Themes / Apps / Mods CoverScreen OS - more than a cover launcher, use cover screen as a fully functional mini phone! (includes Native Lockscreen!)

[twistedumbrella]

Well SamSprung disables Samsung Health and it's dead after A12 so ...

It doesn't actually disable it. It runs in place of it as a widget. That's how you avoid the accessibility services and running in the background over top the existing launcher. They're two completely different things that provide similar functionality with different costs.

 

[BWA80]

Hi!

Just updated to 2.0 and when opening the app, it crashes immediately.

A12, Ui4.

Tried clearing cache and restart phone, no help.

Edit: fixed

 

[kowalskitg]

I really like this launcher, but I can't keep it on consistently as I use cover screen swipe-up payment almost every time I pay for things. I kind of doubt it will be integratable as samsung keeps their payment stuff (rightly) on a short leash, I had issues with it allowing payments to go through on main display just with a custom lower resolution set, but it would be nice. I also had the launcher freeze on the pulldown menu that has the flashlight and bluetooth toggles, where they would always show with the phone closed and "off" until a restart, on another occasion had my cover screen stop working entirely, again fixed by a restart. i'm currently on oneui beta 2 still

overall i'm very impressed you were able to make this work on oneui 12, I'm excited to watch the improvements over time and i'm very curious as to the nature of this workaround

 

[suquet.paul]

Excellent app. This brings in as much functionality as one may want out of the, fairly capable, external display on this device.

Might I suggest adding the ability to manually chose what apps to show on the drawer? Not all of the apps on my phone would be useful to open in the cover screen and would be great to disable / hide here.

So far, no complaints. Buggy as expected, lags sometimes, also as expected. Great work!

 

[paul c]

Been running this for the last week or so, now on v2.0

Nice simple UI for setup - similar to Energy Bar

I upgraded from Android 11 to 12/OneUI4 last weekend I think it was, and on a totally standard unrooted Flip3, everything has continued to work OK through the upgrade.

After pressing on the fingerprint reader, tapping the cover screen (in principle going to display the app drawer) leaves a black screen - though I occasionally do get to the app drawer, post upgrade to Android 12. Not a massive issue for me atm, since we need some ability to zoom in.

Not sure if it's intended behaviour, but I like the ability - after having opened the cover screen, and it has timed out to the AOD clock - to double tap on the AOD, and CoverscreenOS appears where I last was

Feature idea! I added one of my widgets so that it's there on the first right-swipe - but the content is so tiny that it's unreadable. It fills up the left of the screen, top to bottom, but only uses the first 20% of the screen (looking left to right.

So, would be really great to do something like stretch widget to fit horizontally or vertically (so eg a square widget would fit horizontally and would show its top half on the cover screen) - or even the ability to stretch and crop the widget so that just the preferred area is represented on the screen.

Feature idea#2! would be really good to choose the "tap cover screen gesture", to open an app directly instead of going to recents or the app drawer

 

[1dopewrx05]

Can I get a link to any versions before the 2.1 beta? I just did a clean update (uninstalled then updated to 2.1) and now no matter what I do or how I do it, the app crashes after granting accessibility permissions. I really would like to get this app back as I use it constantly at work to be able to quickly do little tasks without having to constantly flip it open.

 

[BWA80]

Can I get a link to any versions before the 2.1 beta? I just did a clean update (uninstalled then updated to 2.1) and now no matter what I do or how I do it, the app crashes after granting accessibility permissions. I really would like to get this app back as I use it constantly at work to be able to quickly do little tasks without having to constantly flip it open.

Hi!

I had the same problem. So, I force stopped the app, cleared both caches and uninstalled. Then re-downloaded and it worked.

 

[dallasnights]

GM installed Alpha 1.0 this morning, but before that cleared cache and data and uninstalled to do a clean install.
When I TAP on coverscreeen once, now it shows a little menu on the right but not the APP Drawer like it did before this update
Not sure if its a bug or I did something wrong
Love the app and keep up the great work and thank you!

BTW I am on One UI 4.0 too
Thanks

 

[carortruck80]

GM installed Alpha 1.0 this morning, but before that cleared cache and data and uninstalled to do a clean install.
When I TAP on coverscreeen once, now it shows a little menu on the right but not the APP Drawer like it did before this update
Not sure if its a bug or I did something wrong
Love the app and keep up the great work and thank you!

BTW I am on One UI 4.0 too
Thanks

Me too. Uninstall and reinstall then restarted.
Is everything locked now unless you pay?

Update: another uninstall, restart, install, configure, and it showed acrobat in the app drawer one time, then it's blank again except for all the locked options. Also noticed that one ui was still working and pulling down a volume toggle which got stuck and then coverscreen got stuck with one ui under a transparent cover screen ui pulldown.

 

[niachu]

How can i change transparent background in the app drawer? Previous version with black background was much better

 

[Tonyf93]

DOWNLOAD:​

After thousands of unfolding/unfolding, happy to announce that, a super experimental early access version of CoverScreen OS is now available for open testing on Google Play store (you may have to clear Play Store's storage/cache if you see 'pre-registration' page instead of 'open testing'.)

Spent countless hours and months working on this project, almost broke two Z Flips in the process. And now, your precious feedback and support shall determine the future course of development, which may include but not limited to:

• Allowing samsung's implementation work along with CoverScreen OS
• More quick toggles (Wifi, GPS... you tell me!)
• Dismiss notifications (either only on cover screen or both the screens)
• Pick up WhatsApp and other VoIP calls directly from cover screen
• App drawer with 'recents', 'favorites' and more sections
• Support for dedicated Apps (think of call, contacts...) and widgets optimized for cover screen

DOWNLOAD NOW!

NOTE: On Android 12, you may not be able to use Apps on cover screen (working on a fix!)

​

INSTALLATION & CONFIGURATION INSTRUCTIONS:​

1. Setup Bixby (required to fingerprint unlock to launch Apps on cover screen.)
   
   
2. Set side key to launch Bixby on Long press: Settings > Advanced features > Side key > Under 'Press and hold' select 'Wake Bixby'.
   
   
3. Launch App - select your Google Account.
   
   
4. Follow the onscreen dialog to grant 'Appear on top' permission.
   
   
5. Hit the switch at top right corner of the App > Installed services > CoverScreen OS > On > [Notifications access settings page will be opened] > Turn on CoverScreen OS.
   
   
6. You can now fold your phone to checkout CoverScreen OS in action.

OS NAVIGATION SYSTEM:​

I am yet to work on proper screenshots/demos to guide you guys, but here is some tips to using CoverScreen OS:

OS screen arrangement:

• Swipe Right: Opens Notifications screen.
• Swipe Left: Shows widgets you have added in the CoverScreen OS Settings App.
• Swipe Down: Quick Toggles.
• Swipe Up: Shows media play back controls (only if there is something active!)
• Tap on Home: Opens App drawer.

Notifications screen:​

• Clicking on Notifications reveals more details.
• To go back to notificaitons list, swipe down

App drawer:​

• To exit to home from App drawer, swipe right.

App screen:​

App screen refers to any App launched from CoverScreen OS's App drawer.

• Navigating back: Swipe left from extreme right of your cover screen.
• Going back to App drawer: Swipe up from extreme bottom of your cover screen.
• Going home: Go to App drawer > swipe right.
• Text input: Click on any text input area to open Voice Keyboard. On some Apps, you may have to click twice > once to focus on input field > second to open Voice Keyboard.

STAY UPDATED:​

Join CoverScreen OS's official updates news channel
Join CoverScreen OS's official discussion/group channel

​

Hi!
Thanks for your hard work, I wanna try this app, looks smooth and beautiful, but I can't download It from the store. It says the link is unavailable or the app couldn't be found on the store (maybe because I'm italian? I don't know). There is some other way to download and try It?

 

[Kenraali]

How i can download it? Cant find it on google play store.

 

[jagan2]

The open test release works very well for me. Interacttion is limited as Bixby does not properly implement voice commands in South African English. I'd really would love to be able to set up a a set of "replies" of my own choosing to reply to messages on the various platforms. Location and route planning works in Google maps. I did note that the standard widgets where no longer available after I created and added a lighting warning widget in the launcher. And we did not have any lighting yesterday so I can't report on the ability of the warning widget. Excellent work so far. Much appreciated!

Ability to change voice keyboard language, will look into it!

Hi!

Got this beauty installed and loving it so far, great work man!

As for bug reports, noticed if a app is opened on the cover screen and then tried to open on main screen, it will not open. Need to kill the app (clear recentes) and then it will open on main screen again.

It's fixed in the latest version!

As soon as installed and set up, my phone keeps locking itself after like 2 seconds again and again.
Reboot doesn't fix it, only way is to uninstall the app.
Anyone else have this Bug?

Fixed in the latest version!

Hi!

Thanks for the update! And can confirm, working on A12.

Went into device settings on coverscreen and could not swipe to close it, had to turn off screen. That's the only bug found now, so going good!

Requests:
Quick toggles: wifi, GPS, nfc, Dolby atmos, sound, airplane mode or all toggles that are on main screen, but you can choose what toggles you want and what not to show.
Apps: choose what apps to show on coverscreen and what not.
Icons: adjust size of quick toggle and app icon size (now they are huge).
Widgets: use 3party widget and also original samsung cover screen widgets
Screen rotation: turning the phone rotates the screen. Option on/off in main app settings.

You wanted Requests you got some

Thanks for your work!

Thanks!

I really like this launcher, but I can't keep it on consistently as I use cover screen swipe-up payment almost every time I pay for things. I kind of doubt it will be integratable as samsung keeps their payment stuff (rightly) on a short leash, I had issues with it allowing payments to go through on main display just with a custom lower resolution set, but it would be nice. I also had the launcher freeze on the pulldown menu that has the flashlight and bluetooth toggles, where they would always show with the phone closed and "off" until a restart, on another occasion had my cover screen stop working entirely, again fixed by a restart. i'm currently on oneui beta 2 still

overall i'm very impressed you were able to make this work on oneui 12, I'm excited to watch the improvements over time and i'm very curious as to the nature of this workaround

Latest version supports Samsung Pay, long press home on CSOS and you will have Samsung Pay launched!

Excellent app. This brings in as much functionality as one may want out of the, fairly capable, external display on this device.

Might I suggest adding the ability to manually chose what apps to show on the drawer? Not all of the apps on my phone would be useful to open in the cover screen and would be great to disable / hide here.

So far, no complaints. Buggy as expected, lags sometimes, also as expected. Great work!

More features are planned and incoming!

Been running this for the last week or so, now on v2.0

Nice simple UI for setup - similar to Energy Bar

I upgraded from Android 11 to 12/OneUI4 last weekend I think it was, and on a totally standard unrooted Flip3, everything has continued to work OK through the upgrade.

After pressing on the fingerprint reader, tapping the cover screen (in principle going to display the app drawer) leaves a black screen - though I occasionally do get to the app drawer, post upgrade to Android 12. Not a massive issue for me atm, since we need some ability to zoom in.

Not sure if it's intended behaviour, but I like the ability - after having opened the cover screen, and it has timed out to the AOD clock - to double tap on the AOD, and CoverscreenOS appears where I last was

Feature idea! I added one of my widgets so that it's there on the first right-swipe - but the content is so tiny that it's unreadable. It fills up the left of the screen, top to bottom, but only uses the first 20% of the screen (looking left to right.

So, would be really great to do something like stretch widget to fit horizontally or vertically (so eg a square widget would fit horizontally and would show its top half on the cover screen) - or even the ability to stretch and crop the widget so that just the preferred area is represented on the screen.

Feature idea#2! would be really good to choose the "tap cover screen gesture", to open an app directly instead of going to recents or the app drawer

Thanks for your input!

Can I get a link to any versions before the 2.1 beta? I just did a clean update (uninstalled then updated to 2.1) and now no matter what I do or how I do it, the app crashes after granting accessibility permissions. I really would like to get this app back as I use it constantly at work to be able to quickly do little tasks without having to constantly flip it open.

Try the latest version, clean install please.

How can i change transparent background in the app drawer? Previous version with black background was much better

It's now black again in latest update!

 

[jagan2]

UPDATE: alpha_1.3.7​

Download options:​

• Google Play Store (latest update takes time to show up on Play Store)
• Download .apk directly

What's new?​

• New Notifications UI/UX
• Access Samsung Pay by long pressing home screen
• App drawer's default sort is by last installed application
• All Apps locked to landscape by default
• Take actions on Notifications (For example: Mark as read on WhatsApp)
• Orientation Lock
• Sort App drawer alphabetically (ascending/descending)
• Sort App drawer by 'recents' (recently used) apps
• Search App drawer

 

[Gunde]

What's the trick to swiping from the extreme right or extreme bottom as the FAQ says?
No matter what, I can't get it to work. Any swipe just affects the app that is open.

 

[jagan2]

What's the trick to swiping from the extreme right or extreme bottom as the FAQ says?
No matter what, I can't get it to work. Any swipe just affects the app that is open.

Are you on latest version of the App? Do you have any case on for your phone? The trigger region for back/home is very thin, may be remove any case you have and try swiping once.

 

[Gunde]

Are you on latest version of the App? Do you have any case on for your phone? The trigger region for back/home is very thin, may be remove any case you have and try swiping once.

Latest version, no case or skin.
The best I can get it to do is quit CoverScreen OS and go back to Samsungs coverscreen on extreme rigt side swipe.

EDIT: OK, bottom swipe seems to work now, but right swipe just quits.

 

[jagan2]

Latest version, no case or skin.
The best I can get it to do is quit CoverScreen OS and go back to Samsungs coverscreen on extreme rigt side swipe.

EDIT: OK, bottom swipe seems to work now, but right swipe just quits.

As mentioned, the trigger region is very thin at the moment.

Regarding back gesture, which App in particular you were using? Try Chrome > open a page or two > back gesture should open previous page on Chrome, with enough back gestures it should eventually take you to App drawer.

 

[Gunde]

As mentioned, the trigger region is very thin at the moment.

Regarding back gesture, which App in particular you were using? Try Chrome > open a page or two > back gesture should open previous page on Chrome, with enough back gestures it should eventually take you to App drawer.

Yeah Ok, this works. But the final swipe out of the app does not go to app drawer. It goes to default coverscreen (not CoverScreen OS).

 

[jagan2]

Yeah Ok, this works. But the final swipe out of the app does not go to app drawer. It goes to default coverscreen (not CoverScreen OS).

Noted, it will be fixed in next version, thank you for the feedback!