Edge display, which Samsung Samsung users may refer to as Edge Screen was introduced to Samsung curved edge displays phones. The Edge display feature first appeared on the Samsung’s Galaxy Note Edge in 2014, a phone that was sold in limited quantities. In 2015, the Edge display feature became mainstream with the launch of the Samsung Galaxy S6 and has also been extended to other flagship devices such as the Galaxy S8, Galaxy S9 and Galaxy Note 8.

How Edge Screen Works

The Edge Screen display feature lets users swipe from the curved edges Samsung device, like the Galaxy S6 Edge, S6 Edge+, S7 Edge, Galaxy S8, Samsung Galaxy S8+, Note 8, Galaxy S9, and the Samsung Galaxy S9+ to use features such as Apps edge, Task edge, People edge, and more. The Edge panels were simple shortcut panels that enabled quick access to frequently used apps, contacts, and more.

As we all know, Edge Screen has been a feature of Samsung’s flagship devices for a few years, which also means this feature only works on these Samsung devices. However, this feature can also be tweaked to work on a rooted device using an Edge display Xposed module. But an XDA Senior Member alticode says no, this feature can simply be ported to any Android smartphone in form of an app and of which he has done. Alticode has launched his own Edge Screen app for that brings Edge panels for any Android phone, not just Samsung phones.

List of available Edge Screens in the app:

• Apps edge » Users can add their favourites and frequently used apps here for quick access for access.
• People edge » To add favourite and frequent contacts.
• Quick Tool edge » This allows users to control some quick setting on their devices, such as turn on/off torch, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, data, Airplane Mode, increase/decrease volume.
• Softkey edge » This allows users to replace the phone’s hard keys by the soft key panel, allowing them to lock the phone with a power key and do the functions of the onscreen navigation bar.
• Calendar edge: Users can easily create and manage events.
• Screenshot edge: This also allows users to record screen.
• File explorer edge: Users can manage their files with cut, copy, rename, share, and delete operations.

According to the developer, more edge panels such as weather edge, Google Drive edge panel, Dropbox edge panel, and Flashlight edge panel will be added later on. Also, the app contains ads but users can get the pro version to get rid of it.

How To Install And Use Edge Display Feature On Any Android Phone.

Step 1: Download and install the edge screen app from Google PlayStore

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Edge Screen: Sidebar Launcher & Edge Music Player

Developer: Quick Touch

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Step 2: Launch the app after successful installation and skip to the main menu, by default the edge service and notification should be active if not activate both options.

Now, you should see four other option just below the first two, Edge manage, Handle settings, Backgrounds and More Edges.

Step 3: Tap on Edge manage, on this screen you’ll be able to enable and disable Ede panels you don’t want.

Note that, depending on the sidebar app you add to your edge panel, you may need to grant certain permissions which are required for the app to function.

Step 4: Return to the menu and select the Handle settings. This section allows users to change the position of the Edge panel and also adjust the width, height, transparency, offset and colours. So you can set it to your taste.

Step 5: Click on Background, by default you’ll see just two backgrounds available to use and other options to adjust it below. To set your own background, simply tap on the background on the right and allow media access, then you can choose your own set of background.

The More edges background only displays available panel, so you don’t need it.

That’s it, users can swipe from left or right to use edge panels, and tap anywhere outside of the edge panel to close it. Alternatively, users can also use the back button to close the panel.

Facebook’s social network of photography Instagram at an event held in San Fran Fransisco revealed IGTV, a TV application linked to Instagram, offering possibilities of playing videos in vertical format and full-screen content of the social network itself.

Instagram Launches IGTV, A New TV Application

With this new app, Instagram seems to be ready to go head to head with popular streaming websites like YouTube, Vimeo etc. IGTV allows users to upload videos up to one hour, up from the one minute limit.

Also, the launch of the new product was used to announce the social networks current figure. Instagram has reached a total of 1 billion users.

The new TV app is designed for use in Androids and iOS smartphones, which is why vertical videos have been used in full screen. In the meantime, IGTV will not serve ads, but Kevin Systrom, Instagram’s CEO explained that they would try to introduce a means to monetize the platform to pay off the creators of IGTV Videos for their hard work.

Instagram describes the TV app as a traditional TV, it starts playing as soon as you open the app and you don’t have to search to start streaming content from people you already follow on Instagram and others you might like based on your interests. You can also switch between “For You,” “Following,” “Popular” and “Continue Watching” tabs and also like, comment and send videos to friends in Direct.

The IGTV app is available for download in Google Playstore and iTunes. So, what do you think  of the new app?

Search giant Google announced on YouTube official blog that it’ll be launching a new music streaming service which will be replacing Google Play Music. Google describes YouTube Music as “a new music streaming service made for music with the magic of YouTube: making the world of music easier to explore and more personalized than ever.”

YouTube music promises “official songs, albums, thousands of playlists and artist radio plus YouTube’s tremendous catalogue of remixes, live performances, covers and music videos that you can’t find anywhere else.”

YouTube Music will be launching May 22 in the U.S., Australia, New Zealand, Mexico and South Korea alone and it will expand more broadly in the coming weeks. According to the reports, the app will also be launching soon in Austria, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.

Image: YouTube Official Blog

The YouTube music app is free for iPhone and for Android, however, it contains ads which can be removed with a YouTube red subscription and provides premium features such as the ability to play music offline or in your device background while using other apps or with your device screen off which the regular YouTube mobile app can’t achieve, although you can get that working by means of split view in the Android Marshmallow OS on Android smartphones. The app also provides an audio-only mode that plays music without videos.

YouTube also revealed that its subscription service, YouTube Red, is being rebranded as YouTube Premium and this will include access to YouTube Music. The price for new subscribers is increasing from $9.99 per month to $11.99, but existing subscribers will still enjoy the current rate.

The Music app will offer songs based on your location and you can also search for specific songs in vague terms. Also, If you want to know when the new YouTube Music is available in your country, head to music.youtube.com/coming-soon/