![]() LockStar is a nifty add-on that works alongside Good Lock to let you create your own lock screen in a few simple steps. One companion app in particular even lets you personalize your lock screen to set it apart from the rest of the crowd. Want to know more about us? Head here.Samsung's Good Lock app has has breathed much needed life into its TouchWiz UI by giving us the ability to customize our Galaxy phones in ways that previously would've required root or a custom ROM. In no time, our stories got picked up by the likes of Forbes, Foxnews, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, Engadget, The Verge, Macrumors, and many others. PiunikaWeb started as purely an investigative tech journalism website with main focus on ‘breaking’ or ‘exclusive’ news. Samsung NavStar has now gained support for One UI 2.0 based on Android 10 via the latest update to version 2.0.00.0. Samsung has finally pushed in a new update for its customization app, Good Lock, that brings in support for Android 10 (One UI 2.0) along with several fixes. Samsung will release the new app suite a month earlier this time around. Good Lock 2019 was released in March last year. The person in charge of Good Lock development confirmed on Samsung Korea’s official community forum that the latest iteration of the app is going to be released sooner than its predecessor was last year. Recent reports indicate that Good Lock 2020, with Android 10 support will be released on February 3. And now we have learned that the Good Lock app suite may be brought back with One UI 2 compatibility. Samsung is busy updating existing flagships to Android 10-based One UI 2.0. Many of Samsung’s 2019 devices the Galaxy S10 family and the Galaxy A-line of budget to mid-range devices all run One UI. Same for LockStar, ClockFace, Nice Catch, EdgeLighting, EdgeTouch, and SoundAssistant ![]() Some things still work, OneHandOperation+ still going strong. However, Samsung doesn’t officially support them. Routines in actionĪccording to the users, some components of Good Lock are actually working fine under the current One UI 2.0 beta builds. The whole package got its last update in August. Routines can be thought of as a handy automation tool a lightweight variant of Tasker. ![]() There exists an app called One-Handed Operation+, which adds more features to the old version of Samsung’s one-handed mode. NavStar: A Good Lock module to customize the navigation bar The lock screen can also be customized with different clock positions and a lock screen dock for up to 6 apps. Good Lock allows users to change the colors of the quick settings panel. The community even created launchers like NiceLock to bypass the geographical restrictions. Samsung has made the whole app very modular in nature, thus it is possible to add new plugins/mini-apps without updating the whole base app itself. I am not sure why many don’t like this but I guess it is just a matter of preference. This gets rid of the stock recent apps menu which automatically centers the last app used. Good Lock’s Task Changer tweak seems to be the most popular mod according to the ‘wise’ people of the internet. Screenshot via Samsung Members app Why is Good Lock popular? What can it do? However, it seems as though Good Lock fans will have to wait until One UI 2 is official before they can be able to use the powerful modding tool. Samsung’s OneUI 2 is also in Beta on a couple of Galaxy phones. Back in March, the Samsung Good Lock app got One UI and Android Pie 9.0 compatibility, bringing a host of new mod capabilities to many OneUI devices.Īndroid 10 is out and various OEMs are busy pushing out Betas and preliminary updates that all lead up to the official update. Users could modify multiple aspects of the TouchWiz UI, such as lock screen, notification pane and the recent apps menu.įast forward a couple of generations and today, Samsung still supports Good Lock for OneUI. Good Lock brought a surprising amount of modding options with it. The app was available through the Galaxy App Store. Good Lock made its debut back in the era of Android Marshmallow when Samsung still had TouchWiz as its own flavor of Android. ![]() If you are a fan of Samsung’s in-house Android skin and you are a little into customization, then chances are you have come across Good Lock. Original story (published on November 04, 2019) follows: New updates are being added at the bottom of this story……. ![]()
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