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[Android Apps and Games] jerryfan2000:
This app is developed by the same Dev who makes the popular Android Apps Button Savior, Smart Taskbar, and Everywhere Clipboard.

Smart Statusbar is the first and only statusbar enabler for full screen apps on android devices. No more lose track of time or important info on statusbar when you are reading, playing, or watching movie.

To enable statusbar, just do a simple top down swipe from top of screen. By default, statusbar will shows 5 seconds. You can also adjust the timeout to your preference in settings.

Please note. This app doesn't work on Honeycomb and ICS based Tablets. They are very different from phone version of Android. So no statusbar hidden problem on those tablets. So do not download if you want to use it on ICS or HC tablets.

NO ROOT REQUIRED!

FEATURES

☆ Reveal statusbar in full screen apps

☆ Gesture activation

☆ Works on 2.0 and up

☆ Adjustable statusbar enabling duration

☆ Vibration hint

Video Review

[YOUTUBE]Uf40JtoALO4[/YOUTUBE]

By XDA member: J-Roc

DOWNLOAD

(1) You can download directly from Google Playstore. [here]

(2) Or download the attachment in this thread below.

SCREENS
[Android Apps and Games] fanfan-liu:
jerryfan2000 thanks for bring another amazing tool for us. This app is simply amazing. wow!

By the way, is it possible to disable statusbar by gesture instead of timeout?
[Android Apps and Games] jerryfan2000:
This feature is already in my mind. I will for sure add it.
[Android Apps and Games] TheSmokingAndroid:
wow! really, really great app! I'm going to do a review on this for my YouTube channel. My viewers are going to LOVE this!

Great job! awesome settings, easy to use and understand. Great beginning tutorial!

Very very well done simple app.

cheers
[Android Apps and Games] jerryfan2000:
I thought my setting was too few too simple. Great that you likes the simple setting design.
[Android Apps and Games] Prockkaii:
Hello,

Is that possible to add a mod in order to make all the applications in full screen ?
[Android Apps and Games] IvanNCase:
Great app, I've got a handfull of requests/observations but please don't think I'm complaning at all, the app does exactly what it's supposed to, I've just got a lot of idea's. I second Prockkaii's post about making all apps full screen, I would love to see that added to this. I know in CM7 there's you can make holding menu hide the statusbar but you have to do that for every app and I don't believe it sticks after a reboot. Also a bottom statusbar option would be nice and just so you know when I tried using the bottom statusbar in cyanogen I couldn't bring the statusbar up with the top gesture either. It would also be nice to be pulling the shade down from the gesture instead of swiping once to bring up the statusbar and then a second time to slide down the shade. It would also be nice if the bar would pop up automaticaly on a notification.
[Android Apps and Games] jerryfan2000:
In reply the request from IvanNCase and Prockkaii. I indeed had plan to add this feature but i am still trying. It is not easy. So maybe will never make it at all. But I will try my best to introduce this feature.
[Android Apps and Games] jark99:
Request: try to make it use less Ram if you can
[Android Apps and Games] Prockkaii:
Thanks for the feedback.

In fact, my fear is that I'd used my Galaxy s2 for about 6 months, and during this period I'd never activate the rotation and all my applications are showing the status bar.

And now on a white screen, I see that there is a mark of the status bar. On right side, I can even see the mark of the battery.

So that's why I would like to have this feature and not remove the status bar.

But again thanks for you apps.
[Android Apps and Games] jerryfan2000:
I noticed that during the development phase too and I don't understand why SB is slightly visible. I will investigate this issue continously.
[Android Apps and Games] Prockkaii:
I think you have a screen issue like me.

I'm currently using the pixel fixer in order to fix that. I'm running it for about 2 or 3h per day, let's see what happens in 2 weeks.
[Android Apps and Games] Rybean:
Awesome!

Working like a charm so far! HTC Inspire 4G, LordClockan ICS 4.0.3. Keep up the good work! Exactly what I was looking for.
[Android Apps and Games] aly19:
tried this out on my Galaxy Nexus and it worked perfectly as described. However, there is some lag that it particularly noticeable when scrolling through home screens and the app drawer. Once this lag is fixed/eliminated then this app will be perfect!
[Android Apps and Games] p1lo:
change http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kiumiu.ca.statusbar.free" with http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kiumiu.ca.statusbar.free the " can't open the link to the market
[Android Apps and Games] djrulz:
Cool man.. its a very useful app..
[Android Apps and Games] AdrianM:
Great application.

I wanted something like this on Android since i've tested iOS 5 on one of my friends iPhone 4 that i've been asked to jailbreak.

Thanks. Works great on Desire HD with ICS.
[Android Apps and Games] 3l3ctr0:
great feature, but there seems to be small lag between swiping and popping up..maybe you can find a way to remove this lag..but i really like it!
[Android Apps and Games] AdrianM:
No lag here. The status bar appears instant as soon as I get the finger off the screen.
[Android Apps and Games] xbroadcaster1991:
Thanks man!
[Android Apps and Games] Skivit:
good app, but +1 on the lag, noticable when switching on and off, possibly ram as someone mentioned, i have a low end device:o:D:D

perfect for full screen gps app, was just what i needed, but gonna leave it switched off (leaving it installed though;) ) to see if the lag issue can be fixed...

Galaxy 3, custom rom and OC.
[Android Apps and Games] hopler:
Hi, this is a great app!!!

If you want i can translate it into spanish.

I work on translation of MI File explorer and exDialer.

Thanks.

PS: I hope your answer.
[Android Apps and Games] djmcnz:
This is brilliant, thanks! Works perfectly on my Galaxy Nexus.
[Android Apps and Games] XlAfbk:
seems to break with custom dpis. probably thinks I'm using a tablet. could you please fix that, maybe by adding an override option?
[Android Apps and Games] 3l3ctr0:
Sorry for blaming the app..it was my fault..there is no lag..only wondered why the statusbar only popped up when i already swiped down the whole screen ..but the stausbar instantly popps up as you stop swiping..so do a long swipe..it looks as if there is a lag..do a short one and it popps up pretty fast..really my fault..

GREAT APP;-)
[Android Apps and Games] Gaidheil:
problem with the app on Google Play, or maybe google will fix it soon, but it wont load this app.
[Android Apps and Games] p1lo:
check it here
[Android Apps and Games] mik101:
I LOVE this because I also have a blackberry playbook, so I'm used to gestures for everything.

May I suggest that you not start your timer countdown until the user is no longer touching the statusbar/dropdown menu? Starting it right away is fine if the user never touches it. So maybe resetting the timer on every touch input of the status/notification bar would be the way to go? Might require root for that though. I'm not sure.

For example I have it set to 3 seconds. Thats great if I just want to look at the bar and see if I have any messages, but it's not long enough to pull down the notification bar and read anything sitting there, if I have a bunch of notifications.

I'm sure how difficult that would be to implement. Thanks for your work! :)
[Android Apps and Games] avetny:
Not working on Galaxy Note:rolleyes:
[Android Apps and Games] Chillz88:
Shakes my head... Did u even use it..it works quiet well on my galaxy note...
[Android Apps and Games] spectralblade:
Thanks for the great app! works well on S2
[Android Apps and Games] avetny:
Sorry my bad......it's working
[Android Apps and Games] Zorigo:
Just downloaded and rated five stars, yeah there's probably a few tweaks you could add in, but i can't think of any, and it does what its supposed to do for free and it does it excellently so it defo earns those five stars
[Android Apps and Games] dyval:
Thanks for this man. One of the best apps I found. :)
[Android Apps and Games] lordangel1221:
Does't work for my motorola photon?????
[Android Apps and Games] djmcnz:
Been using it for a few days now and it's indispensable, I'm quite surprised it's taken so long for this mod to arrive. Congratulations to you! :)

One suggestion:

* trigger delay - so it doesn't activate instantly

For example, one could set an "activation delay" in ms that would create a wait before the vibration and activation. The user would have to touch for the length of the delay before anything occurred.

I often activate it unintentionally and I think this would be a great function.
[Android Apps and Games] Rybean:
i have used in on DPI 190, 200 and 210. Have not gone done to 160 or anything like hta.
[Android Apps and Games] XlAfbk:
using 182 on Galaxy S I9000 here
[Android Apps and Games] jerryfan2000:
For those who have problem revealing statusbar, I have to admit that I can't guarantee it works 100% of the time. But I already tried to perfect it to maybe 99% before I made the release to Playstore. I am still fine tuning the full screen section logic constantly.

I also know there are people who can never get it working. If you are in this case, please give me some time. Your handset has smaller than normal or maybe zero touch movement threshold. (This value is used to determine if a finger down is tap action or move action) Since SSB uses system provided touch movement threshold as the height of triggering area, if your system reports zero to me, then you will get no chance to reveal Statusbar.
[Android Apps and Games] jerryfan2000:
I will also fix density mod problem in next version too.
[Android Apps and Games] AeroEchelon:
Thanks for this mod! Seriously Google should have implemented this in their OS already. I'm surely they figured that people might want to check their notifications when they are in fullscreen.

5 stars! Great app.
[Android Apps and Games] quitlee:
Galaxy S i9000

Unfortunately, I can't seem to get it working!!!

I'm on a Galaxy S i9000, AOKP ICS Rom build 31.

Any suggestions?
[Android Apps and Games] ArmorD:
Wow I was just looking for an app like this since I switched my rom(no more MIUI)
[Android Apps and Games] dheeraj (dhlalit11):
+1

I have also tried it on my captivate running slim ics rom and I am unable to get it to work

I have tried it on my father's galaxy note(gingerbread) and it was working great very smooth maybe it a problem in ics rom

please some one make sure if it is working in ics rom or not
[Android Apps and Games] AeroEchelon:
I am running 4.0.4 on my Nexus S and it runs just fine.
[Android Apps and Games] sqnyster:
+1

I'm using unofficial CM9 ICS on my i9001, and it doesn't work.

Used to work fine on stock gingerbread.
[Android Apps and Games] Zorigo:
Don't know how much you've optimized the app, but sometimes it consumes 12MB of ram. I'm not sure, but this seems a little much for a simple application that's persistent throughout the OS.

If it isn't i'd be happy to hear why, just think perhaps it could be optimized further?
[Android Apps and Games] dheeraj (dhlalit11):
@jerryfan2000

can u tell us how to increase touch movement threshold maybe our rom Dev have decreased that
[Android Apps and Games] ingenious247:
Cool idea.

Won't use it though, sorry. Read sensitive log files is a deal breaker for me.

Remove that permission and I will gladly pay for the app.
[Android Apps and Games] Rybean:
Running on Lord Clockan 4.0.4 version 7.2 ICS just fine...
[Android Apps and Games] jerryfan2000:
Hi,

I am not sure is there any property that you can set in ROM to increase touch threshold. But You can try this test version to see if it works. I am making new update soon to solve some issues regarding custom rom.
[Android Apps and Games] dheeraj (dhlalit11):
tried the attachment but it is also not working it is just like before nothing happened
[Android Apps and Games] XlAfbk:
I managed to trigger it like 2 out of 30 tries. The area is still too tiny. Why not just make it a user-configurable option?
[Android Apps and Games] jerryfan2000:
I already added this feature as an option in my next update which will be released today or tomorrow.
[Android Apps and Games] jerryfan2000:
Hi,

If you know how to use adb, can you do a quick logcat for me and send the log to kiumiu.ca@gmail.com for debug?

Step:

(1) When Smart statusbar is started, do

adb logcat -s statusbar

(2) Then try open a full screen app and then exit the app after 5 second.

(3) Do step two with couple apps.

(4) Then finish the log collecting.

Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] XlAfbk:
ah, ok, thanks then. Was assuming you tried to cover it with a one-fits-all value judging from that test apk.
[Android Apps and Games] dheeraj (dhlalit11):
sorry for giving you wrong info when you give the last test version I tried it in tutorial and it was not working but today when you asked the logcat for that I did start the app and then run the command in terminal open a landscape game tried to pull statusbar and it did work I was able to see the status bar and also got a vibration then I open a portrait full screen app and it was also working there thanks for that great test version but you need to correct that tutorial bug

edit:- currently it is also working in tutorial but success rate in portrait is 70% and in landscape is 90%but hey great work
[Android Apps and Games] Rybean:
I can make it work 100% of the time. I do have my DPI set at 190, cant image that makes a huge different. Its all in the finger placement... Keep up the good work dev!
[Android Apps and Games] XlAfbk:
It's not finger placement. My phone doesn't recognize touches in the first few px and with dpi changed the trigger area becomes so small it's impossible to hit as it's below that threshold. The update increased the area i can actually trigger it to 1!!!! pixel.

So just because it works for you please don't since it works for everyone ;-)

Really looking forward to the update :-)

Tapatalked
[Android Apps and Games] dheeraj (dhlalit11):
hi i have a feature idea for timeout setting you can place a X button on the screen then user can press that x button to hide statusbar
[Android Apps and Games] jerryfan2000:
Thanks everyone for trying my test version. Now I am sure the root cause is what I guessed. I will quickly push an update today to address this issue.
[Android Apps and Games] jerryfan2000:
It is because there is a value called tocuhSlope in System which is used to distinquish move and tap. In my case, it is 16 pixel on Galaxy S. So if I tap on screen with minor movement (less than 16 pixel) then such gesture is recognized as tap. No one can tap on screen without any minor movement. So touchSlope is used to define the threshold between move and tap. Since you lower DPI with density Mode, so 16 pixel actually becomes smaller in length on your screen. Hence, harder or maybe impossible to pull out statusbar in my app because I used touchSlope as the height of trigger area.

I guess there is also a side effect on your phone when DPI is set to 190 that it is very easy to trigger move event while you actually wanted to make tap. You can try to observe that a bit.
[Android Apps and Games] XlAfbk:
I just noticed that triggering status bar works fine in landscape mode. Actually just triggered it acidentally a few times while playing Angry Birds (haven't done that in quite a while). It's pretty much impossible in landscape though.

I think the phone recognizes touches better next to the left and right sides than it does on top/bottom.
[Android Apps and Games] dheeraj (dhlalit11):
hi jerryfan tried your market version 1.1 and it was not working at all so i restored the test version and now its all good
[Android Apps and Games] jerryfan2000:
this is very weird. Did you change sensitivity to More sensitive in preference?
[Android Apps and Games] XlAfbk:
I changed the sensitive to most sensitive and am still having a very hard time triggering it in portrait mode, like 10-20% success rate. However in landscape mode I'm getting a lot of false positives, meaning the area is way too large with this setting. Played around and I found least sensitive to work best in landscape.

My suggestion would be adding sliders where one can set a completly custom value instead of 3 predefined ones with seperate settings for portrait and landscape.
[Android Apps and Games] jerryfan2000:
Ok. Now I think I should add even larger setting and also separate the configuration for both sides.
[Android Apps and Games] dheeraj (dhlalit11):
i installed the market version start the app did a logcat tried to access the statusbar but still no avail

link to logcat:- http://db.tt/h8jbFpJ8 (not sure if this is only the logcat of statusbar
[Android Apps and Games] jerryfan2000:
Sorry. Just saw ur post today. I will look at the log file from u today. Thanks so much for the help.
[Android Apps and Games] dheeraj (dhlalit11):
a thank is expected if I have helped you

also I have ported lewa from to captivate its a gb rom so I installed the market version of the app and it is working flawlessly so I can say that the bug is in ics rom
[Android Apps and Games] kobik77:
Hi jerryfan2000,

This is an awesome app which every Android user must have.

I have one big issue with it though. It makes my UI to lag pretty hard on my Galaxy Nexus.

I saw few more guys complained about it on Play Store, so do you mind have a look at this problem?

As it's much a deal breaker for most GNex users.

Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] pepooh696:
hi jerry, I think theres a little bug I guess. I'm using xperia neo v, and when this smart statusbar app is active touch is not accessible at the left side of the screen maybe 20 width. If you get what i mean. can you fix it? hehehe
[Android Apps and Games] Turist:
Project seems to be abandoned. That`s very sad snce i loved this app on my Note on GB and now it does not work on ICS. Looks like there are no chances that it will be updated.
[Android Apps and Games] djmcnz:
Works fine in ICS for me...
[Android Apps and Games] Turist:
tries to reinstall - still no luck. i have version 1.1
[Android Apps and Games] djmcnz:
Rooted?

Drop it into system/app/
[Android Apps and Games] bilal.fanatic:
very usefull app...

luv it.... :D
[Android Apps and Games] nomad4ever:
Doesn't work here anymore, since updating to Jellybean. Any fix in sight?

I love this app so much, it's completely non intrusive and just works (usually).
[Android Apps and Games] jerryfan2000:
I will try it on JB. Thanks for your information.
[Android Apps and Games] XlAfbk:
it's working on JB (CM10) for me
[Android Apps and Games] JoFury:
Hi, the app is great but not perfect yet if the timeout is disabled when the notification is fully pulled down...it realy annoying when i was reading my SMS through the notification it collapses itself....arhh..... Anyway i still using it bcoz it helps a gamer like me:D
[Android Apps and Games] bunklung:
Runs fine on 4.1.2, but causes lag on recent apps window for 4.2.1.

Any ideas?

VZ Gnex AOSP Muzzy.
[Android Apps and Games] XlAfbk:
i think this project is dead :(
[Android Apps and Games] MightySashiman:
Odd thing, even if the app has its service stopped, or even if the app is UNINSTALLED, the status bar goes on auto-hiding. Any thing to solve this issue ?

thx in advance

cheers
[Android Apps and Games] SahilC:
That doesn't happen for me!

---------- Post added at 05:39 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:28 PM ----------

Is this thread alive? I had a question :)

Is there a way I can set the timeout to only make the status bar disappear, and not the notification tray once it's opened? Thanks!

---------- Post added at 06:04 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:39 PM ----------

Another thing I found that kinda annoyed me: I have the pro version, and i turned on the setting 'show status bar when notification pops up'

The status bar will continuously pop up if im in the middle of downloading something; say I'm updating an app or downloading podcasts.

Please try and fix this, if possible!

Again thanks so much for an amazing app!
[Android Apps and Games] SahilC:
One more bug I found.

Some reason the notification tray doesn't go all the way down.
[Android Apps and Games] kobik77:
I really think this thread is dead...
[Android Apps and Games] SahilC:
I hope not :eek: I love this app!
[Android Apps and Games] vNa5h:
Does it work on JB ROMS
[Android Apps and Games] jerryfan2000:
I have updated the app today with fixes of many stability issues. So far, I don't see any failure of revealing Statusbar in 4.2 and 4.1 on many of my devices. Also, along with the fixes, failure to respond in portrait mode seems to be gone too. If you are still unable to use it, please let me know. Thanks

And sorry for not maintaining this thread during last few months. I forgot to set auto notify me when there is new post on this thread. So I thought the thread was dead too until today I wanted to update something here.
[Android Apps and Games] jerryfan2000:
I went through previous posts regarding feature requests today. Generally, there are 4 items that were actually part of my plan during development. But unfortunately they are impossible to do for now due to limitation in API.

(1) Swipe up to close statusbar - It is not possible because there is no API to monitor statusbar visibility. I am more than happy to add this one if future OS has API to do it.

(2) Ability to force statusbar invisible - Again. It is API limitation. I wanted to do it more than anyone else.

(3) Home screen lag on GNex - It is graphics driver issue in ICS. The problem is gone if upgrade to 4.1 or 4.2

(4) Can't pull down statusbar detail in some Apps - Some apps uses different way to draw oepnGL surface which prevents statusbar from fully extended. I am not sure why too. I spent some time to study this before but due to my limited knowledge in openGL programming, so I don't have a good solution yet.
[Android Apps and Games] kobik77:
Thanks for the update.

One thing I think you might need to change is making the notification ongoing so it can't be swiped away accidentally.
[Android Apps and Games] jerryfan2000:
Oh.. Thanks for reminding. I think I forgot to set it ongoing..
[Android Apps and Games] oddspec:
Love this app is there anyway to bind a launcher action to make the status bar appear ? I use expanded desktop and would love to be able to do this but can't figure out how
[Android Apps and Games] fanfan-liu:
The new version is super stable. I like it. Great work
[Android Apps and Games] jerryfan2000:
I will first try what expanded launcher is. Many other users are also asking some sort of integration with Launcher, I honesty quite understand what they mean. I will start from your suggestion first.
[Android Apps and Games] oddspec:
Expanded desktop is a ROM feature in many popular ROMs cyanogen mod , aokp and many other it hides ur status bar all the time so u have more screen space but u can't pull it down won't its hidden unless u reenable it thru power menu hence ur awesome app so users like us can have more screen space and still get to our toggles and notifications when we need to just an FYI
[Android Apps and Games] hutzdani:
Two Ideas if they are possible.

1. Hide the notification bar from the lock screen.

2. Hide notification bar while in apps (Gmail/Twitter/Facebook all cause the Bar to show again )
[Android Apps and Games] oddspec:
This app doesn't hide ur status bar it makes it visible when hidden buy games or expand desktop ROM option so those features would be really hard to add since its not the purpose of the app
[Android Apps and Games] hutzdani:
Your talking about the same app no ? Smart status bar ? ( when in full screen mode )

Im using this app to hide the notification bar after 3sec time out and POP down when i get a notification.. . . i don't know what your doing with it if this is not what the app does !

Im mental or you need some coffee ?