![]() ![]() Stepping away from System UI tuner, and on to notifications. Just highlight a selection of text as normal, then press and hold to move it to the other open app on screen. Not many apps will let you drag selected text, but I managed to do it from the Play Store and drag it on to a text input field in the Hangouts app. Still Split-Screen related, you can also drag and drop text between apps, but the options are incredibly limited. So, if you happen to hit the home button to hide the split-screen apps, you’ll see a new landscape home screen. Sticking with Split-Screen mode, an interesting feature is that when it’s active, you can turn the phone horizontal, and your home screen and its icons all rotate accordingly. If you toggle ‘Enable Split Screen swipe-up gesture’, you’ll be able to launch it just by swiping up on the recent apps icon. We showed you split-screen activation in the last video, but, if you head in to System UI tuner you can activate another method of launching split-screen mode. On a similar topic, you can now calibrate the red, green, and blue levels of the display by hitting ‘calibrate’ under the System UI Tuner>Color and Appearance menu. What’s more, if you make sure the ‘turn on automatically’ toggle is switched off, it’ll stay dark constantly, and not go white again the next morning. If you switch it on, it turns everything dark, but also adds an orange/yellow tint, but you can switch the tint off, giving a much cleaner dark mode. I sort of hinted at this in my overview, but there’s now a system-wide dark mode which you activate by going to System UI Tuner, Color and Appearance then selecting ‘Night Mode’. Similarly (also in Status Bar), under ‘Time’ you’ll find the option to show hours, minutes and seconds in the status bar, or have the clock not show at all, as well as the default regular time format. You can select to have the indicator on all the time, or have it not show at all as well as the default, which is having it only show when plugged in to a charger. Go to System UI Tuner>Status Bar and hit ‘Battery’. While you could have the battery percentage show in Android Marshmallow, Android N gives you much more control over it. Open settings, go to System UI Tuner and try some of these. Once active, you’ll find System UI Tuner right near the bottom of the main settings list, just below ‘Developer Options’. When you let go, it’ll tell you that you have System UI Tuner active. ![]() Once you have developer mode enabled, drop down the quick settings menu from any screen then press and hold the settings cog at the top of the screen for a few seconds. If you haven’t done so already, head to Settings>About Phone and tap the ‘Build Number’ multiple times until it says ‘congrats you’re now a developer’. That means first activating developer mode. We’ve already covered the biggest changes, but here’s a list of 14 slightly less obvious and hidden ones.įor the first bunch, you’ll need to activate the ‘System UI Tuner’ option in the settings menu. There is another setting for “Demo mode,” but after enabling it, I couldn’t tell you what it does.The first Android N dev preview dropped last week, and since then, we’ve been digging in to the new operating system to find out what’s new. That means that you no longer have to swipe down the notification shade twice to see the battery percentage of your phone. Seriously, that annoying Bluetooth icon that you wish would go away even though you have Bluetooth enabled, can be turned off! How awesome is that?įinally, we now have the option to show an embedded battery percentage in the battery icon when the phone isn’t charging. This area allows you to hide or show all of the icons that may show up in your status bar, from WiFi icons to do not disturb and alarm icons to the cellular data signal icon. Where this gets really cool, is in the “Status bar” section. It seems to be a bit more stable this time around as well, so feel free to tweak away. So, we still have the quick settings options where you can drag and drop, rearrange, add/remove tiles. Remember the System UI Tuner that showed up in the original Android M Preview? You know, the hidden developer option that would allow you to tweak the settings toggles in the notification shade? It’s back in the Android M Preview 2, only more powerful than ever.įirst off, in order to change these settings, you need to enable the System UI Tuner, which can be done by heading into Developer options and then toggling on “Show SystemUI Tuner.” Once there, back out to the main settings menu and you should see the System UI tuner situated below “About phone.” Ready?
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