There are a bunch of reports out there that say the more people text than call anymore. Go anywhere in public and you will see everyone staring at their phones. We spend a lot of time consuming media on our devices and sometimes we would like to be able to read and reply to our messages without leaving our Netflix-Hulu-HBOGo time suck.
XDA Forum Member manuja95 offers a new messaging option that will float your text over your current window. In this video XDA Developer TV Producer TK reviews Floating Text. TK shows off the application, its use, functionality and talks about his thoughts of the application. So check out this app review.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2484285
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.floats.floatingtexts
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Show us what do you use for your screensaver on S4, i like the “XDA” rolling on your phone screen
Love your choice of apps, love the reviews, thanks keep up the good work!
you are correct, the theme needs work, but the main thing is that the dev is working on making look better. when I started to the do the video the holo colors were just added 10 minutes before I started. So hope he takes note of the comments here and makes it even better. thank you
no it does not stop the video, you can respond and the video plays in the background.
you can try ninja sms, they have a free version on the play store.
A whole lot of people do, look anywhere around you in a public place…
I use Ninja SMS…
SMS Popup does the exact same thing and looks nicer.
Who uses txt messages anymore?
Nice video,
Is there another option than this app because go SMS always stops my videos
do you have any other third party text messaging apps ? and is floating texts turned on ?
Good functionality, assuming you aren’t on any of the major custom roms. The major custom roms have quick reply built into the text notifications of the stock messaging app which allow you to open the reply window at your own discretion.
P.s. The app looks like crap.
I would love an app like this that works with receiving texts through google voice
It’s not working on my S4. I sent myself a message via TEXTRA and I do not receive any pop ups from FLOATING TEXTS.
What’s going wrong?
That XDA screensaver on the phone on the desk.. XD
yeah great idea! maybe I can tweak around the app then ask permission to the devs.
holo dark side, you must go….
Highly recommend checking out glowfly. Loads of customization options with additional extensions & very intuitive. Ninja SMS is also a nice alternative for the floating feature.
Works pretty darn ok
hm, Go SMS does this since…. ever? 😉
great app, but if i had the choice i would choose HALO from AOSPA for notifications and messages as a floating app kind of thing because you get the full application just in a smaller window. for me kinda useless but great for everyone who hasn’t got HALO 🙂
Sweet! Xposed!
Thank you I’ll try this now.
Paranoid Android – Halo?
My only question is, does it pause a youtube video?
I have used a bunch of pop-up overlay style SMS apps, and they all pause the video, which can be annoying if you want it to continue playing and not respond to the messages.
I just use handcent.
sliding messaging has a popup that shows multiple threads. when you click on it it shows a window windowed version of the app like halo but without root.
More of these videos 🙂