Illumination Bar Notification

Users of smartphones from the Sony Xperia range they know very well the possibilities of their illuminated notification bar A very useful function to notify when there are any call alerts, messages or other questions pending to be reviewed by the user. However, for those who are new to this tool, the Illumination Bar Notification application has been created, capable of customize different aspects of this light notification bar

The functionality of this application is at odds with the design and appearance, which is too simple and austero However, it fulfills its function correctly. Thus, through a simple menu we can configure notifications, specifying some aspects of them. It is an essential requirement accept this application in the Accessibility menu, where it warns of the possibility of data theft. Something that, according to the developers, is not what this application has been created for. With this we already have the application ready for configuration.

Thus, after starting it and accepting it in the menu Settings Accessibility, the main screen of is displayed Illumination Bar Notification Here we find a list of options and small menus that include all the possibilities.The first is General Settings, where it is necessary to select if our Xperia is the S, P or U model, as the latter supports multicolor notifications You can also specify the brightness intensity and other issues such as the off time of notifications.

The rest of the menus are divided into two categories within the list. One of them is those that affect functions specific to the phone such as missed calls and messagesThe other category is the installed applications that this application supports. For now it allows you to configure the notifications of the social networks as WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter and Google+ It also allows you to be alerted with customizable notifications to know calendar appointments , the email of Gmail, and the messaging tool GTalk

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When clicking on any of them a new screen opens. Here we can specifically configure the notification light of said application. The first thing is to select the option Enable to activate it. After that, depending on the model of our Sony Xperia, we can choose between one of the seven colorsavailable or white light Finally, the last option allows you to choose the blinking frequency of the lightThus, we can choose to always keep on for that notification, or to blink at different speeds.

In short, an application that is most useful for customizing our Sony Xperia terminal almost to the extreme The downside of this application lies in the lack of design to accommodate a more comfortable and intuitive menu as well as the lack of translation into Spanish Although this is not a problem since it allows test each change made and configuration when pressing the button Test Light of each menu. The good thing is that you can download completely free The application Illumination Bar Notification is available at via Google Play