Although we have more and more restrictions, it is true that we can continue customizing spaces like the notification panel and quick settings to give it that personal touch on Android. It is precisely what we are going to teach you today.
And all with an app that works very well and that will give us All that functionality first. Let's say that this app is going to allow us to replace that very boring notification panel, like the quick settings, with a personalized one to give it our touch even with a photograph. Go for it.
How to customize the notification panel and quick settings of our mobile
That quick settings panel, and by the way Google is testing colored icons in Android 11, and the same one for notifications is the one that we can customize with a different color the one we have in the layer of our mobile system.
It not only tries to customize the style, but also gives us some other advanced function. It is the One Shade app that allows you to do all these little things and customizations. And it is that we are even going to be able to use a background photograph for that panel and thus give more life to that space that serves precisely what it is, the notifications and those bland colors.
What must be said is that while in the free version offers us some options, it is with the premium version that we will have access to the rest of the functions; something typical in this type of apps, although sometimes they surprise us with completely free apps.
One Shade forces us to activate three special permissions to be able to operate with all its functions: typing settings, notifications and accessibility. Given these permissions we can begin to configure some of its options.
Customizing the panel and something else
From the main screen we have 5 main sections: Layout, Colors, Heads-up, Extras and Edge Trigger. If we go into Layouts we can configure the shape of the icons, the position of the clock, make the corners smaller, activate/deactivate centered notifications, activate/deactivate the notification sections, pass the brightness slider to the header and a series of premium options. These are grid columns, grid rows, and the number of header tiles.
In the color section we can choose to change the background color, that of the active mosaic, the background of the notifications, the brightness slider and the premium option that treats the background color that is displayed after the content behind the panel. Another premium option, and very necessary if we want to radically change the notification panel, is the automatic dark mode. The rest of the options are for background blur, transparent notifications, header and amount of transparency; although this last option is premium.
As you can see, this is an app that offers many customization options. Let's keep going. In the heads-up section we are left with three options: enable/disable the use of shadows for this option, color the small size card with the notification color and disable it.
Then we have a series of extras such as the ability to create our own themes by having the option in One Shade of backup and restore. And of course, the option to choose a profile photo for the background of the Android notification panel. What we liked is that we can even change the carrier name that appears in this panel and the ability to automatically expand notifications to all, none, or first. There are many other options that we leave in the mystery of this section so that you can discover them for yourselves.
Finally, in the fifth section of One Shade for Android we can activate what is called the "trigger" and that serves to replace that downward gesture to extend the notification panel. In other words, we can add a side one from any part of the screen. All one app to customize the notification panel experience and quick settings.