Hi, im not sure if there is any way to run aosp apps on our galaxy. Im looking for Calendar, phone, contacts and calculator. Thanks in advance.
Edit: think posted in wrong area, sorry. But any apps out there?
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I suspect this thread will be moved, but I can offer some advice.
I mined out the AOSP apps from this Vibrant AOSPish JK2 v1.1 ROM:
http:// forum.xda-developers.com/newreply.php?do=newreply&noquote=1&p=9416951
I farted around with a few of them, but in the end just kept the Calendar, and Car Home. Contacts didn't seem to work (had a blue screen and just behaved oddly), Calculator didn't offer much. I prefer the AOSP Music app, but the MusicMod app from the Market is an improved version.
When I get a chance I would like to fiddle with getting the live wallpapers installed as well. Then I will proceed to never use them and eventually uninstall...
Coming from my Nexus 6 (and Android Nougat), I can download apps to my Nexus 6 and:
1) Keep them in my apps icon / list
2) Keep them off of my Desktop, but still accessible on my phone through the app icon / list.
How do I do the same with the Xiaomi Mi Mix?
I am on the Chinese version of the September build, and to my surprise the Google Play Store was included in the build (I thought it was not incorporated in those builds).
After I installed by sim, and started by phone, I had forced all my google play store apps to transfer to my new Mi Mix. What I do not understand, is that all the app installed on the desktop (very cluttered).
Is there not a way to have them look and feel like all north american versions of the android smart phones ? ? ?
Where the apps download and install to the smart phone, but do not necessarily remain on the desktop home screens?
Cheers
LormaD said:
Coming from my Nexus 6 (and Android Nougat), I can download apps to my Nexus 6 and:
1) Keep them in my apps icon / list
2) Keep them off of my Desktop, but still accessible on my phone through the app icon / list.
How do I do the same with the Xiaomi Mi Mix?
I am on the Chinese version of the September build, and to my surprise the Google Play Store was included in the build (I thought it was not incorporated in those builds).
After I installed by sim, and started by phone, I had forced all my google play store apps to transfer to my new Mi Mix. What I do not understand, is that all the app installed on the desktop (very cluttered).
Is there not a way to have them look and feel like all north american versions of the android smart phones ? ? ?
Where the apps download and install to the smart phone, but do not necessarily remain on the desktop home screens?
Cheers
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MIUI is like iOS.
No app drawer and all installed apps on the screen. I have placed the MIUI apps I don't want into a folder and moved them onto a page I never access. You could also install Nova Launcher or something like it which lets you use a more conventional launcher.appearance.
Once rooted you can freeze apps or disable them.
Cheers
J
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thank you for the quick reply. . .
Aeskulapio said:
MIUI is like iOS.
No app drawer and all installed apps on the screen. I have placed the MIUI apps I don't want into a folder and moved them onto a page I never access. You could also install Nova Launcher or something like it which lets you use a more conventional launcher.appearance.
Once rooted you can freeze apps or disable them.
Cheers
J
Sent from my MIX using XDA Labs
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Amen to that brother, that was my original choice (to create a single folder and throw all the apps in there). Question, does it organize them for you in an alphabetical order?
I was afraid of that. I thought the method used by most of the Android like operating systems from the days of lollipop - - - nougat, did a bang on job of app organizing. My last iOS was the original iPhone 2g, and later the iPhone 4.
Personally, Xiaomi missed the boat with that (MIUI / iOS)
I'm trying to get GMail dark theme working on my rooted XZ1C. I'm currently on Android 8, but it sounds like official Google support for dark GMail is only for Android 10:
https://twitter.com/gmail/status/1181600018316320773
So I figure since I'm rooted, there must be a workaround. Well, there is, but it requires Xposed:
https://repo.xposed.info/module/com.alex193a.gmdtenabler
I do not currently have Xposed installed and I remember back when I was rooting (with J4nn's tools), there were issues with Xposed and this phone that resulted in bootloops. I didn't find anything that indicates this was ever resolved.
Anyone have any ideas on how to either get GMail dark theme or Xposed? Apparently, all that is required to force GMail into enabling the dark theme menu item is modifying an XML file FlagPrefs.xml (which I've already done) and tricking the OS to report API >= 29 (that's what the Xposed module does).
If you are rooted, then just use substratum theme engine. Personally I used swift dark. You can get swiftdark as a standalone app too.
Personally i did not enjoy having to update all the overlays for each update of an app, which is the case with custom overlays.. The Outlook app has dark theme, and supports Gmail, so I'm using this now.
@Dean F - Thanks for the reply. I've been avoiding substratum/swift because I read some people were unhappy with it's level of bugginess, but it may be my best option now that Google has decided to give everyone <10 the middle finger. Is there a quick tutorial somewhere that you recommend to get me going with that? Does Swift standalone app run standalone, or does it require the substratum framework?
I had previously tried Outlook as well, but their Wear OS integration is REALLY bad - they block standard Outlook notifications from going to the watch, and they force you to load a standalone Wear OS Outlook app that has weird, non-standard behavior that I really dislike. But maybe it's time for me to try that again as well.
I was just hoping to get Gmail working since it has a good email experience in my opinion and having a native dark theme is always preferable to me over a 3rd party implementation. I'm so close to getting it working, yet so far away. I was really hoping someone could come up with another way to do what that Xposed module does...
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@Dean F - Thanks for the reply. I've been avoiding substratum/swift because I read some people were unhappy with it's level of bugginess, but it may be my best option now that Google has decided to give everyone <10 the middle finger. Is there a quick tutorial somewhere that you recommend to get me going with that? Does Swift standalone app run standalone, or does it require the substratum framework?
I had previously tried Outlook as well, but their Wear OS integration is REALLY bad - they block standard Outlook notifications from going to the watch, and they force you to load a standalone Wear OS Outlook app that has weird, non-standard behavior that I really dislike. But maybe it's time for me to try that again as well.
I was just hoping to get Gmail working since it has a good email experience in my opinion and having a native dark theme is always preferable to me over a 3rd party implementation. I'm so close to getting it working, yet so far away. I was really hoping someone could come up with another way to do what that Xposed module does...
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swift dark works well standalone (no substratum needed) on stock roms. just download from the play store
i haven't had any issues with it so far, except that there can be a 1-2 day delay before the themes react to third party app updates, and that when updating roms, you may need to uninstall and reinstall the themes to get them working. very happy with the black themes on swift dark though. they're amoled black (unlike google's dark mode) and much more consistent between apps than google's own themes are
wyt18 said:
swift dark works well standalone (no substratum needed) on stock roms. just download from the play store
i haven't had any issues with it so far, except that there can be a 1-2 day delay before the themes react to third party app updates, and that when updating roms, you may need to uninstall and reinstall the themes to get them working. very happy with the black themes on swift dark though. they're amoled black (unlike google's dark mode) and much more consistent between apps than google's own themes are
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Is there anything else required to get Swift to work standalone? I purchased the Swift Black (not dark - does that matter?) and when I start up the app, it wants me to install substratum theme engine. So I installed that, but that app won't run - when I start it, it crashes and Android tells me "subtratum keeps stopping." Is there something I'm missing or doing incorrectly?
EDIT: well, maybe I bought the wrong app - I bought Swift Black Substratum theme. Maybe I need to instead buy Swift Installer?
camaro322hp said:
Is there anything else required to get Swift to work standalone? I purchased the Swift Black (not dark - does that matter?) and when I start up the app, it wants me to install substratum theme engine. So I installed that, but that app won't run - when I start it, it crashes and Android tells me "subtratum keeps stopping." Is there something I'm missing or doing incorrectly?
EDIT: well, maybe I bought the wrong app - I bought Swift Black Substratum theme. Maybe I need to instead buy Swift Installer?
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my bad, i actually bought swift installer and that worked perfectly w/o the substratum theme engine installed. didn't try the swift black or dark substratum themes
wyt18 said:
my bad, i actually bought swift installer and that worked perfectly w/o the substratum theme engine installed. didn't try the swift black or dark substratum themes
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No worries - I got a refund on the Swift Substratum theme, and I'll try the Swift Installer. Thanks.
Thanks @Dean F and @wyt18 - I've got the Swift Installer installed and set up. It looks promising. I don't auto update my apps and rarely update them anyway, so hopefully this will work out well for me.
Swift is pretty great - easy to use and seems to work well so far. Also gave me dark theme for pretty much all the apps I regularly use. The only thing missing, however, is changing the email body to be light text on a dark background - emails still show up with dark text on a white background. I'm assuming the only way to get that is via the official app dark theme, which I can't get. Is there any workaround for this?
EDIT: I'm giving Outlook another try. Aside from the weird WearOS notification issues, it seems to work OK. And it inverts the colors of the email body itself, making it light text on a dark background.
Well, my quest continues. Swift is cool, but it doesn't make the email message body dark, as the native GMail dark theme does, so it's not much use for GMail. I've used Outlook for a while, and it seems to be pretty solid for Outlook and Hotmail addresses. But the GMail implementation seems buggy - I completely stopped getting my GMail in Outlook yesterday, verified on 2 different phones. I haven't tried removing/re-adding the account in Outlook yet - but if that is a normal thing required to make it work, then it's not much use either. (EDIT: removed/added my GMail in Outlook, and still nothing, no GMails) (EDIT2: uninstalled Outlook from my phone, installed, added GMail account, and still no GMails - all my folders show up in the folder list, but it says my inbox is empty, which it is not. Not sure what is wrong or how this got screwed up. I don't see anything weird on my Google account security page)
So if anyone has any other suggestions, I'm all ears. I'd prefer to somehow force the GMail native dark theme, but I'm open to any other suggestions. I don't understand why Google limited this dark theme to 10 only. My solution today is using GMail via Chrome 78 which has a system wide flag to force all sites to dark. Not ideal, though.
I'm using package disabler pro to block updates and update notifications. But I forgot to block the other update thing there are 2 you need to block.so I'm stuck with this any way to remove this without factory reset?I did try going to apps /system apps then find both the software updates and clearing cash and data but its didnt remove this blue notification
Im on pie one ui 9 still and love it so I gave up and did a factory reset,and I wont update,
anyway there is a weird problem after I factory reset the phone as soon as your connect wifi and sign into the play store the phone downloads all the stock apps for pie like calendar, calculator Samsung browser etc but this time instead of the normal Samsung calculator v10 the green icon that comes pre installed with pie it
installed the really old calculator from oreo v6 blue icon ,so I'm on pie with the oreo calculator ,I factory reset again to see if the next time it will install the correct calculator from pie like it use to do,but again its installing the calculator from oreo.
is this some sort of bug with the Samsung servers?sure I can update the calculator in the Samsung store but it did seem odd that for some reason the sammy servers are bugging out and installing the calculator app from oreo.when it would always in the past install the correct pie calculator after a factory reset
Hello,
I have just unboxed my new Galaxy tab a8 and to my surprise there seems to be no themes support for this device!
Just to make this a bit clearer, the galaxy store app works as expected, I have logged into my account (of course) however when I go to the "my apps" section there are no themes available. On the contrary everything seems to be normal on my A52S phone so there's definitely nothing wrong with my account. Also when I browse the themes section only some fonts appear to be available.
Any thoughts?
Just bought this tab and noticed the same thing.
There is a system app 'Galaxy Themes Service' installed, which I haven't seen on my older Samsung devices.
Theme Park works, but #Hex does not
Anyone been able to get the Theme Store to work?
I was able to sideload Theme Park and use it to theme my A8 ! It didn't show up in Galaxy Store for me!