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when Apple showed off iOS seven they introduced a control center that looked very much like androids notification shade I'm Joe Levi for pocket now and turnabout's Fair Play this is my Nexus 4 I'm running CyanogenMod and I'm rooted but you don't have to be to run Control Center you open up the app and you've got a few settings and it's all this nice yellow minion colored theme to it we've got general settings where you can go through and do a whole bunch of stuff including making the indicator icon transparent hold off on doing that for a while until the next couple upgrades enable many of you I'll show you that in a minute and then you can hide some stuff if you don't want them to be there so what are we talking about this is your notification shade everybody as you said if you've got an Android you pull it down from the top you've got a tablet you can pull it down from the other side and get some different settings and whatnot so that's that's what it is you can control stuff right up in here your music you can dismiss notifications all kinds of cool things but it doesn't look like Apple that a lot of you will say it doesn't have to be Apple's the copycat here because they've got their control center which looks like a notification shade that you drag up from the bottom but it does look kind of cool right that's what control center does you get a hotspot that you can drag fun I've anchored mine over here into the center 50% of the right side of my screen you can assign that pretty much anywhere you want except the top and once you do that it just like you saw there very simply you can swipe and get all of your stuff here's your quick toggles your brightness settings you can even even go right into a brightness from there come back here and we'll get back into it now notice in that point I didn't grab exactly in the center I was up above or below so I'll come back and grab it that time so you can still do your side to side swiping without a problem you just have to know exactly where it is to get that and I've set mine to 50% you can set yours above or below that you can even put it down on the bottom if you want this is just kind of as an example and so I can maintain my my google now we also have my now playing music that I can start stop scrub through wherever I want you've got a quick lunch down at the bottom if we want to add a new app down here we just tap on that let's say I want to put in what we want to put in nest so I can control my thermostat really easy so we'll just do that we'll come back here and there is nest and we can scrub back and forth you can also go back and forth up here on your quick toggles very cool so let's go ahead and take a look at that compact version like I told you we were going to come back into control center and if I remember where that was general settings enable many of you okay and there's the many of you down there I kind of like the full view you can see that blue bar right there that's my swipe area just in case you were wondering what that was general settings let's turn that back off we can hide brightness because I don't ever do stuff with brightness I like auto brightness and then when we do that we've just saved a little bit of space in here as well really kind of cool this has been a hands-on of Control Center for Android by lone tooth it is available in the Play Store for free right now you can go and get a copy there are certain things that they're working on upgrading animations and whatnot that will be coming soon so make sure you keep an eye on it but it is completely functional today if you like seeing this kind of stuff make sure you give the video a big thumbs up and make sure you subscribe to our channel if you haven't already done so why not share it with your friends on your favorite social media networks we're on all of them on Twitter we're at pocket now and I'm at Joe Levi thanks for watching we'll get you next time