Is it worth developing an android app for my locksmith business?? need suggestions.
You can turn any website into an Android app in seconds using Hermit what is essentially a browser, much like Chrome or Firefox. Its job is to take any website you point it to and turn the website into an app that resides on your home screen. Requires Android 5+.
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"External" App Backgrounding - True 100% Multitasking for the Next Gen of Apps?
There are many apps in Android that don't behave when you multitask or should i say TRY to multitask with them. Recently more and more apps just refuse to multitask, as they will either stop or reload themselves to their home screen when the app leaves the foreground.
For instance NetFlix, WatchESPN, TWEETCASTER, the native android music player and in-browser streaming radio/video apps will abruptly cease playing the second you do something else. Even worse when you return to the app you have to start all over as it won't be in the same menu as when you left the app. And these are just to name a few of these misbehaving apps.
I was hoping that some kind of app could solve this dilemma, where it would externally keep a chosen app "in memory" or in a locked state. This would give the power to the user instead of allowing the app to dictate how it should run on the OS. It would be 100% TRUE BACKGROUNDING for the Android OS!
I should be able to designate the app or apps that should be "backgrounded" or "locked" in memory, so that we could do any other tasks and if I was to return to the locked app it would be in the same exact state as when you left it.
If the "locked" or "backgrounded" app was a streaming video/radio app, then if you were to lock the app in memory, then the streaming video/radio should continue to stream or play in the background until you either manually exit the app or un-lock the app.
There were a few iphone apps that did this similar function as well, running off the "backgrounder" function. I'm hoping that this can be duplicated on the Android OS, as this is a very frustrating shortcoming of the Android OS. I realize that Android does offer true multitasking, but the problem is that it also caters to misbehaving apps, giving them the ability to not multitask.
I would imagine that the app would have to run under root, but I think this can be done. Anyone think they can offer this up to the community? Thanks!
Letters are bugged on my facebook app, its not bugged all of the time but after like 10 mins of using it gets bugged.
You may have a RAM issue. Facebook is an insanely HUGE app at over 250MB and for nothing really apart from data-mining and spying. It is just a glorified Webkit browser, so there is no need for that much code. Install Facebook Messenger Lite from apkmirror.com as it is only 20MB. Use an actual mobile browser for the Facebook website for posting and such. It may be that your device cannot provide enough resources, or there is a RAM error at the top end so you start getting corrupted fonts as the app uses up more and more memory. Just a guess.
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Okey, thank you for replying.
Looking for any non-launcher 2D android app that can run on the quest and acts like a launcher
The public post that explains with a video:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/vrmai/permalink/1433336956848923/
I know that there are many android launchers that integrate with the home-screen and that can be set as "default launchers" for android.
I've had no success launching them from oculus quest after I installed their .APKs via sidequest.
My conclusion is that every app that is a launcher can not be launched in oculus quest.
What I am looking for is an app that acts like a launcher, meaning they fulfill the following 2 features:
shows a list of 100% of installed apps on the device
allows creating virtual "folders" (visible only from the app) for customizing apps sorting (drag and drop from previous (*) )
but that app must not be a launcher.
I have a few bad examples, for example es explorer and kodi - they both are 2D and have oculus-quest-installable-apks and are runnable, and they can launch other apps from their own interfaces, but they are an overkill for my purpose.
I am looking for something light-weight, that acts like go-launcher, but in fact can not be set as a regular android's home screen's default launcher because in fact it does not qualify for android as a launcher, but just yet another 2D app.
Is there such a thing? if not what are closest 2D alternatives that can launch and list other apps that you could list?
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I've given it more thought, such a solution would be great but still not good enough
as spending a lot of time searching for the 2d launcher in the huge list of installed apps still kind of defeats the purpose.
As a complete solution I need an app manager that has a web interface as well, that way I could quickly connect to it using the browser!
play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.glextor.appmanager.free
This is a decent 1 option I stumbled upon and it runs on the quest, but I am still looking for something that gives you a web ui to do the same thing
EDIT:
never mind I take it back, this app manager is useless for quest, everything it launches launches in a black screen, yes even vr games, indie games, official oculus store games, everything launches in a black screen. the app in the video above is completely useless for the quest.
I'm back at the beginning, still looking for a customizeable category/folder based 2D app manager for android that can launch vr apps from the quest and not in a black screen.
Preferably one with a web server so I could manage it from a pc and also find it quickly from the quest's browser.
If I understand you correctly, try this: https://sidequestvr.com/app/199/quest-app-launcher
subworx said:
If I understand you correctly, try this: https://sidequestvr.com/app/199/quest-app-launcher
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I am already using this, but it has no built in categories manager inside the app, it has to be done manually by editing some json file from a computer.
and also this is a 3d vr app that runs on unity and is heavy,
I want something more lite-weight and quicker but also mandatory that it has a built in categories manager via drag and drop and that it can launch vr apps
so far I have yet to find such a thing.
Hi everyone,
I use the Twitter app for one of my accounts, but since I like to quick-switch between them, I've resorted to using Firefox and I've installed a shortcut to the Twitter web page on my OnePlus 9 homescreen.
I know I could switch between accounts in the app itself, but I don't like it. I'd rather use two different apps, one for each of my Twitter accounts.
Problem is, unless I do two things I really, REALLY don't like (use the default system launcher AND use Chrome instead of Firefox), the user-experience of this setup is disastrous.
Scrolling up and down my timeline in the Firefox pinned shortcut is painfully slow, more often than not I have to tap a Like or Retweet button several times for the action to register, and generally speaking, it's no fun to use at all, regardless of the power setting I use.
I want to use Firefox because it has add-ons I like, such as uBlock Origin (bye-bye promoted tweets!) and NoScript, which, to my knowledge, can't be installed on any other Android Web browser (please correct me if I'm wrong).
Of course, it works flawlessly in Chrome or any other Chromium-based browser, but seeing all those promoted tweets just makes me nauseous...
(As for the default/system launcher, I just don't like it: the app drawer can't be customized worth a lick, and though it feels fast, it's just not my cup of tea.)
I've tried all the Android flavors of Firefox (stable, beta, Dev Edition), the result is the same.
Am I missing something here? Have you guys experienced the same issues, and if so, how did you solve them?
EDIT: I've installed Friendly for Twitter and it seems OK. Any users around to share feedback?
Revanced Twitter App + Magisk Delta + LSposed + https://github.com/Dr-TSNG/TwiFucker
dyscostic said:
Revanced Twitter App + Magisk Delta + LSposed + https://github.com/Dr-TSNG/TwiFucker
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Thanks, but that is mean the phone has to be rooted?
I may have found the reason why it was so slow: I chose 1.1.1.1 as specified DNS (in fact it's "1dot1dot1dot1.com") and that must have messed up how Twitter works in Firefox, because right now, that shortcut on my homescreen works fine, albeit a bit more slowly than the Twitter app.