…Now out of beta! What is Clutch Pad? Purpose: The purpose of Clutch Pad is to help users improve their navigation of Android activities and adapt to each individuals navigational flow. Clutch Pad offers many customizations to fit the needs of a very large user base. Important: Hold click by default will get you into Clutch Pad preferences. You can stop the Clutch service by using “Menu” (hard key) ->> “Stop Service” in the preferences start page. You can keep the service running and it will not effect your phones performance. For users who just want to hide the surface  [ Read More ]

Minor update but big improvements. Speed Improvements for pop-up (almost twice as fast) Last Task now does NOT follow rules for popup (bug fix)

This update now works with gingerbread and tablets. Purpose: The purpose of Clutch is to improve navigation of Android Activities and adapt to each individuals work-flow. Important: Hold click gets you into preferences and to stop service you can use menu->exit in preferences. This is an introductory price…buy now!  Price will go up once this app exits beta and provides premium features.  Note, screenshots are from my phone with a custom MIUI Rom.  Preferences will look different depending on ROM you are running. Features: Fast Global Access Clutch provides a button or swipe zone that stays on TOP of all  [ Read More ]

Just released this morning is a theme pack with multiple colors of a theme called ‘goodle’. xThemed will eventually be turned into a theme generator. This will allow you to customize different installed themes to what you exactly want. For example, if you want a certain style of tabs, with a different style of buttons..from two different themes, this will allow you do create this custom theme. Until then (been delayed with Holiday and most importantly…baby Albright ‘coming soon’ tasks), you can manually create your own theme directory and combined different images to form your own custom themes. Themes are  [ Read More ]

Over the last few days I have been quite busy with other projects of my life that provide just a little more income so…well, to let me eat.  With my first release and quick patch to follow, I managed to get on one blog so far…Droid-Life.  I saw promising sales happen over that day and then drastically drop the following.  I do appreciate everyone that did support me so far and that will in the future.  I still think Clutch is a valid and useful addition to the way Android navigates and how it provides the user quick and easy access to  [ Read More ]

Site Updates: – New backend (WordPress) – Mobile theme support – stevealb_vanillaForums Now that I got my new support site up and running I can get back to actually coding.  Over the next few days or so I will be working on a new version of Clutch Beta so make sure you visit the forum and suggest what you would like added! My apologies for the last few days of not having really any good way to provide support other then email but from here on out I got a sweet stevealb_vanillaForum up and running for you!  Thanks for your understanding and  [ Read More ]

I received lots of requestes to make the icon a little bigger.  I added some tweaks for the settings to make this happen but I plan on making this a little more customizable in the future.  Also, I added max icons of 20 that can display.  This may change a little in the future but I need to get some feedback and use it myself to see how this setting should be fixed.  Other minor reported bugs were addressed. Change Log: Added Horizontal Placement Tweaked Vertical Placement Add Max Displayed Icons Removed Opening Toast Made “Tab” Icon Larger (Tablets) Small Bug  [ Read More ]

Change Log: Initial Market Release As this is the first Market release, I do not have much to say.  One comment I do have is the results of this project from here on out will support what the user requests/suggests on.  Please get a hold of me if you got an idea or need a bug fixed!  The Android platform is deployed on a wide range of devices and its very difficult to concur all bugs in the first round.  If you do find a bug, the best way is to post in the support forum so everyone can benefit  [ Read More ]