You can also pull down
the notification shade like shown above in order to verify your screenshot was captured.
Not exact matches
There are a lot of ways that Android is more customizable and efficient than iOS,
like the app icons and the
notifications shade, but at the end of the day, it all boils down to personal preference.
But since then an newer version has come to light, revealing not only stock Jelly Bean features
like Google Now and the redesigned
notification shade, but a host of extra TouchWiz goodies too.
Instead, the tablet runs Huawei's iPhone -
like Emotion UI layer that alters app icons, removes the app drawer and splashes all apps across the home screen, and makes changes to the
notification shade and settings menu.
Android Jelly Bean features
like Google Now, Project Butter performance enhancements and the redesigned
notification shade, in addition to new TouchWiz features are expected to bring a huge change in the Galaxy S III experience.
Users can also expect to get the features
like Google Now, project Butter performance enhancements and redesigned
notification shade, in addition to new TouchWiz features are expected to bring a huge change in the Galaxy S III experience.
Much
like the quick settings found in Android's
notification shade, the Control Center is swiped up from the bottom of the screen for access to many easy to reach functions.
For me it feels
like the sweet spot for Android, which often requires you to to pull down the
notification shade from the top.
The handy buttons at the top of the
notification shade might not contain all the settings you want, but that's no problem for someone
like you who had the good judgment to buy a Galaxy S5.
Android purists may not
like the lack of app drawer, either, but the
notification shade is close to standard Android, and the settings menu is laid out as you'd expect, too.
Many design cues,
like the
notification shade design, are mismatched with new Oreo - targeted apps.
Samsung's launcher just now offers long - press actions that came to Android in Nougat, but they're half - baked and aren't useful
like they are on other phones — at least the
notification badges are now actually tied to the
notification shade.
The Android Oreo Update adds some new features
like the PIP mode, New
Notification shade, New Settings UI,
Notification Dots and more.
Proportion changed, accent colors were altered, and the UI tried to imitate Nougat in some places
like the
notification shade.
It's easy to reach, extremely quick, and has optional bonus features
like swipe gestures to bring down the
notification shade.
If you'd
like to disable the feature, either temporarily or permanently, just pull down your
notification shade and tap the «Turn Off» button on the Auto Shazam
notification.
These include a button to pull down the
notification shade, the Capture + button for taking screenshots and making GIFs, and the Q - slide button which gives you faster access to a select number of LG apps
like Contacts and the File Manager.
There are six default quick toggles that you see when you swipe down to open the
notification shade, but some of these,
like the Wi - Fi or airplane mode toggles, aren't frequently used by most folks.
Like the Mate 10, there's no gesture support so you won't be able to drop the
notification shade with a simple swipe down.
Samsung tries to mitigate this with a fingerprint sensor gesture that lets you swipe down to access the
notification shade, but just
like on the Galaxy S8, the fingerprint sensor is inconveniently placed next to the camera hardware on the back of the phone.
Reaching up to the top to access something
like the
notification shade does require some hand gymnastics, and makes the phone feel even less secure when you can't maintain your grip.
Setup takes around half a dozen taps per finger, and the fingerprint sensor also comes with some neat shortcut gestures,
like swiping down to open the
notification shade.
And each time the phone archived something to clear out some space, a message in the
notification shade would tell me something
like «4 apps have been archived.
Speaking of the
notifications shade, I hope you
like white.
Basically, instead of just switching the
shade and menus back to gray, the system UI now takes advantage from the newly introduced (API 27) WallpaperColors API, and grabs color from your phone's wallpaper, switching many aspects of the SystemUI
like the quick settings panel, the mini QS /
notification shade, the volume sliders, the power menu and even the Pixel Launcher (both app drawer and folder / shortcut background) to a darker hue if the wallpaper is dark / black, and keeping it brighter if the wallpaper is light.
In the toggles area at the top of the
notifications shade, the date is now in a slightly less condensed font which makes it a little more more legible at a glance and the card -
like spacer between the toggles and the
notifications has been removed.
Most of the major visual changes in Android Oreo are relegated to the redesigned settings menu, but there are a few minor tweaks elsewhere in the UI
like in the
notification shade.
For example, if a
notification shade item features buttons (
like play / pause in Netflix), they automatically work on Wear without any additional tweaking.
We've written extensively about how MIUI differs from AOSP in previous reviews (such as the Xiaomi Redmi Note 4 and the Xiaomi Redmi 4), from the iOS -
like homescreen to the differences in the
notification shade, so for this section we will be focusing heavily on device specific performance.
The white
notification shade was now replaced by a blackened, translucent effort on the P8 and now the Mate S. Not horrible in itself, but when some apps,
like Gmail, use black text, you see where we're going.
The
notification shade takes some getting used to, but quick replies feel
like a game changer.
In addition, you'll now be able to reply to
notifications directly from the
notification shade, just
like you can do now with Hangouts or Google Messenger.
What's your Material
Notification Shade setup looking
like?
Whether you want Android Oreo's look, or prefer Android Nougat's previous look, you can easily change your
notification shade to your
liking.
You'll now see a thin strip of toggles at the top of the
notifications shade for frequently used things
like Wi - Fi, Do Not Disturb, battery and the flashlight.
Programming actions
like opening the
notifications shade into the fingerprint sensor is neat.
Quick Settings is now paginated and you can edit which icons appear at the top of the
notifications shade and Google has added new System UI Tuner options for Quick Settings
like Night Mode and offered developers the ability to create their own custom Quick Settings icons.
You wouldn't notice if you were just looking at
notifications while on your home screen, but if you bring up a white menu
like the Google Now page or your app drawer before pulling down the
notification shade, it becomes apparent.
So there's no option to swipe down on the space bar to open the
notification shade or anything
like that.
If you prefer on - screen buttons, you can also rearrange their order to your
liking, including adding an additional button for pulling the
notification shade down without having to reach up to the top of the screen.
Other tweaks
like a horizontal app switcher and a tabbed
notification shade add nothing to the Android experience, and many of the changes (with the possible exception of some customization settings for the status bar and fingerprint sensor) seem to have no real purpose.
Samsung's apps
like S Health are surprisingly decent, though, and I actually found myself using S Finder in the
notification shade to quickly jump to arcane settings I couldn't otherwise have located.
The smoked translucent overlays are another nice touch, lending some refinement to elements
like the
notification shade (though this does make things
like email subject lines very difficult to read if you're using a dark wallpaper).
You also get some app integration,
like Spotify controls, so you can skip tracks without having to swipe down the
notifications shade.
Sure, you can change some of these things by downloading a different launcher or messaging app, but you can't change things
like the quick settings menu that doesn't match the rest of the
notification shade or that awful share sheet.
The latest version of EMUI is based on Android 7.0 Nougat, with a clean blue - and - white visual style running through Huawei's own apps, and system elements
like the lock screen and
notification shade.
ZenUI commits that cardinal sin of so many manufacturer skins, putting forth an overwhelming number of quick toggles in the
notification shade for things that either don't belong there (
like multiwindow mode) or that you probably won't use very often (
like sharing location reports over email and SMS).
By default, you get the back, home and multitasking buttons, but you can reorder them to suit your
liking, or add the option to quickly bring down and up the
notification shade.
In addition to the main
notifications, go ahead and pull down again on the
notification shade on Android to access Quick Settings, a short list of toggles and sliders to control things
like display brightness, volumes, turn on or off WiFi, Bluetooth and more.
As I've mentioned in my reviews of other Huawei devices,
like the Honor 8 and Mate 9, th software is rather remeniscant of iOS, especially when you look at the
notification shade, and the fact that there is no app drawer.