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.

  • @shashi154263
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    11 year ago

    There is an option in MIUI to swipe down on left side for notifications and right side for Control Center.

    • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏
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      21 year ago

      Really old Android devices used to do this, particularly tablets during the HC/ICS/JB era. It was kinda confusing IMO

      • @shashi154263
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        21 year ago

        I think it was part of Tablet UI for Android 3.0 Honeycomb.

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      I have a Huawei, a Xiaomi and a OnePlus and suddenly around one year ago they all sent an update to do that - I wonder who did first and who copied it. I find it illogical, why separate notifications from the rest?

      • @shashi154263
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        11 year ago

        It was made for tablets in Android 3.0 Honeycomb.

        I don’t know about others but MIUI (Xiaomi/Poco) have an option to disable it.

    • mFatOP
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      11 year ago

      I once tried a Xiaomi phone and that was the most confusing part.

      • @shashi154263
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        21 year ago

        I feel the same, that’s why I turned it off.