First introduced with the LG G2, Q Slides were
small utility apps that could be launched quickly from the notification shade, designed to make your multitasking experience more pleasant.
Not exact matches
While it's not always buttery - smooth, Sony's UI layer brings a lot to the table: people might not miss many of the fun aesthetic touches, but genuinely useful additions like the repositioned buttons,
small apps, and the remote - control
utility would all go away with a stock build.
The other center - mounted shortcut key offers a bit more
utility: it summons a list of titles Sony calls «
small apps,» which are - you guessed it -
small - scale windowed
apps ranging in complexity from a calculator all the way up to a bare - bones browser.
Preinstalled
Small Apps include the remote control, Web browser, a timer, calculator and a screen grab
utility.
Sony has also bolstered its
Small Apps function, allowing you to overlay a browser, IR remote and other
utilities in a window on top of another
app.
My Gear S3 runs the Tizen OS and while there is an
app store and plenty of available
apps, the
small screen of wearables limits the
utility of
apps and the
app story is really a non-story when it comes to wearables.
Services Framework Proxy (GsfProxy) is a
small helper
utility to allow
apps developed for Google Cloud to Device Messaging (C2DM) to use the compatible Google Cloud Messaging service included with GmsCore.