Is there any way to lock the nav bar to one side of the screen? Like when I use the tablet in land scape I want the nav bar to still be vertical on either the left or the right side of the screen like how the nexus 4 does it. Like this:
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I personally like the nav bar being of to the side because it gives the tablet more screen real estate imo. I was wondering if there were any way to do that. And to put icing on the cake, I was wondering if there was a way to lock down the nav bar to a side of the tablet in how the older tablets used to do their nav bars. All the navigation icons to the far left and the time and notification center to the right and no status bar on top of the screen. Like this:
Obviously with stock icons and fonts. I just want that nav bar to be locked to the left or right side of the of the screen in land scape but use all apps in the land scape mode. And of course i could use apps like full screen! or paranoid pie for more screen realestate but im not a fan of those very much. The notification center is nerfed and i like having fast access to the home and back button.
Thank you for help!
Tablet Mode.
Yes Paranoid Android Rom can do all of that. I haven't seen any other ROMs with tablet mode on 4.3 yet, but I suspect it will be ported soon.
I personally like Tablet mode too but whatevs
The bar on the side like the first pic is called Phone Mode. Also supported on Paranoid Android.
The Nexus 7 uses Phablet Mode, which looks like phone mode, but the navbar is always at the button when rotating.
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I discovered an app that allows the home screen to work in landscape mode, as well as the dialer and most apps. It does cut off the labels on some of the icons, and make widgets sized a bit odd sometimes, but for the most part it works and is AMAZING if you want to HDMI out through a MHL cable and would like it to stay landscape locked while mirroring.
The app is called "Orientation Lock" by "coin soft" and is available for free download via the android market. It does not require root.
I thought i'd share this because I've seen people ask if there's any way to run home screen in landscape and I always just see people reply with "install a 3rd party launcher" so I thought i'd share the solution for people who'd like to stay on TW. Another note is that this works across most ROMS that are TW based I've tried it on stock, stock telus, dabomb v1.0, and have even since installed a 5 icon dock mod, which does not make this method not function, but does hide the 5th icon while in landscape mode. This method can also be used to view your app drawer in landscape as well. If you have any apps you'd like to mirror via MHL cable in landscape but only view in portrait by default, wasting a HUGE portion of the screen on your big shiny hdtv, you can force landscape.
Please hit "thanks" if I have helped you!
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I was wondering if a tweak can be made by adding something like this to work anywhere on the phone since most devs haven't updated their apps to hide the soft buttons. Thoughts?
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i tried looking for code how to show and hide the soft buttons but cant find it.
It wouldn't be particularly hard, but...wouldn't you have to press power to show them again? Seems counter-intuitive.
adrynalyne said:
It wouldn't be particularly hard, but...wouldn't you have to press power to show them again? Seems counter-intuitive.
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Yea exactly. This is needed for full screen video apps that haven't updated their apps yet like Slingplayer. Would be an awesome feature.
Can't imagine the wear and tear the power button would have to go through.. I think a toggle in the notification dropdown would be nice
What about putting three fingers on the screen and pulling down to hide them and three fingers going up to show them
Ability to use full 720p for anything with a soft key overlay toggle is all I want changed from how Nexus is currently
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Can't imagine the wear and tear the power button would have to go through.. I think a toggle in the notification dropdown would be nice
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wear and tear? u already use that button to turn on/off the screen and its not like this is something that would be used in every app. a toggle in notification would not work because the status bar is not accessible while watching a video in certain apps.
still looking for this
why not install lmt i used that for a while http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1564253
lmt and the fullscreen mod for the galaxy nexus = fullscreen awesomeness lol
cordell507 said:
What about putting three fingers on the screen and pulling down to hide them and three fingers going up to show them
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Sounds nice, but difficult.
Android devices are meant for multitasking. Some devices, like the Galaxy Note 2,
are specifically designed to launch two apps, or more, at the same time.
The Google Play Store also offers a variety of multitasking apps to allow
you to multitask on your device. The FlipLauncher app is a multitasking app
that allows you to group your favorite apps or shortcuts and access them
from wherever on your device.
get the extremely usefull app HERE
When you launch FlipLauncher in portrait mode, 6 colored bars (i use one) will appear
on the left side of your screen. These bars serve as your virtual drawer
containing your apps and shortcuts. Just swipe to open those bars.
You can set up to 4 apps or shortcuts on each bar, giving you a total
of 24 apps or shortcuts.
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really look like the Multi Window feature of the Galaxy Note 2 but arranged horizontally.
The app also has a different layout when you hold your device in landscape mode.
In this screen orientation, 4 colored bars (again i only use one) will appear on the left
side of the screen. Each bar allows you to place 6 apps or shortcuts, giving you still a
total of 24 apps.Just like the previous orientation, you can still change a bar’s color,
transfer the bar to the opposite side, adjust its width, and set its opacity. You can also
remove some bars according to your liking.
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Anyway to hide the software nav buttons in different apps? Like home screen? It can help reducing burn ins.
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Nova let's you hide status bar so that's taken cared of. Just the software buttons left.
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saywhat4118 said:
Anyway to hide the software nav buttons in different apps? Like home screen? It can help reducing burn ins. Nova let's you hide status bar so that's taken cared of. Just the software buttons left.
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You can root and use another type of navigation like Pie. You would have to edit build prop with
"qemu.hw.mainkeys = 1"
Ugh... Didn't really want to root
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Golf c said:
You can root and use another type of navigation like Pie. You would have to edit build prop with
"qemu.hw.mainkeys = 1"
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do you use lmt with this? what keyboard do you use? when i hide my nav... my keyboard won't pop. does yours?
gaw54 said:
do you use lmt with this? what keyboard do you use? when i hide my nav... my keyboard won't pop. does yours?
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Yes, LMT and SwiftKey.
I was looking for a way to make the nav buttons transparent / translucent like they are in Google Now, but for all apps.
Would probably consider rooting if i could do something like that
I would love to swap the multi tasking button with the back button, anyway to do it without xposed?
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Yup, at least on mine it looks like the developer settings notch switched to tall will show more icons. See screenshots. Obviously the notch is not shown on the screenshots but you see an extra icon on the status bar.
This would mean that default settings doesn't actually show the entire display and that Google did some software rounding with extra black space... Weird
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if using nacho notch, does that affect the overall number of icons on either side?
I see the same thing; more icons fit (on the right at least) with "tall."
I don't have enough notifications yet to see if there are more.
However, I assume you people see that when it's on tall, the notch actually extends lower - into the status/notification area (when you pull down)?
The icons are small enough and the space big enough, why don't they just wrap to show 2 rows of icons? Or would that be crazy?
I think two rows of icons would look weird. Even at the smallest display size, I think they would be too crowded.
I just tested the Tall option and I get one more icon on the left vs the regular mode. If I use the small display size, I get the same. The normal out of the box mode shows three total, meaning two and a dot when you have more. With Tall or small I get three and a dot. With Small AND Tall, I get four and a dot.
I'd like to remove the clock. I don't use it much and would rather have more icons. With a persistent media player, I'm left with few spots left for other notifications.