Pie Controls Gestures

Manuel Wrage

About this app

"Pie Control" is the perfect companion for your day to day phone usage.

It gives you the ability to use your phone with just one hand via gestures.

Simply swipe from one of the edges of your screen to reveal a functional and visually pleasing menu which shows your favorite actions, notifications and status information.


Features
• Color settings to make the "Pie Control" yours
• You can view all of your notifications inside the "Pie Control"
• Multiple pies
• Two Rows
• Pie Points
• Stateful icons
• Trigger area settings
• Tons of customization options to fine grain your "Pie Control" experience
• Material Design
• Custom icons
• Broadcast support to toggle pie from "Tasker" and other automation apps
• "Xposed Framework" support to enhance functionality and compatibility
• It's possible to hide the navigation bar without root by using the integration with "Hide Navigation Bar"


Actions
• Back
• Home
• Recents
• Torch
• Lock Screen
• Screenshot
• Open notification shade
• Open quick settings
• Open power dialog
• Launch apps
• App Shortcuts
• Nougat App Shortcuts
• Open camera
• Open dialer
• Open call log
• Open contacts
• Screenshot
• Switch to last app
• Toggle Bluetooth
• Toggle WiFi


Colors
• Custom colors
• Light and Dark
• Per App which tints the "Pie Control" in the colors of the foreground app
• Shuffled Material which tints the "Pie Control" in random colors
• Twilight which automatically switches between light and dark
• Sky which matches the color of the sky


Special thanks
A special thanks goes out to the "Paranoid Android" team. Their beautiful pie redesign inspired me to built this application.

Accessibility services
This app uses accessibility services to programmatically execute actions such as back, home or quick settings.
This app does not collect any data via accessibility services

Hide the navigation bar
"Vivid Navigation Gestures" allows you to hide your stock nav bar as long as the gestures are enabled.
You need ADB or Root in order to use that feature.


Android ADB PC instructions
1 - Enable Developer Mode in the Android settings.
2 - Enable USB Debugging
3 - Setup ADB on your PC
4 - Run the following adb command to grant the permission:
adb shell pm grant com.ivianuu.pie android.permission.WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS

To restore the navigation keys disable the app or run this command:
adb shell wm overscan 0,0,0,0


How to install ADB
Gadget Hacks - https://youtu.be/CDuxcrrWLnY
Lifehacker - https://lifehacker.com/the-easiest-way-to-install-androids-adb-and-fastboot-to-1586992378
Xda developers - https://www.xda-developers.com/install-adb-windows-macos-linux/


Links

Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/manuelwrageapps/

Ratings and reviews

Pixel 3 latest version if android - this app is excellent. Not often am I compelled to review apps, but the quality and usefullness of this app cannot be understated. I use it with the normal bottom home bar removed (after running an ADB command on my PC) and it works perfecty. Now i have full screen apps all the time and can easily acces all my home, back, and recent apps controls by swiping in. The app allows you to customize every part of you experience to your liking.

I'd like to use this but it doesn't allow you to move the trigger to where you want, if you don't want the entire length of the left, right or bottom of the screen, clashing with the stock gestures, you can shorten the triggers but only in the middle of the edge, e.g. short trigger middle left, not lower or upper left, this is too limiting for me. To get around this it would be great to launch the pie from another gesture app, but that's not an option either. Too bad.

I use 1 layer of the pie, and wondered if you can add a functionality? I swipe far out most of the time and even adjusting the size, sometimes I miss going on the command. Can you make it so passing the command button still registers the command function ? This would make things so much better when I use the phone fast ! 😀😁

What's new

• Stability improvements