's Keep and tried to search a word from home screen search but it couldn't search a memo in the end of the day. fix it!
10. [major] recent apps not clearing by pressing X button in recents by says roughly 300mb cleared but then manually closing apps by swiping up closes apps and frees more ram. fix it!
Suggestions:
[*]quick toggles should have been customizable with drag n drop feature n to add more tiles in list (i miss DND tile)
enabling developer options keeps the status bar warning all the way and i couldn't even get to see a time on status bar... i suggest to add a red flashing light on status bar instead of warning msg to turn off dev options all the timee.
[*]i use monochronic display view in developer options while my eyes start to strain becoz b/w display is more efficient in other way comparing to eye protection inverted colors. add monochromatic view in eye protection category
add percentage to calculator in portrait mode as the bottom part of calculator have one Button of free space
add customizable toggles in notif to align as we wish to...
Battery doesn't show usage graph and screen on time to measure the usage... in hardware section it always shows empty but why not a screen time is shown in hardware section?
[*]there is no MENU (3 dots) system in this OS. if i have to open a menu for any app settings i hardly have to open settings and navigation to call, messages, camera etc.. to change its options but why not holding recents button can open its settings and make it even flexible to user?
in recent apps holding an app could've navigate to "app info"
Add S or XS font view in display >font section to make the more content visible for this big display
move apps to sd card or change of installation storage should be introduced
theme store should be customizable while some themes have beautiful ui and clocks but bad icons and i couldnt customization each of them but to apply one whole theme which is sooo unusable of themes flexibility
enabling notification light to each and every app is like being dragged in a hell... allow the notif light enabled to all the apps by default. some users even think this device has no notif light. isnt this pathetic for both user n color os?
allow googles feed on oppo launcher for pleasent way to view updates
video calling via 4g is not available. whyyyy?
group selfie cam is not as bright as normal front cam
[*]music player: seek bar is tiny as needle. hardly finds it correct to seek it . make the seek bar larger
holding back button can kill a current app is not present in dev options as well as color os customization. bring that feature
I have not expected oppo can fix all these bugs as they suck at updates but im so happy to say that oppo has released one major update for F3 and F3 plus devices which introduced many new features of color os and new ui which is more alike iphone now.
Here is the source to know and download and flash the Nougat Rom into your F3/Plus
https://forum.xda-developers.com/an...oppo-f3-plus-oppo-f3-official-nougat-t3769892
Jealous of the cool new gesture navigation feature on the Apple iPhone X, Android P, or OnePlus 5T/OnePlus 6? With Navigation Gestures, you don't have to go out and buy a new phone if you want to change the way you use your phone. This app brings gesture navigation to any Android device!
Best of all, with Navigation Gestures you can completely hide the stock navigation bar without root! This is the only gesture control app with this feature.
Swipe left, right, up, or down. Swipe up and hold. Tap. Double tap. Long press. There's a lot of ways you can interact with the gesture bar to control your phone. Don’t like how the gesture bar looks? You can customize its appearance! Here’s what you can do:
Gestures
Taps
Single tap
Double tap
Tap and hold (long press)
Swipes
Swipe up and hold
Swipe left
Swipe left and hold
Swipe right
Swipe right and hold
Swipe up
Swipe down
Split Pill
Swipe up from left
Swipe up and hold from left
Swipe up from center
Swipe up and hold from center
Swipe up from right
Swipe up and hold from right
Actions
Free
Home
Back
Recent apps
Toggle split-screen (requires Android Nougat+)
Open previous app (requires Android Nougat+)
Open Assistant
Hide pill
Premium
Pull down the notification shade
Pull down quick setting tiles
Open power menu
Skip to previous media track*
Skip to next media track*
Play/pause current media track*
Switch keyboard dialog
Launch app**
Lock screen***
Screenshot****
* Media actions are not guaranteed to work with every app. Media actions use standard Android APIs to work with most apps.
** If you notice that an app is "slow" to launch after using the pill to trigger the home button, that's because of an obscure change made all the way back in Android 4.4 KitKat. Unless you have this Xposed Module or a custom ROM installed with the patch, there's no way around it.
***Lock Screen is compatible with the vast majority of devices. How it works is like this: Makes screen brightness and display timeout minimum and then displays a fullscreen black activity until the phone actually enters sleep mode from the timeout (~5 seconds.) There are other ways to lock the screen but we decided against them, at least for this release.
****Screenshot action uses the MediaProjection API, which is normally used to record the screen. Here, we just record the screen for a single frame. This is the only way pre-Android P for it to work. Screenshots are saved to /Pictures/NavigationGestures
Appearance (all free)
Toggle pill shadow
Customize pill color
Customize pill transparency
Customize pill border color
Customize pill corner radius
Customize pill width/height
Customize pill vertical/horizontal position
Behavior (all free)
Show NavBar in Selected Apps
Hide Pill in Selected Apps
Customize vibration duration
Customize animation duration
Hide Pill After Specified Delay
Hide in Fullscreen apps
Don’t Move pill when Keyboard Shown
Show Pill in Car Mode
Larger Hitbox
Horizontal (X) Swipe Distance
Vertical (Y) Swipe Distance
Swipe and Hold Time
Compatibility (all free)
Hide Navigation Bar in Landscape
Hide Navigation Bar on Tablets
Show Navigation Bar in Fullscreen
Enable Immersive Navigation Mode with Immersive Blacklist
Experimental (all free)
Hide Pill when Keyboard Shown
Keep Pill Shown in other Overlay Apps
Use Full Overscan
Download
Download Navigation Gestures from the Google Play Store.
Download Navigation Gestures Premium Addon from the Google Play Store.
Join our beta testing group on Telegram
XDA:DevDB Information
Navigation Gestures by XDA, App for all devices (see above for details)
Contributors
MishaalRahman, Zacharee1
Version Information
Status: Stable
Current Stable Version: 1.3.0
Stable Release Date: 2018-07-09
Created 2018-05-19
Last Updated 2018-07-09
Frequently Asked Questions
Help, I uninstalled the app and I can't access my navigation bar anymore!
Please connect to your computer and run the following command:
Code:
adb shell wm overscan reset
Help, I uninstalled the app and the original navigation bar keeps hiding itself!
Please connect to your computer and run the following command:
Code:
adb shell settings delete global policy_control
Can we add a feature where the pill is in its own separate area so it doesn't overlap with certain UI elements?
No, sorry. We are already pushing the screen content down to hide the nav bar. Adding this feature would require us to push the screen content up as well. We can’t have it both ways.
There's a "white line" at the bottom of the screen!
This is NOT a bug. This is a side-effect of a change we intentionally made after version 1.0.0 because without it, many Samsung, Motorola, and Xiaomi devices were reporting major bugs (eg. black screen after unlocking which made the phone unusable.) The “white line” is caused by the navigation bar being hidden 99.99% but not 100% (ie. we hiding the navigation bar entirely except for 1 pixel.) So the “white line” is actually just your navigation bar that’s colored white. We added an Experimental Setting called "Use Full Overscan" which gets rid of the white line. Use it at your own risk.
Pill doesn't work with Samsung DeX/Samsung Good Lock!
Android prevents third-party apps from showing overlays on top of SystemUI apps like the status bar and lock screen. You can use the blacklist function in Behavior settings to make the original nav bar show in these apps.
Pill doesn't show when you open the camera from the lock screen, answer a call from the lock screen, or open a notification for quick reply from the lock screen!
Android prevents third-party apps from showing overlays on top of SystemUI apps like the status bar and lock screen. This also includes calls, apps, or notifications answered from the lock screen. The pill cannot be shown until you unlock the device.
Pill doesn't show in Facebook Messenger, Drupe, or other floating apps!
Go to Experimental Settings and select the "Keep Pill Shown in other Overlay Apps." Pick Messenger, Drupe, etc. in this list.
Pill doesn’t work with screen pinning.
We have no way of simulating a long press on the back button without root. A tentative solution we are looking into is detecting when the phone enters a pinned screen state and disabling the pill to bring back the stock nav bar.
Home action doesn't work on the OnePlus 5!
OxygenOS prevents the app from performing the home action if you both enable the software navigation bar and disable the "always enable home button" option in Button settings. To fix this, please enable the "always enable home button" option.
Pill keeps "jumping" up and down with the navigation bar!
This means you either enabled Immersive Mode manually (ie. not from the app) or another app triggered Immersive Mode which is interfering with our app. Here are some possible causes and solutions:
Nova Launcher: In the "Notification Bar" section under "Look & Feel," there may be a "Hide Navigation Bar" option. If there is, check to make sure that it is disabled.
LG G6/LG V20/LG V30/LG G7 ThinQ: Go to*Settings > Display > Home touch buttons > Hide Home touch buttons and disable the "lock/hide icon" option up top and uncheck every app in the list.
Samsung Galaxy S8/Samsung Galaxy Note 8/Samsung Galaxy S9: Go to*Settings > Display > Nav Bar > Show and Hide Button and turn off the toggle up top and uncheck every app in the list.
Feature requests
Is it possible to keep the pill in the same spot when rotating the screen?
We will be adding this as a feature in a future release.
Can we add an action to launch a shortcut/activity?
Yes, that is planned for a future release (premium.)
Can we add Tasker integration?
Yes, that is planned for a future release (premium.)
Can we add a swipe down and hold gesture?
Yes, that is on our todo list.
Problem
Hello,i cant download from playstore Premium Addon,i already pay the price,cant download the apps from playstore, plz fix it
Says item not found.
Sent from my SM-G965U using Tapatalk
Sorry it looks like the regular app is on a timed release on the Play Store. We'll get it up ASAP once the developer is online
Is there improvements in performance or anything while rooted?
xx1182 said:
Is there improvements in performance or anything while rooted?
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There's no difference with running this on a rooted device right now except it'll make setup easier (you don't need to use your PC for set up if you're rooted.)
In a future release we may allow for shortcuts/intents to be sent so you can customize the action to your heart's content (and potentially use root to do more actions.)
Also, if there's enough demand we may use input KeyEvent commands to inject button presses rather than the Accessibility API. This should give better performance but it requires root. It's not something we've implemented yet though.
Paperpaperpaper said:
Hello,i cant download from playstore Premium Addon,i already pay the price,cant download the apps from playstore, plz fix it
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room511 said:
Says item not found.
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The app is now up on the Play Store. Blog post is going live in 2.5 hours from the time of this comment.
Hi !
First of all thanks for your job !
I want to report a bug on Note 8 Oreo. There's a problem with Samsung Internet and Touchwiz launcher.
I've attached a picture of the issue
Sincerly
Alex
MishaalRahman said:
There's no difference with running this on a rooted device right now except it'll make setup easier (you don't need to use your PC for set up if you're rooted.)
In a future release we may allow for shortcuts/intents to be sent so you can customize the action to your heart's content (and potentially use root to do more actions.)
Also, if there's enough demand we may use input KeyEvent commands to inject button presses rather than the Accessibility API. This should give better performance but it requires root. It's not something we've implemented yet though.
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Well, for me is no big deal. But for others, running ADB could be. I don't think it's right to not be able to skip that permission, since, you can(almost) disable completely the taskbar..
when the typing, pill is up-on the keyboard. it must always be in the bottom.
Wow.. cool :good:
@MishaalRahman: APK ?
asking for root permission on Samsung S9 plus SM-965F. without root permission app is not functioning
Great app but after I enabled Navigation Gestures. My icons/screen move to the right side. I'm using S9+ . Please advise.
mkoyak said:
when the typing, pill is up-on the keyboard. it must always be in the bottom.
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That's by design so it doesn't interfere with the keyboard.
Licaon_Kter said:
@MishaalRahman: APK ?
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Sure, we'll post the APK soon.
aryan1312 said:
asking for root permission on Samsung S9 plus SM-965F. without root permission app is not functioning
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You can ignore the root prompt and follow the instructions to grant the permission manually by ADB.
dexz said:
Great app but after I enabled Navigation Gestures. My icons/screen move to the right side. I'm using S9+ . Please advise.
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That is very strange. This seems to only be happening on Samsung phones. We asked Max Weinbach who has an S9 to test it and he never had this issue. We'll have to figure out why that happens.
Thanks for this app, I'm having fun playing with it.
Using it on Oneplus 5t oreo stable 5.1.1 magisk root, all permissions granted, premium addon installed, nova launcher beta.
When I set the vibration to 0ms when I exit that page of settings the vibration gets automatically reset to the default 50ms.
This does not seem to occur on any setting from 1ms upwards. I am interested to see if anyone else can reproduce this behaviour.
The way the pill works with SwiftKey keyboard is interesting, perfectly functional but not an ergonomic location on a longer screen for me.
Edit: ninja'd by the OP, see why you've done it that way with the keyboard now.
MishaalRahman said:
That is very strange. This seems to only be happening on Samsung phones. We asked Max Weinbach who has an S9 to test it and he never had this issue. We'll have to figure out why that happens.
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I see now. It only happened when doing gesture up on the screen for "All Apps" the only way for me to make it normal again by turn the the screen off and turn it on again.
anyone know how to turn off that system prompt displaying over other applications on notification? kinda annoying...btw using emui 8 oreo 8.1
Working fine on my Xperia Z5 running stock nougat...
Pill on top of the Keyboard is the safest position in my opinion to avoid accidentally pressing it when tapping the space key..
I hope you can introduce more swiping features in your future updates.
Great work.
Edit:
In some games the pill disappears completely leaving no option to exit the game. What I did was to go to settings via control pannel.
I've been using gesture navigations on my old P30 Pro and enabled it for the S22 Ultra. I've noticed that when navigation is set to "swipe from sides and bottom", it introduces special animations when minimizing apps/going back to the homescreen, that is different from the animations when using "swipe from bottom" gestures or when using navigation bar buttons. With "swipe from sides and bottom" selected, whenever I do the home gesture which is slide up from the bottom of the screen, it plays the return home/minimize app animation and I notice that I have to wait for the animation to finish before I could perform my next swipe gesture. For Nova, Apex, Microsoft and several other launchers that I've tested, I notice that I need to wait for the animation to finish before I could do another gesture like opening the app drawer by swiping up. This apparently happens to all launchers except for the default One UI launcher - where even if the animation is not yet finished, I can swipe up and open the app drawer. This delay does not happen to any launcher when using swipe form bottom gestures or navigation bar buttons. Is there a way to fix this?
Also, is there a way to use edge panel in landscape? On my old Huawei, their version of the edge panel works in any orientation. Basically, I just need a way to open apps in a popup window in landscape where I can choose which app i could open instead of opening the app first, and then choosing to open it in a popup window using the recent apps/task manager button.
I was thinking the same from a couple days, but too lazy to start a thread
With third part launchers, sometimes when I return to home, if I try to open an app or make some gesture, the phone open an app himself, casually...
I'm so glad that I'm not the only one who noticed this nuance. TS explained everything what I had in mind for a loooooong time.
Is there any way to make 3rd party launcher "act like the default" when it comes to animations?
Note: I'm using Motorola Edge 30 Ultra so it doesn't matter whether it's a Samsung phone or not. Animations and gestures behave differently in any 3rd party launcher.