CoverScreen OS

A mini OS for your Flip's cover screen!

CoverScreen OS

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By: IJP
Version: beta_31 (Last updated: 2024-11-12)
Creation date: 2022-01-05
Permissions
Phone: read phone status and identity
Photos/Media/Files: read the contents of your USB storage
Storage: read the contents of your USB storage
Microphone: record audio
Device ID & call information: read phone status and identity
Other:
  • choose widgets
  • display unauthorized windows
  • modify secure system settings
  • receive data from Internet
  • view network connections
  • pair with Bluetooth devices
  • access Bluetooth settings
  • full network access
  • change your audio settings
  • draw over other apps
  • control vibration
  • prevent device from sleeping

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App summary

CoverScreen OS is more than a cover launcher, it simulates a secondary OS on your Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 3, Z Flip 4, Z Flip 5, Moto RAZR 40 +/Ultra, Vivo X Flip, OPPO Find N2 Flip, N3 Flip's cover screen. Superior than OEM offerings like Good Lock.

* Cover Launcher / Any app Launcher / Drawer
* Caller ID Screen for VoIP Apps (WhatsApp, Telegram, Line, Snapchat & several more Apps support in progress.) (For Z Flip series only, for now!)
* Support for all third party Apps homescreen widgets
* Quick Toggles
* Navigation gestures (back and home)
* Powerful Media screen - multiple sessions, scrub through the track and additional controls that are not available in OEM's Stock OS for cover screen
* Notifications with reply options
* Voice/T9/QWERTY full Keyboard support
* Edge Lighting Notifications (For Z Flip series only, for now!)
* Flex Mode (For Z Flip series only!)
* Custom Clockface

The navigation system is built such that, you can access both CoverScreen OS and OEM's Stock OS (checkout the tutorial within the App.)

APP LAUNCHER/DRAWER:​

* Launch almost any App on your cover screen.
* Launch apps in locked orientation - portrait or landscape.
* Quick search apps by alphabet.
* Sort apps alphabetically - ascending/decending.
* Sort apps by recently used first.

WIDGETS SCREEN:​

* Add almost any widget pixel-perfect aligned for your cover screen, of any App that you would normally add to your homescreen on the main display.
* Add as many widgets as you want.
* Widgets can be set into one of the two sizes.
* Perform almost all actions on the widgets like clicking on a button to launching its App.

CUSTOM CLOCKFACE:

* Personalized Wallpapers: CSOS allows you to set animated objects, your own pictures, GIFs, or videos as clockface wallpapers.
* Layout Options: Choose from different clockface layout options, displaying time, date, battery level, and even a signal meter.​

QUICK TOGGLES SCREEN:​

* Bluetooth turn on/off
* Flashlight
* DND mode
* Flex Mode - use cover screen while phone is unfolded (Tap on the Quick Toggle then unfold your phone)
* Caffeinate - keep screen awake
* Create your own customized and powerful Quick Toggle powered by Bixby Routines, Tasker and other third party Apps

NOTIFICATIONS SCREEN:​

* Reply to any notification with voice/T9/QWERTY full keyboard.
* Open notification instantly either on cover screen or on main screen.
* Perform additional actions available on each notification.
* Dismiss notifications with swipe right.

MEDIA PLAYBACK SCREEN:​

* Access all media playbacks from all Apps, as available on your main screen.
* Scrub through the tracks and additional media controls that are not available in OEM's Stock OS for cover screen.
* Theme support.

EDGE LIGHTING / ON-SCREEN LED NOTIFICATION INDICATOR:​

* Turns on cover screen and glows the edges of your cover screen just like the Edge Lighting on your main screen.
* You can set a single solid color for all incoming notification or let CSOS apply the App's Icon color.
* If you have multiple notifications from multiple Apps, they can combine into a beautiful gradient.
* More colors, customizations under development.

FLEX MODE:​

* Use cover screen with access to all CSOS features while the phone is unfolded on Z Flip 3/4.

Sensitive permission requirements:

Notification Access: To read and display notifications on the cover screen. The service doesn't save any notification, neither locally nor remotely.

Accessibility Service: The service is exclusively used for interacting with the cover screen of the device which includes and not limited to facilitate system navigations like going 'back', 'home'. The service doesn't collect, store any personal data whatsoever.

User reviews

I didn't even get through setup. This app requires access to you microphone in order to use voice typing, and will not let you skip that permission, even though plenty of people don't use voice typing. Very few apps should require unrestricted access to record anytime the phone is on, and this is not one if them.
by Troy Dontigney, 2024-11-16

I'm using again after latest update. Glad to have it back in my Z Flip 5. I like the app enough to have paid twice for it (must have for Z Flip 3). The app makes the cover screen much more useful. I can access more apps without opening my phone. It's a work in progress, but it offers far more than the stock cover UI. Always-On display drains battery much more if CoverScreen OS is activated.
by Cariño Casas, 2024-11-08

Works well most of the time, but I've been experiencing strange issues. For example, the backgrounds do not work at all. AOD or not, it does not function. Tent mode also does not function, and leaves the internal screen blank with a strip at the top. Lately it's been turning on DND without my consent, and not letting me turn it off (appears off in app). For the 20 bucks being asked for premium, these issues are unacceptable. Until this stuff is fixed, I can't recommend it. Dev, please fix.
by Mae, 2024-11-03
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