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This is manufacturer specific, but Motorola's quick actions to turn on the flashlight (chopping motion twice) and camera (twist your wrist while holding phone normally twice) is so ingrained in my muscle memory after 4 years of use, it's hard to unlearn again. I've looked for ways to recreate them in my new phone and found some promising methods, so I'll be doing that later on.
FooView gives me a sort of S-Pen like extra functionality (except writing using a stylus of course) and then some more. I use the floating window browser to search for anything without going out of the app I'm currently on. Use the iOS like floating bubble thing to custom crop screenshot on the go, and it has the sorely missed Google Now On Tap function lost years ago. The OCR from that is relatively well performing that I'm okay with. There's also scrolling screenshot, as well as robust screen recording function that can save either in mp4 or gif. There are a lot of other features included I think it's better to just go to its store page.
Another app, and this one really helps with using big, tall aspect ratio phones, is Quick Cursor. Can't seem to copy the link on mobile, possibly related to its beta status. But anyway, you swipe from predefined or customized zones from the side of the screen and basically you control a mouse pointer to reach far off sections of your screen.
If you prefer something like iOS pull down top half of the screen instead, there's One Hand Reachability.
Not really a photo editing app, but FooView allows you to select what part of the screen to capture. It can be a little annoying at times, but I keep it installed for just that purpose.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fooview.android.fooview
fooView - hard to describe but basically a floating widget that gives you quick access to .. everything? Watch the video in the play store listing
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fooview.android.fooview
Combine it with More Shortcuts, and there isn't much you won't be able to do with a swipe or tap.
Some Supported actions:
- launching an application or a shortcut.
- soft key: back, home, recent apps.
- expanding the status bar: notifications or quick settings.
- scroll to start. (Android 6.0 or higher)
- power dialog.
- adjusting brightness or media volume.
- fast scroll.
- toggle split screen.
- switch to the previous app.
The edge area also can be customized for thickness, length and position.
It's an app that creates a small floating circle that you can use for various tasks. The instructions when you open the app wil show you how it works.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fooview.android.fooview
fooView - FV Float Viewer, File, Video, Explorer https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fooview.android.fooview&hl=en_US
Gestures, OCR, translation, browser, file manager, etc. There are so many other features that it's hard to describe them.
It sits there on the side and when I need it, I use it to take smaller screenshots, or translate text, or copy text in another app. You just drag the circle that stays on your screen over to the place you want to capture and highlight the part you want. It then gives you options to translate, copy, etc. the text. You can also save the section as a picture.
It also has other functions. You can use it to navigate (home, back, recent apps, etc.), trigger shortcuts with gestures, and much more.
Have you tried fooView? You can copy text by dragging the indicator and selecting the part you want to copy. It will translate it too. I've been using it for the past day and I like it so far. It does MUCH more than the above also.
I use an app called Fooview. It might not be ideal, but you can use it to select text, and it uses OCR to read it so you can copy or share it.
Edit: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fooview.android.fooview
Also, it can do things like take selective screenshots and recording, gestures, and it has an app switcher.
There is this app called fooview by a former ES file explorer dev that lets you do this and lots of other things like regional video recorder, crop a number to dial it, crop an address to get directions via Google Maps etc.
A stock option would always be better.
The guy who made the original es file explorer made fooview (which is an all in one app). Fooview's file explorer is available by itself and it's basically es file explorer 2.
While we on this kind of stuff, I recommend fooView instead. It has that feature, plus many many other things it's able to do. It can even do stealth screenshots (can also bypass protected apps for screenshots if you use root)
I agree with you, don't get me wrong.
All I'm saying is that we shouldn't rely on gadgets to use phones comfortably.
But I also want my phone to be comfy enough to put wherever I want whenever I need it to, and those things are bulky as hell sometimes. The thing is that, whether you like it or not, phones will be slim, because no one wants to carry a 1.5 inch thick brick anymore. And you could only carry those in your pants pockets, try putting that thing inside your jacket or tux, you'd be sore after an hour.
Anyways, onto what OP asked for.
I've read that Fooview is the go-to app for one-handed operations, but then again, that's for handling the phone itself, OP mentioned certain apps, and yes, those aren't meant to be used with one hand sadly.
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Fooview will be a perfect app for that.
Just drag the floating icon to the text you want to copy. If it's not text but photo, choose the area and it will use OCR to read the text.
If you don't enjoy having floating icon on the screen all the time, you can easily enable or disable it from quick tiles in notification area or choose in which apps it should be completely hidden.
You should try fooView
fooView - Float Viewer is a magic floating button. It's a system enhancement tool to help you access your favorite websites, apps, games, files, music, photos, videos, and screen contents by a gesture using one hand.
For example You can easily copy, screenshot, OCR any content with fooView to replace Universal copy app.
Fooview, gives you a small circle thats very useful for gestures, but you can also drag the icon and then a selection box appears, allowing you to select text for OCR, translating or even just select images for screenshots. It has its own decent browser and so much more.
just installed fooView - FV Float Viewer, File, Video, Explorer , https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fooview.android.fooview&hl=en_IN&gl=US , let me check how much battery using as a browser .
fooView is pretty handy for that. Not only can it attempt to do a regular text select, it can OCR text from non-selectable text (images, screenshots etc), translate it, allow you to take screenshot snippets and reverse-image search them or share it directly to another app. Its an underrated utility that's got a ton of useful features.
Fold 2 has it anyway and fold 1 will get it soon too probably. Yes, I use the app fooView.
First of all, you need a little bit of patience. It’s a very feature packed app, which offers tons of options and customizability. You can use other feature of the app too, but I mainly used it for „smart select“.
This apps „smart select“ is even faster and offer much more stuff. There will be a small floating ring/icon on your screen edge. You can adjust its position and also how it looks. Tap & hold the icon, move it over your screen and you’ll see a crosshairs. Once you stop somewhere the color of the crosshairs changes from red to yellow. Now you can adjust the area which will be selected. Now when you release your finger you’ll see a floating menu above the screen which shows you immediately the selected area as a screenshot, as selectable text and also often gets text which is not visible. You have several buttons then to:
- google search the Text
- share the text
- copy the Text to clipboard
- append the text
- translate it
- take a Note
- let it speak it
- Pin it on the screen
- incognito search it
- and much more 😄
Almost all options are also available for the selected screenshot.
If you have questions feel free to ask me. I’m glad to help ☺️ good luck and hopefully you’ll like it as much as I do😁
Knida off-topic but related: if you have an Android device and want to do the same, check out FooView. You just have to drag the floating circle and point to an existing text field, or draw a rectangle on an area like in the demo and it will extract the text. You can also save the rectangle as a screenshot, share it, Google reverse-image search it, translate the text and more!
Anyone tried Fooview (free)?
Its got gestures, a clipboard manager, file browser, internet browser and too many other options. There are a lot of options on how to set it up, but once you have it as you like, it replaces many other apps.
I have single tap: clipboard manager Doubletap: calculator Swipe left: torch Swipe up: sesame shortcuts search Swipe down: notifications Swipe far left: calendar
You can also drag to select parts of your screen to share as a screenshot, or select text and perform translation or ocr.
It can even perform tasks like Tasker can, but just not as good as tasker does.
Fooview is more than screen translation but does that perfectly. It uses Google translate & requires internet connection. I've used it since its launch. The most useful feature is copy or share the un/translated words/sentences to other apps, in my opinion.
fooView. Highly recommend piece of software. you can take screen shots, pic words for images, file explorer, buttons remap and so on. it's like quick ball for some devices like iPhone, xiaomi but extend.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fooview.android.fooview
Hmm, I'm also not using universal copy cuz it misbehaves sometime in my phone;you can try fooview, it's hard to master but does the job of many apps in one.You have to do some customization at startup but after that it can do multiple tasks (including copy feature with menu)
I use fooView for this. Just point the floating circle at the popup and it extracts all text. You can then copy it to the clipboard, or share it, Google it etc. It's a super handy tool that I use all the time with multiple apps that have limitations like this.
Yes, there's a app which is extremely powerful and even free, which can copy any text from anywhere all the time. Even if it is not text which written and just a picture if text it can even get that. It's much faster than any other app too.
The app is called: fooView
It has so many awesome features, I don't even know where to begin 😂️ just install and see yourself. I personally set it to be invisible and just on a specific area on the right edge of my screen. I can swipe across the area and get a red Cross which let's me select anything I want. You can even take a screenshot of a specific area too.
If you have questions feel free to ask
Check my reply here 😄
> I had Note7, Note7s, Note8, Note9 and still have the Note10+ and once I used the S-Pen I couldn't live without the S-Pen. It's a really amazing piece of hardware and in combination with the software it's unparalleled! 😳
To answer your question: there is an app which is much faster and much more powerful than the S-Pen feature to copy any text. The app is fooView. It's a very unique app which offers tons of feature, I personally use the feature to select any text and make it selectable just like the S-Pen button pressed. But furthermore it can also ocr instantly and text and the same time. It even gives you tons of options what to do with the text or picture. You can even reverse picture search instantly.
It's difficult to explain. Just check the screenshots and watch the video clip in PlayStore (I added the link). If you have questions feel free to ask 😊
Fooview. It takes some getting used to, but it is a Jack of most trades and master of many, if you will. The thing I use the most are:
Gestures (Swipe left: Toggle torch, Swipe up: floating browser, tap: clipboard manager, double tap: calculator, long tap: file explorer)
drag to screenshot (Almost like windows Snipping tool
It also has scripting features like a basic version of tasker. (which I do use)
This app is insane but does need some set up to get how you like it
Try fooView, it has tons of amazing features and a very powerful and much faster and quicker built-in Smart select feature 😱
Ah, not nav bar, a floating navigation dock: small thingy on the side/wherever that can be tapped, swiped, hold, double tapped, etc and bind actions/shortcuts to these. Like the fooview that I currently use. It is not as good as the EMUI one in the basic dock functions, but can be more customizable and has lot more features.
Navigation bar is just stupid, especially on a OLED display.
Try FooView, from original maker of Es file explorer, a floating button which can directly
·Crop a word to translate, save, share to your messenger...
·Crop a name such as in videos to search in multiple search engines
·Crop an image such as in games to screenshot (Android 5.0+), search, and share to social network or photos community...
·Crop a number to dial or check where it's from
·Crop an address to check how to route in maps
From screen.
Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fooview.android.fooview
Try fooview
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fooview.android.fooview
It is free, and it can do so much more than just have apps on the circle or open to the app drawer in popup.
For me I use the following settings for gestures.
Swipe
Up- fooview overlay -can be set to open any of the following immeditely- floating app drawer, floating browser, floating file explorer, floating image viewer, etc...
Down - short - show clipboard Down - long - show notepad
Right/left - short - back Right/left - long - home
Swipe and hold - take screenshot around the selected area - then this shows you the screenshot and you can choose to delete it by touching anywhere not on the popup, save it, edit it and write/draw on it, share it, etc...
Or if it is around text you can copy the text to your clipboard, or if the text is in foreign language, choose to have translated.
Single tap - disabled
Double tap - show app circle - set favorites and also other things in small circle with rows of apps. Also allows you to record screen from this .
Long press - opens my password manager
Fooview gives you a floating button that let's you take screenshots of certain areas. It also has other features like ocr, and a floating window they let's you open files and has a web browser. It might be overkill for what you need but it does well with screenshots.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fooview.android.fooview
using Fooview can easily copy the text and translate with Google by dragging the float icon. Fooview using OCR to convert the photo it takes into text. Try it: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fooview.android.fooview
Fooview You must have never heard of this app. In the beginning, it maybe difficult to use but once you get used to it, it will be hard for you to uninstall. Love this app!
The pen doesn't work on non-Wacom screens
Google now on tap/Google screen search. But not as good in selecting text
I've used fooview before, pretty neat once you get the hang of it.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fooview.android.fooview
recently someone recommended fooview. tried it out and it works great for my screenshotting needs. does have a little more than what I need, but I'll leave with it til I find something better.
i believe it was mentioned as being made from one of the developers on xda, as it is also in the xda labs app.
Although not exactly the same thing you're looking for, you should have a look at fooView, I think their video will explain it better than me.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fooview.android.fooview this is like a Swiss army knife for that matter
fooView Float Viewer - It's a system enhancement tool to help you access your favorite websites, apps, games, files, music, photos, and video by a gesture using one hand. It's a small icon on the screen edge until pressed. Image
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Activities - Hidden activities that cannot be accessed in launchers
Contents - Opennable content such as Video, Photo, Audio, Documents and so on.
Flash - Turn on the flash (camera light) when you click the shortcut.
Screen off and lock
Internet URL
Ringer mode: mute, vibrate, normal
wifi/mobile data: on/off (not supported on Lollipop)
Bluetooth: on/off
Expand notification/settings panel
Open recent apps
Screen brightness
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What this app can do cannot be summarized in a comment
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fooview.android.fooview
I use an app called fooview you can merge multiple screenshots into one. I have 2 2nd screen mods. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fooview.android.fooview
You can try with fooView.
I think this one has it
fooView or others.
I agree here too, people can't really understand the S-Pen and what it offers. I think only die-hard note user know.
I really miss the Screen off memo and the precision of the S-Pen tip. Everything else can already be accomplished.
There's an app, fooView which adds lot of features.
It's even faster and much more powerful than the S-Pen is. You can swipe to hover above the screen and then you can do so much stuff:
- screenshot and screen recording
- screenshot a part of the screen
- make the screenshoted pic/part float above the sceen
- it OCR the text of the selected area
- it can Google, translate, share and much more with the text detected
- you can even do a picture search of the screenshoted area
- and much much more
It's hard to understand with just text, here's a video recording of how it works. In the video you see how I invoke the red cursor by swiping the right edge (can be customized). If I hover over a picture or a text field then it shows a rectangle. As you see I first get the text, even if it's not selectable, just like the pressed S-Pen selection of text. Then I hover over the text which is even in a video. It can do the same with pictures. Once the rectangle is set you get lot of options, as you can see here. In this picture you see what the buttons do. Below you have the same options but not for the text, it's for the picture you just screenshoted.
I just highlight the screenshot and OCR stuff. The app offer gestures, file explorer, mini floating Browser and much more. Give it a try 😊
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fooview.android.fooview can do that too ...
I recommend FooView myself - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fooview.android.fooview&hl=en_US
FooView had very cool features including editing screen captures.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fooview.android.fooview
<strong>fooView</strong> can do that, and much more.
It's also free with no ads, or IAP's
fooViewmy favorite multi tool app. Allows you to search all files on device + root storage if you grant access
fooview's File manager search is not bad
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fooview.android.fooview
fooView - FV Float Viewer, File, Video, Explorer | 4.5 rating | Free | 5,000,000+ downloads | Search manually
> How many touches and clicks you have made on your phone every day? How much time you have spent on switching apps? How many useless operations, which should be saved, cost your PRECIOUS time? Be Simple! I ...
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Fooview ...Has lots of functionalities...Can be a bit overwhelming at first but great once you get the hang of it.
fooView - FV Float Viewer, File, Video, Explorer | 4.5 rating | Free | 5,000,000+ downloads | Search manually
> How many touches and clicks you have made on your phone every day? How much time you have spent on switching apps? How many useless operations, which should be saved, cost your PRECIOUS time? Be Simple! I ...
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fooView - FV Float Viewer, File, Video, Explorer | 4.5 rating | Free | 5,000,000+ downloads | Search manually
> How many touches and clicks you have made on your phone every day? How much time you have spent on switching apps? How many useless operations, which should be saved, cost your PRECIOUS time? Be Simple! I ...
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You should try this app. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fooview.android.fooview
fooView - FV Float Viewer, File, Video, Explorer | 4.5 rating | Free | 5,000,000+ downloads | Search manually
> How many touches and clicks you have made on your phone every day? How much time you have spent on switching apps? How many useless operations, which should be saved, cost your PRECIOUS time? Be Simple! I ...
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Use fooveiw it has an option to drag down the hotbar.
There you go. fooView
fooView - FV Float Viewer, File, Video, Explorer | 4.5 rating | Free | 5,000,000+ downloads | Search manually
> How many touches and clicks you have made on your phone every day? How much time you have spent on switching apps? How many useless operations, which should be saved, cost your PRECIOUS time? Be Simple! I ...
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fooView? But it has a ton lot more than what you want.
fooView - FV Float Viewer, File, Video, Explorer | 4.5 rating | Free | 5,000,000+ downloads | Search manually
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fooview.android.fooview
-no magnifying but the rest ;-)
Rather use fooview. It can do a million more things and its just a tiny feint circle "dock"
I use Fooview and recommend, it's absolutely fantastic.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fooview.android.fooview
Try FooView
I just posted a comment about this app. It does many things but one of the most useful is the clipboard. And it is a small icon always on the screen, no need to long press paste. Just "show clipboard" select the little icon of what you copied (has a history and can also copy files/images). Then if is text, a little red box will appear in every text field on the screen and you choose which one you want to paste it in.
App is called fooview
>>https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fooview.android.fooview It is free, and it can do so much more than just have apps on the circle or open to the app drawer in popup. For me I use the following settings for gestures. Swipe Up- fooview overlay -can be set to open any of the following immeditely- floating app drawer, floating browser, floating file explorer, floating image viewer, etc... Down - short - show clipboard Down - long - show notepad Right/left - short - back Right/left - long - home Swipe and hold - take screenshot around the selected area - then this shows you the screenshot and you can choose to delete it by touching anywhere not on the popup, save it, edit it and write/draw on it, share it, etc... Or if it is around text you can copy the text to your clipboard, or if the text is in foreign language, choose to have translated. Single tap - disabled Double tap - show app circle - set favorites and also other things in small circle with rows of apps. Also allows you to record screen from this . Long press - opens my password manager
Sorry about formatting, original comment is formatted correctly in link above.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fooview.android.fooview
OCR is done online IIRC
Maybe give fooView, mentioned in this thread, a go?
Edit: OP I realised you wanted something simpler, how about this: https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/official-xda-navigation-gestures-iphone-t3792361
You can use this app, it is better and works in multiple languages too. Fooview
FooView - 2nd vote
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fooview.android.fooview
I too really missed screen search. May be you could look into fooview. It's a gr8 substitute if u don't mind another app
Linkme: FooView Edit: sorry couldn't figure out how to use linkme bot. Here's the link https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fooview.android.fooview
I'll need to switch back to fooview now. It was an app I used long before I had now on tap.
Yeah, doesn't seem to work with most apps. But I could open a picture with fooView and set it as my wallpaper.
gesture and this app, freedom..
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fooview.android.fooview&hl=en
I think no one has mentioned this app before, but Foo view is such an amazing app, and it's ad free, if you guys haven't tried it, make sure you do! It's really handy.