As much as I like how much thoughts that Google has put into making a better lockscreen with widgets,
I find it kinda taking up spaces and not as efficient as they thought it would be.
I always like a clean, neat looking lockscreen which Google got it on ICS. And that gave me a few ideas.
One thing that they got it right is the quick toggles pulldown. (Thank God, finally.)
And I think that is the direction they should be heading to: Pulldown panels.
Pulldown panel is one of many things that I love about Android.
It's useful and accessible anytime anywhere.
One for notification, one for quick toggles, and one for "quick widgets."
A quick complaint on the toggles:
Google, please make the tiles smaller.
And please revise it into how CM has implemented it.
One tap for on/off. Long press to go to its settings page.
Thank you.
Now, about the quick widgets.
This is what the fruit company initially and partially got it right.
This pulldown should be for weather, stock, NFL/NBA scores, current traffic, etc.
And a sync button to sync instead of having them running in background all the time consuming power.
And maybe for some ads too, like Amazon today's free app, Play today's free music tracks, etc.
And please make it interactive like notification panel. Or like the lockscreen widgets on 4.2.
Either pull it down or swipe it across to reveal more infos. Tap on it to go the full app.
These widgets are stationary, and can be added/removed in settings.
Lastly, make all pulldown panel pull-able even when there's a pin/pattern/password on lockscreen.
For privacy on notification, make it says: A has sent X messages, a missed call from B, C has X comments on your FB wall, etc.
Tap on it will prompt user to login before taking him/her to the full app.
This is another thing that the fruit company got it right.
The quick camera access is another one that Google finally got it right.
Again, fruity got it right first. (Argh!)
But please make it swipe-able back to the lockscreen. Thankyouverymuch.
Also, I hope they do some with the black status bar on lockscreen.
The lockscreen on MIUI, WP8, BB10, Sailfish looks really clean without that black bar.
Maybe they should make it transparent like MIUI.
And I hope they implement some gestures to hide the status bar + the navigation bar,
like pinch the screen from the top+bottom bezel into the screen,
so finally everything can be enjoyed in fullscreen and get some screen estate back, yet status bar + navigation bar still easily accessible.
The way CM does the hiding is not that efficient.
And save that AMOLED from burn-in.
I watched a clip of Sailfish OS. All the gesture is a bit confusing, yet it's interesting and inspiring.
jk0l said:
As much as I like how much thoughts that Google has put into making a better lockscreen with widgets,
I find it kinda taking up spaces and not as efficient as they thought it would be.
I always like a clean, neat looking lockscreen which Google got it on ICS. And that gave me a few ideas.
One thing that they got it right is the quick toggles pulldown. (Thank God, finally.)
And I think that is the direction they should be heading to: Pulldown panels.
Pulldown panel is one of many things that I love about Android.
It's useful and accessible anytime anywhere.
One for notification, one for quick toggles, and one for "quick widgets."
A quick complaint on the toggles:
Google, please make the tiles smaller.
And please revise it into how CM has implemented it.
One tap for on/off. Long press to go to its settings page.
Thank you.
Now, about the quick widgets.
This is what the fruit company initially and partially got it right.
This pulldown should be for weather, stock, NFL/NBA scores, current traffic, etc.
And a sync button to sync instead of having them running in background all the time consuming power.
And maybe for some ads too, like Amazon today's free app, Play today's free music tracks, etc.
And please make it interactive like notification panel. Or like the lockscreen widgets on 4.2.
Either pull it down or swipe it across to reveal more infos. Tap on it to go the full app.
These widgets are stationary, and can be added/removed in settings.
Lastly, make all pulldown panel pull-able even when there's a pin/pattern/password on lockscreen.
For privacy on notification, make it says: A has sent X messages, a missed call from B, C has X comments on your FB wall, etc.
Tap on it will prompt user to login before taking him/her to the full app.
This is another thing that the fruit company got it right.
The quick camera access is another one that Google finally got it right.
Again, fruity got it right first. (Argh!)
But please make it swipe-able back to the lockscreen. Thankyouverymuch.
Also, I hope they do some with the black status bar on lockscreen.
The lockscreen on MIUI, WP8, BB10, Sailfish looks really clean without that black bar.
Maybe they should make it transparent like MIUI.
And I hope they implement some gestures to hide the status bar + the navigation bar,
like pinch the screen from the top+bottom bezel into the screen,
so finally everything can be enjoyed in fullscreen and get some screen estate back, yet status bar + navigation bar still easily accessible.
The way CM does the hiding is not that efficient.
And save that AMOLED from burn-in.
I watched a clip of Sailfish OS. All the gesture is a bit confusing, yet it's interesting and inspiring.
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Pretty good. SHould get this out more
is the dream of every android user!! :laugh:
Good day.
Is there a way to change the recents panel's background on Lollipop? I am using the F400 variant. Back on KitKat with G3TWB, I was able to make the recents panel blurred, which I liked (though I preferred to have my wallpaper). I want it to look like the one AOSP where the background of the recents panel is the wallpaper set on the homescreen. If I pull out the SystemUI from the Nexus 6 and replace the one from LG, will it work?
Another problem, though it's minor, is the notification panel toggles. It shows up on first pulldown. In AOSP, it requires two pulldowns. I'm bugged by this just a little bit. Back in KitKat, I disabled toggles with G3TWB and put them all in the NavBar by using Xtended Nav Bar Module for Xposed. I just wanted my notifications to look a little cleaner.
tl;dr: Recents panel background is ugly and I want my wallpaper on it. Notification Panel toggles are annoying.
I'll mention the question again: If I pull out the SystemUI from the Nexus 6 and replace the one from LG, will it work? Or if someone can make a modded SystemUI that does the things mentioned above, that would be great.
Thanks a lot for reading.
I ask the same thing, is there any way to change the gray background? it's pretty ugly.
I with you guys
Since we have navbar overlays already, I'm searching for something to put apps down there. Similar to a Windows taskbar, having navigation all to the left and then having the option to add four or so apps as quick launch options.
Does such a thing exist?
I'm not sure about launch apps, but Custom navigation bar app (beta) you can add 2 more buttons down there.
I'm putting screenshot and power.
Edge Panel
Probably not what you wish to see, but you could go the easiest way and just customize your edge panel...
I don't know what practicality they tried to achieve with this change. My guess is that this is just purely for looks, and by "looks", I mean their own sense of good-looking, because it does not even look good to me.
I use the "largest" font size setting in Settings -> Display -> Font Size, and even then fonts like the icon label seem rather small. But the text for the names in Settings like "Network and Internet" is unnecessarily huge. Maybe this "largest" setting also increased the size of QS, but they look unnecessarily big.
I used to be able to have 6 QS buttons in one row and a brightness bar. Now freaking 4 QS buttons take up two rows. And they have texts llike "Internet", "Torch", "Bluetooth", etc, which I don't need to read. If I swipe down once more, 8 even thicker QS buttons take up like 60% of the screen, and the first actual notification banner is placed about 80% of the screen from the top. Basically, I would have to always scroll up to see notifications.
Why did they change the QS like this? Who likes this? Or do people like this and I am the weird one? Wasn't this change called Material You, meaning the UI will be more customisable for the user's taste? What customisability is there other than the ability to choose the accent colour, all changes I can see is unnecessarily big things that the developers have chosen for me, and are not allowing me to customise. Why can't they learn from custom ROM's? Custom ROM's have far more customisable QS and Notification. I would rather call those "Material You", and Google's Android 12 "Material Google".
Hi is there anyway to make the navigation bar hint transparent without the contents moving down too? sometimes when apps have menus in the bottom screen the gesture handle bar is hard to grab and pull up because it overlaps with the menus.
I would love to figure out a way to do this also. I really like the transparent hint but it makes things like the keyboard really hard to use.