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For those of us on the bleeding edge who don't like the new Recents view, if you use a third party launcher like Nova and freeze(disable) Pixel launcher it brings back the old Recents view.

ryanstfl said:
For those of us on the bleeding edge who don't like the new Recents view, if you use a third party launcher like Nova and freeze(disable) Pixel launcher it brings back the old Recents view.
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Thank you very much for that information, the android p recents view is just awful, i'm glad the stupid "gesture" navigation is optional.
for other people looking to deactivate the pixel launcher: i used titanium backup, it worked just fine.

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A MUST HAVE APP FOR THE NOTE (big screen devices)

Hello Status Bar.
Use a button to pull down the notification bar !!
Very handy with this BIG ASS screen.
Put it everywhere you want .....
https://market.android.com/details?id=jp.androdev.hellostatusbar
Nice sharing but its not necessary to ''touch'' notification bar to pull it down.
If you ''touch'' anywhere in screen and scroll a little bit down, notification bar will be appear..
eliashadow said:
Nice sharing but its not necessary to ''touch'' notification bar to pull it down.
If you ''touch'' anywhere in screen and scroll a little bit down, notification bar will be appear..
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Not in widgetlockerscreen and most of the non stock launcher it also won't work !
unfortunately ....
Thats why this app is so handy ...
Another option is Go Launcher Ex.
It enables you to configure gestures for the dock icons.
One of these options is to bring down the notification bar.
Just putting it out here in case peopel wanna know...
very cool all...just put it in my dock...thanks
Viamonte said:
Another option is Go Launcher Ex.
It enables you to configure gestures for the dock icons.
One of these options is to bring down the notification bar.
Just putting it out here in case peopel wanna know...
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I've been using Go Launcher for over a year, and this is the first time I realized I could do this.
mrky said:
Not in widgetlockerscreen and most of the non stock launcher it also won't work !
unfortunately ....
Thats why this app is so handy ...
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Some other launchers such as Launcher Pro, ADW Launcher Ex and Go Launcher Ex to mention a few let you set gestures for various things such as the notification bar. So no, the stock launcher isn't the only launcher for this gesture
I prefer setting ADW's swipe down on homescreen gesture for opening Notification tray myself...
I have used gestures since... forever?
I have no idea why this isnt added to the assorted skins or even vanilla Android. It makes so much sense.
I have my gestures setup so that swipe up = open app drawer, swipe down = open notification bar.
Another advantage of this is it means not having to have an app drawer icon on your dock, leaving more room for quick access icons.
Speaking of dock... another pro tip for GO Launcher EX users. Long press on an icon in the dock and hit 'gesture'. Voila - your dock icon can now perform another action by swiping up on the icon instead of just tapping it. Your 5 bar dock is now 10 actions.
I love GO Launcher.
yes, go launcher ex , use its swipe for notification. But it has alot of good functions too
Just another unneeded app running in the background? No thank you
the red krawler said:
I have used gestures since... forever?
I have no idea why this isnt added to the assorted skins or even vanilla Android. It makes so much sense.
I have my gestures setup so that swipe up = open app drawer, swipe down = open notification bar.
Another advantage of this is it means not having to have an app drawer icon on your dock, leaving more room for quick access icons.
Speaking of dock... another pro tip for GO Launcher EX users. Long press on an icon in the dock and hit 'gesture'. Voila - your dock icon can now perform another action by swiping up on the icon instead of just tapping it. Your 5 bar dock is now 10 actions.
I love GO Launcher.
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I installed GO Launcher EX on Christmas on my EVO & it is so much faster & cooler now that I think I can wait to see the SGNote hardware in a US store as long as it's Q1 2012 (as EVO's video camera still sucks & Note does obviously have cooler abilities but would ideally like to try it in my hand first). No fan of TouchWiz here & would likely be using GO Launcher EX on Note.
marcob1 said:
Just another unneeded app running in the background? No thank you
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Nothing is running in the background.
Very useful, thank you for sharing.

Gestures and third party launchers

I'm thinking of getting the 6T but have a few queries.
I like the gestures but do they only work on the stock launcher or do they work ok in nova launcher for example? I tried the mate 20 pro and the gestures didn't work well unless the stock launcher was used.
How much customisation is in the stock launcher? Can app names be edited or flow into 2 lines? Can you make folders, what size grids are available etc?
And finally can you change the shelf to be the Google feed instead?
I'm using the gestures with Nova. No issues. T-Mobile 6t
The gestures are OS level, not launcher level. I'm also using Nova with my own custom launcher gestures and I've had no issues with inputting either sets of gestures.
Gestures are working with nova, but not as good as stock:
-on stock, when you go home, animation shrinks into an app icon
-on nova application shrinks to the center of the screen. Also homescreen icons are present on this animation, while nova appears when it is over. I hope, they will fix it.

Recents in a page of AppDrawer.

I would like to know if theres any way to put the recents apps view in a page of the drawer, much like the Old Nokia N9 did with Meego.
I mean, I would like to Scroll one or two pages of apps or widgets on the main screen and on the third one is the recents apps view, without the need to touch on the recent apps button.
Ive tryied QuickSwitch, customizing some launchers like Nova, Buzz, Apex, etc and its not possible.
Is it a limitation of the software itself or no ones ever thought of it till now?
Should be a effortless way to see everything in a vertical panning, if the UI permits, would be aweasome to have it like the N9.
Would be much more cool to have a launcher just like the N9 UI appearence. Clean, functional, simple yet beautiful.
Thanks!

Samsung One UI carousel effect?

I'm going from an older phone that I used Nova launcher and I really like the carousel effect on the home pages.
Aka, you swipe left/right on the home screens and it keeps going and does stop like it does on the Samsung One UI.
I was wondering if I'm missing that setting somewhere or do I have to go back to Nova launcher to get that feature.
thanks

Animated clock icon in default launcher?

Why are the animated icons of clock and calendar apps not working?
The feature was introduced back in Adnroid O, and it doesn't work with default launcher, but works with third party launchers like Nova Launcher.
amir.nawed said:
Why are the animated icons of clock and calendar apps not working?
The feature was introduced back in Adnroid O, and it doesn't work with default launcher, but works with third party launchers like Nova Launcher.
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Blame Nokia, This launcher is based of NBBLauncher which is more feature rich launcher found on chinese devices. The new, stock nbb launcher based launcher has many features missing like app slices, actions etc.

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