I'm looking for the best solution for navigation buttons, so that I can remove my navigation buttons from the bottom of the screen and regain that screen space. What is everyone using to replace the navigation buttons? I know there is LMT, with the pie interface, but I was wondering if there was a better option.
I was thinking, is there a way to use the same gesture to swipe from the bottom that is used for google now, is it possible to put custom actions buttons alongside google now in that area? I hadn't seen it on any roms yet, but wasn't for sure. It seems like that would be a perfect place to put home, back, and recent actions.
Lol if you didn't like the on screen buttons why did u get a galaxy nexus
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Because its a great device. I have no problem with them, but if there's a better solution, it would be nice to use it.
Anyone have any useful contributions?
Lmt and button savior are the only options. I prefer lmt. We could write a new app to do what you want, but it would be a major project.
After trying both, I think I prefer LMT as well. Maybe in the future we will see a mod to the Google Now shortcut, similar to how custom lock screen targets are done now.
Wdustin1 said:
Lol if you didn't like the on screen buttons why did u get a galaxy nexus
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Probably for the ability to do things just like this.
What kind of question is that?
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I hate the navigation bar taking up screen space. I've seen a mod where the navigation bar can be hidden, but, it would be cool if it could AUTOHIDE the same way the Windows Start Bar can autohide. Then, you could use the proximity sensor to show the bar again by waving your hand over your phone.
Is this doable?
Someone should at least p a. t e n t it before Apple does.
This idea is quite innovative but too bad the proximity sensor is not at the bottom..
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Thats an awesome idea..
good idea!!!!
maybe a swiping guesture over the screen is a more practical way of hiding it and poppin it back up
heres hoping someone may be able to implement it. .
and i agree. a gesture should enable/hide it.
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demon2112 said:
good idea!!!!
maybe a swiping guesture over the screen is a more practical way of hiding it and poppin it back up
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Or somthing like browser+ like that would be cooool
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demon2112 said:
good idea!!!!
maybe a swiping guesture over the screen is a more practical way of hiding it and poppin it back up
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That's even better! Wave your hand over the proximity sensor to hide/unhide the navigation bar.
Let's hope we can get a one or more devs on here interested in making this a reality!
15israellai said:
This idea is quite innovative but too bad the proximity sensor is not at the bottom..
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It's not so bad to wave your hand over the ear piece. If this idea takes off, maybe mfg'ers will add a second proximity sensor on the bottom in future devices.
Check out an app called Proxy. Very similar to what you're talking about. Personally I found it a little gimicky, but combined with a hidden status bar it could be pretty cool!
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This is a brilliant idea, but I agree, the best way would be to have it appear with a gesture - not proximity really.
DO IT GOOGLE
adzrules said:
This is a brilliant idea, but I agree, the best way would be to have it appear with a gesture - not proximity really.
DO IT GOOGLE
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ADWEX Launcher has a similar feature for the dockbar to hide and unhide by gesture. Maybe this CAN be done...
Neo3D said:
I hate the navigation bar taking up screen space. I've seen a mod where the navigation bar can be hidden, but, it would be cool if it could AUTOHIDE the same way the Windows Start Bar can autohide. Then, you could use the proximity sensor to show the bar again by waving your hand over your phone.
Is this doable?
Someone should at least p a. t e n t it before Apple does.
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Great idea Neo3d.
Get it patent asap.
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I believe LMT already has this feature. Search the boards, should be able to find it.
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tap tap app allows you to unlock to phone by waving over the phone.
I don't see why this shouldn't work but it would be sooooo much better if the sensor at the bottom.
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What would be awesome is to get this to work the way it does in the you tube app where the bar disappears on its own and then touching near where the buttons would be gets the screen to revert. I wish I knew a little about programming but that would be awesome. I love the resolution of this screen but can't help but feel cheated sometimes because we are losing 5-10% of it with the bar at the bottom.
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I would actually prefer if they made the bottom transparent (with a small gradient) so that the buttons are there, but not really using space as much...
Or maybe a swipe up from the bottom to bring it back, there are plenty of apps that use gestures like that to run an app or run a task.
I want something like this cause I'm paranoid that the black will cause a burn in effect over time.
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Now that AOKP has the 'hide/show navbar' command surely someone knows how to retrofit it into LMT or add it to the gestures in nova launcher?
Since in JellyBean android 4.1 google now utilizes the home button when long-pressed and displays a google search shortcut, why not utilize this even further by adding a shortcut option to the left and right.. one being a Lock Screen shortcut. I bet this will be implemented in a rom in the future. :laugh:
Well, you don't have to long press...just slide up on the navbar and it should come up. That would be really cool though for someone to do that. I'm sure once its in AOSP, it'll be implemented into roms.
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Any more than just a tap triggers this... and I imagine it will be built into the CM10/new AOKP/other JB roms over time. I'd really like to put a voice search button down there to save the screen space from having it in a search bar.
Bump!
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I would be interested in this as well. I would like to be able to double tap the home button to launch an app.
Bump.
It would be nice if someone could add some apps on hold home button softkey or add camera on left,lock on right and search on up.
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I am on the paranoidandroid rom and was wondering if i could disable the softkeys completely and rely on the on screen nav bar
JellyFreeBeans said:
I am on the paranoidandroid rom and was wondering if i could disable the softkeys completely and rely on the on screen nav bar
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First off just a correction ...
softkeys are "Software Keys" so the "On Screen" keys are soft keys .....
As far as disabling the Hardware keys, there used to be an app that let you disable buttons, but not sure if it works on the sgs2 ....
I'll look around for one, thanks
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JellyFreeBeans said:
I am on the paranoidandroid rom and was wondering if i could disable the softkeys completely and rely on the on screen nav bar
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I was wondering the same thing earlier... if your using nova launcher hold down on the home screen and select shortcuts then activities then select Galaxy sII settings. Then just dissable key backlight.
Hope that helps
Edit - after re-reading what you wrote I realized you meant how to completely dissable them. I'm not really sure how you would do that. Well, good luck
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Hi guys!
I have a question. And i'm sure someone can tell me if it's possible or available.
I know we can get mods to have a fullscreen possibility. But is it possible to hide/show the softbuttons by using gestures? For example: swipe up to show. Swipe down to hide?
Hope someone can give me an answer.
Thanks!
Greets from holland.
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I think the cm team is working on a similar function, long press power and select full screen to show/hide soft buttons and notification bar.
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It would actually be awesome to swype in to show the soft buttons and swype out to hide them
Yeah thats what i thought too! If i had the knowledge to build it. I did!
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Something like this? Hth
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1950280
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Now that the nexus is rooted, HideBar can also be used to use the full screen:
http://ppareit.github.com/HideBar/
Sorry to be a bother, but could you post a screen shot?
Yes, second for screen shot please
really nice work. I tryed the demo. It will hide the button-bar and the status-bar. But hey 3€ for this improvement is to high. Espacialy because in a few weeks there will be custom roms with this feature, too. Cyanogen and paranoid can do this too with longpress power button and expand Desktop i think.... and for free
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Sorry to be a bother, but could you post a screen shot?
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It just removes the bar at the bottom of the screen. No point in making a screenshot
The demo is free. It fully works, all features as in the paid version, it just displays a small link to the market for a very short time. You can always buy the version at the market, great way to say thanks!
Does it just remove the bar but keep the buttons? I don't understand.
I think its neat but I wouldn't want to ruin the pure experience. I'll wait for Cyanogenmod to get a feature like this, they always follow Google style spot on.
Thanks this is exactly what I was looking for--just about. I knew I rooted for a reason. Didn't need BusyBox either.
I only wish there were more options to show the nav buttons. The current options are kinda easy to trigger for games.
Mike
Not bad. It would be useful to have a toggle on the power off screen menu. Loved that on a ROM I had on my Galaxy Nexus.
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Thanks!! This is awesome. I cannot find anything free besides this.
Not everyone wants to flash a custom rom so this is great.
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I'm personally not so worried about the drop down settings not actually being toggles. I don't mind the extra click for now.
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This thing is cool. Would be nice if it would auto hide after a few seconds.
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Cool... What I've been looking for! More real estate!!
damn awesome.
the ghost back button is a little tricky to find, but i'm getting used to it
a gesture to show hide the status bar would make it perfect
I would suggest Fullscreentoggle.apk
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1497558
for removing the navbar
and either GMD gesture controls or button savior (i use both) for navigation. Heres to taking back our entire screen
What I wonder is this. With 3rd party launchers, it's cake to hide the status bar. I swipe down to show it, I swipe down again to hide it. When it's hidden, it still shows for apps that've set the preference to leave it visible, whether or not you've hidden it in the launcher. Why hasn't this been implemented for the NavBar? Is it that much harder to do?
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I would suggest Fullscreentoggle.apk
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1497558
for removing the navbar
and either GMD gesture controls or button savior (i use both) for navigation. Heres to taking back our entire screen
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I used this method I'm on day 2 going on day 3 now using button savior and after the first 24 hours worth of use I've gotten used to using button savior and I love getting that extra real estate back. I was gonna post this method using the fullscreentoggle.apk while using button savior but I see u beat me to it.
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I have been trying to use both of these apps but I cannot get them to function. Well button savoir works by showing the bottoms on the right when I want but I cannot get full screen to work..
I like the hide bar demo app but hate the ads. I just may have to buy. Just seems like there are so many apps that do so much for less than half the cost. I know it isn't a ton of cash but the app purchases add up.
The full screen app should make the bar disappear anyhow I believe..
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Anyone else getting 'glitching/flicking' wallpaper on the home screens using the demo version ? ..maybe a reboot will fix, will try later.
Using a live wallpaper though is fine.
I'm still using it though, awesome app. If it's confirmed the full version is without this problem then i'm buying.
Luv having the full screen real estate! Im using the Fullscreentoggle.apk and Button Savior combination.
Here is an option;
Remove nav bar http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1497558
Button Saviour https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.smart.swkey&hl=en
LMT http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1330150