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I was recently looking for a replacement for SwipePad (which hasn't gotten an update in a long time). I tried a lot of options and ended up finding
This app is the bomb! I have a floating whale icon that lets me quickly open my favorite apps! If the icon is bothersome, you long click it and it blends on a side. The app is just really well done and it doesn't hold back on features because it's free (though it has a donate button which is probably well deserved.)
Check it out!
Easy app switcher : A chat head to (extremely) quickly switch back to the previous app. It works as a transposition of the Alt-Tab shortcut on PC. It's free and there is a donation version.
LinkMe: EAS: Easy App Switcher, EAS: Easy App Switcher Donate
You can use EAS: Easy App Switcher. Set the double tap gesture to "switch to previous app". This uses a floating button rather than the multitask button, but it works well.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.echoff.easyswitch
I prefer Easy App Switcher. Shows recently used apps, let's you set a bunch of favorites and allows for one tap switch to the previous app with an invisible screen edge switch.
Nova eating more battery than whatever launcher you are currently using sounds suspect.
But if you really like the launcher you are using, you could always look at something like EAS: Easy App Switcher.
Easy App Switcher is great for multi-tasking. I mostly use it for quickly switching between two apps but it has some other nice features.
Update: Easy App Switcher is as close as I've gotten so far. I can go back to my previous app with a tap, or swipe on it to get to recent apps. This seems like a good compromise for switching between music/podcasts and maps, but I'd still love to find the perfect solution. :)
Yeah I misunderstood the question. I followed the XDA thread for switchr a little and it looks like lollipop just changed how to get the recent/running apps so it will probably get the support needed at some point.
One person suggested this app in the meantime. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.echoff.easyswitch although it doesn't look nearly as nice based on the screenshots.
I can not know, because I do not use FooView. But it seems to me they are a little different. I, in my practice, use the subject, I use it more often to lower the curtain or start one of several favorite programs, and also (almost forgot) to see the battery charge in full screen :) And less often I use it to launch recently launched programs - since To do this, I often have enough EAS.
Easy app switcher. It's a bubble on the side of the screen that can swap back to the previous app. You can also have gesture to show the recent apps or a drawer. I love it.
Linkme: easy app switcher
EAS: Easy App Switcher. Check out the gestures you can assign to the floating icon. I never use my hardware keys. I have mine set as follows. Swipe up: goes back. Swipe down goes: home. Left or right swipe (depends which side of the screen the floating icon is) opens the apps you've put in it and I also have notifications short cut in there.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.echoff.easyswitch
I use Easy App Switcher to do the "return to previous app" (aka, alt+tab) functionality. It's excellent. You can set it so that you either have a moveable button you can tap to do it, or you can set it to any edge of the screen you wish. I have mine on the middle of the right edge and have it hidden. Still registers taps but isn't visible.
Give it a shot. It's the best way I've found to have an easy alt+tab-like button on an unrooted phone.
I'll answer too although I'll probably be repeating what has been said:
For switching between apps there are multiple solutions. This is what is great about Android. If you have an issue it's likely somebody has come up with a solution. You can trigger the app switcher using gestures with launchers like Nova Launcher or install an app like this one to have an app switching icon on the screen all the time: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.echoff.easyswitch&hl=en_GB
This is explained by others. It's easier with root, but here are ways to block ads.
I don't restart my phone to get rid of lag however I swap batteries out so I'm restarting often for other reasons.
If one-handed use is important the Pixel (no XL) will likely work out well for you. If you wanted to try Android for about 50% the cash but still get a great phone look at the One Plus 3, Axon 7 and the Honor 8 (Moto Z Play too).
I'm not sure if that's a hardware or software issue but there are apps that can replace the recents app button. A popular one is Easy App Switcher. I develop one called Sesame Lock Screen. You can open recent apps by long pressing the home button, it does lots of other cool stuff too.
Easy App Switcher. Lets me switch to the previous tap on pressing on the border of screen or lists my last used apps on swiping from it. Lemme link it for you
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.echoff.easyswitch
Tip: long press on the bubble for the bezel mode
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I saw this here last week, and I have to recommend it. Easy App Switcher is awesome.
Here are 2 screenshots that show what it does. It let's you pick favorite apps and lists recent apps, too. It comes with some cute icons, but I grabbed Deadpool from here.
EAS is one of my favorite and most used apps.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.echoff.easyswitch
EAS: Easy App Switcher - last updated October 2016.
Check out Easy app switcher .
Have you tried EAS?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.echoff.easyswitch
I use EAS: Easy App Switcher, and it's very good.
Try EAS (Easy App Switcher). It's exactly what you want, I think.
Edit to add video: https://streamable.com/0kw21
Have you tried EAS: Easy App Switcher?
No, but I think it's EAS (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.echoff.easyswitch) ... which is very annoying because I use it all the time. Didn't have this issue before the update.
Don't think there's any way around it but I use this because I was so used to that
I use Easy App Switcher.
Sure, no problem.
So, the apps in question are:
- EAS
- FNG
- Navbar Apps
- SystemUI Tuner
- Llama (note: APK mirror as not available on Play Store anymore)
EAS - as I said, this allows you to keep a little app drawer with up to 24 apps (possibly more, I'm not sure) of your choice. The drawer can be accessed from any screen with a tap or swipe of a small tab on the edge of the screen.
This tab can be made more or less transparent and bigger or smaller, but here's how mine looks when it's closed (see the right edge, halfway up) and when it's open (the gaps are because I haven't selected all 24 yet. I use it for handy things like the calculator, a unit converter app, plus apps I use regularly.
FNG - this is one I only discovered recently, but I love it. It allows me to add further edge tabs to perform certain actions. It can have multiple functions and be applied to both left, right and bottom edges, but I keep it simple and just have two functions, both on the right edge.
A quick swipe in from the edge immediately switches me back to the last app I used, while a swipe and hold opens my recents window, a gesture I find much more intuitive than swiping up on the home button. You can also have multiple tabs per edge, up and down swipe actions and a lot more, but it does all I need for now. You can also customise the colours and style of the tab.
NavBar Apps - I use this to control the colour of my navigation bar, making it change to either the colour of the app I happen to be in, or where that colour isn't a good choice to custom colours on an app-by-app basis. Most I leave the same as default, but some I found the default colour either ugly or impractical for seeing the nav bar controls.
I also use this app to add a very, very thin black battery indicator bar at the bottom of the screen. You can just about make it out here, at the bottom left. It's showing that I'm at about 33% battery right now if that helps make it easier to spot. It's just there to let me quickly glance at my battery level without leaving the app I'm in.
System UI Tuner - I'm keen to try to avoid burn in on my screen, so have for some time used this app to hide as much as possible in my status bar at the top of the screen. I have prevented icons like WiFi, Bluetooth, etc from showing at all, and for most apps I make the status bar disappear altogether. This does have a downside as it creates a small issue with using the keyboard (hard to explain, but it's annoying), so for apps where I'll be writing a lot I put them on the blacklist within System UI and the status bar shows for those.
I also use System UI to customise my quick launch bar to have nine buttons instead of just six.
System UI requires the use of ADB to authorise the functions I use, but it's pretty straightforward and explained in-app.
Llama - this is a location-based tool for automating things. Again, I only use it for a very basic function, which is to turn my WiFi on and off when I enter or leave certain locations (identified using phone masts, not GPS). However you can use it for many, many, many things. I'm only scratching the surface really. It's a bit like Tasker I think, but less sophisticated/complex and doesn't require root. In fact none of these customisations need root.
Ok, hope that's useful, and please feel free to ask about any of it if you want :-)
Similar to the above I use EAS, which does much the same thing.
- EAS - customisable hidden mini app drawer you can pull up from anywhere to access most used apps
- FNG - add a range of gestures to screen edges to offer shortcuts and useful functionality
- Hermit - like a website, but wish it behaved like an app? This'll go some of the way to achieving that
- List My Apps - make lists like this one easily
- Navbar Apps - customise how your Nav Bar looks and acts
- Photo Editor - the best photo editor on Android IMO. As close to desktop Photoshop as I've seen.
- S Converter - handy converter app across a wide range of measurement types
- Tiles - add custom functions to the quick launch area
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.echoff.easyswitch
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fb.fluid
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ivianuu.oneplusgestures
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.de_studio.recentappswitcher.trial
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fb.glovebox
Also check out omniswitch ports on xda
~~I don't think it can do app search~~ [see edit], but EAS allows you to set up a hidden mini drawer in which you can pin up to 24 apps (possibly more, I think it may be able to do a second page) accessible via a swipe from the edge in any app.
That doesn't quite match what you wanted but might be a good alternative if you can't get the exact solution.
EDIT - actually, you CAN do it with EAS, although I'm finding it a bit laggy, though YMMV. In the app selection screen you can choose Activity, then on the next screen choose Nova Action and then finally App Search. Here's a video of it, and actually, this is the fastest I've seen it work!
Easy App Switcher is both side launcher and app switcher: tap to switch, slide to choose an app to launch.
Do it really, really, really, REALLY fast.
I find downloading EAS App Switch makes things much easier.
EAS: Easy App Switcher - It is more flexible and faster than the other options, like Swiftly Switch.
I have a 5.5" ZTE Axon 7. What's helped enormously is this handy utility, EAS: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.echoff.easyswitch
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.echoff.easyswitch
This is by far my favorite app for quick navigation between apps and gestures.
I've used Swiftly, but find EAS: Easy App Switcher to be far better (faster, more flexible).
The real solution here is for us to build our own security and use the Marshmallow fingerprint API.
The lock screen stuff is tough. And Sesame admittedly takes some getting used to. You have to change some memorized habits.
I have a 5X, which should work the same as the 6P. How I use it is I touch the fingerprint sensor to unlock my phone. Sesame shows. Anything I touch from here takes me directly to the target w/o any screens b/t. Most of the time this is much faster. If you want to get back to your last app you can either swipe the Time, or hit the back button.
If you use the power button to turn the screen on, you'll see Sesame but your phone is still locked. Once you choose something you'll see the Android security screen where you can then use your fingerprint. But you can't use your fingerprint while viewing Sesame b/c it's Android Security that has locked the phone (which is programmed to only respond when the screen is OFF or you are viewing their security screen)
I wish we could give ppl settings to have it behave how they are use to. Honestly, we'll eventually get to building our own security. /u/kristian_dms and /u/prettyrare are +1's on that too.
In the mean time, we have thought about making it a launcher. It's funny you mention KISS b/c that's what I looked at when working through the design. We set up a prototype launcher and used it for a bit. It's actually pretty easy to do. But it felt off somehow. Like I'd want to swipe to Google Now, or see an app drawer.
You're hitting on a very good point. Tbh the question of "where can Sesame live so it's useful but not in the way?" has been the hardest conundrum w/ developing this thing.
What about opening Sesame from inside your phone by swiping from an edge? The lock screen would be optional, and that should be easy to access. Easy App Switcher does a good job w/ this. Thoughts?
Oh, BTW you can turn off the lock screen setting now if it bothers you and still use Sesame by long pressing the home button. Just type "SS" and Sesame settings should come up as a choice, the options are in there.
I've been wanting a seatbelt belt forever and yesterday I got one.
I also found the coolest android app. It's a little icon that floats on the side of your screen so you can switch back and forth between your apps. Like the recents button, but faster and cuter. It's called Easy App Switcher. It confess with a few icons already, I found the little Deadpool on Google.
Linkme: Easy app switcher https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.echoff.easyswitch