With all the made skillz here at XDA.
Do you think someone can whip up an app that when you hold the Search button, instead of picking voice search, it can open up the Camera app?
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Krad said:
With all the made skillz here at XDA.
Do you think someone can whip up an app that when you hold the Search button, instead of picking voice search, it can open up the Camera app?
gracias
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I believe long presses are handled by the kernal so it should be possible but I am not sure how.
Currently, long press on the search opens google talk...maybe long press on the menu or something?
Good idea though
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You get the option for powerstrip or chompsms to take over that button.
I would love an app to launch whatever you want, like the camera or the phone app.
Surely this should be super easy to make
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I would like it to be used for voice input in emails/texts. The tiny mic button is hard to hit on the Android keyboard.
I use LaunchPro and setup the app drawer swipe up gesture to open camera, works well for me.
great suggestion.. using that now
Use the android market app called 'Button Shortcut' i made the long-press search open camera instead of google search.
saint168 said:
I use LaunchPro and setup the app drawer swipe up gesture to open camera, works well for me.
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Not seeing how to get to the swipe features. How can I do that?
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I don't know about launcher pro but I do exactly the same in ADW. I took LP off after I discovered this in ADW, I never saw this in LP, did I miss it?
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Press and hold one of the apps in the app drawer until the menu pops up. Select 'Swipe Gesture Action'
justflorin said:
Use the android market app called 'Button Shortcut' i made the long-press search open camera instead of google search.
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I took the advice. Since I already had handcent SMS assigned to the button and voice search had been assigned before that I got a nice little menu out of it. I think its more useful w/o selecting a default
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justflorin said:
Use the android market app called 'Button Shortcut' i made the long-press search open camera instead of google search.
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Thanks! That application did the trick 8)
xfosx said:
Thanks! That application did the trick 8)
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button shortcut worked once for me and then did nothing. uninstalled. Anyone got anything better?
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I recently updated to DJ05 with both Super Clean .9 and Stupid Fast (Whatever the newest is.) A day later,everything is working fine except when I try to longpress to move a shortcut or widget. I receive a small vibration but no ability to move. I'm using Adwlauncher, as well.
Does anyone know what could cause this?
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I have noticed the new adw launcher has an option to lock the desk top. If u press the menu soft key it may say unlock desk top. Just something to try sounds like it may be the cause
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The latest ADW version kills long press. No idea why, it just does. Switch to LP or Touchwiz and you get the button back. Shortcut apps from the market have no effect. It caused me to buy LP+ and I regret not doing it sooner.
Lastly, this should be in general, not development.
ya if u mean voice search via long press of the search key it is messed up. However there is a work around for this as well. Double press the search key first to open the search then long press it to get to voice search. However in your original post it sounds more like the desktop is locked to me just unlock it and should be good
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The desktop was indeed locked. Thank you guys.
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Is there a way to reassign the search button to a different function instead of search? Like launch the camera or take a picture? Maybe even have the different soft buttons function as different alerts for email, text, calls, or calendar?
Can anyone point me in the right direction?
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I saw something like that in the Market but can't recall anything about it beyond that. Sorry couldn't be more help.
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LaunchKey would be what you're looking for, well at least for reassigning the search key function to open other apps.
If you dig deeper in this area you will find it. They have been able to have it open the camera.
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+1 i looked through many posts. Launcherkey allows the long press but id like to use the search key for something else as i never use it. Id like to just hit it once as normal. Is there a link for any threads pertaining to this?
I prefer to use my search button like THIS.
good day.
chopper the dog said:
I prefer to use my search button like THIS.
good day.
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LOL but I would like the ability to use it as a quick button for camera
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Ive tried using both LaunchKey and ButtonRemapper but none seems to have an option to remap the search button open the APP DRAWER. Personally, i think theres no use for the search button when u have widgets and search apps. Its redundant.
Does anyone know of another app to do this? Or if this is even possible?
Bump. I would also like to see if this is possible.
Maybe somethis like this (bottom of first post under: Custom app launching)
I haven't tried it yet. But the idea seems simple.
Edit ramdisk to support custom script (some roms already have a blank script for this purpose)
Add an 'am start' command to the script. not sure what it should be.
I can launch home with 'am start -a android.intent.action.MAIN -n org.adwfreak/launcher/.Launcher' but im not sure how to tell adw to open the app drawer.
Then find a way to map the search key to that script.
Cm7 does this out of the box. Not sure if it needs to be an os level feature or if an app could pull it off.
Err nvm it does custom app launching but i don't see an option for app drawer
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Ah. yes i see that now under cmsettings -> input settings
although im not sure if that makes it easier or not. it seems we would just need to add an option to the custom application menu to open the app drawer.
After looking at ADW source i don't think it is possible to open app drawer externally. It seems the showDrawer function is private and not listed in the manifest as an activity. So Unless there is an activity i don't know about: It's looking like this won't work.
bumping this to see if anyone else figured anything out
This can be done, but you need to be running CM7 and get an app called alt drawer. Set the search key to open the app and you get your app drawer. Also, on Moto phones there is an app called home smack that lets you remap long search press to an app. Also, there is an app called launchkey that lets you set long search to different things. Another option is an app called button remapper that lets you remap a key to something else. Most of these options require the alt drawer app or another app that opens the app drawer.
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This can be done, but you need to be running CM7 and get an app called alt drawer. Set the search key to open the app and you get your app drawer. Also, on Moto phones there is an app called home smack that lets you remap long search press to an app. Also, there is an app called launchkey that lets you set long search to different things. Another option is an app called button remapper that lets you remap a key to something else. Most of these options require the alt drawer app or another app that opens the app drawer.
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great idea, on this right now...
I just learned that double-tapping the Home button will open S-Voice. That's great, but I'd honestly prefer Google Now. My old droid incredible (Yeah, I made quite the leap with this upgrade) had a physical search button, and being able to hold that for Now voice input was one of my must-haves. Any way to replace that command to open Now instead? (unrooted. Waiting for recovery before I bother.)
Im using nova launcher and I set up my gestures so that when I double tap home screen it shows my recent apps. But you could set it to open google now as well.
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I just learned that double-tapping the Home button will open S-Voice. That's great, but I'd honestly prefer Google Now. My old droid incredible (Yeah, I made quite the leap with this upgrade) had a physical search button, and being able to hold that for Now voice input was one of my must-haves. Any way to replace that command to open Now instead? (unrooted. Waiting for recovery before I bother.)
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try holding down the soft menu button to the left of the home button :good:
then all you have to say is 'Google' and your voice input begins!
mcmb03 said:
try holding down the soft menu button to the left of the home button :good:
then all you have to say is 'Google' and your voice input begins!
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Ahah! Close enough for now. Thanks.
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Ahah! Close enough for now. Thanks.
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Another way is to use an app called Home2Shortcut.
You can follow step 3 in this post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1823194&highlight=home2shortcut (You don't need to be rooted for Step 3.)
GeorgeP said:
Another way is to use an app called Home2Shortcut.
You can follow step 3 in this post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1823194&highlight=home2shortcut (You don't need to be rooted for Step 3.)
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Thanks, but I just tried it and it seems the stock double home setting overrides it - so it still goes to S Voice unfortunately.
You have to disable the option to launch S voice by double tapping home from within the S voice settings.
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You have to disable the option to launch S voice by double tapping home from within the S voice settings.
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That did it. I don't know why I didn't think to check that. Thanks
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Is it possible to open Google now instead of crappy s voice when you double tap the home button? I've tried home2 but it's not a great solution. Eventually my phone started redrawing my launcher when going back to the homescreens.
Yes .
Of course.
Use wanam xposed.
Yiu can select any app you want
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RomanHelmet said:
Is it possible to open Google now instead of crappy s voice when you double tap the home button? I've tried home2 but it's not a great solution. Eventually my phone started redrawing my launcher when going back to the homescreens.
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Not sure if you're using any other launcher, but Nova lets you do this
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Yes .
Of course.
Use wanam xposed.
Yiu can select any app you want
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In wanam all I see is an option to change the longpress behavior. It does open gnow, but I have no way to open recents with that function reassigned.
mikesnav said:
Not sure if you're using any other launcher, but Nova lets you do this
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Thanks for the suggestion. I've used Nova, I just don't like it personally.