The following are the off screen gestures available in Honor 5X
1. Double Touch to wake - Just double tap on the screen to wake up
2. Draw - This allows you to draw letters on the screen to open a specific app
Currently Draw supports 4 letters c,e,m and w. This may increase in the future with further updates. You can associate any apps to the above mentioned letters.
For example: If C is associated to dialer. You can draw ‘c’ on the screen of the Honor 5X with the display switched off to open the Dialer app.
How to Enable ?
Settings > Motion Control > Configure the Screen off gestures
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In order to avoid the accidental gestures when we are not intended to do actually, EMUI has a feature called Touch Disable Mode. This allows us to prevent the device from being mistakenly turn ON when we have smart gestures turned ON. It would detect whether your phone is in your hand or not. i.e when the mobile is kept inside handbags, purse or pockets, the gestures won't work.
How to enable?
1. Go to the settings
2. Select More option in the smart assistance section.
3. Toggle the touch-disable mode to ON / OFF.
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Hi,
I like to quick window cover but the app choice and the accidental swipes whilst in my pockets are a bit irritating. I've been trying to make a custom quick window setup and pretty close so far:
At the moment I use Tasker's proximity and light sensors to open a second launcher with my own widgets and shortcuts etc, on task exit it reloads last app or default launcher. Works pretty well but the proximity/light sensors aren't a great way of activating the task as they pick up accidental inputs.
My questions is re the built in quick window sensor - I am assuming its magnetic? Can Tasker (or a plugin or tweak) have access to this sensor?
If so the possibilities are endless for tweaks and customisations through Tasker - cant seem to find anything though...
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as far as i can tell it's magnetic, there is a round disc under the lining of the quick window cover right near the hinge (see attached)...I agree with you, the app selection could stand to be expanded!! I don't know if tasker can access this sensor but I'm interested in your findings!
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I'm sick of modern UI styles. The worst thing about 'em is "Hamburger menu".
1) It's button is in FAR LEFT corner of the screen. Of my 4.8" screen! And there are 6"+ screens already.
2) Oh, you think "there is a gesture to open the menu if you don't like the button". But it's conflicting with PIVOTS!
So... I made an example app with a usable interface. And I release it as a source so YOU, developers, can use it. No license, you're free to use it as you want (without warranty of any kind of course). However I'll be happy if you mention me in about page of your app.
First of all screenshots:
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What's done:
1) Menu button moved to the bottom.
2) First (and most used menu item) is lowest. ListBox is upside down.
3) No gestures.
4) No pages with crazy navigation history. Most used features are on main page, others are on external pages.
5) Each PivotItem can easily have its own AppBar (it's not system AppBar).
I have more ideas and this project will evolve for some time.
Now, the source: https://github.com/LONELY-WOLF/InterfaceSample
Added "..." button with menu. Style is ugly for now.
Hamburger now closes if you tap right from it.
Want a feature that allows to select the app to draw over a portion of the screen when a certain event has triggered. This permission is the one that allows my messenger chat heads and the new Pocket confirmation to be shown over whatever I am currently doing on screen.
In the given picture, you can see that the FB Chat heads has overlay with the Home screen. This is Drawing apps over the other.i.e One app draws over another app.
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There is a feature called “Draw over other apps” in EMUI.
This permission does exactly what it says. It greatly works for floating apps like Facebook's Chat Heads.
I can manually select in my honor phone which application I want to allow to float on the top of other application because I dont want everything popping up on my screen without my explicit approval.
To enable "Draw over Apps" follow these steps:
1. Go to the phone Settings.
2. Tap "Apps".
3. Select Advanced on bottom of the screen.
4. Under Advanced, chose "Draw over other apps"
5. Select Application in the list and tap it.
6. Toggle "Permit drawing over other apps" to ON.
In this way you can enable or disable this permission in EMUI
Split-screen Gesture in Nougat Beta
The beta Nougat update has a new gesture added for split screen. When this setting is activated, you can drag your knuckle across the screen and it will go into split-screen mode. Obviously split-screen is a feature exclusive to nougat so that's why you wont find this in your marshmallow firmware. Here are some screenshots of what it looks like.
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The split in the apps is determined by where you drag your finger across. Not a huge deal but kind of a cool feature.
Thats a good feature
@DrGreenway could u kindly create one single topic for this instead of xx Multiple ones?
I found out that there are actually 4 ways to launch the split-screen mode :
The knuckle gesture, as explained in the first post,
or Open an App then long press the "recent apps" button :
https://media.giphy.com/media/26FKZGistzE3FBywM/source.gif
or Use 2 fingers to slide up from the bottom :
https://media.giphy.com/media/l3vRlGlbxueAOx3bO/source.gif
or finally, in the "recent apps" screen, simply long press one of the app and drag it to the top :
https://media.giphy.com/media/3o7TKq6GAZtVQjokkE/source.gif
split screen has been on honor phones for ages, the gesture is pretty useless ad long pressing the multitasking is easier
It is, but it's still a nice way to activate multo-window.
Plus it's integrated in Android now.
Hello!
I am planning to buy a new LG G6 however I am visually imparied so I need to use the Magnifier feature.
From 8.0 Oreo they implemented a new way to launch the magnifier. It is called Magnify with Button. When enabled a new icon should appear on the navigation bar's right side. When you tap on the new icon and then somewhere on the screen, the screen should be magnified. Tap again on the new Icon on the nav bar and the magnification is finished
I know the 3 tap magnification works on the G6, however I am not sure if this new accessibility button does. I really need this new option to launch the magnifier because pressing a button on the nav bar is way faster than triple tapping.
Can someone please test it for me? I am asking you because this feature only works on certain smartphones (works on samsung,sony but does not work on huawei or xiaomi)
Thank you very much for your help in advance!!!
ps: this feature is what I am talking about:
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LG calls this feature “Touch zoom“ and it works.
Hope it helps you.
I didn't find such a button on my lg g6 with oreo.
You can configure the home button : with a triple tap on it, it launches a magnified window. I'm not sure it would be very helpful...