Improve Landscape Typing by Disabling the Full Screen Keyboard
Landscape orientation typing was all the rage a few years ago, back when phones had slide-out, physical keyboards. These devices also weighed a ton, so they quickly fell out of favor. However, this...
View ArticleXDA Xposed Tuesday: Statusbar Gestures – XDA Developer TV
In this day and age, pressing the power button to turn off your phone is old hat. The LG G2 brought the knock to wake feature and the LG G3 expanded on that! The idea of gestures doing things on your...
View ArticleGreat XDA Mods for Your Sony Xperia Z2 – XDA Developer TV
The Sony Xperia Z2 has been out for a while, and if you own this device, you’ve probably gone through the various phases inherent to getting a new device. You’ve watched reviews on the device, you’ve...
View ArticleChange Your Battery Stats Colors without a Smali Mod
You may recall that earlier this year, we covered a simple Smai modification by XDA Recognized Themer and Contributor iamareebjamal that allowed users to change their battery stats color with a simple...
View ArticleXDA Xposed Tuesday: Change YouTube’s Mobile App Starting Screen with YourTube...
Here on XDA Developer TV, we talk about helpful Xposed Modules on our weekly show, XDA Xposed Tuesday. We’ve covered some modules that have everything and the kitchen sink, and those are great, but...
View ArticleCustomize Your Hover Notifications with xHover Xposed Module
One of Android L’s most interesting features is its way of handling notifications, choosing to show a hovering dialog containing them, which you can interact with or swipe away. This allows you to view...
View ArticleXDA Xposed Tuesday: Kids Mode for Your Phone – XDA Developer TV
The greatest thing about technology is its ability to teach and promote personal growth. No one knows this to be truer than the technology enthusiasts who have procreated and have a little mini-them...
View ArticleDisable the APK Installation Screen with Xposed
Many applications available here on XDA that aren’t available on the Google Play Store. There are usually a few reasons for their absence: Developer accounts cost money, they are too “hacky” to be...
View ArticleSleep Well Thanks to XQuietHours
The Quiet Hours feature available on certain OEM firmwares and custom ROMs is extremely useful for those who have trouble sleeping. If you have friends spread all over the world, they may (and often...
View ArticlePreserve Your Battery Life with NlpUnbouncer Xposed Module
Battery life is one of those things that still is a bit of an issue on modern Android devices. It’s also the subject for many discussions that take place on the forums. Android itself is somewhat of a...
View ArticleEnable Call Recording in CyanogenMod 11 with Xposed
Xposed Framework is one of the most interesting projects available for Android. Almost every ROM, no matter whether it’s stock-based or not, can have extra features enabled or have existing features...
View ArticleI Am Groot!
Some quotes from movies are quite famous and end up being remembered for a long time. Sometimes they are long, sometimes short, but they are always catchy. If you ever watched Guardians of the Galaxy,...
View ArticleXDA Xposed Tuesday: SSSHH Be Quiet Phone! XQuietHours – XDA Developer TV
The greatest thing about technology is its ability to keep us connected. However, technology can also impact our sleep, from waking us with notification noise to keeping us watching videos. Well,...
View ArticleAlways Enter the Correct Password with HideNoPasswords
If you’ve ever entered a password on your mobile device, you’ve surely noticed that password input fields normally hide the inputted characters by showing dots rather than the characters themselves....
View ArticleAdd Timestamps to Xposed Installer Logs with… Xposed!
If talking about the most interesting projects in the last few years, we must mention the powerful and versatile Xposed Framework. This tool is the foundation that allows us to implement hooks into...
View ArticlePrevent Apps from Locking Screen Orientation with HaveOwnOrientation
Most applications on Android play nicely with both landscape and portrait orientation. This, however, is unfortunately not the case for all applications, with games and older applications being the...
View ArticleBring Back Tablet UI on KitKat
Google presented their brand new UI for tablets alongside the release of Android 3.0 Honeycomb back in early 2011. It was widely used on many devices with Ice Cream Sandwich and Jelly Bean 4.1, at...
View ArticleMake Text Entry More Efficient with Macro Text Expansion
One of the best things about the modern day smartphone is its ability to save us time here and there. Features like Google Now keep us apprised of all the relevant news and scores so that we don’t have...
View ArticleXDA Xposed Tuesday: How to Control Google Play Wake Locks – XDA Developer TV
Xposed Modules are usually pretty simple. There are a few out there where a Smali edit or a change in build.prop would produce the same result. However, sometimes you just don’t have the time or desire...
View ArticleChange All Aspects of Your Lock Screen with LockScreen Tweakbox
Back in April, we talked about a useful Xposed Framework module by XDA Senior Member hamzahrmalik that allowed users to increase the number of allowed lock screen pattern attempts. This is incredibly...
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