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| New Floating Stickies app supercharges the note taking process Posted: 02 Feb 2013 05:52 PM PST
With the increasing power available in modern smartphones, we have started to see manufacturers provide the ability to have multiple “windows” open at once on their devices, emulating the desktop environment. This can be useful for people who do not necessarily want to back out of one application to access another. One area where this can lead to some real benefits for the user is when a quick note needs to be jotted down. Owner’s of smartphones running older versions of Android can join in on the fun now thanks to XDA Developer forum member Mohammad_Adib who create the Floating Stickies note-taking app. The Floating Stickies app gives the user the ability to open a floating window where they can type up a quick note. The note will stay on the screen, floating above whatever else may be open, unless “minimized” to the left hand edge of the screen. The fun does not stop at one floating sticky note though – multiple windows with different colors can be opened at the same time. Text in one note can be copied and pasted into another note. The only downside I see to the app is that it does not save the content of the notes once the app is shut down, but if one uses it like a sticky note to keep the info at hand just long enough to be useful, then tossed, the app should work great. If you want to check out Floating Stickies in action, view the video below or hit the Google Play download links to install it on your Android device. You don’t have much to lose as the app is free.    Click here to view the embedded video. source: XDA Developers forum
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| Access notifications with invisible notification bar on custom ROMs Posted: 02 Feb 2013 05:23 PM PST
Android users who are running CyanogenMod 10 or CyanogenMod 10.1, and probably many other custom ROMs, looking to clean up their device’s display by getting rid of the notification bar now have an option to achieve that goal. Best of all, the solution ensures the user can still swipe down from the top edge of the screen to get access to their notifications. This feat was accomplished by XDA Developers forum member enryea123 through some tweaks to the SystemUI.apk and framework-res.apk files. According to enryea123, this solution will eliminate the ability to pull down the notification bar from the lockscreen. All of the changes can be undone just by restoring the stock apk files. The guide that walks you through the process can be accessed on the XDA forums using the source link below. source: XDA Developers Forum
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