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Multitask App?

I'm not sure if this has been asked before, and if it has please forgive me, but are there any apps that can replicate, or resemble Palm Pres Card style multitasking? Is there a limitation with the Android Platform that means it couldnt work? Jailbroken iphones have this functionality too, and it seems like with the open nature of the Android Platform we should be able to have.

that would need an app that runs other apps "windowed"... i don't think that is gonna happen. opposing the iphone android already has true multitasking out of the box, just get a task manager if you need one.

kendong2 said:
that would need an app that runs other apps "windowed"... i don't think that is gonna happen. opposing the iphone android already has true multitasking out of the box, just get a task manager if you need one.
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please explain how this multitasking on the hero works as when i am one app it has to be closed before i can open another app
mifran

mifran said:
please explain how this multitasking on the hero works as when i am one app it has to be closed before i can open another app
mifran
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If programmed to do so the app you close will remain open and working in the background. Then you can re open it and you will be where you were when you closed it.

mifran said:
please explain how this multitasking on the hero works as when i am one app it has to be closed before i can open another app
mifran
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You could just use the built in multitasking. Hold Down The home button until the little window pops up.

Podgym said:
I'm not sure if this has been asked before, and if it has please forgive me, but are there any apps that can replicate, or resemble Palm Pres Card style multitasking? Is there a limitation with the Android Platform that means it couldnt work? Jailbroken iphones have this functionality too, and it seems like with the open nature of the Android Platform we should be able to have.
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Have you ever tried TaskOS? It just do what you want
I'll post recent screenshots but at the beginning, the app was like that:
Now it has a lot of customization features.
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I am not able to develop the screenshot now, it show only the icon. I strongly believe that i wiill be able to implement the screen capture feature soon...!
Report me any bug/suggestion/remark.
Features:
Launch it with a long press on search button ( camera button will come for devices without search button)
1) See all running app in an endless horizontal scroll
2) icons ( not screenshots) are displayed like palm pre
3) kill an app by dragging it to the top of the screen
4) Drag down an app to ignore it
5) icons ( not screenshots) are displayed like palm pre
6) icon size / space beetween icon fully customizable
7) Graphic png fully customizable
look in the preferences for all features

Thanks for that App, I like it alot. One minor aesthetic thing I wouldn't mind seeing in future versions is kinetic scrolling, although that's really not important. Good luck implementing screenshots, too!

booon said:
You could just use the built in multitasking. Hold Down The home button until the little window pops up.
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That list just shows the last 6 programmes you have used so you can shortcut to them. It does not necessarily mean they will be running in the background.

Multitasking on the Pre is the best multitasking there is. Hands down. If someone made a "cards" application for android it would sell a ton...

[APP] Speed Searcher -[R]- 19/06/10 -[V]- v1.0

Name: Speed Searcher
DESCRIPTION:
Speed Searcher significantly cuts down the time it takes to search the web. With an efficient shortcut method, you can be searching Google, YouTube, Wikipedia (and others) in just a few taps.
Want to search Wikipedia quickly? Instead of opening up Internet Explorer, typing www.wikipedia.org, waiting for the page to load and then searching, simply fire up Speed Searcher and type ‘w’ followed by your query. Easy – and fast!
Speed Searcher also does more. The ‘Quick Query’ section allows you to increase your productivity by retrieving information in just a few short taps. For example, want to know the time anywhere in the world? Simply enter the name of a place and Speed Searcher will show you the time. Other ‘Quick Queries’ include the ability to convert from one unit to another, a dictionary and the current weather anywhere in the world.
Speed Searcher is a great time saving app.By downloading now, you can get involved and suggest features you’d like to see in future versions.
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SOURCE: http://phone7.wordpress.com/2011/06/26/free-speed-searcher-app-now-available/
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Like the app I prefer typing the search term and tapping the search engine. This seems more intuitive than typing a "g" or "yt" before the search term. With that in mind, it might be more attractive to have icons for the various search engines, rather than the plain text. Is it possible to return the results within the app, rather than open an external webpage?
It might be more convenient to have the quick search available as a flick to the side.
I'm not loving the icon. Seems a little 90's-ish, not very metro.
Nice app though. I pinned it. Thanks for posting here in xda. Looking forward to any improvements or updates.
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Thanks a lot for the feedback, glad you like it
I like the icons idea and will consider putting in an update. Returning results within the app would be a bit tricky because of the API limits some sites have. However, if you mean getting the results in an embedded browser like that in the 'Quick Query' section, then that's possible. I'm thinking of implementing that in the 'pro' version as an option.
I'll look into having the 'quick query' section being reached via a flick instead of the button. I wasn't sure if people would want a 'pivot' like aspect (since the 'quick query' itself slides to a different pivot page with the answer), but I'm up for toying around with the idea.
The icon was a bit of a last minute thing
Thanks again, this is awesome feedback. The pro version is still in early dev, so I'm taking all of this into account.

Yeah, embedded browser for the results, maybe with an option to open externally. Maybe three pivots, the engine search page, your quick query page, and the results page?
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The reason I would prefer the embedded browser is then I can quickly look at what google brings back, pivot over and click Bing and see what it gives me
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That makes sense (and is certainly possible). Great idea

BIG Launcher

Been playing around with the free version of Big Launcher a bit before I decide if it s worth making the $5 plunge for the Full Version,.. It just might have some potential on the Rooted Nook..
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...ua3VuZXMuYW5kcm9pZC5sYXVuY2hlci5hY3Rpdml0eSJd
Thoughts?

Looks nice and clean enough for the home screen. However the added functionalities (phone, contacts, sms) might make it a bit too bloated. At the moment I'm quite happy with launcher7 with minimalistic icons and visual effects stripped off.

Can you please post some screenshots or photographs on how it looks on the nook screen?

I just started playing around with the free version, so havent done much, but I think zecoj may be right. It looks good, but seems a little bloated..
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zecoj said:
Looks nice and clean enough for the home screen. However the added functionalities (phone, contacts, sms) might make it a bit too bloated. At the moment I'm quite happy with launcher7 with minimalistic icons and visual effects stripped off.
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Yeah, I like the way l7 looks, but have been too lazy to mess with getting it set up, lol

IndyRoadie said:
...have been too lazy to mess with getting it set up, lol
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Agree, its configuration interface is quite unintuitive to work with but once it's set up and backed up in TB, all is well.

Hum... Doesen't suit's me.
Wastes too much screen area.
Thanks for the screenshots, anyway!

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I'm trying to minimize memory footprint and keep things simple on my NST. I've gone for a "Launcherless" approach, trying to avoid ever seeing the Launcher as much as possible. I don't like to spend a lot of time playing with the device. I try to focus on USING it for reading and productive things. The last thing I want to do is make my nice little Android device look like a poor wannabe imitation of a Microsoft product!
1. Most of the time, I use my reader for ... reading. I use the Mantano Reader to completely replace the B&N Home, Library and Reader apps:
2. When I'm doing something else, I usually only use a handful of apps (4) bound to the B&N QuickMenu using Nook Touch Tools:
3. If I need any other apps, I go to my ADW Launcher EX home screen. Very rarely do I get this far, and anything else is in the app drawer:
I could use ADW Launcher to save a bit more memory, but ADW EX lets me get those big icons. It's a pain to configure since some of the menus don't show (white text on white background), but I've figured it out with a bit of poking around. Once I've done the basic setup, changing things around is simple and quick.
I've previously used FolderOrganizer to get quick menus on the Notification screen, but I didn't like having yet-another launcher running in the background.

bobstro said:
I'm trying to minimize memory footprint and keep things simple on my NST. I've gone for a "Launcherless" approach, trying to avoid ever seeing the Launcher as much as possible. I don't like to spend a lot of time playing with the device. I try to focus on USING it for reading and productive things. The last thing I want to do is make my nice little Android device look like a poor wannabe imitation of a Microsoft product!
1. Most of the time, I use my reader for ... reading. I use the Mantano Reader to completely replace the B&N Home, Library and Reader apps:
2. When I'm doing something else, I usually only use a handful of apps (4) bound to the B&N QuickMenu using Nook Touch Tools:
3. If I need any other apps, I go to my ADW Launcher EX home screen. Very rarely do I get this far, and anything else is in the app drawer:
I could use ADW Launcher to save a bit more memory, but ADW EX lets me get those big icons. It's a pain to configure since some of the menus don't show (white text on white background), but I've figured it out with a bit of poking around. Once I've done the basic setup, changing things around is simple and quick.
I've previously used FolderOrganizer to get quick menus on the Notification screen, but I didn't like having yet-another launcher running in the background.
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Definitely plan on trying out Mantano..
As for Launchers, I go back and for between ebooklauncher, and ReLaunch. There are features of both I really like, just wish I was experienced enough to try and combine them, lol

Mantano
Yes, you should definitely try Mantano - best pdf handling i found so far.
Ah, thanx for the launchet - it looks nice and tidy!

[Q] What is the best browser for Moto X?

ps. I searched in forum and google before this and it didn't help either.
As in speed wise? I tested it all and I wanted to know peoples opinion. I have adaway and don't need no adblocker extension for browser. I tried doing the tests for each browser but it didn't actually help. And this is in speed and without lag. I noticed ever since I switched to Android I sense browser lag on sites like yahoo gizmodo engadget (loading comments) etc etc. Opinions?

Well my browser is ; Cm brower and i love it! Really fast and can custamiz a lot! Give it a try
Envoyé de mon Moto X en utilisant Tapatalk

Dolphin Browser for me.
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Chrome seems perfect for me. Allows me to send pages to and from my Desktop PC and syncs my bookmarks.

Chrome is good, is there a way to use it in full screen mode?

Puffins

Chrome Beta

Dolphin. You can set a home page, flash video works, touching a link automatically opens it in a new tab, pinch/zoom reflows the text to fit the screen (no scrolling from side-to-side, but not active on all sites).

Opera browser is the best for me with UC browser being a close second.
I won't use a mobile browser without good text reflow.

I found Firefox to have the best fluidity with vertical scrolling.

I use Naked Browser Pro. It's fast, has great features, and no bloat.

Boat Browser HD. Great at padding out useless spaces in pages. Also allows full xda editing/uploading.
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+1 for Boat, free and simple good browser. id give dolphin a good rating if theyed stop changing where things are.. just to change... no need for that.. as bad as the gmail app.. some dipchit feels the need to change things just to change them... stupid.

scorpion667 said:
I found Firefox to have the best fluidity with vertical scrolling.
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i'm surprised people are using FF. the ONLY reason i installed FF was for Flash compatibility and even then it crashed more times than ran.
Chrome Beta for me. It's the closest to a desktop experience, plus the "tracking" between all of my devices is what's important to me. being able to pick up a site from a different device, open closed tabs from a different device, etc.

Maxthon HD is my favorite but on 444 it is too buggy. Boat HD comes closest.

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csos95 said:
I use Naked Browser Pro. It's fast, has great features, and no bloat.
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It has extensive but well designed gesture customizations -in the paid version only- that not even Dolphin has (NCI).

Is dolphin the only browser with flash working properly in KitKat still?

I was a Naked Pro user too, but now it does not support Flash any more So switched to Opera, it isn't bad.
But the scrolling performance of Firefox is unmatched, the only thing keeping me from using it is a weird problem actually, whenever I comment something on GSMArena blog page, when I hit enter on my Swype keyboard it doesn't add a line, but just keeps adding a space instead of adding a line! Weird! It could be the Swype keyboard rather than Firefox itself, still. Maybe other keyboards work fine, but there's no point in trying as I'll never use another keyboard other than Swype. Wish it worked, really like the browser.

[APP][NST/G] PerfectViewer 1.9.2.2MOD + PDF plugin

PerfectViewer is a reader application for image-based files such as CBR and CBZ and, with the proper plugin, PDF. It works well on the NSTG (best in low-memory mode) but is plagued by a lot of invisible text in the Preferences screens and many dialog boxes. Also, the PDF plugin that is supposed to work with the version that runs best on the device always crashes.
I recently came by a slew of CBZ files that I wanted to look over and decided to dust off this old app and then I remembered all of the above. I decided to try and fix some of the issues. Along the way I discovered a version of the PDF plugin that actually does work with the app, further extending its capabilities.
What I did
1. Essentially I forced all text to black. This solved a lot of problems in itself, with only a few layout files requiring minor edits. One unanticipated side-effect was to make the window title text also black (it was white on a grey background). But this is the only artifact of this kind and I feel it is a small price to pay. The text (which you probably never look at anyway) is still quite readable, although it would look better white. Couldn't fix it. There are issues with the framework-res.apk. To decompile and compile the app without errors requires a KitKat framework. Obviously there are going to be issues when that app runs on an Eclair device. So I did the best I could.
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2. Next I tried to change all the white text on black backgrounds to the opposite. I succeeded in all but one case where the ListView used was impervious to my persuasions, that is in the setup for the quick bar menu. I could see the two ListViews in one smali file and could also see where text might be set but could not figure out how to force the text color to black.
3. Speaking of the quick bar, while using the app I kept squinting at the icons there. It seemed to me the background color was too dark for many of the icon options. So I lightened that.
4. I resized the Quick Setup and Adjust Color windows so they display properly on the NSTG.
5. I increased the maximum zoom to 100%. I sometimes found myself tapping the screen multiple times with the maximum setting of 20%. You can still set it to 5% or 15% or whatever, but the slider is just a bit more touchy with the larger range.
6. I removed Shelf Style #5 (the ugliest of an unattractive set, IMO), and created a new solid color shelf (now #1) and renumbered the rest. (looks best with dark grey or black text and no text effect)
A PDF reader?
So, what's the PDF plugin like? Well, PerfectViewer is a page-centered reader. That does not change with the PDF plugin. There is no re-flow option. A regular book in PDF format is really only readable in landscape mode. Otherwise the font is too small and/or you are panning all over an enlarged page. The landscape option is actually pretty normal for reading PDF text on the NST (unless you have really good eyes). What PerfectViewer lacks is the ability to smoothly scroll across pages like, for example, EBookDroid. Instead you move in chunks of the page (adjustable). Also, NoRefresh has issues with PerfectViewer in landscape mode. Not sure why. One good thing is that you can adjust the text contrast (gamma, under AdjustColor) to achieve something like the great contrast found in the @nivieru version of EBookDroid. And while EBookDroid renders pages rather slowly so that you sometimes scroll to a blank page and then wait, PerfectViewer renders much faster. So there are trade-offs.
Installation
Unfortunately if you are currently using PerfectViewer you will have to uninstall it since the MOD has a different signature. You can save your Preferences (Preferences Management, then tap the bottom blank "button") since uninstalling PerfectViewer does not delete the folder on the sdcard. Then you can read those Preferences back in once the MOD is installed. I have to say that I was less than impressed with this. It seemed to ignore quite a few settings I had made, so I'm just warning you. At least you'll be able to see what you're doing! There's no interface for the PDF plugin. It just makes the app work with PDF files.
Downloads
PerfectViewer_1.9.2.2MOD
PDF Plugin 1.2