Ever since I switched back to Android after a couple years of using an iPhone SE, i have been missing the iOS feature to open “control center” (iOS term for quick shortcuts) using a swipe up gesture from the bottom of the screen.

This is a great feature that eliminates the need to reach for the top of the screen to pull down the notification shade to access toggles for commonn settings (wifi, cellular, BT, hotspot, torch, etc.). Since we live in an era of huge phones such a feature would have been extremely convenient. Unfortunately it’s not implemented in Android.

But I accidentally stumbled upon an app called Neo Launcher that has implemented a similar functionality (kind of, since iPhone control center can be summoned no matter what app you’re using, but this only works on home screen).

A dashboard pops up from the bottom of screen, where your thumb can easily reach, with a user-defined shortcut! Toggling wifi and other settings are much easier this way.

I’d highly recommend everyone to give this a try. Personally I’ve set double tap on screen as a shortcut for the dash.

  • unce@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Android has that too. Try to pull down from the top. Not too much different than swiping up from the bottom

    • mFat@lemdro.idOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      The argument here is that reaching the top of huge phones with one hand is difficult.

      • notenoughbutter@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        1 year ago

        newer I phones also have a swipe from top (the notch iphones) which is basically the same

        iirc some old vivo or some other chinese phones had this swipe from bottom because they copied ios

  • motorwerks@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    1 year ago

    But, like, you can do something similar by pulling down twice. That screen can be configured to show almost any toggle. Different actions, similar results. Is it the actions you don’t like?

  • Aussiemandeus @lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    that's my s21 from swiping down twice at the bottom of the screen, you can't tell me that's to far up

    That’s my S21 and can get there by swiping down twice anywhere on the screen.

    I don’t think that’s too far up at all

  • ChristianWS@lemmy.eco.brEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I think Android 11 was doing something cool with the power menu being fused with home controls, always thought they’re going to further fuse it with the Quick Settings Panel, but they back paddled that real quick for some reason that I can’t exactly understand