Glance Plus on Windows Pc
Developed By: THSoftware
License: Free
Rating: 3,6/5 - 21.650 votes
Last Updated: December 23, 2023
App Details
| Version |
1.7.2 |
| Size |
11.9 MB |
| Release Date |
June 26, 24 |
| Category |
Tools Apps |
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App Permissions:
Required to be able to access the camera device. [see more (12)]
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What's New:
Improve stable! [see more]
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Description from Developer:
Sometime you just want wake your phone to watch time and some basic notification (battery, missed call, sms..) and don't want to drain battery for that.
Glance Plus is designed... [read more]
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About this app
On this page you can download Glance Plus and install on Windows PC. Glance Plus is free Tools app, developed by THSoftware. Latest version of Glance Plus is 1.7.2, was released on 2024-06-26 (updated on 2023-12-23). Estimated number of the downloads is more than 1,000,000. Overall rating of Glance Plus is 3,6. Generally most of the top apps on Android Store have rating of 4+. This app had been rated by 21,650 users, 4,452 users had rated it 5*, 10,689 users had rated it 1*.
How to install Glance Plus on Windows?
Instruction on how to install Glance Plus on Windows 10 Windows 11 PC & Laptop
In this post, I am going to show you how to install Glance Plus on Windows PC by using Android App Player such as BlueStacks, LDPlayer, Nox, KOPlayer, ...
Before you start, you will need to download the APK/XAPK installer file, you can find download button on top of this page. Save it to easy-to-find location.
[Note] You can also download older versions of this app on bottom of this page.
Below you will find a detailed step-by-step guide, but I want to give you a fast overview of how it works. All you need is an emulator that will emulate an Android device on your Windows PC and then you can install applications and use it - you see you're playing it on Android, but this runs not on a smartphone or tablet, it runs on a PC.
If this doesn't work on your PC, or you cannot install, comment here and we will help you!
Step By Step Guide To Install Glance Plus using BlueStacks
- Download and Install BlueStacks at: https://www.bluestacks.com. The installation procedure is quite simple. After successful installation, open the Bluestacks emulator. It may take some time to load the Bluestacks app initially. Once it is opened, you should be able to see the Home screen of Bluestacks.
- Open the APK/XAPK file: Double-click the APK/XAPK file to launch BlueStacks and install the application. If your APK/XAPK file doesn't automatically open BlueStacks, right-click on it and select Open with... Browse to the BlueStacks. You can also drag-and-drop the APK/XAPK file onto the BlueStacks home screen
- Once installed, click "Glance Plus" icon on the home screen to start using, it'll work like a charm :D
[Note 1] For better performance and compatibility, choose BlueStacks 5 Nougat 64-bit read more
[Note 2] about Bluetooth: At the moment, support for Bluetooth is not available on BlueStacks. Hence, apps that require control of Bluetooth may not work on BlueStacks.
How to install Glance Plus on Windows PC using NoxPlayer
- Download & Install NoxPlayer at: https://www.bignox.com. The installation is easy to carry out.
- Drag the APK/XAPK file to the NoxPlayer interface and drop it to install
- The installation process will take place quickly. After successful installation, you can find "Glance Plus" on the home screen of NoxPlayer, just click to open it.
Discussion
(*) is required
Sometime you just want wake your phone to watch time and some basic notification (battery, missed call, sms..) and don't want to drain battery for that.
Glance Plus is designed for this propose, it shows some basic info in black screen when you waving your hand over proximity sensor or cover proximity sensor.
How to use this app:
1. Open Glance Plus, start service
2. Wave hand over proximity sensor 2 times OR just take out your phone from pocket :)
3. To weak up your phone, double tap on screen
4. To turn off glance screen just press power button
5. Choose 'Always on' from 'Glance Type' to get Glance screen persistency
Some settings:
- Change font size, font color
- Enable/disable showing notification, weather..
- Change clock style (digital, analog)
- Change display position of info on screen
Warning:
For Samsung device: To prevent the app stoped by itself:
System Settings > Device Maintenance > Battery > Unmonitored apps > Add apps > checked Glance Plus
For Xiaomi smartphone: need manually grant "Draw over other apps" permission (Go to Setting > Installed apps > Glance Plus > Permission manager > Display pop-up window > "Allow")
For Huawei smartphone: Open Phone Manager apps (or Settings app) -> Permission Manager -> choose Applications tab -> select Glance Plus -> enable Draw over other apps
Permissions required:
- Location, Internet: get current location => weather information. Deny this permissions if you don't want show weather info
- Phone: Hide glance screen when incoming call
- Modify system setting: change time off screen
- Draw over other apps: need this permission to run app
- Run at startup: auto run Glance Plus when restart phone
This app uses the Device Administrator permission.
Frequently asked questions:
1. Notifications does not show up ?
- Access to notifications needs to be enabled (open Setting, click on the "Show notification" option for notifications and allow access to Glance Plus)
- try to restart the phone
2. Waving my hand over my phone doesn't work
- Try waving slowly
- Try waving after screen off > 1s
- Try increasing screen brightness in app settings
- You may need to wave very close to the proximity sensor (should be located just above the screen) on some devices
- Add Glance Plus to white list of optimization app (eg: battery saver..)
- Try reinstall app
3. Immersive mode on the Glance screen doesn't work
- This only works on Android 4.3 (JELLY_BEAN) and above
- You need grant "Display over other apps" permission to Glance Plus
4. Battery is drained more quickly
- Go to Glance Plus/Setting, reduce Brightness and Time before off screen
- Turn off weather info
- Check exactly how much milliampere that app consume (may be consume few milliamper but OS still showing it's take much battery percentage)
Inspired by Glance for Nokia Lumia (Windows Phone) devices.
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Support us: Please help us make Glance Plus available in your language. Contact us by post to G+ or email to thteamsoft@gmail.com
Language supported:
- English
- Vietnamese
- Dutch (thanks to Gertjan)
- Turkish (thanks to Mehmet)
- Russian (thanks to Sergey)
- Brazilian Portuguese (thanks to Alex)
- Finnish (thank to Teemu)
- Arabic (thank to Ahmad Al-obaidi)
- Polish (thank to Dawid Wąsowski)
- Hungarian (thank to Balázs Biró)
- Czech (thank to Ondrej Mahdalik)
- Bahasa Indonesia (Thank to Prasetya Totti Psychadelic)
Improve stable!
Required to be able to access the camera device.
Allows an app to create windows using the type TYPE_APPLICATION_OVERLAY, shown on top of all other apps.
Allows an application to receive the ACTION_BOOT_COMPLETED that is broadcast after the system finishes booting.
Allows an application to read or write the system settings.
Allows read only access to phone state, including the phone number of the device, current cellular network information, the status of any ongoing calls, and a list of any PhoneAccounts registered on the device.
Allows an app to access approximate location.
Allows applications to open network sockets.
Allows an application to read the user's calendar data.
Allows an app to use fingerprint hardware.
Allows an application to read from external storage.
Allows an application to write to external storage.
Allows applications to access information about networks.
