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Finally, Google has added quick settings to the notification pulldown in Android four.2. That'due south a feature many take wanted in stock Android since, well, forever. Enthusiast ROMs have added them. The manufacturers have added them. You lot tin download apps that add them. And at present, Google'south added them in the latest version of Jelly Bean.

Simply, Google did it different. Whereas quick settings generally serve every bit toggles in the notification pulldown, Google's gone a different road. Crazy, or crazy like a fox? Let'due south accept a look.

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The gist is this: Pull down the notification bar, and you see your notifications, just like ever. Only, where at that place used to be a Settings push button is at present ... something else. The icon shows a person, with five thumbnails below and to the correct of information technology. It's actually a preview of what's to come.

Press that push button, and the notifications section flips over to the quick settings. (And the icon in the meridian right of the screen switches from the quick settings icon back to a notification icon.) The settings listed are:

Your Google+ profile: If you're signed in to Google+, your proper noun and profile moving picture will appear. Tap it, and yous're asked if y'all want to view your Google+ profile. (Non certain why I'd ever want to get to my G+ contour that quickly, but chances are Google will tweak that at some bespeak.)
Effulgence: Tap this, and y'all get a little popup that lets you conform the brandish effulgence. This is different (and better) than the full-screen brightness notification. I utilise this a lot already.
Settings: Ah, there it is. A shortcut to the total settings card.
Wifi: Shows the network you're own. Tap, and it takes you lot to the Wifi settings.
Mobile data: Shows which carrier you're on, and indicate strength (in bars).
Battery: At that place's a visual indicator and percentage remaining. (Numbers FTW!) Tap and you lot get the bombardment section in the settings menu.
Airplane mode: Shuts off the radios for when you're on an plane. (Or if you want to pretend you're on an airplane.)
Bluetooth: Takes yous to the Bluetooth settings menu. (The quick setting will show on if on, off if off.)
Wireless Display: Bachelor in the quick settings when enabled in the display settings.

1 finger for notifications, 2 for settings

Here'due south the really cool function -- Google'due south given a way to quickly access the quick settings side for of the pulldown. Here'southward how it works.

Pull down from the summit of the screen with one finger and you become the notifications area.
Pull down with two fingers and y'all immediately get the quick settings.

Presumably this volition piece of work simply fine on all smartphones. (The worrier in united states, nonetheless, is slightly concerned nearly strange touch panels behaving weirdly, but we'll cross that bridge when nosotros come to it.) In practice, we got the hang on the two-finger swipe merely fine, though we're non quite at 100 percent in exercise. Most of the fourth dimension it works, sometimes it doesn't. Chalk that upwards to prerelease software, mayhap, or (more likely) operator error.

Oh, and one thing we'd like to come across added -- when y'all've got the quick settings open, yous can't pull down from the top to get notifications. You lot'll accept to press the push in the upper right to flip back over. That'due south non so fun (or quick) if you're property your phone in your left paw.

Quick settings and tablets

Things are pretty much the same on tablets in Android four.two. You take the same quick setting buttons -- with auto rotate swapped in here for the cellular connection push button. (Presumably the mobile network push will remain on any tablet that has a data connectedness.)

The other deviation for tablets is in how you access the notifications and quick settings pulldowns. You still elevate from the top of the display (in either portrait or landscape orientation). Merely notifications are on the left, and quick settings are on the right. In that location's no i- or two-finger swiping. (And you can't full both downward at the aforementioned time. We've 'shopped that moving-picture show for sake of example.)

It'due south not all the same known if applications will be able to add together items to the notification menu, or how they'd be able to do that without breaking the iconography. As of at present, in that location'due south no style to add or remove settings.

Exist that as it may, quick settings are a welcome addition in Android 4.ii, and Google's implemented them in a smart way.