Does anyone know if it would possible to make a Nav bar mod which allows you to move the cursor left and right by swiping along the nav bar.
Kind of like a virtual track ball. Maybe even a new key you can add in that responds to swipes rather than press.
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I guess this a feature not many people would find useful.
xternal said:
Does anyone know if it would possible to make a Nav bar mod which allows you to move the cursor left and right by swiping along the nav bar.
Kind of like a virtual track ball. Maybe even a new key you can add in that responds to swipes rather than press.
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Most custom roms have option to move cursor with volume buttons.
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Does anyone think that a developer will create an application which will allow you to use the zoom-bar for a different functionality, (bit like GScroll) such as a application manager or a scroll control. if so what other functions could it be used for?
e.data.tech said:
if so what other functions could it be used for?
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I don't have the device yet, but I think it would be great if someone can figure out how to make the zoom bar act as a d-pad like with Gscroll. That is, swipe up for up, swipe left for left, swipe down for down, swipe right for right. You wouldn't be able to use it in apps like games. But I can imagine it would be useful for the following:
-moving cursor around when typing
-scroll though the suggested contacts when you start typing in the "To" field in Messaging
-scroll through the suggested words when you have xt9 enabled
But I guess this is only applicable when the hardware keyboard is hidden since there are arrow keys on the keyboard. Besides, it's probably difficult/impossible for the zoom bar to recognize vertical swipes.
I thought I was on to something when I first started writing this post, but now I feel my idea may not be worth the trouble at all!
ohyeahar said:
I don't have the device yet, but I think it would be great if someone can figure out how to make the zoom bar act as a d-pad like with Gscroll. That is, swipe up for up, swipe left for left, swipe down for down, swipe right for right. You wouldn't be able to use it in apps like games. But I can imagine it would be useful for the following:
-moving cursor around when typing
-scroll though the suggested contacts when you start typing in the "To" field in Messaging
-scroll through the suggested words when you have xt9 enabled
But I guess this is only applicable when the hardware keyboard is hidden since there are arrow keys on the keyboard. Besides, it's probably difficult/impossible for the zoom bar to recognize vertical swipes.
I thought I was on to something when I first started writing this post, but now I feel my idea may not be worth the trouble at all!
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Would be nice if the bar was 'split' in two:
the left half is for left/right and the right half is for up/down.
So, each half should be devided into two halves too.
But, for this to work, the actual position of the finger should be known, not only the swipe...
A program like the GScroll AppSwitch would be good to control with the zoom bar, or even a simple way to scroll up and down through menus or things like contacts.
What if, when you didn't pay attention to the Navigation Bar at the bottom it SMOOTHLY flew down the bottom of the screen. And when you wanted to use it, you just swiped up and it responded right away!?
Wouldn't that be awesome? I don't know if it's possible to do or if Google would have to implement it. If you can do it let me know when you make it!
That's what I have set up on my MoPho, using Apex launcher. I've hidden both the dock and notification bar. When I need them, I swipe up for my app drawer and swipe down for my notifications. I press home softbutton to toggle my status bar, and also set double-tap anywhere on screen for my GoSMS to launch.
I like the clean look
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Swiping up with one finger might not be a good idea. Say for example you're in the settings menu and you swipe down, either the phone will open up the notification bar or scroll down.. or both. Swiping up and swiping down with 2 fingers would be great!
Mybad, just realized that I was still in the Nexus section and not the Photon lol, time for bed :7
In some ROMS out there you already have the ability to hide the nav bar - and use these controls from the advanced power menu instead. Same option, different solution.
Is there a way to make the navigation bar stay on the right side of the screen when in landscape mode like the Nexus phones (see attachments)? The screen is already quite narrow to begin with; it seems like such a waste of space for the software buttons to be on the bottom. I already searched around but the best I've found so far is GMD Auto Hide Soft Keys. It helps but I'd rather move the navigation bar to the side instead of hiding it. Stock ROM, rooted.
Yeah I want this as well.
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Aokp had this feature although it got messed up in later nightlies.
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Gonna have to wait for custom Roms but I don't think any of the developers have this thing yet? I'm probably wrong though
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Its not only a waste of valuable screen space in landscape, it puts the home key in the least convenient place possible: in the middle as far as possible from both thumbs. What a horrible design decision.
Only reason I'm getting custom rom is this.
Apex launcher will do this. Not sure why you would want to tho.
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Apex launcher will do this. Not sure why you would want to tho.
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where in APEX?
If you have root GMD Auto Hide Soft Keys allows to hide stock navigation bar and adds Quick Bar (autohide navigation bar) instead. Latest beta added option to move Quick Bar to side in landscape.
I had it on PA3.93, by default. But then I played around with UIs & updating PA... then I couldn't see it anymore.
I think it's pretty neat. I'm on a different ROM (Slim) now.
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If you have root GMD Auto Hide Soft Keys allows to hide stock navigation bar and adds Quick Bar (autohide navigation bar) instead. Latest beta added option to move Quick Bar to side in landscape.
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Ohhhhh good to know about the option to move to the side. Thanks.
What I didn't love about autohide was that there was stuff under the bar when it wasn't hidden. That means you don't just hide it when you want more real estate, but also when its blocking things. Just leaving it on the side would have been better.
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Its not only a waste of valuable screen space in landscape, it puts the home key in the least convenient place possible: in the middle as far as possible from both thumbs. What a horrible design decision.
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The whole in screen nav bar in general was a horrible design decision. Google should fire whoever came up with that idea. My biggest gripe with Android is that stupid nav bar. All Android devices should have 3 capacitive buttons.
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The whole in screen nav bar in general was a horrible design decision. Google should fire whoever came up with that idea. My biggest gripe with Android is that stupid nav bar. All Android devices should have 3 capacitive buttons.
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I agree with you 100 percent. But surprisingly a lot of folks seem to love them. It baffles me to waste some of the most valuable screen real estate (near your thumbs) but to each his own.
My solution is to return the nexus 7 and buyb Samsung devices. I have an s3 phone, Note 8, and Tab 3 8. One of the two tablets will go but I cant ddecide which. Both are quite nice.
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Is there a way to make the navigation bar stay on the right side of the screen when in landscape mode like the Nexus phones (see attachments)? The screen is already quite narrow to begin with; it seems like such a waste of space for the software buttons to be on the bottom. I already searched around but the best I've found so far is GMD Auto Hide Soft Keys. It helps but I'd rather move the navigation bar to the side instead of hiding it. Stock ROM, rooted.
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It's not what you are looking for but checkout my thread on how to reduce the size of the navigation bar. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2412699
+1 would also like to see it on the side like on my galaxy nexus. if anyone could make a flashable zip would be great. don´t want to use a thirdapplication for something "simple" like that. but gonna give the app a try.
GMD Auto Hide Softkeys + GMD Gesture Control (to replace the Back, Home and Recent buttons with gestures - use 1-step gestures with 3 fingers to make it fastest and most convenient).
In GMD Auto Hide, set it so that the navigation bar comes up by swiping, not by tapping. And set "Trigger sensitivity" to 1 so that taps in the lowest area are not interpreted as trigger attempts (important when using keyboard).
Best Solution, hands down. Try it.
I actually wanted the opposite; nav-bar on bottom.
I finally got it on the bottom by messing around in the PA hybrid properties. Changed my interface to Phablet mode with a DPI of 320, nav-bar height set to 50% for more screen real-estate (plus, I like the smaller button icons). I know you probably want a solution other than "Flash x custom ROM and mess with these settings" but if nothing else, maybe the DPI and nav-bar settings will point you in the right direction. Plus, you might actually decide to flash PA and edit those settings.
Wished nav bar would relocate to the top when playing games since I always hit them by accident ruining the experience. Prefer hardware buttons because of this.
GMD Auto Hide Soft Keys can also completely disable navbar.
You also can use Xposed Framework with module "Gravity Box" and set to "Expanded Desktop".
Basically my HU is one capactive buttons but only for home, volume up/down, and back. They don't work all that great so I'm looking for a launcher perhaps can incorporate some custom buttons at the bottom or side of all screens sort of like the top bar w/ the home and back buttons. I'd like to put a navi, volume+/-, and a pandora button where I can easily switch apps without having to go back then to the app. Currently I'm using next launcher.
Thanks for any help you can provide.
Dave
which head unit do you currently have?
This one
i was looking at one of those, what goes wrong with the buttons?
Nothing really it just seems the way I have my install it is hard to get an entire finger onto the button to activate it.
Dave
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Nothing really it just seems the way I have my install it is hard to get an entire finger onto the button to activate it.
Dave
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oh, I see how that could be a problem
Yeah it is behind a bezel so it looks flush but it eats up a bit of real estate since it the bezel on top of it is curved. I just hope I can find a launcher that has software buttons on the bottom.
Dave
TT_Vert said:
Yeah it is behind a bezel so it looks flush but it eats up a bit of real estate since it the bezel on top of it is curved. I just hope I can find a launcher that has software buttons on the bottom.
Dave
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How about a xposed module? I think Gravity box allows adding of pie controls.
Researching this now but can it be always there rather than triggered by touch?
I've played w/ pie and it isn't what I need. Really want perm. buttons down there that I can program. IE, volume up/down, navi, pandora, next, previous play. Even if it just shifted everything up a hair, i'll have to see if there is a launcher to do this.
Dave
TT_Vert said:
I've played w/ pie and it isn't what I need. Really want perm. buttons down there that I can program. IE, volume up/down, navi, pandora, next, previous play. Even if it just shifted everything up a hair, i'll have to see if there is a launcher to do this.
Dave
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There is this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2270198 Not sure if it would work on our devices. I returned my unit with the capacitive buttons on the side and went with one that has actual push buttons so you can get property feedback from them.
I'm looking or one that will not float atop other apps but rather occupy a predefined amount of space and push up the apps. I would lose maybe 3/8" of screenspace but then I can access apps directly from thoese buttons. I found an app called auto hide softkeys which allows me to sort of customize a bar but i need to swipe up to activate it. I can only add volume up/down and apps but i cannot find a way to add buttons to pause or skip songs. I'm looking into that apps XML file now but I don't thinK i can edit it.
Dave
You can always try adding the line
Code:
qemu.hw.mainkeys=0
to the build.prop file, might not work since I think it is heavily dependent on the framework, but its meant to force the soft navigation bar by tell the ROM that there are no hardware buttons. I'm not sure you will be able to customize it fully the way you want. Does your car not have steering wheel controls?
Right but I also need to customize the navigation bar. I will try to modify that line and see. That app you linked me to is just like what I've been playing with and neither has the option to allow forward/next of audio.. Changing that line to 0 just messed up resolution and didn't actually make that bar permanent. Even if I have to swipe up it isn't a huge deal but I do need to find a way to get a next button.
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Right but I also need to customize the navigation bar. I will try to modify that line and see. That app you linked me to is just like what I've been playing with and neither has the option to allow forward/next of audio.
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The xposed module xposed additions allows you to remap the buttons, but I don't think you can add additional ones.
I think you will find you have an either or choice, either you can have a permanent navbar that you can't customize or you can have a floating 'widget' that you can customize.
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The xposed module xposed additions allows you to remap the buttons, but I don't think you can add additional ones.
I think you will find you have an either or choice, either you can have a permanent navbar that you can't customize or you can have a floating 'widget' that you can customize.
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Perhaps I can find a launcher that has this capability built in. Even the customized navbar doesn't allow me to skip to next song in pandora. Not a deal breaker but it'd be nice if I could find something that would display the navbar permanently even at the expense of a bit of screen space.
Dave
Well, the title. I really want the two button nav bar.
I know theres gesture nav bar, but i dont like it fully.
I want the back and home button to be tap and recent apps to be dragged up. Like two button. or home and recent apps swapped. At least the back button tap.
I also have done adb shell to get two button, but that was kinda "buggy", not fully implemented or removed.
I also have used the xda nav pill app, but it wasnt just the same. And hiding the original nav bar kinda ruined the phone.
So anyone have a solution or something? I also have stock android and oreo. I wonder if android pie works with two button on samsung?