Other customization options include a built - in manager for themes, custom
app icon support, rearrangeable buttons, and different accents and colors for the settings menu and status bar.
Not exact matches
Multi-window for instance places a little
icon on each
app in the Overview screen for simple one - step multi-window
support, a massive step in the right direction that's been in practice for about a year now since the Note 4.
Interestingly, it looks like the
App Player may
support two forms of multitasking, both inside and out: Android programs appear in the PlayBook's multitasking menu, but also in a second pane of
icons in the
App Player window itself.
Android 7.1.1 update brings some new things like the following ones:
app shortcuts, circular
icons,
support for image keyboard, storage manager intent, improved live wallpaper metadata, and tons of other extra small tweaks.
The update should include all the standard KitKat features and improvements — faster / smoother performance, white status bar
icons, wireless printing
support, full - screen album art and a new camera shortcut on the lock screen, options to select the default home and SMS
apps, enhanced sound controls for specific Samsung
apps, and general stability improvements.
It is not clear what OnePlus means by the Hidden Space in the
app drawer, but it notes that the update also brings
support for editing dynamic
icons like the weather, clock and calendar.
To help that bitter pill go down, check out the screenshot after the break showing the
icon for the Android
App Player and what may be native BBM
support.
Fortunately, the pen can work just like your finger to tap the keyboard and
icons, so you can use it even on
apps that don't explicitly
support it.
We need some kind of indicator that an
icon /
app has 3D Touch menus or options enabled, or at the very least, an index in the Settings menu of installed
apps that have 3D touch
support.
The Nova's built - in
app has a fair amount of features and
supports EPUB and PDF formats (yes, sideloading too), but what I don't like is that it is slow to load and has a row of
icons arranged along the top of the screen at all times when reading.
- when the team learned that Switch would
support Unity, they began the process of bringing the game over - it was planned early on to get the game onto Switch within a month of it launching - by Fall 2016, Unity's optimization progressed, and error messages that previously appeared with I Am Setsuna stopped - by the end of fall last year, the team was finished with pre-submission to Nintendo - I Am Setuna was the first title to enter this process - a meeting with Unity was suddenly held, and it was decided that I Am Setsuna would end up becoming a launch title - Nintendo asked for the developers to finish the master version that year if possible - the team was able to port quickly due to Unity, as well as the lack of online / vs features & modest hardware requirements - having a good grasp on specs also made work come together quickly - setting various aspects such as the
app's
icon, languages, etc. was said to be very simple - there was also good compatibility for titles that have / planned to have multi-platform
support on home and portable consoles
While the round
icon shape is used by default, the Pixel Launcher also
supports several options for customizing the look of system
app icons on the Home and App Drawer screens, including «Squircle,» «Rounded corner rect,» «Square,» and «Cylinder.&raq
app icons on the Home and
App Drawer screens, including «Squircle,» «Rounded corner rect,» «Square,» and «Cylinder.&raq
App Drawer screens, including «Squircle,» «Rounded corner rect,» «Square,» and «Cylinder.»
As Google isn't expecting that all developers who ever released an Android
app that's still available for download will be able to update their software with
support for adaptive
icons for a number of reasons, the new feature won't break the
icons of incompatible
apps.
The default Pixel Launcher of Android O
supports five distinct shapes of
app icons, users running the latest developer preview of Google's upcoming operating system have uncovered.
Apple made the first step towards a wider adoption of 3D Touch by adding
support in its own
apps, so for example, when pressing the Mail
icon harder, you get options such as all inboxes, VIP, search, and message, while doing the same thing on the camera
icon lets you take a selfie, record video or slow - motion, or shoot a photo instantly.
- Phone tweaks: brought back National data roaming option - Ultimate notification control: — fixed improper lights and vibration handling during quiet hours affecting mainly ongoing notifications — improved detection of ongoing notifications belonging to foreground services — active Screen: added option for ignoring quiet hours (shows active screen during quiet hours)-- active screen: don't apply to ongoing foreground service notifications — active screen: use direct wake up call instead of full wake lock (should improve compatibility on some devices)-- active screen: improved check for proximity sensor state - Statusbar tweaks: added option for using Lollipop signal
icons (with full
support for MediaTek Gemini)- Quick settings Network mode tile: added option for specifying 2G +3 G mode: — allows to choose whether to use GSM / WCDMA Preferred or GSM / WCDMA Auto — tile
icon indicates which 2G +3 G mode is set (2G / 3G or 3G / 2G)- Quick settings QuickRecord tile: — added option for choosing audio quality — added option for choosing auto - stop recording delay - PowerMenu: added option for hiding expanded desktop toggle in power menu - Launcher tweaks: adjusted for compatibility with Google Search 4.0.26 (thanks to theknut)- GravityBox Actions: — added action for clearing all notifications — added action for toggling auto brightness - GB
App Picker: search field adjusted to allow inputting non-English characters (thanks to momomok)- Updated Polish translation (thanks to xtrem007)- Updated Portuguese (BR) translations (thanks to wyghor)- Updated Chinese (Simplified) translations (thanks to liveasx)- Updated Chinese (Traditional) translation (thanks to momomok)- Updated Hungarian translations (thanks to benjoe1)- Updated Italian translations (thanks to pesa1234)- Updated Russian translations (thanks to gaich)
- Improved
support for Motorola Moto G Dual SIM: — QS: adjusted network mode tile (allows changing SIM slot on long - press)-- QS: adjusted handling and reordering of cellular tiles — QS: proper adjustment of signal tile size for tiles per row option — Signal cluster adjustments, including
icon coloring (NOTE: cell signal doesn't
support data activity indicators)-- fixed Smart radio — all other misc Multi SIM related adjustments - Quick settings: — revived Ringer Mode Tile (silent == priority)(thanks to romracer)-- revived USB Tethering Tile — fixed other misc issues in tile management (thanks to romracer)- BatteryBar: improved behavior in lock screen status bar (now allows bottom position)- ProgressBar: improved behavior in lock screen status bar (now allows bottom position)- Phone: — added workaround for missed calls notification LED — added 5s ramp - up duration for ascending ringtone - Ultimate notification control: — fixed issues causing unexpected heads up and notification
icon «jumping» — show package names in
app descriptions for better identification of packages having the same
app name - Power: improved option for low battery warning policy - Navigation bar: improved handling of cursor control keys - Recents: added option for using alternate
icon for clear all button - Fixed unexpected disappearing of centered clock and centered traffic monitor - Other misc Motorola specific fixes (thanks to romracer)- Updated Japanese translations (thanks to WedyDQ10)- Updated French translations (thanks to ch - vox)- Updated Hungarian translations (thanks to benjoe1)- Updated Chinese (Simplified) translations (thanks to liveasx)- Updated Portuguese (BR) translations (thanks to wyghor, KingKaminari)- Updated Russian translations (thanks to gaich)- Updated Chinese (Traditional) translations (thanks to PeterDaveHello)- Updated Malay translations (thanks to zamzameir)
Adaptive
Icon support is now integrated into Quickedit, so you can customize the icon Adaptive Icon style on a per - app ba
Icon support is now integrated into Quickedit, so you can customize the
icon Adaptive Icon style on a per - app ba
icon Adaptive
Icon style on a per - app ba
Icon style on a per -
app basis.
Given the above, all signs very much point to Pixel Launcher soon
supporting an animated clock
icon for the Google Clock
app.
Action Launcher's companion
app, AdaptivePack has long been the best way to get the most out of adaptive
icons, both bringing full adaptive
icon support to devices not yet running Oreo and providing Oreo users stock themed adaptive
icons for
apps that don't currently offer them natively.
Did you know that all signs are when Android O ships, Pixel Launcher will
support an animating clock
icon for the Google Clock
app?
- General fixes and improvements: — QS: improved reliability of NFC tile and GravityBox NFC Actions — QS: reworked Protected mode of tiles — QS: fixed protected tiles showing wrong color after unlocking — QS: fixed some long - press actions still working on protected tiles while locked — QS: fixed press actions still working for header tiles while locked — QS: removed info
icon showing for protected tiles — Improved image choosing / cropping to eliminate direct file access causing problems on some systems — ProgressBar: fixed not showing for
apps targeting old versions of Android — GB Torch: fixed auto - off feature to use Alarm (does not require WakeLock permission anymore)-- Phone: adjusted for the latest version of Google Dialer - OxygenOS improvements: — Added OOS theming
support to GravityBox tiles — Added option for enabling built - in call recording — Added option for disabling Dash charging sound — Made Dash charging sound respect GB Quiet Hours - Samsung fixes and improvements (provided by Firefds)-- Fixed duplicate reboot confirmation — Added Samsung specific strings for rebooting into Download mode — Fixed disabling safe media volume warning — Fixed duplicate notification slider showing in Volume panel - Updated Russian translations (thanks to gaich)
Adaptive
icons will be
supported in the launcher, shortcuts, device Settings, sharing dialogs, and the
app overview screen.
In addition, the AdaptivePack companion
app for Action Launcher has seen an influx of 250 new
icons, bringing the total number of
supported apps up to 2,200.
For Android Oreo users, AdaptivePack provides Adaptive
Icons for a great many
apps that currently don't officially
support Adaptive
Icons.
The LED View Cover
Icon Editor is a LED View Cover exclusive
app,
supported by Samsung Galaxy S8, S8 +, and later models.
AdaptivePack's
icon count has almost doubled since launch, and now stands at 950, with
support for over 3400
apps.
Features list: Call Recording Auto call recording 4 Ways Reboot (Reboot, Recovery, Hotboot, Download) Full Color / Transparency customization for Status bar and Notification drawer elements Secure Samsung Keyboard Option to keep «Add Call» button with Call recording menu Disable Camera shutter sound (+ Screen Capture) Skip Music with Volume buttons Save Call Logs View Enable Keyboard Symbols Enable Hangouts Calls trough cellular Enable Camera while calling Unlimited and Customizable Multi-View
support Bypass Exchange Lock check Notification Panel Customization Long Home key behavior Long Back key to kill App (+ white list) Disable increasing ringtone Messaging Tweaks (raise limits and conversion) Disable Scrolling cache Enable Full rotations White / Colored Circle Battery Transparent Notifications panel Customize Clock format and size Customize Battery text helper size Customize Quick Settings buttons number per row Collapse Quick Settings after toggle 2 line formatted date on the panel header Dark themed Multi-Window Disable Boot sound Customize Two line date header format White / Black Email App background (Supported on some devices) Transparent Quick Settings buttons background Default hidden SMS logs Add Call button to Logs and Contacts list Disable Accounts icons on Contacts list Custimize Wifi AP Clients number Disable Launcher page rotation Add Exit button to browser SMS Automatic input mode Disable Call number formatting Enable unlimited Contacts joining Enable Gallery Rotation trough button Set default Browser view to Desktop Hide Wireless charging popup Hide Full Battery Notification Clock position Status bar (Hide, Left, Right, Center) NFC behaviors (UN / Locked on Screen ON / Off) Hide Headset icon and notification bar Disable TW DVFS Blacklist for Application where you want to disable DVFS when it's default enabled Hide Smart Stay, Alarm, NFC icons on status bar Launcher: Enable Scroll wallpaper and Hide Dock labels Disable Wake Home button Use separate Address field on Contacts Add Fast PIN unlock (to be used with caution) Added SMS sent time details Enable Screen ON options on Messaging App Disable low Battery warning Add custom carrier label on notification label Set low Camera battery level Change System Holo Dark / Light background Acces hidden Lockscreen shortcuts menu Disable SEAndroid / Knox notifications and container Disable volume control sound Disable low battery sound Auto Disable Knox notifications when Knox Apps are installed Set SELinux to Permissive mode on boot ScreenShot and ScreenRecord (Requires Busybox) on Power menu CM Numeric Circle battery Screen Off animation (CRT / Fade) Expand all notifications Disable Temperature check on Camera recording and Flash Enable Heads up notifications (Optional ongoing notifications and display delay customization) Support SHealth and Private mode (Disable secure storage on both Apps) Disable Battery and USB cover warning And much more
support Bypass Exchange Lock check Notification Panel Customization Long Home key behavior Long Back key to kill
App (+ white list) Disable increasing ringtone Messaging Tweaks (raise limits and conversion) Disable Scrolling cache Enable Full rotations White / Colored Circle Battery Transparent Notifications panel Customize Clock format and size Customize Battery text helper size Customize Quick Settings buttons number per row Collapse Quick Settings after toggle 2 line formatted date on the panel header Dark themed Multi-Window Disable Boot sound Customize Two line date header format White / Black Email
App background (
Supported on some devices) Transparent Quick Settings buttons background Default hidden SMS logs Add Call button to Logs and Contacts list Disable Accounts
icons on Contacts list Custimize Wifi AP Clients number Disable Launcher page rotation Add Exit button to browser SMS Automatic input mode Disable Call number formatting Enable unlimited Contacts joining Enable Gallery Rotation trough button Set default Browser view to Desktop Hide Wireless charging popup Hide Full Battery Notification Clock position Status bar (Hide, Left, Right, Center) NFC behaviors (UN / Locked on Screen ON / Off) Hide Headset
icon and notification bar Disable TW DVFS Blacklist for Application where you want to disable DVFS when it's default enabled Hide Smart Stay, Alarm, NFC
icons on status bar Launcher: Enable Scroll wallpaper and Hide Dock labels Disable Wake Home button Use separate Address field on Contacts Add Fast PIN unlock (to be used with caution) Added SMS sent time details Enable Screen ON options on Messaging
App Disable low Battery warning Add custom carrier label on notification label Set low Camera battery level Change System Holo Dark / Light background Acces hidden Lockscreen shortcuts menu Disable SEAndroid / Knox notifications and container Disable volume control sound Disable low battery sound Auto Disable Knox notifications when Knox
Apps are installed Set SELinux to Permissive mode on boot ScreenShot and ScreenRecord (Requires Busybox) on Power menu CM Numeric Circle battery Screen Off animation (CRT / Fade) Expand all notifications Disable Temperature check on Camera recording and Flash Enable Heads up notifications (Optional ongoing notifications and display delay customization)
Support SHealth and Private mode (Disable secure storage on both Apps) Disable Battery and USB cover warning And much more
Support SHealth and Private mode (Disable secure storage on both
Apps) Disable Battery and USB cover warning And much more to come
AdaptivePack is today being updated to v4.0, bringing its
supported app count to over 3500 and total
icon count to over 1100.
To help speed up the process, Chris Lacy has introduced a new update to Action Launcher that brings adaptive
icon support thanks to an all - new companion
app called AdaptivePack.
And if you happen to be on Oreo, the
app will even provide adaptive
icons for
apps that don't officially
support them yet.
This application let you customize many aspect of Samsung stock Roms: - Fast PIN unlock - Advanced Power Menu: Screen Capture / Record (Busybox required) and Reboot options - Fake System status - Disable TIMA / KAP - Clock positions - Call Recording - Auto call recording - Extended Multi-window
support for all
apps - Skip Music track with Volume buttons long press - Bypass Email Exchange restrictions - Disable tether provisioning - Disable battery level / temp checks while using Camera - Disable wake on Home button - Long back press to kill
App - Show Data usage - Disable some annoying quick settings notifications - Switch between LTE and 4G
icon - Hide Alarm
icon - Disable Adb during secured lockscreen - Enable Message save and restore from sdcard - And few other features
There's
support for adaptive
icons, you swipe up to access your
app drawer, and there's even a working Google Feed on the left-most side.
You can change the scrolling animation, alter the
app grid layout, install a custom
icon pack to change the way
apps work, add iOS - style «unread» notification badges to
apps that
support them and much more besides.
Many
support custom
icon packs, and they all provide the user with settings for almost every aspect of the Home screen and
app drawer in the name of customization.
On Sunday, Filipe Espósito found an image hidden amongst Apple's Home
app assets that includes
icons which suggest it will be possible to create custom scenes that mute the HomePod speaker's «Hey, Siri» function.As Espósito notes, the function could be useful in a house party scenario, for example, where the owner might want to control other smart devices like lights and motion sensors while disabling Siri responses for privacy reasons.Apple has not yet mentioned if HomePod can
support more than one user, but Espósito believes there are references that indicate the speaker will distinguish between
Other improvements and fixes — Adds
support for faster wireless charging on iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, and iPhone X with compatible third - party accessories — Introduces three new Live wallpapers for iPhone X — Improves video camera stabilization — Adds
support in Podcasts to automatically advance to the next episode from the same show — Adds
support in HealthKit for downhill snow sports distance as a data type — Fixes an issue that could cause Mail to appear to be checking for new messages even when a download is complete — Fixes an issue that could cause cleared Mail notifications from Exchange accounts to reappear — Improves stability in Calendar — Resolves an issue where Settings could open to a blank screen — Fixes an issue that could prevent swiping to Today View or Camera from the Lock Screen — Addresses an issue that could prevent Music controls from displaying on the Lock Screen — Fixes an issue that could cause
app icons to be arranged incorrectly on the Home Screen — Addresses an issue that could prevent users from deleting recent photos when iCloud storage is exceeded — Addresses an issue where Find My iPhone sometimes wouldn't display a map — Fixes an issue in Messages where the keyboard could overlap the most recent message — Fixes an issue in Calculator where typing numbers rapidly could lead to incorrect results — Addressed an issue where the keyboard could respond slowly — Adds support for real - time text (RTT) phone calls for the deaf and hard of hearing — Improves VoiceOver stability in Messages, Settings, App Store, and Music — Resolves an issue that prevented VoiceOver from announcing incoming Notificati
app icons to be arranged incorrectly on the Home Screen — Addresses an issue that could prevent users from deleting recent photos when iCloud storage is exceeded — Addresses an issue where Find My iPhone sometimes wouldn't display a map — Fixes an issue in Messages where the keyboard could overlap the most recent message — Fixes an issue in Calculator where typing numbers rapidly could lead to incorrect results — Addressed an issue where the keyboard could respond slowly — Adds
support for real - time text (RTT) phone calls for the deaf and hard of hearing — Improves VoiceOver stability in Messages, Settings,
App Store, and Music — Resolves an issue that prevented VoiceOver from announcing incoming Notificati
App Store, and Music — Resolves an issue that prevented VoiceOver from announcing incoming Notifications
Alternatively, you may also stream audio from individual AirPlay -
supporting apps such as iTunes; simply click the AirPlay
icon (in iTunes, that would be to the right of the playback controls) and select your HomePod from the list of devices displayed.
Not all
icon packs
support all
apps, because that would be nearly impossible, but most of the larger packs will offer at least one option for all of the really popular
apps on Android.
Back on your home screen and
app drawer, all the
supported apps should now have the
icon pack applied to them.
Apple is including more
support for this press gesture, and more
app developers are adding menus to home screen
icons, but there's no differentiating these
icons from
apps which do not
support the force press.
And, for any
apps that aren't
supported, you can change their
icons manually (which we'll cover in the second section of this guide).
Even the circular
icon support was heavily hinted at as the leaked Pixel Launcher indicated
support for circular
icons, and other Google
apps were slowly being updated with circular
icon assets embedded in the APK.
If this scenario plays out, then Pixel owners may find themselves with a bunch of non-circular
apps from
app developers who don't bother to update their
icon assets to accommodate only the few devices that would
support round
icons.
Action Launcher's latest version does the opposite, launching a paid
icon pack called AdaptivePack that promises to build a bevy of Adaptive Icon - supported icons for popular a
icon pack called AdaptivePack that promises to build a bevy of Adaptive
Icon - supported icons for popular a
Icon -
supported icons for popular
apps.
You will notice that the Sense 7.0 is getting flatter and more simple, new
icons, new notification panel, updated themes
app to
support Sense 7.0 features, update system
apps, updated home screen and widgets, updated settings menu, new lock screen, better battery management, better
app permissions control along with lots of performance improvements and bug fixes.
Some long - awaited features like picture - in - picture mode and unread notification
app badges have finally landed while some entirely new features like better Bluetooth audio
support and adaptive
icons are a welcome addition.
On top of that, Diesel
supports icon packs, so if you turn on the «Enable Icon Packs» option, your icons can be themed with any icon pack app you've installed from the Play St
icon packs, so if you turn on the «Enable
Icon Packs» option, your icons can be themed with any icon pack app you've installed from the Play St
Icon Packs» option, your
icons can be themed with any
icon pack app you've installed from the Play St
icon pack
app you've installed from the Play Store.
Once an
app is updated by its developer to
support this mode, a double - headed arrow
icon appears in the top - right corner of the
app window.
Individual
apps can offer additional
support for the Chromecast Audio (the Pandora
app, for example, allows you to control the master volume by tapping the casting
icon while the cast is in process, as seen below).