SlideOver Messaging
Free AppAbout SlideOver Messaging
SlideOver is part of me and my brother's Sliding Messaging Pro project. This is only part of what it can do within our app, but we decided to release this part for free and open source so that users can use this incredible feature without being confined to Sliding Messaging Pro and any developers out there can learn from it!
This app is meant to be used alongside your messaging app of choice, whether that is the stock app, Go SMS, Handsent, Textra, or any of the other 3rd party messaging apps available on the Play Store. It is meant to extend upon that apps functionality and give you extra features that aren't present in most/any apps.
Features:
- An always on "bubble" to access your latest messages from anywhere (without even leaving your current app!)
- Quickly reply to a new message with the Quick Peek option, brought up by a simple tap on the SlideOver bubble
- Easily move and manage the SlideOver bubble with a long press to drag option and a double click to change the sliver width option.
- The SlideOver bubble will show contact pictures and some of the message with a very cool animation on new SMS messages
- Option to "ping" the SlideOver bubble when the user unlocks the device and there is an unread message.
- Reply without pausing your YouTube and most other video services and games (something that usual quick reply boxes could never do!)
- TONS of customization options
- and lots of other stuff
Usage:
1.) Download SlideOver Messaging
2.) Open the main app to view the settings page and apply any of the settings you think fit!
3.) That's it! Now just wait for a new message to come though and view it via the SlideOver bubble and reply quickly to conversations via the quick peek dialog!
Notes:
Some 3rd party messaging apps block the text message receivers that I use to display the messages to the SlideOver bubble. It is a very easy workaround though luckily, simply uninstall and then re-install your 3rd party messaging app (such as Go SMS) and the messages will come up in both your notification tray (through the 3rd party app) and the SlideOver bubble (through my app).
Very simple fix :)
Another thing to look out for is that the system may not mark your messages as sent, even if they are. This is a bug we have had with Samsung phones, it seems as though they do things a little bit different and I have been unable to find a workaround so far.
There is also no support for Android 4.4 because of a new system that they implemented with default messaging applications. As this app is not meant to replace your default app, there will be no way to send messages.
If you like what we have done here, support us through a purchase of Sliding Messaging Pro! As I said, that app takes the functionality of SlideOver to a whole new level with an awesome pop-up reply dialog and some other neat customization and features!
Hope you enjoy!
For any developers that like this kind of app, the full source is available here:
https://github.com/klinker-apps/slideover-messaging
Check it out and make something cool with it :)
This app is meant to be used alongside your messaging app of choice, whether that is the stock app, Go SMS, Handsent, Textra, or any of the other 3rd party messaging apps available on the Play Store. It is meant to extend upon that apps functionality and give you extra features that aren't present in most/any apps.
Features:
- An always on "bubble" to access your latest messages from anywhere (without even leaving your current app!)
- Quickly reply to a new message with the Quick Peek option, brought up by a simple tap on the SlideOver bubble
- Easily move and manage the SlideOver bubble with a long press to drag option and a double click to change the sliver width option.
- The SlideOver bubble will show contact pictures and some of the message with a very cool animation on new SMS messages
- Option to "ping" the SlideOver bubble when the user unlocks the device and there is an unread message.
- Reply without pausing your YouTube and most other video services and games (something that usual quick reply boxes could never do!)
- TONS of customization options
- and lots of other stuff
Usage:
1.) Download SlideOver Messaging
2.) Open the main app to view the settings page and apply any of the settings you think fit!
3.) That's it! Now just wait for a new message to come though and view it via the SlideOver bubble and reply quickly to conversations via the quick peek dialog!
Notes:
Some 3rd party messaging apps block the text message receivers that I use to display the messages to the SlideOver bubble. It is a very easy workaround though luckily, simply uninstall and then re-install your 3rd party messaging app (such as Go SMS) and the messages will come up in both your notification tray (through the 3rd party app) and the SlideOver bubble (through my app).
Very simple fix :)
Another thing to look out for is that the system may not mark your messages as sent, even if they are. This is a bug we have had with Samsung phones, it seems as though they do things a little bit different and I have been unable to find a workaround so far.
There is also no support for Android 4.4 because of a new system that they implemented with default messaging applications. As this app is not meant to replace your default app, there will be no way to send messages.
If you like what we have done here, support us through a purchase of Sliding Messaging Pro! As I said, that app takes the functionality of SlideOver to a whole new level with an awesome pop-up reply dialog and some other neat customization and features!
Hope you enjoy!
For any developers that like this kind of app, the full source is available here:
https://github.com/klinker-apps/slideover-messaging
Check it out and make something cool with it :)
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App History & Updates
What's Changed
Version 1.25:
- Settings cleanup
- Will open the actual popup if using Sliding Messaging or EvolveSMS
- Fix for the foreground service
Version 1.26:
- Some force close fixes
Version 1.27:
- More force close fixes
Version 1.25:
- Settings cleanup
- Will open the actual popup if using Sliding Messaging or EvolveSMS
- Fix for the foreground service
Version 1.26:
- Some force close fixes
Version 1.27:
- More force close fixes
More downloads SlideOver Messaging reached 50 000 - 100 000 downloads
What are users saying about SlideOver Messaging
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I cant change the unread or normal bubble color
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What is this Is it messaging app?
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Thats good app
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Love it
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Really a 5 star app, potentially 10 star app if few things tweaked. Gets closed despite workaround. Looking for solution. BUT GREAT FOR YOUTUBE WITHOUT BEING SHUTDOWN WHEN A TEXT COMES IN. But developers don't have an email here for support. Keeps being shutdown by unknown app/process and STOCK APP DOESN'T REFLECT READ TEXTS. No playstore description either. Can this be fixed? Then will be perfect! What's so difficult to post ANY working email that will go where u can read & respond? C'MON MAN. It's 2016.
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I like the concept but the app is crashing making it unusable. Please fix, it deserves 5 stars.
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When I use this with evolvesms, I don't get notified via evolvesms whenever I receive a new message (no ringtone goes off) and new messages don't show up in notifications
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When you pull up the quick peel menu and type in your message, it blends in with the background of the quick peek. And if the opacity is down, my recieved message blends in. You should add a white font with black outline. That's my only complaint for now, difficulty seeing text.
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Its great app! I couldn't find anything that comes close to something similar like this one. My problem though is that if I send a msg from actual app it sends it but when i goto my stock android app it shows the msg i sent from the app but its not registering that it was ever sent. Pleases fix i have galaxy note 2 with software 4.3
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I like it but you can't see the full message please fix
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Just downloaded, and have used it a couple times. Love it. It could use more customization, I.e. colors etc. Thanks for the app!
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Great concept love the animation. But Needs work. Ringtone notification doesn't seem to work when using this app. Also I found that when checking peek view unread only....received messages don't appear in the peek view box and hitting send will force close app, additionally when recieving multiple text while replying to one person it overides who youre replying to and sends reply to the newest incoming message
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Make the phone get slow for a few seconds. Messages take a bit linger to receive.
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I cant change the unread or normal bubble color
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No colors or background options
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It needs to be able to be put on an SD card
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Also really hard to read messages even with opacity set to 85% wish I could change the font color for better visibility
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Love it
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Only complaint : Doesn't log my sent messages in the Google hangout I use to text from
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Really good people to offer your knowledge , I am a developer and what i like the most , is the spirit of sharing knowledge :)
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Works greats, just wish the message box was bigger so I can see the whole message that's being sent. I then have to go to my messages to read the entire text, which is defeating the purpose of this app.
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You can send emojis as a regular message without us using converting to SMS
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Every time I try to send a message it crashes can't even get to use the thing
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All messages I sent with this send twice. I've triple checked with evolve, hangouts, and stock AOSP messaging. Sending from this app produces duplicates. Sending from the assigned app does not.
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Overall, I enjoy this app. The two problems I've been having with it have to do with my actual messaging app not realizing that I've read the message (therefore keeping the notification on dock), and my second problem is that if I don't have the app actually open, the circle will disappear in the middle of YouTube videos when my phone is flipped. It doesn't have this problem if the app is open in the background, though.
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Always stops working
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Would be five stars but the text is black when replying with the quick peek feature which basically makes it useless since you can't see what your typing.... plus I was told by the developer to add a text color option myself since its open source.. ridiculous. Kind of regret supporting the developer now.
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I read the help, know Samsung is not fully supported, so I am not complaining. Too bad it's not stable on my s4,I would like to use it.
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Overall, I do like this app. Its design and functionality are both very clean. The one thing I don't like is that I use Hangouts rather than the default text messaging app, and when I reply to a text through SlideOver Messaging, my text does not show up in Hangouts. It does show up in the default text messaging app, so I know where to go if I ever need to look up full conversations. Also, keeps force closing. Thank you, I really needed this app. Makes my life much easier :)
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Says slideover messaging has stopped when I tried to move the bubble & it disappeared on the first download when I closed the quick & peek window. Download & redownload, still not working...it would've been an awesome app...I like to have it, plz fix. Long story short, it locked up my phone...
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Entire phone crashes after opening the bubble, I have to force reboot because the screen malfunctions
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When I use this with evolvesms, I don't get notified via evolvesms whenever I receive a new message (no ringtone goes off) and new messages don't show up in notifications
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I really enjoy the features of the app, but I wish it was supported on my Xperia Tablet Z, and support more than the last 3 messages
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Its great app! I couldn't find anything that comes close to something similar like this one. My problem though is that if I send a msg from actual app it sends it but when i goto my stock android app it shows the msg i sent from the app but its not registering that it was ever sent. Pleases fix i have galaxy note 2 with software 4.3
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Wish this played nicer, I really like the concept! 5 stars for effort tho. Will check back after an update.
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I was used to this feature on their original app sliding messaging. When I switched to evolve SMS it was hard, but then I added this app and now it's the perfect SMS app in the play store.
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Works with hangouts, better functionality than handcent's popup
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Doesn't allow "sliding sms" to be opened. It's not showing up in the apps list
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Works pretty good. Wow be nice to have a kik extension though. Just a suggestion
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I like the concept but the app is crashing making it unusable. Please fix, it deserves 5 stars.