Database Develop

[REQ] Android Navigation Buttons - Tweaked and Customized

Hello!
I know there are some Threads about it already.
I've been searching the web (and xda) about hiding those Nexus navigation buttons in apps but with no success of what I want.
I have already posted this in Q&A but with no success.
REQUEST:
I want my navigation buttons to be ACTIVE on some apps, while I want those button to hide on the other apps with !!POSSIBILITY!! to activate them (indefinite, not only for some seconds) and deactivate when needed.
I don't want them to appear "above" everything like some apps and ways to do this offer. I want it stock, the way android 4.4 does this (eg. http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/1...go-truly-full-screen-hide-the-navigation-bar/)
With the latter I meant when on Home Screen - there should be transparent Button Bar (like stock 4.4) Not like apps that only offer full black ​
Do you think it is possible? Or maybe modified ROM could offer tweaked and improved android 4.4 "Full-screen Immersive mode" HERE.

miHah said:
Hello!
I know there are some Threads about it already.
I've been searching the web (and xda) about hiding those Nexus navigation buttons in apps but with no success of what I want.
I have already posted this in Q&A but with no success.
REQUEST:
I want my navigation buttons to be ACTIVE on some apps, while I want those button to hide on the other apps with !!POSSIBILITY!! to activate them (indefinite, not only for some seconds) and deactivate when needed.
I don't want them to appear "above" everything like some apps and ways to do this offer. I want it stock, the way android 4.4 does this (eg. http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/1...go-truly-full-screen-hide-the-navigation-bar/)
With the latter I meant when on Home Screen - there should be transparent Button Bar (like stock 4.4) Not like apps that only offer full black ​
Do you think it is possible? Or maybe modified ROM could offer tweaked and improved android 4.4 "Full-screen Immersive mode" HERE.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Well considering the rom scene has yet to start up for cm or any other rom for that matter, I wouldn't hold your breath. I am sure it is possible, but I don't know if someone will make it, seeing as there isn't a huge demand for this. Roms like AOKP have features like autohide nav bar and swipe up to reveal but nobody has what you want (that I know of) and I don't think it will happen.

aeppacher said:
Well considering the rom scene has yet to start up for cm or any other rom for that matter, I wouldn't hold your breath. I am sure it is possible, but I don't know if someone will make it, seeing as there isn't a huge demand for this. Roms like AOKP have features like autohide nav bar and swipe up to reveal but nobody has what you want (that I know of) and I don't think it will happen.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Maybe you are right, but still I hope for a solution that would extend that Immersive mode to all apps.
I already found a similar solution app called Full!Screen. It does almost what I want with one exception - I want it to activate with a Gesture - Like swipe down with 2 fingers? and deactivate with swipe up from the bottom
I don't like any notification bar toggles
Maybe I can get it to work

[Q] Xposed modules

Is there a way to increase the grid on the home screen? In other words I would like to increase the number of Icons and/or widgets in my home screen.
Is there a module that can do this?
My device is a Samsung S4 Mini.
Thx
R

U can try apex launcher or nova launcher. I dunno about xposed modules. I'm using Nova now.

Thank you Eduardomb...
I am trying to stay with the installed launcher: hence the request for an Xposed module.

Take a look at this if you are running stock launcher:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.theknut.xposedgelsettings&hl=en

GEL does not work but....
I have a Samsung phone, so the GEL Xposed add-on will not work in my device. But it shows that the ability to increase the grid is there.
Does anyone know where the home screen grid specifications are contained? Since the GEL add-on can change them, then I presume its a value stored on an XML file somewhere.
Anyone?
Thx

yes!
vmuserfl said:
Is there a way to increase the grid on the home screen? In other words I would like to increase the number of Icons and/or widgets in my home screen.
Is there a module that can do this?
My device is a Samsung S4 Mini.
Thx
R
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Gravity box will allow you to go up to 7 x 6! http://forum.xda-developers.com/xposed/modules/app-gravitybox-v3-1-5-tweak-box-android-t2554049
I love this seting, one of the many that supporting gravity box will help you enjoy your device more! Be sure to support the dev!
Enjoy

Gravity Box
I do not see where Gravity Box allows me to increase the grid size. Can someone tell me how to do this like a step by step thing

Re: controls
vmuserfl said:
I do not see where Gravity Box allows me to increase the grid size. Can someone tell me how to do this like a step by step thing
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Under launcher - Number of rows / Number of columns
Click Thanks
Enjoy :good:

My gravity Box choices
Hey Rox.....
Thank you for the input! My choices under Gravity Box are:
Lockscreen tweaks
StatusBar tweaks
Navigation bar tweaks
Pie Controls
Power tweaks
Display tweaks
Phone tweaks
Media tweaks
Navigation keys actions
Application launcher
Screen recording
Miscellaneous tweaks
Ultimate notification control
About
I am running GravityBox[KK] v3.5.3r1
Is there something that I am missing?
Thank you
R

This option is visible only in case you have google launcher installed.

C3C076 said:
This option is visible only in case you have google launcher installed.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
This is why you need to support the developers! The author of gravity box replies to your question personally! and nicely explains what the problem is.
More of them need to take notes from rovo89 and C3C076! Hats off to these fine people!
Thank you over and over for the fine products and joy that you've brought myself and many many others! :good::highfive:

Developers
Rox:
I regularly pay for apps or "donate" to developers, but so far I have not found a module that helps me.
I dont understand your point of view; Are you suggesting to support the developer and request a module? I have not found a module to do what I want.
Thx
RM

Reasons to use Xposed
vmuserfl said:
Rox:
I regularly pay for apps or "donate" to developers, but so far I have not found a module that helps me.
I dont understand your point of view; Are you suggesting to support the developer and request a module? I have not found a module to do what I want.
Thx
RM
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I dont think you or I would have enough money to pay for and request a dev to make a module. They do this for fun and maybe make some money on the side, and if what they do is stellar like Xposed or Gravity box then by all means they need to be paid.
Well let's see,
I use gravity box to :
Give me more icons on every screen stock=4x5 GB=7x6 Reason #1
GB allows to resize any icon Reason #2
GB adds a custom reboot menu Reason #3
GB Centers the clock,adds internet speed #'s, Custom Battery Icon With % left Reasons #4 #5 #6
I use Eggster to:
Show off how cool my rooted android device is Reason #7
I use Amplify to:
Stop the out of control wake locks and battery draining crap the google apps do! Reason #8
Plus many many other things that allows me to customize the Nexus 5 to my likeings.
If you cant see or figure out why to use Xposed, maybe you can borrow an iphone for an hour or less and see why!
I'm not stuck with how it came out of the box, and the ability to tweak it to just how I like it is the #1 reason.
Enjoy!
:highfive::good::laugh:

My thoughts exactly but....
Rox your very eloquent post portrays my feelings, but as of right now I have not found a way to address my want/need so I dont know which developer's work to support.
Also....you probably answered another of my questions with the "out-of-control' wakelocks :good:
Thank you

[Wrong Section] Disable Lollipop Heads Up notifications?

Now that we're seeing the first release of Xposed for Lollipop, one of the first mods I'd like to see is disabling Heads Up notifications and going back to putting them all in the tray. Anyone know if any modules will be implementing this functionality soon? It's one of the strongest reasons my N5 is still on Kitkat.

I hate it too. Stays on screen way too long and no way to dismiss it without dismissing the notification. I've read that the module "notification ticker on lollipop" disables heads up but its done nothing for me on my OnePlus running cm12.
goo.gl/JnTJaZ
Hoping to see a module specifically for this soon.

You shouldn't expect mods written for stock to have a predictable effect on CM12. That's ultimately a functionality that CM12 needs to implement for themselves.

Me too. I really hate it when whatsapp notifications appear while I'm watching my videos or playing my games.

the "notification ticker on lollipop" module doesn't work well from what I've experienced.. works partially
EDIT: it does work
the thing is the module inside the xposed framework is 1.0 which is not good
but here is the 1.1 version which works good but from some reason is not shown in the xposed framework itself.. so youl have to download it and install it manually by yourself

I hate it too, but it looks very nice.. and after few weeks with Lollipop I feel that heads up notifications will be the worst when it shows on a full screen app ( MX Player, YouTube, Game ) and blocks 1/4 to even 3/4 the screen !!
So I would rather have an options to
1- set auto hide time for the notification.
2- option to hide the notification all times or only in full screen apps, or hide for/in specific list of apps
But I guess this will be too much for a mod. to do.

I would like to see a mod where you can slide *up* the notification and it disappears into the tray without being dismissed.

The Xposed General is not the correct section for module related questions/requests. Please read the guidelines of this section, as well as the forum rules. You're looking for this thread for module requests.

[Q] Smart pull down notification xposed

Hi guys!
I'm on stock 5.1 and I miss only on feature from cm based rom: smart pull down notification (if there aren't any notification, pulling down is opening the toggles ; if there are notifications, pulling down is opening the notifications).
This option used to be available on gravity box for kitkat, but not in lollipop.. Is there a way or an additional module to obtain this feature?
Thanks a lot!!

Check out the app LMT PIE. Amongst many other very useful things, it has what the dev calls "invisible swipe areas." I use one in the center to to fully open the notification drawer. You can set one on the top right to open the quick controls. It's not exactly what you describe, but you can always get the view you want just by pulling down from the preselected area.

There is an option under QuickSettings management in GravityBox to pull down the toggles using the right or left edge of the notification bar. It doesn't work exactly like smart pulldown but it's a decent work-around.

thanks guys
but i really like to have smart pull down.. i think i'll have to try back cm12.1!

[SOLVED] How to get pre-Lollipop features back

And get rid of a few annoyances in the mean time?
EDIT: SOLUTION it cost me half a sunday if not more.
I have a stock Moto X 2013, Europe version. I was very happy with it, apart from a few minor annoyances. Untill I received the Lollipop update months ago.
Missing features or new annoyances since Lollipop:
Wake display by waiving your hand. This was in my opinion a killer feature.
SOLUTION: This website which presents a solution using TASKER. Untested
Shutdown menu - extremely annoying if you just want to reboot
Enable flight mode via Shutdown menu, since the menu is gone, you miss this option as well
Mute phone with 1 button, the volume down button. The alternative, selecting MUTE also disables screen or glow notifications. There is NO way to only mute sound/vibration a Moto X 2013 with Lollipop. You have a SMARTphone that cannot be muted like any other phone!
Bluetooth and mobile data toggles have been removed. OMG even Windows Phone 8 has it.
Lockscreen: swipe to right for camera. Gone.
White popup (general Lollipop annoyance): if you swipe it away, the notification is gone from the bar, you cannot read it/respond from the notification bar after swiping it away.
Minor but not dealbreaker features I would like to have: hide NFC and Bluetooth icon in the notification bar, be able to hide app icons and/or rearrange them in the app drawer.
What do I need to do to get all these features back? I want to stick to the stock experience as much as possible. Custom ROMs with tons of customisation features is not what I am waiting for. A custom ROM with near-stock experience and fixes for the issues mentioned above would be welcome.
But if it is possible to solve all of them with XPosed and/or Tasker, that would be fine. Unfortunately I searched these forums for 3 days now and I cannot find a dedicated Xposed topic with this info (there is 1 but it has little useful info). I hope others have a similar experience and found a solution!

zilexa said:
And get rid of a few annoyances in the mean time?
I have a stock Moto X 2013, Europe version. I was very happy with it, apart from a few minor annoyances. Untill I received the Lollipop update months ago.
Missing features or new annoyances since Lollipop:
Wake display by waiving your hand. This was in my opinion a killer feature.
SOLUTION: This website which presents a solution using TASKER. Untested
Shutdown menu - extremely annoying if you just want to reboot
Enable flight mode via Shutdown menu, since the menu is gone, you miss this option as well
Mute phone with 1 button, the volume down button. The alternative, selecting MUTE also disables screen or glow notifications. There is NO way to only mute sound/vibration a Moto X 2013 with Lollipop. You have a SMARTphone that cannot be muted like any other phone!
Bluetooth and mobile data toggles have been removed. OMG even Windows Phone 8 has it.
Lockscreen: swipe to right for camera. Gone.
White popup (general Lollipop annoyance): if you swipe it away, the notification is gone from the bar, you cannot read it/respond from the notification bar after swiping it away.
Minor but not dealbreaker features I would like to have: hide NFC and Bluetooth icon in the notification bar, be able to hide app icons and/or rearrange them in the app drawer.
What do I need to do to get all these features back? I want to stick to the stock experience as much as possible. Custom ROMs with tons of customisation features is not what I am waiting for. A custom ROM with near-stock experience and fixes for the issues mentioned above would be welcome.
But if it is possible to solve all of them with XPosed and/or Tasker, that would be fine. Unfortunately I searched these forums for 3 days now and I cannot find a dedicated Xposed topic with this info (there is 1 but it has little useful info). I hope others have a similar experience and found a solution!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
This is a question, shouldn't it be in the Q&A?
1) This can be restored by flashing the 4.4.4 firmware
2) Xposed -> GravityBox (Power)
3) Xposed -> GravityBox (Power)
4) Tasker?
5) Xposed -> GravityBox (QuickSettings), or if you mess with the settings for either of those they may pop up in the quick toggles after some time
6) Xposed -> GravityBox (QuickSettings)
7) Xposed -> GravityBox (Notification Ticker)
Status bar icons can be hidden in GravityBox (Statusbar)
The drawer changing can be done with XGELs (Google Experience Launcher)
If this information helped you get it working, be sure to pay it forward by donating if you can

I am definitely going to unlock bootloader, root and install Xposed, see if I can get all of this back. Saves me the risk of potentially unstable ROMs and saving a lot of time testing different ROMs. Thanks a lot!
And yes, I believe projects like Xposed absolutely deserve a donation. I just finished flashing my own HTC One M7, it will also have Xposed (first time going to use it). The Motorola is owned by the lady. I will definitely donate if it works for me.

Wave-to-wake is present in some roms, for example the modded stock rom
There is also the lockscreen with the swipe for the camera.
In order to modify the power menu, you can use APM+.
For the toggles use Gravity Box.

aledex said:
Wave-to-wake is present in some roms, for example the modded stock rom
There is also the lockscreen with the swipe for the camera.
In order to modify the power menu, you can use APM+.
For the toggles use Gravity Box.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Good to know, but why would I go to all the trouble to install that ROM (which would include wiping my phone) if I can reach all those goals with XPosed/GravityBox

I have stock Lollipop 5.1 European version about:
5 - bluetooth toggle exists, IIRC it only appears if you use it; mobile data toggle also exists, just need two clicks - one on mobile data tile and one on toggle
6 - don't know about secure screen options but if you don't use password/pin/other you can swipe left for camera and right for dialer
7 - you can swipe that popup up to just hide it and without dismissing or use one of this app to remove/modify them "Heads-up Notifications" "HeadsOff - TickerOn" even without root

I believe that the Nexus Experience rom (NX ROM) offers most, if not all of the features that you're looking for, and it offers a very stock experience. The only reason that I don't run it is because I've grown accustom to tapping gently on my phones shoulder when it's sitting on my desk to activate the Active Display to see what time it is or what notifications I've been ignoring. With NX ROM, Active Display works great, but it's not as sensitive. So I have to tip my phone up, or sideways, to about 15 degrees before Active Display activates with. A very minor issue, but I'm very picky.
As far as I remember, it has the hand wave feature, power off/reboot/airplane mode menu, all kinds of toggles, and I believe volume down to mute as well. It doesn't do swipe right for camera, but you can swipe from bottom right corner, or from bottom left (customizable) to activate the camera. Not sure about the white popup thing because I didn't use it that long.

Thanks for all the suggestions.
I am extremely annoyed by Google removing useful functionality, harming productivity and introducing new design which is clearly not meant for OLED screens (all white). But with all these suggestions I can hopefully stick with the Moto X for a long time, since no brand but Sony will bring us high end <5" phones.
Bomberlt said:
I have stock Lollipop 5.1 European version about:
5 - bluetooth toggle exists, IIRC it only appears if you use it; mobile data toggle also exists, just need two clicks - one on mobile data tile and one on toggle
6 - don't know about secure screen options but if you don't use password/pin/other you can swipe left for camera and right for dialer
7 - you can swipe that popup up to just hide it and without dismissing or use one of this app to remove/modify them "Heads-up Notifications" "HeadsOff - TickerOn" even without root
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Also have the European version, but I have a completely different experience. Swiping heads up notification always removes the notification from the statusbar (on all Lollipop phones, not just Motorola). On my HTC One M7 with GPE+ ROM I could lower the popup to 1sec allowing me to access the notification in the statusbar when needed. Works fine.
Another Lollipop bug (not even fixed in Android 6.0.1) is that the dialer shows ALL contacts of ALL your accounts (Google, Exchange, Outlook, Facebook, Skype etc) regardless if they have a phone number or not. The Contacts app does allow you to select specifically which contacts to show per group per account. In 4.4.4 this also applied to the dialer, since 5.0 it does not anymore. Google it and you will see people going nuts about this. A Google employee replying it will be "fixed" in M.. which is nuts since most phones with this issue will never receive an M upgrade.. also, now that M is available for Nexus, it's not fixed. The only solution: find a better dialer in Play Store.. this nums me completely... a phone OS should have at least a good dialer.. and apart from this issue the dialer works fine.

SOLVED
SOLVED:
Documentation + all links below in case anyone or myself ever need to do this again.
The most important part explained in detail:
- uninstall any phone drivers from other phones, uninstall Android SDK etc
- install Motorola USB drivers (Motorola Manager)
- install Minimal ADB & Fastboot in C:\adbfb and install mfastboot in that same folder, use mfastboot instead of fastboot. Scroll down in the Minimal topic to find the link to the Fastboot guide. It lists the command to flash recovery (TWRP): NOTE !!! unplug the phone from the PC right after flashing recovery and use the volume down button to scroll to Recovery in Bootloader, use VOLUME UP to select recovery after uplugging, not the shutdown button and do not reboot first (I used shutdown button and rebooted and spend 2 hours figuring this out)!
- copy all required files (the ROM plus its addons) to c:\adbfb.
- Flash using TWRP, first the ROM, then the addons, then factory reset via TWRP.
Short overall steps:
1. bootloader unlocked via the Motorola site (official method)
2. installed TWRP 2.8.6.0 (the newer one has an issue)
3. installed the modded/debloated stock ROM
4. also installed all the addons for that ROM, listed in that same first post.
5. After first boot and initial setup, Copied Xposed Installer, AdAway and installed them via Amaze File Manager (Play Store).
6. Installed the Xposed modules: GravityBox, Moto Checkbox, Sensify, BTAudio. Used GravityBox and Moto CheckBox to get most features back and personalise Quicksettings and some other great tweaks.
7. Used Sensify to install the HTC Sense Launcher (read the first post to install the correct version!!) which is basically stock launcher WITHOUT persistant Google Search Bar WITH ability to rearrange/group/hide apps in the app drawer and with black background, good for our OLED screen. No free launcher in the Play Store is as simple and plain as this one with these features (Nova Prime can do it but it costs €5 and adds a huge load of features I never need).
8. Wave-to-Wake is still not present in the debloated ROM but I will use the Tasker workaround. Haven't tested this yet.
9. To get the maximum out of your battery and have apps that are easier on the eyes, create a backup using TWRP and carefully follow the instructions of Team Blackout (Black Chrome, Black Calendar, Black Hangouts, Black Keep, Black Whatsapp etc). Haven't tested this yet.
10. Play Store > Settings: disable auto-update in Play Store, also disable the notification of updates.