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I have cm10 with expanded desktop but I'm wondering if anyone has done a mod where a gesture will toggle the visibility of the soft keys. It's exactly what I, along with a ton of other people, are looking for. Hell, I'll pay someone to do it for us!!
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What I think would be nice is if we could just get rid of the navbar and replace it with a gesture from the bottom edge to reveal the ring in my screenshot, except the nav controls will be on that ring
AFAIK GMD gesture control supports this. Not quite sure. Just try the lite version first.
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Few options are out there already.
GMD - You can set various swipes such as 45* up/left for back, up for home, etc, activated at the bottom.
App that I forget the name of but enables pie control in any app. You can set multiple layers as well as an inner and outer pie ring, but this can get a bit clustered. Realistically you can probably set all of your most used apps into the pie on various layers though and get rid of every shortcut.
Latest PA has a more feature rich but less customized pie. Battery bar, time, notifications, access notification panel, per-app color of pie, and more. However, unlike the app above you cannot add additional items into the pie, at least not yet.
lnfound said:
Few options are out there already.
GMD - You can set various swipes such as 45* up/left for back, up for home, etc, activated at the bottom.
App that I forget the name of but enables pie control in any app. You can set multiple layers as well as an inner and outer pie ring, but this can get a bit clustered. Realistically you can probably set all of your most used apps into the pie on various layers though and get rid of every shortcut.
Latest PA has a more feature rich but less customized pie. Battery bar, time, notifications, access notification panel, per-app color of pie, and more. However, unlike the app above you cannot add additional items into the pie, at least not yet.
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LMT with PIE Control is IMHO the Name of the app. In the last version it includes also the swipe from the bottom like in Para...Rom (don't know the name of the rom right now). But it's not the same. A simple swipe from the bottom and it should show the orig. softkeys. That would be soooooo cool! I would never ever switch back and set the expanded desktop active
I have GMD installed and I was not able to hide only the soft keys.
The only option I found hides the soft keys AND the notification bar on the top of the phone, so valuable info like battery, signal strength etc are also hidden.
Any ideas to hide only the soft keys?
g5abiera said:
What I think would be nice is if we could just get rid of the navbar and replace it with a gesture from the bottom edge to reveal the ring in my screenshot, except the nav controls will be on that ring
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Not totally gesture but u must take a look at paranoid android PIE control. It's still in beta but it has a lot of potential.
I think u would like it.... Here are some examples...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYqYUJ-5vR0&feature=youtube_gdata_player
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFjm3CoKj7g&feature=youtube_gdata_player
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihzcN5J3pg0&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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Exactly what I was looking for
But how stable is paranoid android compared to CM10
My main issue is I haven't found a good way of hiding the softkeys. GMD closes the whole SystemUI so lose the top bar and app switcher, and the Fullscreen Toggle that a lot of people use removes the in-app menu button which is not ideal as I don't really want to have a gesture just to access the basic menu.
Is there a good way of doing this that I've missed?
g5abiera said:
Exactly what I was looking for
But how stable is paranoid android compared to CM10
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I'm running it from day 1 (got my N4 since half December) and it's perfectly stable. I always wait a little while before updating and follow the tread to be sure there are no great bugs. If everything's ok then I'll update to a newer version. The PIE option is really Beta so there will be some bugs.
I think u just must try it, paranoid android is really a original and renewing ROM. Not just because the pie, but also the hybrid, per app color and dpi option.
It's just as stable, if not more stable then cm10.1 The rom is based on AOSP so should be as stable as the original one.
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gohan040 said:
I'm running it from day 1 (got my N4 since half December) and it's perfectly stable. I always wait a little while before updating and follow the tread to be sure there are no great bugs. If everything's ok then I'll update to a newer version. The PIE option is really Beta so there will be some bugs.
I think u just must try it, paranoid android is really a original and renewing ROM. Not just because the pie, but also the hybrid, per app color and dpi option.
It's just as stable, if not more stable then cm10.1 The rom is based on AOSP so should be as stable as the original one.
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The only annoying thing is that they took out the notification bar to use PIE.
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The only annoying thing is that they took out the notification bar to use PIE.
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That's because it's trigged by the expanded desktop.....
Remember it's a beta. Development is going very fast and I'm sure they will find a great solution for that.
Check his latest YouTube update and see the difference with earlier releases.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1J8LDLWuxg&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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That's because it's trigged by the expanded desktop.....
Remember it's a beta. Development is going very fast and I'm sure they will find a great solution for that.
Check his latest YouTube update and see the difference with earlier releases.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1J8LDLWuxg&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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Holy ****, that looks awesome.
AW: Hide soft keys like Huawei Ascend Mate
With AOKP you can enable this in the Power Menu.
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hide nav bar only
g47 said:
I have GMD installed and I was not able to hide only the soft keys.
The only option I found hides the soft keys AND the notification bar on the top of the phone, so valuable info like battery, signal strength etc are also hidden.
Any ideas to hide only the soft keys?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2041700
Simple to do. Best way I've found. Works on any ROM just reboot after running app
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drew_grant said:
I have cm10 with expanded desktop but I'm wondering if anyone has done a mod where a gesture will toggle the visibility of the soft keys. It's exactly what I, along with a ton of other people, are looking for. Hell, I'll pay someone to do it for us!!
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Paranoid Android ROM has a new mod called "pie". Its exactly what you're looking for. You can use an app called Smart statusbar and it works beautifully with PIE.
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Brendan12695 said:
Paranoid Android ROM has a new mod called "pie". Its exactly what you're looking for. You can use an app called Smart statusbar and it works beautifully with PIE.
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smart statusbar wont be needed pal
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Brendan12695 said:
Paranoid Android ROM has a new mod called "pie". Its exactly what you're looking for. You can use an app called Smart statusbar and it works beautifully with PIE.
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Thanks for the suggestions folks. I downloaded GMD pro and so far it's pretty cool. That PIE mod looks amazing. Any way someone can rip it and make it work with any ROM? If not, I might have to bite the bullet and just flash the ROM.
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another option might be the Hide Bottom Bar app from the play store.
Hi there,
As a proud owner of a Xiaomi mi5s Plus and a compulsive flasher of custom ROM's, I had to get rid of that addiction to flashing when I get the mi5s Plus. Not that I wanted to get rid of it, but simply put, there was no way to get satisfaction by that addiction because of the lack of material to flash.
OK... So I thought to myself : "Am I really to live with MIUI 8.0.X.0 for ever ?", which in other words, means to live with the ROM that is probably the most far away from AOSP ROM ?
Answer was, unfortunately, undoubtedly : "Yes".
So it was time for me to make a hard introspection work... and answer that most philosophical question : "WHY do I want custom ROM ?".
Basically for 2 reasons :
- 1°) because I want something close to AOSP ;
- 2°) because I want to get the ability to customize things the way I want and not be in constant constraint like iPhone users are.
And now to the point : can I get those 2 things and still use MIUI 8.0 ?
At first I thought : "Hell no. This is too close to iPhone. In fact, should you just look the screen, you think you have an iPhone".
So I decided to change things interface wise...
First reflex was to get some themes from the in-built Xiaomi Store. What a disappointment ! About 90% of those themes are called something that contains "iOS". This is EXACTLY what I want to avoid !
So how to get rid of that apparent MIUI ? The answer is pretty simple : CHANGE THE LAUNCHER ! So I installed my favourite launcher : Smart Launcher from the former "Gin Lemon" (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ginlemon.flowerfree).
What do I get now ? Simple : I don't even notice that I am running MIUI anymore. Well, that is not exactly true. I still notice when I go to the "Settings". But that part is probably the only one that is still somewhat close to AOSP. So I can live with it despite so "rearrangements"... Indeed, once configured, I don't go to settings that often... So not a problem.
So I had to face the second reason for me to flash a custom ROM : customizations !
The most important thing to me is to be able to have shortcuts to actions and/or apps almost everywhere. I just hate to have to dig into menus, searches and stuff to be able to achieve what I am looking for. So of course, having an ROM that allows me to customize the interface is a great move. I can already have a bunch of shortcuts in Smartlauncher... but the best thing I can do is have a shortcut assigned to the hardware buttons... and there are 7 of them in the mi5s Plus (navigation : 3 ; volume : 2 ; power : 1 ; FP Scanner : 1).
So how to I do this ? I did some research but it rapidly became obvious that I will need to unlock the phone to root it and so be able to install XPosed framework and some XPosed modules. So I did. Applied to get the unlock code ; got it after 3 days. Unlocked the device, installed TWRP, installed SuperSU and installed XPosed framework.
So I of course installed the ultimate swiss army knife of UI customization : GravityBox. Unfortunately, it was of little help. It only really works when you have a "close to AOSP" ROM. But as mentioned earlier : MIUI is the farest thing to AOSP you can imagine. So a lot of tweaks had no effects. Still the major one is still present : the "App launcher". Hit a button, it will display a "pop-up" where you can add up to 12 shortcuts to apps. So I configured the "Home Butoon" to display it with a long press... I then wanted to configure the other buttons, but some can't be configured (Volume and Power), others don't take the mod ("Recents" button from the navigation buttons) and one breaks things (FP scanner => device doesn't wake AND unlock if used).
So I digged a little deeper and found another module called "XPosed Additions" : that one allows me to configure each button (yes, all seven buttons !) and I am able to assign up to 6 actions and/or shortcuts to each one of them ! And YES : that does include the FP scanner ! Imagine : for the FP Scanner :
- display off => power on & unlock ;
- display on + 1 tap => got to "Home"
- display on + long press => show the dialer (remember, even if "Smart" it's basically a "Phone" !) ;
- display on + double tap => display off
- display on + double tap and hold => bring up the camera ;
- display on + triple tap => bring up Waze ;
- display on + triple tap and hold => bring up the Radar app.
That was it on the buttons customization side. Now there was still one thing I couldn't stand in MIUI : that was the QuickSettings. I din't liked two things : "Aqua on white" for one ; not able to hide buttons I do no use for two.
For the first thing (appearance) the "Theme Store" is a nice help. Even if the theme is labelled "iOS", you won't noticed the Apple-ish look once the Launcher is installed. But you will still keep the appearance of the Quicksettings. So I applied a theme that had an appearance I found appealing.
For the second thing, another Xposed module helped : it's called "MIUI Tweaks". I gives the ability to hide the unused QuickSettings (and sideways to tweak a little the appearance : size and stuff, but notthe colour... which leaves the Them handy !).
CONCLUSION :
Even if I am, as mentioned in the brief introduction, a compulsive custom ROM flasher, I now live with MIUI 8.0 and I must say that I don't mind doing so ! At least I have everything working (camera, gallery, network, 4G...) and I also have a really nice battery life (I have used it for 48 hours and I still have 28% even though the Play Store updates automatically and I had several rather long phone calls and played "Darkness Reborn" for about 3h and played around with settings to fine tune my set-up... which gives a SOT of about 4h45minutes).
I am now waiting for Xiaomi to release a Nougat based ROM to maybe improve battery life even more...
But to tell the truth, even without a custom ROM, I am perfectly happy with this device... of course I had to spend about 5 dollars to unlock Xposed additions and MIUI tweaks (2.5 dollars each). But those were the most well-spent 5 dollars in the last 5 years ! And I will still be able to use those even if I change the phone... which I don't think will happen too soon !
Even with the few bugs it has I enjoy using lineage 14.1 way more than MIUI. Their whole apple-like approach to everything just drove me away. MIUI is just too bloaty and made me feel like my phone was being bogged down.
I just put Nova Launcher, and I don't feel bloatware at all (after 3 days of use at least).
Wish to root. And to do some changes to some buttons.
How to root?
jondread said:
Even with the few bugs it has I enjoy using lineage 14.1 way more than MIUI. Their whole apple-like approach to everything just drove me away. MIUI is just too bloaty and made me feel like my phone was being bogged down.
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Hi,
Yeah... I don't like it either.
But honestly, if you install another launcher, what is left of the iOS like interface ?
The "Power Menu" ? I don't use it daily...
And maybe the Notifications... But those can be changed via an XPosed module.
But of course, I agree that having the choice between several custom ROM's would be a nice addition to this device
Regards.
claudioita said:
I just put Nova Launcher, and I don't feel bloatware at all (after 3 days of use at least).
Wish to root. And to do some changes to some buttons.
How to root?
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Hi Claudio,
To be able to root, you first need to unlock your bootloader.
Unlocking the bootloader requires a permission to be granted by Xiaomi.
So you have to apply to get your unlock code.
To apply, please visit this page : "en.miui.com/unlock".
Regards.
In my Mi5s Plus I use "xMiui" and "Miui 8 Tweaks" modules: with these two modules, you can do many personalizzations like Gravity Box.
With BuilProp Editor I set the DPI to 360 to have a better use of display (icons in miui are so big!)
With these methods, I resolve all the problems with Miui interface.
But I have a multiboot way to switch to xiaomi.eu, Lineage and RR roms.
I hope Lineage and RR will be official for Mi5s Plus
One thing that I've discovered on my Xiaomi phones is that finding the right theme changes everything for the better. I was originally using the Android N theme, but recently switched to Stheme. I apply it globally (rather than in the window that allows customisation - dialer, messaging, status bar, etc). The advantage with doing this is that it themes the settings menu to a nice blue colour.
With Stheme installed, I get quick settings toggles that look like the Pixel's, and the colours in the stock messaging app become tolerable. I found that it themed the stock contacts app too dark for me, so I downloaded Zeny Purple, went into the customize theme page, and applied Zeny Purple to just the dialer. I also applied the Android N theme to just the icons.
Using these three themes, I was able to significantly improve things. I'm sure there are other decent themes available, although a lot of them are pretty ordinary.
I just got the pixel 2 xl and rooted it and installed nitrogenos and spent four hours setting it up only to find out that custom ROMs don't suppport the active edge feature
One of the biggest things I love about custom ROMs is the SmartBar navigation. Just being able to customize the nav buttons is really helpful so I don't want to give that up yet.
Is there a way to add it to a stock rooted ROM?
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I just got the pixel 2 xl and rooted it and installed nitrogenos and spent four hours setting it up only to find out that custom ROMs don't suppport the active edge feature
One of the biggest things I love about custom ROMs is the SmartBar navigation. Just being able to customize the nav buttons is really helpful so I don't want to give that up yet.
Is there a way to add it to a stock rooted ROM?
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Try
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.xda.nobar
I use that to disable my navigation bar and then use this
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.suphi.swipenavigation
For controls
This works great! Thanks! @hatdrc
tracerit said:
I just got the pixel 2 xl and rooted it and installed nitrogenos and spent four hours setting it up only to find out that custom ROMs don't suppport the active edge feature
One of the biggest things I love about custom ROMs is the SmartBar navigation. Just being able to customize the nav buttons is really helpful so I don't want to give that up yet.
Is there a way to add it to a stock rooted ROM?
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You can hardly find any reference to someone using smartbar on Google. Hardly 1 video on youtube. I was wondering did you find a way out to use it maybe as a separate app?Google has already moved on to gesture based navbar. I still believe smartbar is the best navbar for we can set upto 21 actions without leaving the active app.
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You can hardly find any reference to someone using smartbar on Google. Hardly 1 video on youtube. I was wondering did you find a way out to use it maybe as a separate app?Google has already moved on to gesture based navbar. I still believe smartbar is the best navbar for we can set upto 21 actions without leaving the active app.
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Some way to install smart on any rom would be great.
I wont use a rom without it... it is what Android should ship with.
Anyone who used smartbar probably loves it.
Why billion $ companies wont do this... ? Are they evul jerks?
The alternatives, don't keep their own space, they popup-over the bottom edge.
A proper navigation bar keeps it's own area without covering other apps.
Clues said:
Some way to install smart on any rom would be great.
I wont use a rom without it... it is what Android should ship with.
Anyone who used smartbar probably loves it.
Why billion $ companies wont do this... ? Are they evul jerks?
The alternatives, don't keep their own space, they popup-over the bottom edge.
A proper navigation bar keeps it's own area without covering other apps.
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To be honest, if stock had this I would probably not even look at custom roms at this point...
CyberpodS2 said:
To be honest, if stock had this I would probably not even look at custom roms at this point...
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I was looking at this but .... every pic they have shows simple custom buttons.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/app-custom-navigation-bar-customize-t3590967
If it does allow SmartBar level customization, well, I wouldn't know by looking there.
And it probably uses overlay mode.
This is the one https://www.xda-developers.com/dui-oreo-roms/
https://suitsandtech.co/2016/03/07/dirty-unicorns-releases-source-code-fling-pulse-smartbar/
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This. https://youtu.be/LufjYa_z6Mk?t=25s
Clues said:
Some way to install smart on any rom would be great.
I wont use a rom without it... it is what Android should ship with.
Anyone who used smartbar probably loves it.
Why billion $ companies wont do this... ? Are they evul jerks?
The alternatives, don't keep their own space, they popup-over the bottom edge.
A proper navigation bar keeps it's own area without covering other apps.
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"A proper navigation bar keeps it's own area without covering other apps"
Exactly my point. As per my screenshot, i have 4 apps that i need to toggle everytime without leaving the 1st. If only Google thot about it
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You can hardly find any reference to someone using smartbar on Google. Hardly 1 video on youtube. I was wondering did you find a way out to use it maybe as a separate app?Google has already moved on to gesture based navbar. I still believe smartbar is the best navbar for we can set upto 21 actions without leaving the active app.
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How do you make a navbar like this? Ask for the application link or custom rom name. Thanks
elramuza said:
How do you make a navbar like this? Ask for the application link or custom rom name. Thanks
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O this? This is called smartbar. It is part of many custom roms (i believe upto oreo only). Like havoc os, Resurrection remix, etc. Extremely disappointed that no one brought it as a separate app. Arc lighting
Navigationbar is the closest it can get. Unfortunately development is extremely slow and developer does not seem to be interested in implementing smartbar features into it.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.symetium.arclightingnavigationbar
I searched the same issue but couldn't find a solution. Smartbar is great...I am using android 9 for smartbar only
I trieyof Miui Roms
Is there Any Custom Rom With Full-Screen Gestures
Because I Loved Them Most..
I want to know too.
Hey there, I'm using Edge Gestures . It's definately worth it [1,59€] I'm on RR and really missed Xiaomis FS Gestures. So I found this app. It's not exactly the same experience, but 90% reliable. I think, since it's not ported from MIUI, edge gestures is fine enough. I've set up pretty the same functionality but its coming without that UI that you know from MIUI ("drops from the sides" or that "pushing actual screen into the middel" to get recent menu). I'm satisfied with that.
There are nevertheless some few bugs. F.ex. in youtube or netflix i cannot use sometimes the gestures, so i have to minimize it with the inside app actions.
Edge gestures is present in LOS extended and RR(I haven't tested all roms so I'm not sure if other roms support it too
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Edge gestures is present in LOS extended and RR(I haven't tested all roms so I'm not sure if other roms support it too
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yeah, but you cant customize it. With the official app you can set up things like exact position, like thickness, offset, seperate hold timeout, swipe treshold, other swipe actions... and the implemented one in RR seems to be a little bit buggy (for me)
AEX has full screen gestures too, and they work really well
I boot Android P semiGsi (PR1) in my Whyred Global 4/64, mostly for try the new Gestures, so i have some thoughts.
First, the objetive for introduce Gestures in UX is enjoy all screen interface, so, I think that the "common" of the people think that the nav bar it has to gone.
Second, the transition/animation for each gestures has to be in context of the finger movement, for reach a efficient interaction,
I notice that the animations from recent apps it change, and now the apps are into "cards" structure, but, the way it how the pill interact with the cards its interesant, in vertical way.
Now, for now, who want to use gestures in Aosp base roms (stock, no heavy pers), has to use apps that imitate the butons from nav bar, but if in Android P can imitate the interaction between the pill and the cards for recent apps gestures, i think it gonna work.
bro, my advice is to use a problem english. I do not understand you. most of them if not all...
screenshoot please
and whats the issue again ? and what is actually proposed ?
i kinda lost reading it.
Where can I activate the gestures ? Didnt find it in the newest rom ....