Since switching from ADW Launcher 1 EX to ADW Launcher 2 (both are paid versions) recently, I've spent a lot of time exploring, and experimenting with, its features. There are many!

I'll post some; please feel free to add your own.

For my first example, this shows how you can organize/categorize your app drawer, using a menu to pick from:



Next is an example of hidden bits of programs (for lack of a better way to explain it). You find these by using Activities:



My normal wallpaper, which I've set for both home and lock screens, looks like this:



but I changed it to blue for clarity in the above examples. However, this one, which shows my font settings for icons' text, is readable:



There's much more! I'd love to see what you're doing with it.

Hello all.

I started new project and implemented cardview.

My problem is that cardview has this weird shadow and that shadow is cut off also.Im not using cardview the first time and this happened to me the first time.

I tried to search for solution on internet but without luck.

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Code:

so this thread is for posting any new and cool features that you like on the note 10+. some might not necessarily be new to some, but new to you.

i'll start.....i just discovered how to do screen recordings. it is pretty cool. especially if you like a particular game or in my case a really cool live wallpaper i found on the zedge app

check out this live wallpaper:

Hi everyone,

I have a problem with the 3G connection on my phone. I don't know if it's a software or an hardware problem.

So, I mainly use my 3G connection with wifi tethering (my laptop is connected to my phone hotspot). Regularly, I lose connection on my laptop. On firefox, the message in the status bar stays on "Looking for www.google.com" or "Connecting to www.google.com", for example. When that happens, the 3G connection on my phone appears to be still active, with the arrows indicating upload and download in the android status bar, but if I try to use the android browser, I have the same problem (the website is unreachable). I have to disable the data connection on my phone and then re-enable it so I can use it again.

I have another problem which is not my priority but may be linked to my main problem : sometimes (I don't know what determines that), if my phones battery is not charging, I lose wifi connection to my phone (when it's tethering).

My phone is quite old, but the battery still works fine, and my android is also an old one : 4.0.4. It's not rooted and it's not a custom rom.

If someone has an idea of where the problem could come from, It'd be great...

I turned off my phone in the middle of an accidental factory reset and now it only goes to the title "Samsung Galaxy S5" screen when I turn it back on, and it stays on this screen until it runs out of battery. I've tried holding the power button down for 30+ seconds and I've tried holding the volume down button for 45+ seconds. It can still go to safe mode which gives options of rebooting or factory resetting, but rebooting it only takes it to the same title screen. Under no circumstances do I want to factory set because I don't want to lose my data. I would like to know how to turn my phone back on without factory resetting, but if there is no way for me to get my phone back on without losing data, then does anyone here know how to retrieve automatically backed up data either via Samsung or Google? I never deliberately backed up my data but I've heard that it backs up on its own.

Can android smartphone support database of 700MB and how the response time would be to reterive the data

my roku express works fine at home (192.168.1.x). when i take the roku to work, i cannot get it to connect via wifi. the work network is 192.168.25.x. the roku is not even seeing the SSID at work. all my other devices work well with the work wifi. any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

So, I am not a developer....

I wrote a basic calorie conversion tool in Visual Basic ages ago and today for some reason decided I would like this on my Samsung. So...I fired up MIT App Inventor (very cool) and successfully built a "mobile version" of my VB app.

I've exported the app as an APX and want to upload it to the Play Store. Gone through a number of steps and all good but when I upload my APX file and go to Review, it complains it is not optimised. I now have to use the Android App Bundle. So I download Android Studio....

So OK this is not for noobs. It likes my APX but I have not idea how to now "convert" this file into something Google Store will accept. If I import the APX it treats it as a "module" under Build menu. If I create a new project I have no idea how to import my APX into that project....

Can anyone give me some pointers please on what I need to do here? I just want to see my shitty app in the app store

Thanks!

There are two settings I would like to change.

For some mysterious reason when I ask "OK Google" for the current temperature it is now giving it to me in Fahrenheit. Up until today, it was always Celcius. Looking online it says I should select "Profile Editor" I either do not have one or it is hidden somewhere.

When I get an SMS Text it plays a sound. However, if the messaging app is open it remains silent. Can I have the sound activating whether the app is open or not?

Thanks
Robert...

The latest update gave me the option to try Androids new gesture controls, changing the home screen back, home, and tab buttons, so i said yes to try it, not realising now i can't go back, theirs nothing in gestures settings, tried googling about it, but seems as if other phones can revert back in gesture settings, but no mine? but also that i read, google wants to force this on us? is that true, i keep making mistakes on my phone due to gestures i want the damn buttons back.

Brand new Moto gen7 power and it seems to be running slower than my old zte blade max and not really sure why new phone is sooooooo slow. Anyone have any info on this issue?

On the Galaxy S10 e, Android, I successfully added my home as a trusted place, but cannot add a second trusted place it won't allow me to search for anything it keeps bringing up my current home location and won't let me search for anything...

Looking for a printer app that will let me adjust the print scale, like i do in my desktop. (i.e. print at 65% so printout fits on one page.) My current printers are an HP and a Brother. Any thought on what app i should try? TIA.

There are 2 errors:

1. This is Run Build Error message.
2. This is Gradle Sync Issues which states: Data error (cyclic redundancy check)
   

This is Android Studio log file.

Any help/info/view is appreciated.

I been using my hotspot. Next thing i know. I went to use it and it is no where to be found. Please help me. I dont know how this happend. I thought i was triping. But im not. Its gone.

Today my phone started acting up, vibrating and showing battery charging then vibrating again saying battery not charging...done this a few times but phone wasnt even plugged in at all...plugged in now and not doing anymore but battery hasnt went above 65%...and ideas?

As I am running Android 4.4.4 in order to get Todoist working on my phone I have downloaded and installed an old version of the app from APK Mirror.

It works great, the only problem is I get regular reminders from Todoist telling me they have noted I am using an old version and it will cease to work in five days. I contacted them regarding finding a resolution, the response being to use the web app.

Is there any way around this?

Hello everyone. I am 29. I have moved from Ukraine to USA 3 years ago. I learn Java and I want to become an Android developer. I decided not to go to college, I am going to use a mentor. Also I need to improve my eanglish, I do not have much time and chose to spend time for studing programming. Could you please give me advice if it is good idea do not get an education in college and use a mentor? It is very important for me to know if I am on right way

New to the forum so could use a little help. Why would there be more than one of the same app like for example two or three smart cleaning?

I have another brand box that set up perfectly with the same apps, however with the T95Z Plus that I received yesterday the apps in the Google Play store all seem to be those designed for phones. Is there a setting that I may have chosen that makes it think this, or could it be that this box has the mobile OS instead of TV OS. Is there a way to check? All I can tell is it is running version 7.1.2 Thanks.

I desperately need help reverting back to Android Oreo on my Moto z2 force. Bluetooth will not connect to anything, the phone will not accept calls (though I receive the voicemails afterward, just no calls), apps are updating on their own despite me having that feature disabled and the list goes on. It is now essentially a dumbed down version of it's former self. I just cannot understand how the most basic functionality has been removed. It's a phone that can't get phone calls! What the heck? All of the other changes I have found seem largely unnecessary. Right down to putting the clock on the left side. True Android users know that's where notifications go...
If you're on another network other than verizon consider yourself lucky to not be receiving this downgrade. It's the sorriest downgrade disguised as an upgrade I've ever seen. I've been loyal to Android since my very first smartphone and I've never had so many big issues after a system update! Why would I want a dumbed down version of an Android that looks and performs like an iPhone simpleton? If I wanted an iPhone is buy one. So I guess I might if I can't get back to Oreo.
Unless anyone else with the Moto z2 force had the same issues and knows how to fix them?
I guess the long story short is this: I need help! How can I return my phone to its previous wonderful Android Oreo self and regain my much needed functionality???

I have a Huawei p8lite. When I listen to downloaded music, sometimes not all the time the song restarts when it's mid way through, it's so annoying. Has it happened to anyone else? How do I fix this issue?

I need new ip on my phone

I have an Android-based, in-dash, car stereo. An ATOTO A6, running Marshmallow. It's great, and I love it - mostly. The stock apps are all lame, but I can load whatever I want onto it. The only app I cannot find a decent replacement for is the stock media player, the most important one of all! Look thru the Play Store though, and the number of media player apps is overwhelming! I've tried at least 20 so far, and a lot of them aren't even useable, much less what I want. I do not mind paying for a good media player that meets my needs, but it needs to have a trial period or other such free demo to test it first.

I would really appreciate everyone's comments and suggestions about what media player apps I should try!

Absolute Requirements:

• Must support playing media from a micro-SD card, and not the main storage. I'm amazed at how many apps won't do this, or don't do it correctly. While quite a few allow to choose a media folder, they then won't find it, or scan it, or some other quirk or glitch.
• Must support existing .m3u playlists already on the SD card. No, I do not wan't to recreate them, I have too many and I spent too long getting them all just right. Again, I'm surprised at how many apps won't do this.
• Must support a large media collection, 80+GB and 10,000+ songs. Prefer that it NOT try to index everything, particularly since I only play playlists. Could care less about playing by artist, album, genre, or year. I have pre-built playlists for that. Playing by folder would be handy though. I don't stream either.

Desired Features:

• A skinning or theming function, that not only allows you to choose colors, but which buttons and information is displayed, where, at what size. I can't read tiny text from the driver's seat, and the stereo has hard buttons for next, back, play/pause, mute... so don't need those onscreen or to waste screen real estate for them. Wanna show album art, but that shouldn't dominate the whole screen. I am techno-skilled enough to create my own skin if I can't find one I like.
• And finally, the most desired feature of all, one that keeps track of what playlist, what song, and where it was at when power is lost, and will resume there (or near) when power is restored.

That last one is the real tricky one. When you shut off the ignition key, the Android system does not do a full shutdown, but rather goes into a deep sleep mode. It still has electrical power from the car battery, but all apps including all background processes stop, the screen goes black, and the amplifier shuts down. When the ignition is turned on, Android boots within just a few seconds, all background processes resume, and all apps that were loaded and running before the shutdown will resume (for the most part). The lame stock media player app is able to handle this. I'm guessing it probably writes it's song/list status & location to a file or non-volatile memory every few seconds. No media player I have tried thus far other than the lame stock app seems to have any function to (correctly) do this. A few of them I tried had features that vaguely sounded like it might work, but I couldn't seem to get it to.
It occured to me to use IFTTT or other event scripting app to pause the media player when entering sleep mode and to resume it when it awakes, but none of the event apps listed any system events they would respond to like sleep and wake (or at least any events with names that sounded like that). Does anyone have any suggestions / guidance / insight there?

Thanks in advance!

The ones I have tried so far which at least meet the requirements (but not the desired) features and are at least usable include Foobar2000, Media Monkey, VLC, and Rocket Player.
Ones I couldn't get to work for assorted reasons include Audify, MP3 Player, Music Player, Musicolet, and MX Player.

I have both on my Note 10. What is the difference between them?