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"Complete One UI Project" is a Substratum overlay pack to fix annoyances in Samsung's Android Pie software
Complete One UI Project fixes many of Samsung One UI's smaller annoynaces, making it more consistently dark and better for one handed use. Read on!
Samsung's One UI brings together several refinements, as well as Android Pie, to the custom UX present on Samsung devices. As a successor to Touchwiz and Samsung Experience, One UI brought features like improved usage with one-hand, a system wide dark theme and more, most of which we largely appreciated in our review for the same. But despite best efforts, software experiences still have room to improve, especially considering the fact that experiences center around subjective opinion.
What we at XDA once envisioned as a proof of concept security vulnerability has now been confirmed by computer scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. The team details what they call "cloak and dagger" exploits which can take over the UI of most versions of Android (including 7.1.2). Given it's nature, it is difficult to fix and also difficult to detect.
Android O is Breaking Apps that Overlay on top of the Status Bar
Android O deprecates TYPE_SYSTEM_OVERLAY in favor of TYPE_APPLICATION_OVERLAY, resulting in apps that overlay on top of the status bar breaking.
The trickle of posts outlining new user-facing features found in Android O is starting to slow down now that users have had weeks to test the software on their device. However, there are many, many changes made under-the-hood that are slowly being uncovered. We posted about one such change just the other day about Nexus and Pixel devices running Android O adopting SDCardFS. But today, we would like to discuss a change that will affect developers of certain apps, particularly those that overlay on top of the status bar. These applications seem to be broken in the Android O Developer Preview, which at first glance you might dismiss as a simple bug, but diving deeper into the reference documentation, this may be an intended change by Google.
How Tapjacking Made a Return with Android Marshmallow -- and Nobody Noticed
Certain Marshmallow devices are susceptible to tapjacking, where an app overlays text on top of a permission dialog to trick the user.
While many of us salivate over the newly released Android Nougat for Nexus devices, the vast majority of users are still on Android Marshmallow. An exploit the existence of which has been documented since at least the middle of 2015 is still affecting many modern Android devices.