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[Q] Add buttons to app drawer?

Hi
Is there a way to add quick buttons to the notification drawer (the one you open by just swiping down on the screen, I mean), instead of tapping the upper-right button first?
There are very few options I use very often (like wifi on/off, plane mode on/off, rotation on/off) and I wish I could have those buttons directly in the notification drawer, instead of doing one more tap on the related button.
Any idea?
I've looked over the Internet but I can mainly find either apps that include other apps in the drawer or development explanations. I would just like to have a "widget" at the top of the drawer.
Thanks

sbiricuda said:
Hi
Is there a way to add quick buttons to the notification drawer (the one you open by just swiping down on the screen, I mean), instead of tapping the upper-right button first?
There are very few options I use very often (like wifi on/off, phone mode on/off, rotation on/off) and I wish I could have those buttons directly in the notification drawer, instead of doing one more tap on the related button.
Any idea?
I've looked over the Internet but I can mainly find either apps that include other apps in the drawer or development explanations. I would just like to have a "widget" at the top of the drawer.
Thanks
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This doesn't really answer your question, and you probably know this, but there are certainly widgets or mini-apps or something that would let you put something on your home screen (or a different screen) to control those things.

Andyw2100 said:
This doesn't really answer your question, and you probably know this, but there are certainly widgets or mini-apps or something that would let you put something on your home screen (or a different screen) to control those things.
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Yeah there's a native widget doing this, thank you.
Yet I'm looking for the same thing in the notification drawer.
In the meantime, if you know a widget that I could freely customize, plese feel free to tell

Nova Launcher might make things easier
sbiricuda said:
Hi
Is there a way to add quick buttons to the notification drawer (the one you open by just swiping down on the screen, I mean), instead of tapping the upper-right button first?
There are very few options I use very often (like wifi on/off, plane mode on/off, rotation on/off) and I wish I could have those buttons directly in the notification drawer, instead of doing one more tap on the related button.
Any idea?
I've looked over the Internet but I can mainly find either apps that include other apps in the drawer or development explanations. I would just like to have a "widget" at the top of the drawer.
Thanks
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So this is not a complete solution, but it will get you closer to what you are looking for. The pre condition is that you have to be using Nova launcher or any other launcher that supports gestures. So in case of Nova, you change the swipe down gesture to "Expand Quick Settings". This way at least when you are on the home screen, you can quickly get to your settings by swiping down or whatever other gesture you use.

[Q] add lockscreen shortcuts

is there any way to add any shortcuts on lockscreen. So far 4.4.4 has only the camera, but would also like to have e.g. flashlight

You can add shortcuts/widgets by swiping to the right on the lock screen. I don't see camera as an option

slonn said:
You can add shortcuts/widgets by swiping to the right on the lock screen. I don't see camera as an option
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I have the camera Icon on the buttom and can use it. But I cannot add any more shortcuts when I swipe on the button in any way. What I can do is to set widgets in the upper time Screen by wiping to the right and add a widget (but also no apps), but not on the buttom. Want to Setup the flashlight on locscreen

Swipe down reveals settings directly

When I swipe down the notification menu from the top it directly shows the settingsbar. I really don't like that. On my N4 it took two swiped down.
The most stupid thing is that I can't swipe down notifcations (to see more info) when the settingsbar is still on the screen. When I swipe that up I can swipe down a notification..
Is there a way to change it?

Yeah, it's so annoying that I have to scroll up then down again to see notifications.
Someone fix this please!

Nova launcher or add a notifications button on the nav bar
Edit sorry the navbar works the same as stock

Notification only

I was wondering if anyone was aware of a way to mod the system so that a single finger swipe down on the notification bar bring down the notifications only and not the quick settings as well? It's so annoying having to swipe the quick settings away to expand notifications.

How To Guide Open notification in a popup window

Swipe down on the notification to open the notification in a popup window
Tap to open full screen
Pretty awesome!

dreamtheater39 said:
Swipe down on the notification to open the notification in a popup window
Tap to open full screen
Pretty awesome!
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Doesn't work for me. Swiping down on notification just pulls down the notification panel. Do I have to disable the pull down notifications gesture first?

When using your phone and you receive a notification as a pop-up on your screen, you do a quick swipe down on that to launch the notification into a pop-up window
If you're trying to launch a notification from your notification pull down list.... then press and hold on the notification continuously until you get to drag it to the center of the screen to launch as a popup, or to the edges (if using an other app) to split screen the existing app with the notifying app!

dreamtheater39 said:
When using your phone and you receive a notification as a pop-up on your screen, you do a quick swipe down on that to launch the notification into a pop-up window
If you're trying to launch a notification from your notification pull down list.... then press and hold on the notification continuously until you get to drag it to the center of the screen to launch as a popup, or to the edges (if using an other app) to split screen the existing app with the notifying app!
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Thanks but that first option doesn't work for me. Swiping down on the toast notification just brings down the notification bar. Had no effect on the active notification pop-up. I will try disabling that gesture and see if it behaves the way you describe. That would be a very helpful feature for me. Thank you.

I do have the swipe down gesture to pull the notification drawer too...
In my developer settings I have these 2 options enabled -
1. Force activities to be resizeable
2. Enable free-form windows

I think I figured your issue... you must have selected "detailed" and not "brief" as your notification style in your notification settings

dreamtheater39 said:
I think I figured your issue... you must have selected "detailed" and not "brief" as your notification style in your notification settings
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Yes you are correct. Just changed to brief. I will try as soon as I get a notification. Thank you!

dreamtheater39 said:
I think I figured your issue... you must have selected "detailed" and not "brief" as your notification style in your notification settings
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It works! Thank you great feature! Samsung really needs to go back to including 600 page manuals with these things! I wonder how many other useful features I still don't know about???

supersonic64126 said:
It works! Thank you great feature! Samsung really needs to go back to including 600 page manuals with these things! I wonder how many other useful features I still don't know about???
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Haha.. really love this feature.....never lose context of what you were doing when you attend to the interrupting notification