September 13th
Today I released Appsi 1.5. This release includes the following new features:
1. A new (100% free and a part of Appsi itself) page in the sidebar with support for
- App widgets in the sidebar
- Home plugins (Appsi specific plugins, more below)
- DashClock extensions
2. Full freedom in placing the hotspots and the amount of them.
3. Fast scrolling support
4. More cutomizations and look & feel options
5. Music player controls (with special thanks to xda member Dr.Alexander_Breen for his excellent guide)
.. And a lot more.
September 4th (beta 1.4.21):
It's been a while and I think it is time to give you all a little update on what's going on behind the scenes in beta. I am working on fixing the issues that are left and hope to release the upcoming version as Appsi 1.5 soon.
I have got tons of new cool features coming up. To name a few:
1. A new (100% free and a part of Appsi itself) page in the sidebar with support for
- App widgets in the sidebar
- Home plugins (Appsi specific plugins, more below)
- DashClock extensions
2. Full freedom in placing the hotspots and the amount of them.
3. Fast scrolling support
4. More cutomizations and look & feel options
5. Music player controls (with special thanks to xda member Dr.Alexander_Breen for his excellent guide)
.. And a lot more.
The Home Plugins are small extensions to the home tab/plugin. The are small plugins you can add to the home tab in Appsi. They can be used to show things like, missed calls count, launching certain intents and a lot more. There is an open source sample project with docs on Github. And there's some instructions right here.
If you are looking for screenshots, take a look in the G+ beta community.
July 30th: Version 1.4 released
Last weekend I updated Appsi to version 1.4
New features:
1. Customize the size of the text and icons
2. Change the spacing between the items
3. Global search
4. New icon
July 15th: Version 1.3.3 in beta.
Very small amount of changes for this beta. Moving to production on 18th if no issues arise.
1. Option to minimize the notification. (no icon and smallest possible notification, no extra actions etc)
2. Bug fix for android 4.0.3 and 4.0.4 devices, causing crashed with hardware acceleration enabled.
3. Fix issue with long texts on items in the sidebar when there is a title and a description. The title will now also have ellipsis.
July 13th: Version 1.3 released.
Today I moved version 1.3 from beta to production. The following changes are probably going to make 1.4:
Improved search: Search through all apps, even if the section is disabled. If you have plugins, search will include all results from all plugins.
Live folder support in Appsi (add a live folder as if it is a plugin)
If you have a suggestion, just let me know.
Also I will add new translations once they have been completed. This is just a matter of time. If you would like to help out, pm me.
July 6th: Version 1.3 beta released.
I just finished uploading the new beta version of Appsi to Google play. This new version contains the following new features:
Proper favorites manager
Contextual action bar to perform actions on long press.
Switch plugins by swiping left or right on the sidebar
Updates to all plugins for the contextual actions
Fixes:
Fixed a bug in the icon caching mechanism
This is a beta release, so for now only accessible for beta testers (wanna be a beta tester? let me know). This version will most likely move to production within one week.
July 1st: version 1.2.4 was released
Although it may not sound like a big update, This version adds support for the following new features:
* transparency in the sidebar
* the ability to choose a background image for the sidebar
* Choice between light and dark theme
* Improved the way to get the data from the plugins.
* Improved user experience, especially for new users.
Special thanks go out to all the people helping with translations and beta testing. Thank you very much!
See https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.appsimobile.appsi for the Google play listing.
Appsi sidebar is a sidebar application for android. It comes with an embedded App plugin (more about that later) that allows you to see all your apps and add your favorite 5 apps as favorites.
It supports 3 distinct gestures when opening the sidebar, by default they will all open the sidebar normally. The gestures are moving horizontally after touching the hotspot, moving up or moving down. For each of these you can set the action to perform, these actions are:
- open the sidebar (default)
- open favorites swiper
- open recents swiper (needs plugins with recents)
- open plugin swiper (swipe to the plugin you'd like to open and then open the sidebar)
The swiper is the same as what you might know from other apps (like swipepad), it allows you to open something with one single touch, by moving your finger from the sidebar to the item.
The hotpot is either on the left or right side of the screen, it can be positioned manually and can be as big as you want.
Thanks to the wonderful people on this forum Russian translations have been added in the latest version. Also simplified Chinese has been added. I'd like to know what you all think about this app
Appsi is plugin based (and supported). This means it allows you to buy plugins to extend the functionality. This is not needed for normal operation, but it will add more types of things you can add as a sidebar.
You can either add a hotspot for each plugin, or use one hotspot for all plugins. The opened plugin can be changed by tapping the title of the sidebar.
If anyone has suggestions or improvement, either for plugins or Appsi itself, please let me know.
Download link for Appsi 1.5:
Appsi 1.5 release
Hello everybody,
If there are people out here that would like to test the app and provide feedback that would be great. I am open to suggestions and have a list of upcoming features. One of the features I just released as beta is the ability to change the alpha and to set a background for the sidebar. And the ability to be always up to date with the plugins (no need to load the data when the sidebar opens)
So if you'd like to do beta testing, send me your Google account (e-mail address) and I'll add you to the testers list.
If you do not want to test the beta version but would prefer to test the current version, that will also help very much.
Any feedback will help.
Thank you all!
If I'm right, this sidebar uses a service as "sidebar", doesn't it?
All other apps I've seen start up an activity if you touch the gesture area. If you press the home button and try to launch an activity from the gesture area, it has a 5 second delay.
So that's a really good thing.
Overall UI looks pretty good, which makes the users first thoughts about the app very positive.
ActionBar in the sidebar is awesome and usefull.
Logo isn't the best I've seen, you could improve that.
This is my opinion 4 seconds after installation.
Edit: search bar is very usefull
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I will try it ASAP and report.
I tried a lot already.... almost all to be honest, and i stick right now to a cryptic one but which really work well. Can be used for inspiration, so here it is (and i am not advertsing, ok. It is just for reference as this one is relly unknown) : overlay launcher.
Gonna install your app and report from my of course subjective point of view.
Cheers
Really like it thus far! Would it be possible to make it easier to switch between plug ins, I.e, when the sidebar is open instead of going to the top to switch plug ins, maybe you can swipe left and right within in the sidebar to switch between plug ins. It will make it a lot easier to use instead of going to the top.
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It is mandatory to add an option to dismiss notification from the notification panel... It's way too big, and it is very annoying for me!
App works really well indeed, and I'm looking forward to try a couple of plugins!
Keep up the good work mate!
Galaxy Note II - Alliance Rom
jlo20431 said:
Really like it thus far! Would it be possible to make it easier to switch between plug ins, I.e, when the sidebar is open instead of going to the top to switch plug ins, maybe you can swipe left and right within in the sidebar to switch between plug ins. It will make it a lot easier to use instead of going to the top.
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+1 for this feature as well! That would be REALLY GREAT!!
mDroidd said:
If I'm right, this sidebar uses a service as "sidebar", doesn't it?
All other apps I've seen start up an activity if you touch the gesture area. If you press the home button and try to launch an activity from the gesture area, it has a 5 second delay.
So that's a really good thing.
Overall UI looks pretty good, which makes the users first thoughts about the app very positive.
ActionBar in the sidebar is awesome and usefull.
Logo isn't the best I've seen, you could improve that.
This is my opinion 4 seconds after installation.
Edit: search bar is very usefull
Sent from my Nexus 4 running Android 4.2 JB
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Thanks! Yes I know I'll ask try to find someone to do some icon design later on. Will become better. I am focusing on improving the usability right now and other performance improvements. They are all in beta now, and if no more issues are found in these versions, I'll be putting this beta to production.
jlo20431 said:
Really like it thus far! Would it be possible to make it easier to switch between plug ins, I.e, when the sidebar is open instead of going to the top to switch plug ins, maybe you can swipe left and right within in the sidebar to switch between plug ins. It will make it a lot easier to use instead of going to the top.
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Good suggestion, I will add this to my list.
cyberpunk627 said:
It is mandatory to add an option to dismiss notification from the notification panel... It's way too big, and it is very annoying for me!
App works really well indeed, and I'm looking forward to try a couple of plugins!
Keep up the good work mate!
Galaxy Note II - Alliance Rom
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Thanks, the problem with this is running as a service. Android will kill the app if it needs resources. I have tested it and it will kill it quite often and restart it within a few moments. I can add an option (a discouraged one) to disable running as a foreground service. I can also suggest the user to disable notifications for the app if running on jelly bean, and take them there. Another thought was the ability to set a 100% transparent icon so that it does not show up in the notification bar.
The upcoming version (current beta) adds the following features:
custom backgrounds on the sidebar
light and dark theme (dark theme is the current theme, light is like holo light)
better synchronization between appsi and the plugins. (less data loading needed and better user experience)
Improved getting started experience (visible hotspots until the user disables it and an arrow showing how to open the sidebar once the hotspot is touched)
For the next version (after the current beta), I will add the following features for sure:
Favorites manager: Manage the favorites in a proper way and allow for an unlimited amount of favorites.
Navigating between plugins with a simple swipe.
and possibly:
integration with live folders
widgets plugin (already working on this)
Thank you all, and if you have any more ideas or suggestions, please let me know!
May I add something to this already rich and awesome list?
I would REALLY REALLY LIKE to have the possibility to add shortcuts to the apps plugin (as I can do on the launcher screen, for example). That would be really helpful!!
...Maybe also an option to change app icons and names, and a way to hide the "X" for apps removal (which I find quite ugly, this function might be moved to a separate and specific menu to add/remove things maybe?) ?
you may also think about offering an "all plugins package" at a discounted price, rather than having to buy all plugins separately (which, btw, makes the sum of all prices quite high). So that the user can choose if selectively buy the only one or two plugins he needs at their actual price, or directly going for the full thing.. I hope it's clear what I mean!
Cheers and keep up the good work!!
Should you need some beta testers... You know where to look
Galaxy Note II - Alliance Rom
cyberpunk627 said:
May I add something to this already rich and awesome list?
I would REALLY REALLY LIKE to have the possibility to add shortcuts to the apps plugin (as I can do on the launcher screen, for example). That would be really helpful!!
...Maybe also an option to change app icons and names, and a way to hide the "X" for apps removal (which I find quite ugly, this function might be moved to a separate and specific menu to add/remove things maybe?) ?
you may also think about offering an "all plugins package" at a discounted price, rather than having to buy all plugins separately (which, btw, makes the sum of all prices quite high). So that the user can choose if selectively buy the only one or two plugins he needs at their actual price, or directly going for the full thing.. I hope it's clear what I mean!
Cheers and keep up the good work!!
Should you need some beta testers... You know where to look
Galaxy Note II - Alliance Rom
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Yes, the favorites manager will at first be used to replace the current way of adding and removing the favorites. But later on it will also be improved to allow changing names and icons. Also I am planning to do something with icon themes, I still need to determine how and what, but a new theming format is not what I am aiming for (we are talking several releases in the future now)
Shortcuts is definitely on the list of to-dos for the apps plugin. I can't say yet when it will be added but it is something that will definitely be there in the future.
Well beta testers are always very welcome. The XDA Android app testers community is a good starting point, https://plus.google.com/communities/100406373096097711894 . If you join this group and opt-in for beta testing at https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.appsimobile.appsi you'll be able to get the beta version. I still need to add this community to the plugins, I will update my original post with the details when it is done.
Appsi sidebar is well beyond 1000 downloads from play store! Yay!
I really recommend this app guys, try it out and you'll see that it is even more comfortable to use than it looks!
Note 2 N7100 - Alliance Rom - Perseus Kernel
jlo20431 said:
Really like it thus far! Would it be possible to make it easier to switch between plug ins, I.e, when the sidebar is open instead of going to the top to switch plug ins, maybe you can swipe left and right within in the sidebar to switch between plug ins. It will make it a lot easier to use instead of going to the top.
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cyberpunk627 said:
+1 for this feature as well! That would be REALLY GREAT!!
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This feature is included in the beta that was released today. I loved it from the moment it worked. Very good suggestion
Today the beta was moved to production. See the original post at the start of the thread for the changes
Very cool app and working great so far.
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New Beta release, for all of you who want the notification icon gone, it is in beta now!
I'm joining this too.
Gonna try out.
Keep the good work.
PMoto
New version released, 1.4 see original post for details
Newest version is great!! An awesome improvement, really!! Appsi is becoming more and more polished and feature rich, while staying lightning fast. Can't think of anything better!!
Now we only need some more theming options, like changing icons (as we do on launchers like nova, apex...)
Cheers and keep up the good work!!
Note 2 N7100 - Alliance Rom DMA6 - Perseus Kernel
Appsi crashing
Firstly, after 24 hours of using Appsi, I have to say that Appsi has become one of my favourite apps. It is well done and provides needed functionality.
However, from time to time Appsi freezes and the only way to get the sidebar back is to force close the app from the application manager and then restart the app.
I'm using CM 10.1 (Android 4.2.1) on Samsung S3.
Any idea why this is happening?
Cheers,
Eran
eranhor said:
Firstly, after 24 hours of using Appsi, I have to say that Appsi has become one of my favourite apps. It is well done and provides needed functionality.
However, from time to time Appsi freezes and the only way to get the sidebar back is to force close the app from the application manager and then restart the app.
I'm using CM 10.1 (Android 4.2.1) on Samsung S3.
Any idea why this is happening?
Cheers,
Eran
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Never ever had a freeze or FC on Alliance Rom.. Maybe the problem you have is only tied to aosp roms and not stock or derivative ones?
Note 2 N7100 - Alliance Rom DMA6 - Perseus Kernel
Updates:
08-16-2014
- When opening app, it will remember last used palette and auto-select it.
- A few more bug fixes.
- Various code changes.
08-14-2014
- Added Import and Export feature.
- Minor improvements/bug fixes.
- Code overhall.
Description:
OpenPalette is an open source Android app for developers, themers, artists, and anyone else who needs to keep track of sets of colors for different projects. OpenPalette is an extremely simple app, create as many palettes (lists of colors) as you want, in each palette have as many or as few colors as you want. You can name colors to better keep them organized, easily copy values (HEX, RGB, or HSV) to clipboard by longpressing on a color, or tap the color to quickly copy the HEX value. Swipe colors away to delete them, and use the "handle" on the right side of the colors to reorganize them.
Colors can be added with a color picker wheel, or by manually entering HEX or RGB values.
This is my first Android app, so please report any bugs, I will fix all bugs to the best of my ability.
This app will likely only work on ICS and up, I might add support for earlier devices if I get enough requests.
Please leave feedback! I can't improve my app if I don't know what users think of it.
Downloads:
- Download from the Play Store.
- APKs available on XDA.
- Source code available on Github.
3rd Party Libraries I Used:
- Drag Sort ListView by Bauerca
- Holo Color Picker by Lars Werkman
XDA:DevDB Information
OpenPalette, App for all devices (see above for details)
Contributors
Tory Gaurnier, Tory Gaurnier
Version Information
Status: Stable
Current Stable Version: 1.2
Stable Release Date: 2014-08-16
Created 2014-07-30
Last Updated 2014-08-16
Nicely done, and very useful, thank you.
( It'd be great if it could pick up colours also using the camera. )
Reserved. Thx mate!
Would be great if you could add an option to auto render color sets from the current color, like complementary, ternary, tertiary. And maybe preload some of the common color sets like holo, solarized, etc
This sounds great. if possible could you add a save as css or some way to export the file to Gdrive or OneDrive.
Simply a brilliant app idea. Thank you for making this, I can finally retire my colour code bookmarks from chrome!
Useful app, but we need some kind of backup to file/cloud.
Also I got serious error when opening app - it doubles all saved palletes everytime it starts, so after few runs I've got dozens of my saved palletes.
Tory Gaurnier said:
OpenPalette is an open source Android app for developers, themers, artists, and anyone else who needs to keep track of sets of colors for different projects. OpenPalette is an extremely simple app, create as many palettes (lists of colors) as you want, in each palette have as many or as few colors as you want. You can name colors to better keep them organized, easily copy values (HEX, RGB, or HSV) to clipboard by longpressing on a color, or tap the color to quickly copy the HEX value. Swipe colors away to delete them, and use the "handle" on the right side of the colors to reorganize them.
Colors can be added with a color picker wheel, or by manually entering HEX or RGB values.
This is my first Android app, so please report any bugs, I will fix all bugs to the best of my ability.
This app will likely only work on ICS and up, I might add support for earlier devices if I get enough requests.
Please leave feedback! I can't improve my app if I don't know what users think of it.
Download from the Play Store.
3rd Party Libraries I Used:
- Drag Sort ListView by Bauerca
- Holo Color Picker by Lars Werkman
XDA:DevDB Information
OpenPalette, App for all devices (see above for details)
Contributors
Tory Gaurnier, Tory Gaurnier
Version Information
Status: Stable
Current Stable Version: 1.0
Stable Release Date: 2014-07-21
Created 2014-07-30
Last Updated 2014-07-30
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nice one !
Thanks for the feedback everyone (for some reason XDA hasn't been notifying me of your posts, I need to check my settings -_-)
Anyways, I updated the app on the play store and it should be published within a few hours, I added an export feature to export palettes to SD card.
geekon said:
Useful app, but we need some kind of backup to file/cloud.
Also I got serious error when opening app - it doubles all saved palletes everytime it starts, so after few runs I've got dozens of my saved palletes.
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That's strange that you have this bug, I got this bug durring my development, but the final version that was uploaded should not have been doing this, but I have the feeling my latest update fixed it, so let me know! Also, rather than commenting about bugs please report the bugs, on the top of this page there's a link for "Bug Reports".
I just uploaded the new APK to this XDA page, click the Download link at the top of the page if you don't want to wait for the Play Store to update.
And this page also has official Bug Report, Feature Request, and Review sections, feel free to utilize them.
Hey there,
Glad to introduce another project we`ve been working on with - Laser Launcher. A simple,light-weight android launcher that ultimately prevents apps from self-starting,saves power and releases system memory.With its intuitive 3 screen styling design, it reduced your time spent on idle apps,give you a most satisfied app experience.
Features of Laser Launcher
3- Independent screen :
- Left Screen : A navigation screen that brings up the necessary you normally need, such as recently used apps, frequent contacts, and that can manually add your preferred widgets.
- Center Screen : The apps you are commonly used are displayed by the calculation of your app using frequency. Frozen List is the access to the apps you`ve set to frozen mode. You can find the launcher setting by long press the blank space on the home screen.
- Right Screen : All apps are located here and you can find and easily add the app you want to freeze in the upper right corner.
Frozen list:
A key feature that we mainly developed esp. for root condition. Directly freeze up all the apps that rarely used. You can manually add the apps you wanna freeze into Frozen List,and set free whenever you need them again.
Download here: XXXXXXXXXXXXXX.c
Attached Screenshots: see attachments.
As a beta version just released, there might be some features or user experience issues.All feedback are welcomed, we preferred to feedback your feelings through app(Long-tap home screen> Setting> Feedback), also you could either leave down your comments here or give us a direct message.
Thank you all for your great support !
XDA:DevDB Information
Laser Launcher, App for all devices (see above for details)
Contributors
Kingxteam, ianlostcontrol
Version Information
Status: Beta
Current Stable Version: 1.0
Stable Release Date: 2016-06-30
Current Beta Version: 0.92
Beta Release Date: 2016-05-30
Created 2016-05-30
Last Updated 2016-05-30
no links, no screenshots, no app?!
Placeholder threads are not permitted. Check your inbox for my PM.
Thread closed at OP request.
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Code:
This is unofficial Krita app for android. Do not report bugs to KDE.
This is partially baked and not usable for productivity.
Introduction
This is a port of KDE's Krita digital painting app (http://krita.org) for android.
It's based on sh-zam 's port of Krita for android, with some adjustments to make it work a little better with android.
It's still a very early port, and many windows still look horrible and is nowhere usable for productivity.
Screenshots
Download Link
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?w=files&flid=303391
Some Usage Instructions/Workarounds
Scrollbars will appear in windows where scroll is possible/currently implemented, drag scroll bar to scroll.
Enable File toolbar for quick undo/redo,save load etc.
Configure toolbar to add Fullscreen View and Canvas Only mode to File toolbar,.. Will make life easier
When creating new project/opening new project, if ui doesnt respond. Try to go fullscreen/revert full screen or go to recent and back. Basically give it any event to redraw UI
If Keyboard doesnt show up in search/save go to recent and back to app.
End Note
This is more of a proof of concept then an really working app. But it can be made into a really good digital painting app for android with enough work. I'd stopped working on it since months, so uploading it publicly.
If you are interested in app and would like to see it working, leave a reply below.
If enough people are interested, I'll continue to work on it.
XDA:DevDB Information
Krita Android, App for all devices (see above for details)
Contributors
deepgaurav1
Version Information
Status: Testing
Created 2019-12-20
Last Updated 2019-12-20
Moderator, please delete this thread, I somehow double posted, and can not delete this thread.
Let original post : https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/krita-port-android-t4022515 be active, delete this one