r/UnihertzTitan2

Hey guys.

I am by no means a developer, being a practicing Attorney-at-Law (don't shoot me). That said, I love this underrated device (which I bought as as a secondary device to my S23 ultra but which quickly became my daily driver) and I saw several calls in this community for the ability to play animated gifs on the sub screen. The inability to do so was quite an oversight on the part of Unihertz and I believe this would be a fantastic way to allow us to further personalize our devices.

As such, I dabbled a bit in Android Studio and wrote this simple app. No UI to get in the way. It simply plays any animated gif that is named "my_animation.gif" within a folder the user creates in the phone's internal storage named "subscreen gifs".

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Install the app.
2. Grant the "All files access" permission when prompted.
3. On your phone, create a folder named exactly “subscreen gifs” in your internal storage root.
4. Place any GIF named “my_animation.gif” inside that folder.
5. in the subscreen settings, add the app as one of the apps that you can use on the subscreen and also change the return home timeout to "never".

The idea is that you can add as many gifs as you want to your folder and when you want to change what is displayed, just change the name of the current playing gif to something else and rename the new gif you want to play as "my_animation.gif".

I hope you guys like it. I just wanted to give something back to the community. The link to the app is below.

****UPDATE****

In my first version of the app (V1), I realize that the running app shows up in the "recent apps" view and annoyingly can be mistakenly swiped away and closed along with other apps. As such, I made a minor variation in the second version (V2) where the running app does not show up in the recent apps panel. As such, the recent apps panel can remain uncluttered and you won't mistakenly swipe the app closed.

I have put both versions of the app in the Links below. Use whichever one you prefer.

Cheers!

LINK to V1:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1V8NKAcbx3R1Brf1bFRL6Go0FgeO8AT-U/view?usp=sharing

LINK to V2:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/12xJ3FcqWZRZbsd67uRRf0fAA_CMObaN7/view?usp=sharing

The spring/tension mechanism in this controller had broken, hence the reason why it was packed down and replaced with a new one (for my legion tablet). However, having received the Titan 2, I decided to mod that broken controller into a magsafe compatible, portrait style controller. It works a treat. I just thought I would share in case anyone else was also considering controller options.

Hey guys.

Following my previous animated GIF app, I began working on a digital clock for the subscreen where the user can:

1. choose either a static wallpaper or an animated gif (any image they wish) as a background; and
2. reveal or hide the clock with a swipe up or swipe down, respectively.

Furthermore, the app does not show up in the recents panel and as such, does not get in the way when using the main screen and cannot be mistakenly swiped closed.

Is anyone interested in such an app? If so, please let me know and if there is sufficient interest, upon finishing my testing, I will share the app freely.

Kind regards,

Michael.

I can NOT get use to the screen size. Great for someone that only emails or txt. Not for video content. I'm open to all trades...but I prefer foldable, or pro max.