ActivityLauncher 2 #234
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I think it would be better if the Edit Shortcut menu items are on separate lines with the header and the input fields, that way there will be more space to fit more text, those edit fields should be as wide as possible and everything be on the middle/center of the screen for easier access on nowadays taller screens with 1 hand, that's my personal opinion, other than that - I will have to compare the 2 side by side, but I don't have a way currently to build / compile it locally, so I hope GH Actions will be able to when it comes to that. You know what, it turns out that I actually prefer pop-up dialogs, instead of separate menus, which I thing you should reconsider and revert back to such, it can still fit everything (I think)... Other than that, maybe try to make it show the activities count of each package in the list and while in the activities menu it would be nice to have a quick on/off toggle for the show/hide unexported activities, without having to first go to the settings. Please also plan a pure amoled black (not dark) theme as a 4th option. |
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Line 21 & 24 => Binary XML. |
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I've already mentioned multiple times > A.11 = API 30 and I've tested myself on/in Emulator as well (as already mentioned). |
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@butzist The app doesn't actually change the language in the Emulator with A.11, picking one from the preferences only shows the prepared text behind the filter and some apps and activities labels, nothing else seems translated and the ones I tested were with fully 100% translated strings on crowdin, not a single setting was translated, the Emulator is in English ofc. I understand and see that you hadn't done the per-app language prefs in the OP, but as I understand it, this is A.12/13+ thing, not the one I'm talking about, which I remember it working before. Luckily, this works on A.8 (ofc. you have to go back from the preferences in order to apply, by kind of relaunching it, instead of being a smooth transition). In the emulator, the FastScroll handle was a bit off, when dragged to the bottom, there was still at least one app or activity below, which I had to scroll further with a gesture to fully show it, might be a bit better on a some device tho, but I thought to mention it anyway. Material 3/You is more made for A.12+, so it expects the system to have a preference for the dynamic accent color ("Monet" ?), on A.11 and below, there's no way to control this system-wide, so the app looks ugly IMO with purple accent and buttons, instead of dark grey (the Light theme is purple-ish as well and not pure and just white), tho not all apps that use the G's Material BS look that ugly, last I checked MiXplorer, Material Files and other apps have it better implemented. I hope you can at least add a true Black (Amoled) theme as another option, as I suggested in my first comment here. As I mentioned (this hasn't changed and is very important): In landscape I can't launch any activity at all, at least on a phone with fullHD rez. (1920x1080) display, because the default action is Edit and the purple "Launch activity" or "Create shortcut" buttons don't actually show up, if fact there's no way I can get to them in that case, because I can't scroll the view there. Apps without names/labels still aren't listed at all, they do have activities and are shown/listed with their package names in the Android Settings > Apps (include system), other app managers and old Activity Launcher versions, I've mentioned this before in a created by me discussion topic and in some issue tickets. |
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The leanback tile on TV no longer has a name, it's completely blank, that at least on A.5 and we know that lists can't be scrolled or apps/activities selected using the D-Pad on the remote, which is about time to be implemented with the rewrite/new UI and can be easily tested in emulator with the arrow keys or real phone, tablet or whatever device with a KB attached (BT/OTG) or even with a software one, like the Hacker's Keyboard (enable the "Use permanent notification" to bring it on non input fields). |
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Switching the theme in v2.0.2 on A.11 Emulator crashes/closes A.L., it didn't before, nor does if the system theme is the same as the one you are switching to it seems. This redesign (v.2.x) is far from being ready for prime time, so I'm not sure why did you closed this discussion topic, especially when a really small % of the things I've reported here had been addressed, let alone completely fixed, as it looks like currently 1 thing (at most) gets fixed, another breaks. |
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Hello, will it be possible in this version to edit shortcuts in the app menu? I am looking for a way to redirect the system call for DocumentsUI to any other file manager app, as DocumentsUI constamtly crashes. So I installed Activity Manger. But I can only make shortcuts that are saved on the home screen. But I would like to alter the shortcuts in the Activity Manger Menu. Is that possible? There is no way to save altered entries... Thank you in advance! Kind regards Frederik |
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Hello Butzist thanbk you for your reply! With app menu I mean the list of apps inside Activity Manager. I would like to be able to alter the entries here in order to change mappings for certain apps. E.g.: DocumentsUI does not work properly. I want to edit the entries of that app in the Activity Launcher in order to start Total Commander instead of DocumentsUI. Unfortunately I can edit the entries, but it is not possible to save my changed values. I am only able to save a shortcut onto the home screen. The shortcut on the home screen does not help if Threema wants to open the backup file.... Thank you! Kind regards Frederik |
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You keep mentioning "Activity Manager", but this is "Activity Launcher", are you sure that this is the correct repo ? This app lists available activities of other apps (including itself), there's no way to modify another app's activities from here, what you trying to do is only (maybe) possible if you alter the target app (called "reverse engineering"), also it seems like you have to do a factory reset to fix the DocumentsUI, change ROM (if possible)/firmware or the device itself, probably also the brand/manufacturer, in case all of their devices behave like this. |
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Hello Drogga, thank you for your reply! Yes, you are right "Acivity Manager" is wrong - "Activity Launcher" is correct. You understood correctly that I want to redirect system call for a certain app to another app. Regarding the secon dpart of your answer: actually my device is running on LineageOS 20.0. That works quite well, the only problem is that both of the files apps that Threema can address do not work as I expect. Factory reset has been tested and did not work. I could switch back to the stock ROM which means Android 11. Most likely everything should work then. I do not know what better Android 11 without security updates or Android 13with security updated but missing Threema backup... Kind regards Frederik |
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It seems like You should contact the developers/maintainers of Lineage or/and Threema (if you haven't for some reason), because this is not related to this simple app, sorry that we can't help you and I don't think that is there any point in discussing this off-topic matter here, so please don't get surprised if we delete those comments ;) Threema should probably implement and use an internal basic and simple file picher as an alternative method. |
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Hello Drogga, thank you for your replies! I think you are right. For me WebOS and Palm were the perfect match, the Palm Pre was the best smartphone I ever owned. Thank you for updating me what Activity Lanucher can do and what it cannot do. Best regards Frederik |
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Hope you might create a branch for Jetpack Compose. I would love to work on that. |
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Makes sense - another thing that the users seem to value (apart from being ad-free) are the translations and compatibility for older API versions. Feel free to contact me on my email - either the one from commits or the support email in play store. |
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Minimum is 21 and the concept of your original app still there. We're only here for refactoring. |
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Hi @JackEblan , I got your email but haven't heard back from you since then. Are you still interested in the port? In the mean time I have also resolved some of the remaining issue and will soon release the v2 to Beta on Play Store. |
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Should I refactor your code now? Seems good that you made it to kotlin to master branch. I'll going to work with xml for you. |
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I would suggest to keep the old main activity and the ui folder around to support API 16-20. Instead, in the first iteration you could use the existing service layer and add a separate main activity that can be used for API 21+. |
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Hi folks,
I started working on a version 2 of Activity Launcher on branch feature/v2. Started from a fresh Material 3 app in Kotlin and now progressively porting the rest of the app. Was able to get rid of the loading screen by only showing packages on the first screen, then loading one package's activities on a second screen, and finally showing the edit shortcut dialog as a third screen with action buttons, instead.
You guys got some feedback on this? @Ismael034 @drogga
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