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Android PIE control overview - Samsung Galaxy S3

2013-02-12
let's go non-android fans this is Clayton young bird coming at you from Android authority your number one source for all things Android and today I'm just taking you on a quick review of what the development community is calling the PI control and what the PI control is basically is a navigation bar that overlays your Android operating system it allows you to navigate effortlessly and might add in style so let's go ahead and check it out okay guys so before we get too far in this video let's go ahead and check out what this pi control actually is as you can see right here this is the bottom half of my home screen on my Samsung Galaxy s3 we have our capacitive buttons here such as back menu and of course our physical home button and on our physical home button we can bring up our recent apps everything of that sort but what we're going to actually do is put our finger on the very bottom of the screen swipe up and we have our PI control now the PI control is an on-screen navigation bar of sorts it's actually what it is but you can customize it as it is now you can see that we have our time our date we've got our battery percentage and our back home recent and search Keys now each of these interacts differently if we actually put our finger on it and of course it'll perform the task that it denotes so let's go ahead and click our recent apps and it brings those up pretty cool stuff huh so the next thing I'm going to say is that you have to be running a custom ROM to access the PI control either that or you need to install it with a third-party launcher but custom roms have been implementing the PI control namely paranoid android who created it and they actually built it on the CyanogenMod 10.1 source code so it is a cm10 sort of thing this is a cm10 bass-drum as well as a okp and that's why it features it so anyways guys on this particular ROM which is the vanilla brew box I'll provide a link in the description we're gonna want to go ahead and open up our settings menu and from our settings menu we're gonna want to go down to the actual root box settings now this will be different on devices running paranoid android even mind you anyways we're going to want to go into our pie controls here where you can see that we have all sorts of different settings for the pie control itself as well as the ability to disable it I of course have it enabled for you guys and we're going to go ahead and check out some of the options now as you can see the pie control has color settings here we can go ahead and choose holo colors which is basically a fall color I'm not gonna change anything up just because it's not too important to me anyways we have our enabler right here where we can enable or disable the pie control here's our trigger size modification as you can see I was running the big trigger let's check out the huge trigger and it looks like this they're simply larger so next we've got our pie gravity basically allows you to choose where the pie control comes in from we've got our bottom comes in from the bottom obviously we have it on the right as well top and left so from the right of course we could bring it in and we've got our pie control we've got our pie size and right now it's at the default size I'm gonna go ahead and knock that up to the large size so as you can see now it's much larger including the entire circle that the pie comes in on looks really awesome too next is the pie style we've got the bear style the quick default is slow now that's actually the animation style so as you can see it's slowly animating now as opposed to the quick animation that we had earlier then we've got our gap in between elements we can set and we can enable Chevron targets which will allow the notification panel and quick settings to be activated when swiped anyways we have we can always show the menu button as well and then we have our last app button so let's go ahead and check out what the last app was this is our last step button so we'll click that so anyways guys this was the pie control really awesome a lot of cool customizations you can do as well as some nice interface so you can impress your friends with and I just basically love it if you guys want to check this out you've got a samsung galaxy s3 go ahead and install the Paranoid Android ROM or install even ill a root box ROM or you can check out the LMT launcher which I'll provide links to in the description for any phone you want through the mad guys this is Clayton Youngberg with Android authorities calm and stay tuned for more awesome android content
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