2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-01-13 00:26
Need really quick access to certain apps? Add any shortcut to the curtain to use it without unlocking the device. How? Let's tell you now.
Thanks to the efforts of the developers, Android 5.0 has a convenient quick settings panel at the top of the screen. This allows you to turn on the access point, automatic screen flip and much more in no time. But there is a more interesting possibility.
The system now has tools for developers that allow third-party applications to change the set of elements in the curtain. Custom Quick Settings is one of those. It can be used to add to the curtain the icon of any application installed on a smartphone or tablet.
Before using Custom Quick Settings, go to the "Advanced Settings" menu item and enable the System UI Tuner function. After that, you need to read in detail the instructions for using the application and enable all available permissions.
Then you can create the desired shortcut. For each of them, in Custom Quick Settings, you can specify a title, an icon from the built-in set and the corresponding action (turning on and off various switches in the launched application, viewing the URL and normal launching applications). If this is not enough, you can purchase the Pro version. In it you can load your own collections of icons and pull icons from other programs. Another difference from the free version is the presence of a kind of scheduler that allows you to change the set of icons at a given time.
If you need to return the curtain to its previous appearance, you can delete both a separate application icon and all configured ones. There is also a quick rollback. Custom Quick Settings practically does not waste battery resources, despite constant work. Conflicts with other programs were also not noticed. According to the creators, the application works on any version of Android older than 4.0. However, to use Custom Quick Settings on OS versions earlier than Marshmallow, you will need root privileges.
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