Tutorial: How to have Galaxy S9 Corner Shortcuts on your Android

Have an Android and want to have the same corner shortcuts that the new Galaxy S9? In this article, you can see the step-by-step guide on how to use the resource that promises to make your life much easier.

The new tool of Samsung, very close to the Shortcuts already available for iOS, lets you open new apps with a simple swipe, all without interrupting the task you're already doing.

Despite corner shortcuts being limited only to the Korean company's products, Google Pay developers managed to replicate it, making it available for any Android phone.

Corner shortcuts: the step by step

1. First you need to access Google Pay and download the app EdgeAction;
2. When installed, just follow the usual instructions. Hit the 'Got It' option.

This alone guarantees the installation of Corner Shortcuts on your cell phone, with the bar created for the middle of the screen. However, the initial setup EdgeAction It may not suit everyone, and it takes up a lot of space. To work around this situation, it is possible to configure it, just follow the following steps:

1. To remove some items, just click on the 'Edge Management' on the app's home screen and disable the items of your choice;   
2. Back to the home screen EdgeAction, disable the function 'Fullscreen' is choose the 'Pause in landscape apps' and 'Pause in fullscreen apps' options. The first is for the program not to occupy the entire screen of the device when activated, to disappear with the bar created by the program when the cell phone is being used in horizontal orientation, while the other is for when in a game or an app that is executed in full screen;
   
3. I'm not a menuHandle Settings', you are able to define visual items such as where the menu will be, its size, color or transparency; 
4. For the background theme, the 'Themes' option is the current favorite, just check the option on the right and choose an image of your choice.

The app corner shortcuts It's easy to install and suits your preference, even if your phone isn't a new Samsung. All of this is up to the EdgeAction, a free application that, however, displays some advertisements when its settings menu is accessed. Paid content is at the expense of 'Edges', which work as widgets to add more functionality to the program.

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