Trouble accessing Quick Tiles with Overlay Controls

[Econdoc]

I am using LineageOS 15.1 (Oreo) which may be the cause of my problem.

1. When Show Overlay Controls is selected in Control UI, the buttons INFO, GESTURE, CLOSE are partially obscured by the status/notification bar. Sometime almost impossible to read.
2. Cannot see any of the three buttons when the Quick Setting Tiles are exposed. The buttons are not visible at all.

There does not seem to be any way to access overlay controls for the quick tiles.

Does anyone have a work-around?

[Desmanto]

It is gone in Oreo. Any overlay from any apps will be always placed below the statusbar/quicksetting. Android O is Breaking Apps that Overlay on top of the Status Bar. This include the INFO, GESTURE, CLOSE

My usual Control UI overlay usually doesn't involve statusbar, so I only encounter it several times. But yeah, It seems we need a new method to trigger the green border detection (to pick the script).

@Martin : Probably invent some intent to let us design a flow to trigger the INFO button? A floating widget also can be considered. Or maybe add a new method to trigger it, such as proximity sensor (preferred) or shake? So basically when we use Show overlay control, covering the proximity will shows up the INFO green border.

[Martin]

Hi,

This is a known issue but I did not yet have the time to implement a good alternative solution. Maybe I could make the three overlay control buttons draggable so they can be placed in custom locations on screen and provide an option to initially show the buttons at the bottom of the screen.
I would prefer a solution that can be controlled visually on screen and not rely on sensors to detect shakes since this is not working good on some devices.

Somehow the overlay seems to show over the statusbar/quicksettings again on Android 9 (Pixel XL) but unfortunately it still does not work on the lock screen.

Regards,
Martin

[Desmanto]

Ok, so sensor ones will be not a good choice. How about create a new action to trigger one of these 2 buttons? Can be called : Control UI Overlay. The action only provide 2 choices to fire up the GESTURE or INFO. Then I can map this action to any trigger I want, to fire up the overlay at anywhere I need.

[Martin]

I like the idea to invoke it with an action. I add it to the todo list.