Sindrome - for simple operation on Android

What's this?

Sindrome is one of solutions for simple operation on smartphone running Android. Sindrome is incarnated by several apps as follows.

• • Notifications Home - a home app having no drawers

  • Sindrome Drawer - a drawer app

  • Sindrome Helper - an Xposed Module to tweak Android OS

And Sindrome is short for "Simple Android Syndrome".

Features

Sindrome targets up to 5-inch display.

• • Unified operations

  • Flexible notifications

• Easy one-handed operation

Instructions

• 1. Install Sindrome Drawer or other launcher app (not home app).

  2. Install Notifications Home.

  3. Install Sindrome Helper.

Background

At first, why did I choice an Android phone from smartphones? Because I like customizing my device and I heard Android is more free than other smartphone OS.

At the beginning of my Android phone's life, I installed a lot of apps and placed many shortcuts and widgets on the home screen. But number of unused app increased over time. Apps that I'm using now are E-mail, SNS, Calendar, News and a few more apps. Then I thought "I'll customize my phone to simple phone".

I started to reduce unused features and add helpers to support simple operations. Reduced features are

• • Widget

  • Shortcut on the home screen.

Added helpers are

• • Notifications on the home screen

  • Displaying app drawer at any time

  • Flying Android - move the window of apps.

I can substitute Notification for Widget and replace shortcuts on the home screen with a drawer app. After that, I place notifications on the home screen since it has items to display no longer. Then notifications is duplicated on the home screen and in the status bar. So I remove the notifications panel from the status bar because pulling down the status bar is hard by one-handed operation. Now I need to back to previous app from the home screen displaying notifications. Therefore, I add a way to access to recent apps on the home screen. If a drawer app has the same feature, I don't need the recent apps key on the navigation bar. So finally, replace the key with flying key to move app's windows.

Thank you for reading "Background". Maybe you think my customization is troublesome work. Indeed, I think so. I hoped simple Android smartphone by simple customization however it was not realized (realized partially). But I have deliverables and I can open them.