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Android Nougat 7.0 To Soon Get Navigation Bar Customizer

The customizer bar would allow users to add, remove, and move icons from the navigation bar soon.

 

Google is now looking at creating a navbar customizer (navigation bar customizer), for the latest Android OS, the 7.0 Nougat. This will allow users to add, move icons, or simply remove icons from the navigation bar of their devices, or in other words, allow tweaking the 'home', 'back', and 'recent' options. As per NDTV quotes, this new feature is supposed to be hidden inside the code for Android Nougat 7.0, but a final revelation of the additional feature is yet to come. Most of the information currently available to the media has been through a network of resources who have leaked details about the new feature.

The feature first made an appearance, as a code, on January 22 this year, but removed a month later by February 24, as the feature was not yet ready then, as per details furbished on the code repository site GitHub. The customization option will now perhaps be added to Google's System UI Tuner, which was introduced with Android 6.0 Marshmallow's early build. System UI Tuner has essentially provided developers with various tweak options over the time like removing various icons from status bar, helping them take screenshots or videos of their apps. According to the source available, the navigation bar customizer was re-enabled, by modifying the SystemUI, and the screen-shots and descriptions of each new navbar modifier have been made public. All the standard buttons earlier known to be constant will now be removable and modifiable with newer options for icons.

According to the leaks available, the new options for functional icons on the navbar include a spacer, clipboard button, a button to which any keyboard function can be assigned and a switch button for menu/keyboard. There are also newer icons like the double-headed arrow, a cross and an icon with two horizontal lines. These icons resize, delete, and move the icons on navigation bar itself.

For those looking to tweak with the new feature, do check out XDA Developers, where the leak source has uploaded a flashable .zip file, which can be experimented with on the Nexus 6P handset running the Android Nougat 7.0 OS. However, considering the it would involve tweaking codes in the root of the Android OS, there should ideally be a recovery option, and the data on the handset ought to be backed up beforehand.

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TAGS: Android, Android 7.0 Nougat, navbar modifier

 
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