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Finally, Google has added quick settings to the notification pulldown in Android 4.2. That's a feature many have wanted in stock Android since, well, forever. Enthusiast ROMs have added them. The manufacturers have added them. You can download apps that add them. And at present, Google'south added them in the latest version of Jelly Bean.

Only, Google did it dissimilar. Whereas quick settings more often than not serve as toggles in the notification pulldown, Google'south gone a different route. Crazy, or crazy like a flim-flam? Allow'south take a wait.

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The gist is this: Pull down the notification bar, and you see your notifications, but like ever. Merely, where at that place used to be a Settings button is now ... something else. The icon shows a person, with 5 thumbnails below and to the right of it. It's actually a preview of what's to come.

Press that button, and the notifications department flips over to the quick settings. (And the icon in the top right of the screen switches from the quick settings icon back to a notification icon.) The settings listed are:

• Your Google+ profile: If you're signed in to Google+, your proper noun and profile picture show volition appear. Tap information technology, and you're asked if you want to view your Google+ profile. (Not sure why I'd e'er want to get to my G+ profile that speedily, but chances are Google volition tweak that at some point.)
• Brightness: Tap this, and you get a little popup that lets you lot accommodate the display brightness. This is different (and better) than the full-screen brightness notification. I use this a lot already.
• Settings: Ah, in that location information technology is. A shortcut to the total settings bill of fare.
• Wifi: Shows the network yous're own. Tap, and it takes you to the Wifi settings.
• Mobile data: Shows which carrier yous're on, and signal strength (in bars).
• Battery: At that place's a visual indicator and pct remaining. (Numbers FTW!) Tap and y'all get the battery section in the settings carte du jour.
• Airplane manner: Shuts off the radios for when you lot're on an plane. (Or if you desire to pretend you're on an airplane.)
• Bluetooth: Takes you lot to the Bluetooth settings menu. (The quick setting will show on if on, off if off.)
• Wireless Display: Available in the quick settings when enabled in the display settings.

Ane finger for notifications, two for settings

Here'due south the really cool part -- Google's given a manner to chop-chop access the quick settings side for of the pulldown. Hither's how it works.

• Pull downward from the tiptop of the screen with one finger and you lot get the notifications area.
• Pull downwardly with ii fingers and yous immediately get the quick settings.

Presumably this will work but fine on all smartphones. (The worrier in us, however, is slightly concerned about strange touch panels behaving weirdly, simply we'll cantankerous that bridge when we come to it.) In exercise, we got the hang on the two-finger swipe only fine, though we're not quite at 100 per centum in practice. Almost of the time it works, sometimes it doesn't. Chalk that upwards to prerelease software, peradventure, or (more likely) operator error.

Oh, and one affair nosotros'd similar to see added -- when yous've got the quick settings open, yous tin't pull down from the top to get notifications. You lot'll accept to press the push in the upper correct to flip back over. That's not so fun (or quick) if you're holding your phone in your left hand.

Quick settings and tablets

Things are pretty much the same on tablets in Android 4.two. Yous have the same quick setting buttons -- with motorcar rotate swapped in hither for the cellular connection push button. (Presumably the mobile network button will remain on whatever tablet that has a information connection.)

The other departure for tablets is in how you access the notifications and quick settings pulldowns. You lot yet elevate from the superlative of the display (in either portrait or mural orientation). But notifications are on the left, and quick settings are on the right. There's no ane- or 2-finger swiping. (And you tin can't full both down at the same time. Nosotros've 'shopped that picture for sake of case.)

It'southward  non yet known if applications volition exist able to add items to the notification card, or how they'd be able to do that without breaking the iconography. Every bit of now, there's no way to add together or remove settings.

Be that as it may, quick settings are a welcome improver in Android 4.2, and Google's implemented them in a smart manner.

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Source: https://www.androidcentral.com/inside-android-42-notifications-and-quick-settings

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