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MIUI is not like other Android ROMs. It has a full UI overhaul and adds a bunch of extra customization. A lot of the really nice features that made Gingerbread MIUI nice have been incorporated into ICS, and even more incorporated into CM9/AOKP... but not all of them. This guide is going to gloss over the features that are now standard in ICS and focus mainly on MIUI specific features.
*These features are as of the most recent MIUI version, some may work in older versions, some may not*
Some things to start with, just some quick things that I do every first boot:
Enable root: Find the Permissions app, turn root switch to ON.
Turn off 3G download limit: Downloads app, menu > settings > turn off Data download prompt
Change battery display: Settings > Battery > Battery indicator style. My personal favorite is top-bar
Set long-press back button to kill app: Settings > Button > Long-press Back to kill app, and delay time underneath
Customize toggles: Settings > Status Bar: Choose full page/compact toggles, Customize position underneath.
There's some more cool features in those menus, I implore everyone to explore the settings app thoroughly.
MIUI Home
Where's the app drawer? Well, there isn't one. Installed applications are placed on your homescreen. There are some ways around this. One way is to put your apps in a folder and place that folder in your dock. Another way is to simply use another launcher such as Apex or Nova. Yet another way would be to use an app drawer app, such as AppDrawer.
Enough about what MIUI doesn't have, lets get into the cool aspects of the launcher:
The dock: You can have up to 6 icons in your dock, and as little as none, including folders. It auto-rearranges to fit your icons centered.
Two & Three finger pinch: Pinch the home screen with two fingers and you enter widget edit mode. Easily rearrange widgets and icons from page to page and customize MIUI widgets (more on that later). Pinch with three fingers and you enter the home page edit mode. Here you can add more screens, remove screens and rearrange them. One nice thing you can do when creating a new screen is to grab directly from the + logo to where you want that screen.
Multi-touch icon placement: Pick up an icon or widget with one finger, and you can slide pages with your other finger for easy page movement.
Widgets: MIUI has some really amazing looking widgets including 3 clocks, 3 picture frames, and a full size music widget. These widgets are made even more amazing by their ability to be themed. There's a bunch of widgets available for them through the theme manager. One really nice thing about these widgets is that they don't update when you're not on that homescreen. This saves battery life and RAM consumption.
Lockscreen
Custom MIUI lock screens can do almost anything. The stock lock screen can unlock normally, unlock to messaging, phone, or camera. You can double tap the lock icon to bring up music controls and a visualization, though this will be shown automatically if you have music playing. You can preview unread text messages and missed call callers by holding the lock icon.
Then there's two features that work regardless of what lockscreen you're using. You can hold the home button to turn on the flashlight if your phone has a flash, and you can hold the back button to unlock directly to camera (in recent builds this needs to be enabled in Settings > Button)
Theme Manager
Probably the best feature of MIUI is the Theme Manager.
You can apply themes like normal, or mix and match pieces of your themes together in the "Mix" section.
You can pick pieces of full themes to not apply picking the theme, then choosing the icon in the bottom left. Really like your icon pack? Uncheck "Icons" and hit apply, you get the rest of the theme, but keep whatever icons you had before.
You can save your mix & matched themes. From the Mix section, hit menu > Backup Theme
Themes go in /sdcard/MIUI/theme or you can select them from the File Explorer, or open Theme Manager and menu > Import from SD Card
Besides themes, the Theme Manager is also used to manage ringtones, notifications, and wallpapers.
Place ringtones and notification tones in /sdcard/MIUI/ringtone
Place wallpapers in /sdcard/MIUI/wallpaper
Permissions Manager
The Permissions Manager is split into three sections, root permissions, permissions, and auto-start
Upon installation of an apk off your sdcard, you get asked to grant individual permissions, set "I trust this app," or the default setting will ask you as the app asks for each permission.
The Autostart manager will stop apps from running when your phone boots.
Network Assistant
In the Network Assistant, you can set a maximum amount of traffic to be sent over 3G if you have a limited data plan. It will also tell you which apps are using the most data, and by pressing the button at the bottom of the Traffic Ranking screen, you can limit apps' internet usage. From there, you can also set the default settings of newly installed apps, useful if you want to set apps to only use data off wifi.
Visitor Mode & Access Control
These settings are hidden a little bit. To access them, go into Settings > Security & privacy > Privacy protection
Guarded mode is also known as visitor or guest mode. When visitor mode is on, call logs, notes, gallery data, and text messages are hidden and the launcher cannot enter edit mode. You can also set a password for leaving visitor mode.
Access control gives you the ability to password protect applications. The ability to hide the apps is currently missing but should show up in a later build.
Firewall (formerly Do Not Disturb)
Using the Firewall app, you can send unwanted callers directly to voicemail and reject text messages as well. It has a lot of customization including a whitelist or blacklist and keywords for blocking text messages.
App Killer
MIUI has a built in app killer. You can access it by holding the home icon. It looks similar to the stock ICS task switcher, but looks a little nicer. It functions the same way, you can slide apps away to remove them from memory. There's also a little brush icon in the bottom left for clearing all apps from memory. The little icon in the bottom right takes you to the Running Services settings menu for further control over your running apps.
Miscellaneous Features
A few scattered features between apps.
T9 Dialing: Using the keys on the dialer, you can spell out your contacts' name to find them. For instance, to find "John" you would dial 5646
Long press editing: In almost any MIUI app with a list, (dialer, messaging) you can long press an item to enter editing mode. Select as many items as you want and select one of the options that appears. These options vary from app to app, but all include a "delete" option.
Long press toggles: You can long-press any of the toggles to enter the settings menu for that toggle. For instance, if you long-press the wifi toggle, you go to wifi settings.
To be continued
I'll keep updating this as MIUI gets updated. Feel free to post some suggestions and features you think are cool.
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App Drawer replacement, Sidebar, App Organizer, Folders and much much more. A must have for advanced users
JINA: App Drawer, App Organizer, Sidebar & Folders
App Drawer, Sidebar, App Organizer, Folder Organizer: All In One!.
JINA is an App Drawer Replacement and an App Organizer bundled with a Sidebar always accessibile by a simple swipe on the screen.
Some features:
★ sort apps by size, manually, by usage, name, install date, update date, last event
★ quick launch sidebar, resizable and always accessible for multitasking
★ fully customizable app drawer replacement
★ customizable home screen icon
★ automatic app organizer
★ personal tags and market categories based app organizer
★ dynamic desktop folders and nested sub folders
★ playstore listing abstracts
★ blazing fast finder with T9 search option
★ random game picker: when you feel bored
★ system apps uninstaller for rooted devices
★ app list exporter
★ .... much more just try it
Download on Google play
Want help translate?
JINA web site
Additional features:
Dynamic desktop folders for automatic categories
User defined Tags: 1 app can have multiple tags (m:n relationship)
Drag and drop for category mapping
Desktop Sidebar resizable and zoomable :cyclops:
Sidebar content customizable (from the icon only to full information)
App list Excel export
Apps prices and origin editable
Installation chart
Uninstalls tracking
Root uninstall system apps
Favourite apps
Customizable app icons
4 themes
Automatic switch to dark theme during the night
Lollipop app stats
...
Latest builds and changelogs are available on XDA-Labs
JINA: App Drawer, App Organizer, Sidebar & Folders.
Have a look at the FAQ section on post #5
The main purpose of this thread is to collect feedbacks on the new UI and suggestions for more features: togheter we can improve JINA.
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Old beta history
Previous beta changelog
New internal cache management (drawer/sidebar)
Settings related to the new cache management are reset to their default values (drawer/sidebar)
New option to disable sidebar search button: swipe up from bottom to enter search mode (sidebar)
App stats are now applied asynchronously when ordering by usage (drawer/sidebar)
Added pull to refresh gesture for sidebar and drawer (drawer/sidebar)
Dial menu on shortcuts: it is now possibile to move shortcuts between folders (folders)
Fixed hidden attribute not preserved on not launchable apps refresh (general)
New optional horizontal letterbar when sorting by name (drawer)
Keyboard shown automatically if "start in search mode" is set (sidebar)
Fixed Sidebar 2nd row cut on huge fonts system settings (sidebar)
Fixed wrong behavior on device orientation changes (sidebar, drawer)
New optional wide sidebar activation hotspot, useful for samsung edges devices (sidebar)
Tags filtering problems fixed (sidebar)
Multiple opened nested folder can be close tapping on the desktop (folders)
Single tap on the app counter circle to show the sort-by menu (folders)
Performance and stability improvement (general)
New option to disable sidebar opening animation: default disabled on pre-lollipop (sidebar)
New sortby bottom-sheet: long press tags filter (sidebar)
Sortby icons (general)
Fixed app stats screen (drawer)
New dynamic folder for untagged apps (folders)
Added new menu entry for nested folders (folders)
Reduced apk size (general)
Stability improvement (general)
Workaround for the "Screen overlay detected" message when accessing permission (Samsung and Nexus security updates).
New option in the Sidebar Notification to quick toggle on off the handler and bypass the "Screen overlay detected" message while granting permissions (sidebar)
Sidebar handler is automatic disabled (and re-enabled) when is Jina who asks for their permissions (general)
Fixed Tags manual sorting ignored when adding tags to apps from app details (general)
Stability improvement (general)
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New contextual menu with speed dial (sidebar, drawer, folders)
New option to choose Tags Management as default drawer view (drawer)
New option to clear previous search on each start (sidebar/drawer)
Fresh new sidebar menu (sidebar)
New error reporting system (general)
New option to launch sidebar from folders (folders)
Revisited first install tour (general)
New accessibility service as alternative method for Sidebar blacklist (sidebar)
Sidebar toolbar moved to bottom (sidebar)
Added option for smaller sidebar handler and activation hotspot (sidebar)
Added option to toggle the bottom bar by long pressing the Search icon (drawer/sidebar)
New Drawer Everywhere option (drawer)
Added new menu entry JINA Shortcuts (drawer) and the related shortcuts creation (i.e. new classic drawer icon)
Added shortcuts repository (drawer/folders)
Folders default colors inherited from the current theme (folders)
New live folders: favourite apps, most used, last used, and last played games (folders)
New Black Transparent theme (general)
New app icons loading strategy to reduce the fading effect on first load (drawer/sidebar/folders)
Added app size (approximate) information (general)
New order by options: last event and size (general)
Stability improvement (general)
improved app details layout
added ability to use any image as app/tag icon
added option to ignore some apps when sorting by usage (most/less/last)
added apps usage time info (app detail and apps statistics)
most used sort criteria is now based on the apps usage time (due to android api changes, launch count is unreliable on most phones)
cosmetic change to the sidebar tags picker filter
new option to start the sidebar with the tags filter shown
fixed broken tags sorting
sidebar excluded from recents
fixed wrong colors on folders details
multi selection on batch tags assign mode (app drawer)
new icon
fixed dark theme
other minor bugfixing
totally new drawer menu
fixed transparent background on app details launched from folders
shortcut indicator resized on folder icon zoom
new UI
sidebar and drawer are now 2 different launcher entries
categories and tags are merged into "super" tags
market categories are now automatically mapped to a tag
tags linked to automatic categories can be manually renamed and/or unliked on app basis
tags can be manually sorted
tags batch actions (work in progress)
the game or app attribute is related only to the app and no more to the category/tag
desktop/home folders are totally resizable
folder items can be manually sorted
new backup/restore system (full data and icons backup on external storage to survive to uninstallations)
some user preference added (just have a look)
sidebar activation feedback (very very work in progress)
fixed crash when folders/subfolders are not opened directly from launcher
fixed double entries on uninstall/reinstall
improved app list refresh function
maybe something else but i don't remember
Current release
Old releases
v.1.2.7ga
Sidebar persistent notification icon
Fixed sidebar activation problems on android 6
Increased max zoom drawer icon view
Fixed FC on unescaped search strings
Fixed missed Sidebar activation after apps launch
Start sidebar in search mode
Sidebar T9 height adjustable
Removed unneeded read_phone_state permission
Tag colors code
New desktop shortcuts to directly launch the Sidebar (filtered or not)
System shortcuts can be added to folders (experimental)
v. 1.2.5p02
Fixed sidebar everywhere on android 6.0
Added option to rebuild icon cache
Sidebar swipe to uninstall is now optional
Sidebar everywhere hotspot position changed and tuned activation detection
Tags list sort by name option
Uninstalled apps icon are now saved
App details: export app icon
App details: clipboard copy app store url
Fixed long press on clear filter behaviour
T9 search visual feedback
General stability improvement
v. 1.2.4
Fixed old folder opened sometimes instead of the right one
Option to position the Sidebar everywhere handler (up/center/bottom)
Option to disable the row alignment during scroll (to improve scrolling smoothness default value is true now)
Category and Tags filter screen "pin" status saved
Long press on app icon to launch the app from the app details screen
Sidebar everywhere startup at boot settings retained after app updates
Cookies disclaimer one time message (mandatory to be compliant with the EU law)
v. 1.2.3p1
Added Sidebar Everywhere apps whitelist
Option to automatically build category icons using the app icons
Folders automatic zoom option
App rename option added
Fixed wrong tags picker icons
Tags and Categories directly accessible from the Sidebar menu
Jina accessible from desktop folders
Apks Export option added (root required)
Fixed scrolling behavior on focus lost
Workaround for missing icons after app restore
v. 1.2.2
Sidebar -> fullscreen switch button integrated in the quick launch strip
Sidebar tags and category filters are now shown outside the sidebar
Disabled long press on search button to access advanced filters (still accessible from the quick launch strip)
Folders refresh bug fixed
v. 1.2.0
New sidebar quick launch buttons
App details are now accessible from desktop folders
Category folders shortcut icon and label are now user customizable
It is now possible to remove a tag from multiple apps (from the tags browser function)
Bug fixing
v. 1.1.7h
Default categories icons changed
Improved "refresh installed app list" function
Tags included in back fileset
v. 1.1.7c
New look & feel for desktop folders
New look for the app Menu drawer
improved letterbar (second letter available to refine the search, just keep pressed a letter for more than 1 second to activate)
Fixed a bug on 4.0.x devices
v. 1.1.6g
Complete Tags support ui in the app detail screen
Colored Tags
Various bugs fixed
v. 1.1.0
User defined Tags: 1 app can have multiple tags (many to many relationship)
Tags usage example.
"google apps" -> gmail, chrome, maps..
"messaging" -> gmail, exchange ....
"favourites" -> gmail, JINA....
v. 1.0.10
Random game pick added to the sidebar
Change icons for All Games and All Apps category shortcuts
Improved French translation
v. 1.0.9
Random game pick
v. 1.0.8
Fixed 3 dot menu not showing in Category Browser view
Improved French translation
v. 1.0.7a
Android 5+ app stats usage
Recent app list included in sort by "last used" view also if launched outside Jina
v. 1.0.6f
System apps can be now uninstalled on rooted devices
Added option to start Sidebar Everywhere at boot
Sidebar Everywhere hotspot color customizable
Added french translation (greetings to Hervé)
Improved app icons loading strategy
Hidden filter is now reset when Jina is sent to background
Improved desktop folder position algorithm</change>
Improved Sidebar everywhere animation feedback</change>
Added function to check Google Play infos (if available) for apps with different origin
Added option to open the Sidebar from everywhere, by sliding the edge of the screen
Categories Folders can be freely moved on the screen (per folder settings)
Categories Folders can be created as general system shortcuts (Nova, Swapps etc.)
Categories Folders look and feel user customizable (per folder settings)
Added option to not ask confirmation before exit fullscreen
v. 4.0 beta 5
Older betas
Backup/Restore JINA db
Fixed app version not updated
v. 4.0 beta 4
Added Export/Import to Excel (csv) JINA db
It is now possible to create and contextually assign a category to a list of selected apps
Fixed bug on origin change from app details
v. 4.0 beta 3
Icon view (full screen) resizable by pinch zoom
Some graphics improvement
v. 4.0 beta 1
Genders desktop folders (All games, All apps)
Optionally include whitespaces and punctuation in T9 searches
App name can be hidden in Sidebar
First usage hints added
v. 4.0 alpha18
Sidebar advanced filters added (long press search button)
Removed vibration on max zoom reached
v. 4.0 alpha17.
Sidebar and sidebar content resizable by a joystick like handler
Sidebar app details customizable (Sidebar settings menu)
Sidebar search section moved under the app list
Change icon regression bug fixed
v. 4.0 alpha16.
New T9 design and functions, with numbers and whitespace. Sorry DB must reset on first launch
Fixed missing Phone app on samsung phones
Added app version info in apps list
Changed space with 1 on top of the letterbar
Added icon as indicator for night mode
Some app list loading optimization after launch/details
Fixed scrolling position on multiselection (tablet layout)
Desktop folders are not moveable yet...
v. 4.0 alpha14.
Desktop folders container resizable (pinch zoom) requires 4.1+
Yes i know, next release they will be also moveable
Fixed sorting bug
Fixed some themes bug
v. 4.0 alpha13.
Fixed automatic dark theme switch
Zoomable sidebar
Added pricing info to the app list
Added indicator current sort by criteria
Option to hide categories from the app list
Various bugs fixed
v. 4.0 alpha12.
Added a new sidebar desktop view (still incomplete but it useful as proof of concept)
Added swipe to uninstall from the new sidebar
Closing app details doesn't reload app list anymore
3 dot app menu more moved to the left
Bug fixed: category change in app detail
v. 4.0 alpha11
App details popup mode for tablet/landscape layout
Much bigger touchable area for 3 dot app menu more
v. 4.0 alpha10
Bug fixed: letter bar disappearing
Bug fixed: white icons background
Added multi selection option to reset app icons
v. 4.0 alpha9
Improved more letter bar
Desktop folder grid is resizable, per single folder (icons x row)
v. 4.0 alpha8
Improved letter bar
Added option to move search button on the bottom toolbar
Automatic dark theme switching during the night period
Info button now is hidden in multiselection if items selected are 0 or more than 1
Experimental: Jina is now hidden from the recent apps list
Bug fixed: keyboard not hidden on exit from the main list view
Bug fixed: list position reset on exiting detail view in multiselection mode
Bug fixed: games category not assignable from multiselection
Bug fixed: unable to change back to app gender if game gender is selected
v. 4.0 alpha7
bugfix
v. 4.0 alpha6
Incremental, non destructive, db refresh function (from Settings menu)
It is now possible to manually add an app to JINA db (from Settings menu)
Sort by name in Find Apps is now case insensitive
Improved alphabet indexer usability in App List
List position after view details is now mantained
User feedback on how many apps are currently selected in multi selection mode
Manually assign app origin in multi selection mode
White theme added
Source filter logic changed: now a selection on a source means "show only that source"
Some bug fixed (i.e. crash on remove unistalled apps from list)
v. 4.0 alpha5
Added Dynamic Desktop Folders for categories
Better App Detail management on tablet layout
View attachment 3121859
v. 4.0 alpha4
Added option to force order by most used in search mode
v. 4.0 alpha3
UI totally revisited
Multiple views for apps (icons, details)
Batch actions on apps (multi selection)
Folder view (browse apps for categories)
Drag and drop to map categories
Dark theme
Customizable icons (apps and categories)
Icon packs integration
Screenshots attached
Last release
Current Google Play Release
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mobeedom.android.jinaFS
New features requests
Desktop folders for categories (developer)
Clean white theme (umetnic)
Auto switch selected themes according to time for starters. So I could use dark in the evening while tinkering with phone prior to sleep…. But white etc. during the day…. (umetnic)
Incremental refresh db function to add new apps (i.e. restored with titanium backup) without loose previous data (hervé)
Manually add an app to JINA db (hervé)
toggle search icon on/off (off should put it in the footer bar) (umetnic, daniello8)
toggle the footer bar on/off (daniello8)
toggle labels on/off (daniello8)
in the letter bar you can long press a letter and then you get a fly out to select the second letter (daniello8)
hide Jina in the system's task manager (daniello8)
in grid view it would be cool to be able to scale the icons .. eg. 5x5 etc. (daniello8)
Introduce a sort of sidebar quicklaunch view, popup style, similar to previous JINA main view(hervé)
App detail popup mode (tablet layout)(hervé)
save list position between different session (in sort by name mode) (daniello8)
add app size info (umetnic)
sidebar for categories(hervé)
recent used apps folder (vault1965)
Provide the ability to group shortcuts as well as applications (ewillner)
Provide the ability to assign an application to more than one group (ewillner)
Provide the ability to add a launcher shortcut to a group. (ewillner)
Instead of automatically categorizing applications on initialization, provide that as an option. (ewillner)
default categories icons as stacked-preview(andrew)
automatically hide empty categories(andrew)
Question and answers
FAQ
Q. Lot of apps don't get categories after the first install or after a restore
A. After the first install, JINA has to go online to search categories for installed apps. Right now this step is not automatic and should be manually started using the "Retrieve app categories" function on the sidebar menu
Q. How can i see app details?
A. From listview you can activate the app detail function either by using the 3 dot button on the app row or by double tapping on the app row. From the gridview (thumbnails) you can double tap the app icon.
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Really like that last option. Now I can run apps even faster!
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Feature Suggestions;
1. Clean white theme
2. Auto switch selected themes according to time for starters. So I could use dark in the evening while tinkering with phone prior to sleep…. But white etc. during the day….
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umetnic said:
Feature Suggestions;
1. Clean white theme
2. Auto switch selected themes according to time for starters. So I could use dark in the evening while tinkering with phone prior to sleep…. But white etc. during the day….
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Yes! I love the theme autoswitch idea. Jumped on top of the todo list
umetnic said:
1. Clean white theme
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other ideas on the graphics guys?
bambapin said:
other ideas on the graphics guys?
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Actually, one about UI....currently i am not a big fan of that Circle obscuring my view...how about moving that switch down, left or down right where there is still space.
Also...in regular keyboard mode, You have a line where U can see the search phrase, but not in T9...U might make that the same for consistencys sake...not sure also If it is needed, since we allready see what we are typing in realtime among results...but could be an extra option?....
Anyhow...that circle with X/magnifying glass could be put in the same row with other icons...IMHO
umetnic said:
Actually, one about UI....currently i am not a big fan of that Circle obscuring my view..
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You mean the "material" style search button?
umetnic said:
Also...in regular keyboard mode, You have a line where U can see the search phrase, but not in T9...U might make that the same for consistencys sake...not sure also If it is needed, since we allready see what we are typing in realtime among results...but could be an extra option?....
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Yes i agree, me too i feel that in T9 search mode the bottom toolbar is a bit "poor" but what kind of feedback should i give? numbers?
p.s. stay tuned, desktop folders for categories are almost finished
Added Desktop Folders for categories and better App Detail management on tablet layout.
Hmm not many of my apps get a category .. and before I'd assign them myself I'd rather use the Categories I already have from "Folder Organizer" app.
Also I do find that the letterbar is often not responsive and I keep intiating actions I don't want.
About the source filter .. no multiselection is possible and there is no simple reset .. I don't think this is really usable at the moment.
Just some feedback
I meant this…
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daniello8 said:
Hmm not many of my apps get a category ..
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First, thanks for the feedback, that's why this thread exists
You don't get categories neither if you try to refresh the category in the app detail? If so, can you please tell me a couple of apps that don't get a category?
daniello8 said:
Also I do find that the letterbar is often not responsive..
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You are right, i didn't notice there is a conflict with the category sliding tab on the right, i have to fix it.
daniello8 said:
About the source filter .. no multiselection is possible and there is no simple reset ..
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Ok right again, i'll add an option to reset the source filter. Right now there is only a way to reset all filters by tapping on the action bar title.
Max
bambapin said:
First, thanks for the feedback, that's why this thread exists
You don't get categories neither if you try to refresh the category in the app detail? If so, can you please tell me a couple of apps that don't get a category?
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Hardly any apps get one .. I sent a screenshot to your email address
daniello8 said:
Hardly any apps get one .. I sent a screenshot to your email address
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Thank you, got the screenshot and answered to your email, please let me know if it helped.
umetnic said:
I meant this…
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So you don't like the WONDERFUL floating action button google style
This app allows you to have as many touchable areas (triggers) on the screen as you want and each trigger allows you to open different sidebars depending on the touch gesture on it. Everything in this app is persobalisable.
Special features:
arbitrary number of apps, shortcuts, widgets or folders to a sidebar
arbitrary number of handles
many triggers to open a sidebar (slide up/down/left/right, click, double click, long press)
personalize colors, sizes, transparency, use icon packs and much more
Action Folder - clicking it directly opens the first app in the folder, swiping on it opens the folder
Action Sidebar - the trigger does not open a sidebar but directly start an app or a shortcut
Sidepages - page that shows your apps and allow you to fastly search them with the T9 predictive keyboard
Material Palette Colors - fastly select material colors
Quick Colors - fastly select colors that match your current wallpaper (material palette method to extract the main colors of your current wallpaper)
Supports resent apps and blacklists on all android versions
Planned features that are currently developed:
sidepage with direct widgets on it just like a real drawer and freely positionable apps, shortcuts, widgets and folders
integrate contacts and allow them to be search like apps on the all apps sidepages
...
Any feedback is appreciated and feature requests are welcome.
DEMO
Demo video will come the next days, that demonstrates all the main features with descriptions. In the meanwhile, here are the raw videos that shortly demonstrate the app:
Demo sidebars: https://www.dropbox.com/s/rypuei9ceghubtj/intro3-1.avi?dl=0
Demo sidepages: https://www.dropbox.com/s/jktqccf1ozcnbs6/intro3-2.avi?dl=0
Style demo:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/550klbvtlp8y80l/style-1.avi?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/qsnuqmhz8ty5epe/style-2.avi?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/y5wjr4bskxnyj78/style-3.avi?dl=0
LINK
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.appindustry.everywherelauncher
Tried the app - good
I tried the app; very good. I am on a Samsung Galaxy Tab S, 10.5", running on a SlimLP Android 5.1.1. The store would not let me download the app, stating it was not "compatible" with my device. I downloaded the file to my phone, backed it up, and installed it unto my tablet. I seems to be working fine.
Nice app, great bunch features and configuration. Endless possibilities. This app deserves more attention.
See it in action.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPGLVbxa7_k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIJRpSqwxjk
Desired features
jaydee 77 said:
Nice app, great bunch features and configuration. Endless possibilities. This app deserves more attention.
See it in action.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPGLVbxa7_k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIJRpSqwxjk
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Excellent tool. Still thinking to get the pro but I suggest the following:
- Selection by sliding, without lifting the finger (Glovebox´s app style)
- Improve the floating widget because widget is not responding smoothly
Thanks.
I am really liking this so far and I plan on buying. Everyone should install this app and play with it for a few days, don't dismiss it too quickly it is very nice. Good job dev. Thanks
I installed the app yesterday and it is really great, congratulations on your app @prom85 :good:
I have some ideas to further improve the app, maybe you like the ideas, too:
1. Possibility to open sidebar/sidepage with a shortcut without having to use handle. A fast workaround would be allowing to set the width of a handle to 0dp.
2. Possibility to adjust the size of a sidebar/sidepage. I would like to have a sidepage with minimum size to see all my favorite apps on it. Therefore it would be great, if the sidepage would decrease its size if I decrease the number of rows/columns. A fast workaround would be increasing the maximum dp of possible padding in all directions to 1000(?).
3. I think I found a little bug: I use custom rom with navigation bar and I open sidebar/sidepage with a button on the navigation bar (via shortcut) and most of the time it works well. But sometimes not only the sidebar/sidepage opens but also your app opens in background of the sidebar/sidepage. The problem is, that I don't know why or when the functionality switches to "open both: app and sidebar/sidepage". Maybe you can have a look at it.
Last but not least I have a question: Is it right that I can use with the pro version icon packs AND change in addition the icons manually that don't look nice with the icon pack?
With kind regards
paludi06
This is a useful app with many options. It is progressively getting better.
Hello
I try to enable the dynamic permissions (read contacts and call phone) but I don't know how
Is it possible to inform me anyone how to do that?
Gesture Magic Launcher is very useful app. You can quick access application, setting for devices, make a call send SMS or chat only by draw your gesture on this application.
Features:
• Launch apps
• Make calls
• Send SMS
• Open websites in your browser
• Change system settings
• Lock screen
Link download
Http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gesture.action
Up
Being a fan of Chromium OS and a passion for developing new and interesting things, I decided to build a launcher inspired by chromium os, based on Material Components.
GCA or GO Custom Android Launcher is a pixel design inspired launcher with core component features from chromium OS desktop. Its designed and built for Android Go but also offers new devices a fresh and new experience for your homescreen.
Supporting Android 5.x+, GCA offers a single screen launcher replacement app for android users who want a pixel lite experience. Alot of the offered features come from my other launcher, Sapphyx Launcher, and rebuilt to be faster, lighter and ultimately offer a better experience in a small package. It runs beautifully on Android Go, smooth on devices with Android 5 (Like the Kindle Fires) and offers a theme engine that's customizeable by the user.
GCA features are dependant on what Google Apps are installed that depend on an action, whether Google services is installed or not and specific apps that are installed (Action Dash for Dash System Shortcut)
Core Features
-A single screen setup (no grid, one widget).
-A customizeable App Drawer with multi-purpose search.
-The App Drawer features apps with system shortcuts and app shortcuts and allows users to blacklist apps.
-App Drawer supports a secondary "Work" tab to help organize apps in a better fassion.
-App Shortcuts generate a list of selectable app shortcuts in a vertical menu of the app popup.
-Recent Apps
-Easy to use launcher customization
-Pixel/Chromium desktop like Cosmetics
-Launcher uses my wallpaper app, Drywall, as default wallpaper provider. If its not installed, fallback on user selected.
-Notification Badges and Underlining. Clicking on the app will dismiss. Is not supported on Android Go unless activated by OEM.
-Adaptive Icons
-Icon Packs
Adaptive Icons
-GCA Launcher uses James Fenn's adaptive icon view library. The code itself was inspired by lawnchair's backport of adaptive icons for pre oreo devices. It pulls v26 icon assets for foregrounds and backgrounds and relayers them as an adaptive icon view which behave similar to pixel launchers adaptive icons. How you choose to use them will affect performance of the launcher and should be chosen dependant of how capable your device is. Users can select which shape of adaptive icon path they want to use. This will also apply itself to app actions, predictions and app drawer button.
There are 3 options of icons you may use for your drawer.
Pixel Adaptive - will try and generate adaptive icons based on the assets gathered by the icon and created by the system, this will slow down your app drawer depending on your hardware. (Not recommended for Android Go, Does not support icon packs)
Palette Adaptive - will disregard any assets available from the icon and simply scale the icon drawable as foreground and apply the dominant color of the icon for the background drawable (Faster than pixel adaptive, supports icon packs)
Normal Icons - normal default icon behavior and style
What's Not Working / WIP
-Icon Packs that generate their own icons like Icon Pack Studio may cause crashes, please don't use them. Icon Packs developed with BluePrint library are recommended.
-If external data usage permission is denied on first start, homescreen scrim will not be available or work correctly. Homescreen scrim will set to default white if using a live wallpaper.
-GCA is setup to change available features based on Android OS, if you notice something that may not be correct or crashes, let me know. This is your only paywall.
-Android 5.X support is limited but work in progress. Cosmetics and style need updated but it is functional. Please report back any inconveniences and crashes.
-Android 10 support has been added but we are monitoring performance and compatibility.
-Adaptive Shape Views and Adaptive Icon performance may vary on devices.
Changelog
-A detailed changelog can be found in the application settings. It is written in html so translation is your responsibility, html can be copied.
Donations
/ Pledges
-Yearly pledges have been implemented in the app. You are not obligated for any reason to purchase these but if you want regular updates, its recommended. Pledges keep the project alive and a few cups of coffee or a beer is sent my way (depending on time of day).
Downloads
Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gocalsd.symphlyx
Xda Labs: https://labs.xda-developers.com/store/app/com.gocalsd.symphlyx
Telegram: Support channel can be found in the app settings
Bug Reports / Request
Please use the telegram channel or xda forums for bug reports and request. Do not use the Google Play ratings as a place for this stuff.
While making request, take into consideration how itl affect performance. We are keeping Android Go as our target OS. If itl consume memory or increase size massively , im not interested. We are aiming to keep customization minimal and the launcher simple but their could be different ways to approach currently implemented features, and id love to hear your ideas.
Android Go Nokia 1 performance demonstration
Nokia 1 and Essential Phone performance comparison
Quick Preview of Symphlyx (Latest build)
8/11/19
Il be uploading a new video soon comparing performance on a variety of devices using Symphlyx Official
Previously known as Symphlyx Launcher
Project Update Notice:
V2 is in development and I'm hoping for a beta release at the end of February 2020. The launcher has been rewritten from the ground up and includes a bunch of new features the community requested through pledges.
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I downloaded it and put it through the paces. I like how clean it is and I think you could be on to something. Will look forward to further development. Good job. ?
MadsMann said:
I downloaded it and put it through the paces. I like how clean it is and I think you could be on to something. Will look forward to further development. Good job. ?
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Good to hear!
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Hoping to have a new update published tomorrow night. A preview of what's being worked on.
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New update today, now available on xda labs!
Changes
-Added experimental support for SDK 21 (Any devices with android 5.x are now able to install Symphlyx. Needs alot of work but its useable)
-Added Dismiss popup action for Android 5.x (Clicking outside of bounds on popup will not dismiss menu)
-Improved general performance and optimization for Android Go
-Added ability to dismiss notification underlining
-Added functional reminder widget
-Added semi function Heads Up widget (Previously known as generic At A Glance. Will behave differently on different OS's. Working on a weather provider atm but clicking on weather will ooen google weather. Heads up strings display differnet things on every quarter of the day.)
-Recent Apps now functional (Uses a position and click count logic. Recent apps hold 5 recent apps. The drawer monitors a click count up to 5. Every count is registered to a position and saves the action and icon on that click for the position in recent apps. If that action is already saved in a position, the click data is ignored but the count is consumed.)
-Added the ability to clear search results. Clicking the back button when the drawer is open will dismiss it but if search results are present, it will clear the search results focus first.
-Improved icon pack support and the chooser settings
-Increased homescreen scrim and All Apps button height position
-Fixed an issue where Sensey listener would be killed if the background process was killed by android os. This would make navigating to your apps or settings impossible.
And a few more chnages, check the changelog for a full list of changes.
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Currently working on a large update for Sapphyx Launcher atm so please leave some feedback on what could be improved, what you'd like to see, how the launcher performs on your device, etc while i take a break on this project to let it simmer.
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Currently finishing things up with Sapphyx Launcher development but a whole lot of changes are expected to be merged in with Symphlyx launcher in the coming future.
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It's been kinda quiet around here. I present a preview of the new popup menu we've been working on.
An update is expected to drop in June. Rebuilding alot of everything.
Let's talk about this new screenshot here giving some lite to Symphlyx Launcher's future.
Users will now have a dock. This dock will reflect recent app icons to the desktop from the drawer. These shortcuts have a popup menu similar to the drawer popup menu but limited to launcher actions. These do not have any sort of notification indicator.
Below the apps is a google searchbar. The searchbar also has 3 items. 2 predictive actions and am all apps button. The all apps button can be toggled while the predictive actions are only available to devices that support app shortcuts. Predictive actions behave very similar to Lawnchair 's logic behind predictive actions. When a user launches a shortcut class, its logged and saved to the prediction items. Only 2 at a time are logged.
Update Alpha 0.5 is now available on xda labs and pending on Google play.
Changes since march reveal
-Widget sliders are dead. The homescreen has been rebuilt to be cleaner, faster and better for gestures. Insteaf of Sliders, Symphkyx will rely on its stand alone heads up widget. Later on, users will be granted the ability to use their own widgets.
-Sensey gesture recognition has been removed due to click interferences we had during development. It has been replaced with our own gesture recognition system that will allow more control.
-The homescreen now offers a Shelf (dock) similar to Chromium. This shelf will later have some theme options available. Shelf will mirrow recwntly opened apps from the app drawer and add them in a 5 item dock. These shortcuts offer limited launcher actions and launcher shortcuts. Below these apps is a searchbar for google. It should open Google now depending on your os and firmware. On the end of the searchbar is an all apps button and a holder for recent actions. Recent actions can be enabled in the launcher settings and is only available to android 7.1+. Prediction actions will list 2 recenlty opened app shortcuts. These shortcuts will remain here untill a new app package is detected and/or replaced by the prediction system.
-The app drawer has had a few things done to it to improve performance and reliability. Colors are extracted in the data set instead of the adapter now and used for the popup menu and badge underlining. The drawer toolbar works the same way as before. Clicking on the google icons will open their respective activities but if something is in the searchbar, it will search that string in that environment. (ex: Google search news, Playstore search news)
-The popup menu still needs some tuning but now builds up on app shortcuts. If a shortcut is available, it will add it in a vertical list menu. This replaces the shortcut action we used to have to view shortcuts in a context menu. This menu is cleaner, faster and feels like a pixel popup. Actions are dependant of your os version and shortcuts are dependant on availability. Shortcuts and popups do not appear on recent apps in the app drawer.
-The settings menu has been cleaned up abit. This menu will only contain dynamic settings. (except icon packs) The menu now has an expansion activity. This menu will hold settings that rely on the launcher restarting or some system dependant.
-The about activity has been rebuilt with attribouter.
-The application is now built on AndroidX and Material Components. Very little 3rd party dependency is used now for a cleaner and reliable experience.
Recent Screenshots
Small update today. Tried correcting the positioning of popup menus on app item positions. We've noticed the popup menus would cut off on far right items and arrows not correctly inflating in the right sport or at all. I simply updated the popup library to correct these issues.
I might look into some sort of notification or alert count in the popup menu which would reset to 0 if cleared with the Clear Action.
A light n dark theme mode is being looked. This will be triggered by time or manually.
Nx Biotic said:
Small update today. Tried correcting the positioning of popup menus on app item positions. We've noticed the popup menus would cut off on far right items and arrows not correctly inflating in the right sport or at all. I simply updated the popup library to correct these issues.
I might look into some sort of notification or alert count in the popup menu which would reset to 0 if cleared with the Clear Action.
A light n dark theme mode is being looked. This will be triggered by time or manually.
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Could be promising. Wouldn't let me get through the permissions set-up before crashing.
dpdsr65 said:
Could be promising. Wouldn't let me get through the permissions set-up before crashing.
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What android version are you using?
Nx Biotic said:
What android version are you using?
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8. 10
dpdsr65 said:
8. 10
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Interesting, il see what would of caused this to happen.
Well I was searching for a new launcher and xda labs landed me here. Screenshots look dope, but for me launcher has bugs,
1: not able to set homescreen widget even when given all permissions
2: app drawer is cut maybe due to aspect ratio ( mine is 19.5:9)
Well if these screens help, here they are.