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[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Thanks, added for v7. Works in file listings and track listings. Ringtones in the alert/notification/ringtone directories can also now be set for arbitrary targets (e.g. you can set an "ringtone" as an "alert".)
[Android Apps and Games] thedicemaster:
have you looked into the issue with uploads of large files looping on Google drive yet?

https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=75002215&postcount=3925
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
What are your settings under File Management->Error Handling? Do you have both "Auto-Resume File Transfers" and "Retain Partial Files" turned on?

That combination of settings isn't an "excuse" for this behavior, but it may be the cause of it. FX still should delete the partial file if it's going to retry and can't resume.
[Android Apps and Games] thedicemaster:
"retain partial files" is off, auto resume is on.

and the transfer doesn't fail at all, it seems like FX assumes it failed after the transfer is completed because it takes too much time for Google drive to show the uploaded file.
[Android Apps and Games] osm0sis:
OneDrive did something similar for me the other day. Refreshed OneDrive after the "fail" and the file was there.
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
I'm thinking of raising the minimum API level for FX 7 to SDK 15 (Ice Cream Sandwich, 4.0.3) or SDK 16 (Jelly Bean, 4.1).

All ICS devices are on SDK 15 (not 14) as 14 only exists on non-updated Galaxy Nexuses.

Reason for this move is Android tools are abandoning lower SDKs. 7.0 will be using some relatively newer Android components that are not as well tested on the older stuff as well.
[Android Apps and Games] Ultramanoid:
Assume you're probably aware of this :

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/201...ndroid-features-to-be-forced-on-apps-in-2018/

I have applications that go as far as supporting API 7. Which is ridiculous at this point, but anyway.
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Yeah, FX is currently API 10. 6.3 works there (at least on my stock Nexus One). That's becoming really difficult to support with big apps though (why I bumped FX from 7 to 10.... it may spec'ed for 7 but no 7 device will install it).

Target API-wise, I'd be fine with going to 27 now (I think), the only bummer is that it kills the ability to send File URIs to other apps. File URIs are often superior to content URIs, as the target app knows where the file is (with a content URI, it can only read/write that file through a fairly weak API). In the case of opening a document (Word, Excel, photo, source code, whatever), it's very important that the target app knows where the file is, such that its options like "Save as", "Open", or "Insert Picture" are convenient for the user by being relative to that directory. Currently FX also sends a _DATA field with the file path when using content URIs...and some apps are supporting it. I'd like to help encourage this to become a de-facto standard, as a Content URI with a _DATA field provides the best of both worlds.

Definitely not wanting to "depend" on Google Play Services for anything ever though...fine with it being optional. :D
[Android Apps and Games] :
Hi,

I just sent an email but I figured it'd be easier to ask here!

Would you be interested in translating FX? If so, I can help for french! :)
[Android Apps and Games] peterbonge:
I've just tried to compare a checksum of a file with the checksum in the clipboard. That didn't work. It seems that the compare function is only useful for comparing two files local files, but that's surely a rare use case. Or have I missed something?

I think the most commonly use case is: The user gets a file from somewhere, together with the checksum. The user copies the checksum to the clipboard and then he wants to compare it with the one from the file.

And the image viewer is still ... uncommon ... compared to others:

- If I double-tap to zoom I expect that the app zooms to the area where I've double-tapped. But it zooms just to the center.

- Entering full screen mode shouldn't move the picture. That's annoying. All bars at the top and bottom should be transparent and a tap should just hide them.

- The hint at the bottom is really unnecessary. Showing it the first X times would be OK, but after some time it's just annoying.
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Right now the clipboard only supports comparing checksums that FX copied there. I need to add the ability to do comparisons with user-pasted clipboards.

Fullscreen mode is always on in v7, with a translucent action/status bar appearing when the display is touched. I was going to wait til after first beta to do this, but your comment rekindled my hate for the way it works presently, so I implemented it today. :D Still need to get the double-tap zooming on the point tapped.
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Greatly appreciate any help here! I need to get the strings file a bit more cleaned during v7 and will be posting it up for translation.

I'm trying to remove a bit of extraneous strings, e.g. in the "New Folder" dialog, v6 has a prompt that says "Enter a name for the new folder:". It's entirely unnecessary, given that the text box already has the text "Untitled Folder" in it. I'm trying to get rid of this kind of over-helpfulness in v7 to make it both prettier to look at and easier to translate. Strings file currently has 3,100 lines. :(
[Android Apps and Games] :
Wow 3,100 :eek:

Alright, don't hesitate to PM / quote me when you need! :)
[Android Apps and Games] LaGgY_42o:
I'm on the latest Beta release (Plus/root/Nexus6-PN) and this happens when downloading any archived file in Chrome then selecting the file from the notification drop down sending it to FX Archive Extractor, thus prompting this error. I could be wrong but I do not recall this happening prior to the current build or two and it kinda makes me wonder if it's Chrome instead. Also downloading an archived file from the XDA Forum App then doing the same causes Fx to open to the Download folder as opposed to directly opening the archived file. Absolutely love FX tho, been a user for quite awhile and looking forward to 7, keep up the amazing work! Best root and non-root file explorer on Android imo!
[Android Apps and Games] peterbonge:
Great! Any comment to how long we have to wait for the first beta? Days? Weeks? Months?
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Thanks for the kind words!

The problem you're seeing is one of the most annoying on the to-do list, as far as I can see there's no great solution unless Google changes something. What's happening here is the download manager (or Chrome) is sending FX a "Content URI" for the Zip file you downloaded. FX is then only permitted to read that file as a stream, but the API used to process zip files requires a reference to an actual file object (it needs random access to the file). If the download manager (or Chrome) were kind enough to send us the file's location in the metadata everything would be great. They're hiding the file for quasi-security reasons (in case the receiving app doesn't have filesystem access), and because they want to abstract the filesystem from everything, which creates quite a bit of heartache in this case.

FX could save this stream to a file and then open the file of course, but if the file is 3GB this would be a poor solution. FX could be made to open a dialog asking the user what they want to do...or for smaller files just do it and only open the dialog for big stuff (probably the solution).

There's a de-facto standard out there where you send the filename as metadata in a "_DATA" field with content URIs, but Google doesn't seem to follow it.
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
I never want to give exact dates on these, but certainly not months. Hoping for very soon, it's stable presently.
[Android Apps and Games] mbc07:
Not the same issue but directly related... By default, ZIP files "sent" to FX opens directly in "extractor mode" (where it presents a summary of the compressed files and options to extract here or extract to...). Could you make it open in "browse" mode by default (or at least let the user choose the desired behavior), similarly to when you "open" a ZIP file from FX itself?

Also, related to Content URI issue, wouldn't be possible to read only the "Central Directory" of the ZIP file (which AFAIK is a small section at the end of the file) to present the structure of the archive (e.g. what files and folders the ZIP has) to the user and then, based on what the user chooses to do, decide if the stream should be saved as a local file before performing the operation? I know some features (e.g. image thumbnails) wouldn't work that way, but I think it's a understandable compromise based on the API limitations...
[Android Apps and Games] m0d:
I am having an issue trying to eject OTG storage after copying files to it.

On first try it always says eject failed then takes longer to finally eject.

I tried exiting FX app then going to settings/storage to eject, but it takes extra long and sometimes only ejects if I launch FX app again.

I also tried selecting from within Fx menu mount/eject which takes you directly to storage settings, but again toast appears saying eject failed. And, it takes long to finally eject. Tried FC Fx but not sure if it actually helps.
[Android Apps and Games] BeachNYC:
Home Page Does Not Open When Starting

I apologize if this has already been answered, I searched but was unsuccessful in finding the issue discussed.

I'm running FX 6.3.0.1 with Root Access 1.0.2. Whenever I start the program, it takes me directly to a folder under my Pictures folder. If I close all, it does the same thing upon reopening.

If I click the menu button on the left after opening the app, it shows two open windows; the "Home" window, and the "Main Storage/Pictures/Folder" . I'm sure that upon opening, what I should see is the Home page, not the Pictures folder. But I've tried everything I know of and have been unsuccessful.

Any ideas?

Many thanks. I have tried dozens of file managers, and this is by far the best.
[Android Apps and Games] KaMyKaSii:
Why do not you move the thumbnails to cache instead of keeping on data? It's a bit frustrating to use Titanium Backup and see that you are backing up unnecessary 107MB
[Android Apps and Games] GeTex:
Wow, free app and you are going to treat the developer like that?

Many phones do not have enough room on the cache, low end phones specifically
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Cache gets killed too frequently. I'd tried this before in some of the 6.x releases (I think 6.2 was this way), and it made for a pretty unpleasant media browsing experience. Had to generate thumbnails almost every time.

Putting thumbnails on user-readable storage is a potential privacy issue.

Is Titanium Backup capable of reading Android backup configuration data, the FX manifest specifies a backup configuration with exactly what should be backed up, i.e.:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<full-backup-content>
<include domain="sharedpref" path="nextapp.fx_preferences.xml"/>
<include domain="root" path="app_FileInfo/hidden"/>
<include domain="database" path="Bookmarks.db"/>
<include domain="database" path="Net.db"/>
</full-backup-content>
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Sorry for delay in response, not sure what's happening here. If you force close FX and reopen it from the launcher does it still do it? Across reboots? It's possible to send FX an intent to open a specific folder, but the default launch intent sent by the launcher shouldn't ever do this.
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Is this a FAT filesystem? Not sure what's going on here but eject is handled entirely by Android, I'd be worried something is amiss with the storage device. Is it particular to one USB storage device? My first thought would be make sure it's backed up and try reformatting it.
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
FX 7.0.beta1 Released (Beta Channel)

Hi all, the first 7.0 beta is ready for testing!

Major updates include:

“Contextual Action Menus” replace pop up dialog when long-pressing any selectable item.

New card/list aesthetics throughout the app, with larger “full-bleed” image thumbnails

Updated “Recents” screen UI, added file type selection bar.

Added new animated home screen transitions.

Removed “File Sharing” home screen item and replaced with separate “FX Connect” and “Web Access” items with improved UI.

New Archive creation screen, improved performance.

Updated Image Viewer.

Updated Video Player.

Minimum API level is now SDK 16 / Android 4.1 / Jelly Bean

Updates throughout to create a “more fluid” user experience.

The last (bolded) point may sound like fluffy marketingspeak, but it's a major focus of 7.0. I want to make the inter-screen transitions and animations extremely smooth. A big part of this of course are things like the new circular reveal animation and the very much cleaned up image viewer enter/exit animation, but there's a lot of little stuff that's been updated too. For instance, when you create a new folder, there's a very tiny delay before the on-screen keyboard is activated to prevent the dialog and keyboard animations from creating nasty artifacts from running at once. An issue with the background color has also been fixed to ensure you don't see a flash of the wrong color as the keyboard animates in. This stuff can be painful to fix, but greatly appreciate people pointing out where this release does not look fluid/smooth.

And of course, greatly appreciate general bug reports and suggestions as always!

Direct Download: http://android.nextapp.com/fx/r6922/FX_r6922.apk

Beta Testing G+ Community: https://plus.google.com/communities/101301040394875566704 (join community, then go to https://play.google.com/apps/testing/nextapp.fx )

Old download link (Not recommended, may crash on Android 8): Direct Download: http://android.nextapp.com/fx/r6920/FX_r6920.apk
[Android Apps and Games] osm0sis:
I'll be honest that I found the new animations too distracting so I switched back to slide, but I'm clearly more of a functionality-concerned person. ;)

So, thinking along those lines, can you please add context display and changing for 7.0 final? It's so very necessary in modern Android. Possibly as important as permissions now. :fingers-crossed:

Edit: Just noticed the "Eye of Sauron" - nice touch! :laugh:
[Android Apps and Games] Ultramanoid:
I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong, but I have two issues with the image viewer.

First, the navigation bar does not disappear, same as it didn't in FX version 6.

Secondly, unlike version 6, I cannot slide between images in the same directory anymore. Only one image can be open at a time, must close the image viewer and get back to the file listing to open another image.

I've checked the settings but I didn't see anything to change in there that could affect these two issues.
[Android Apps and Games] thedicemaster:
[MENTION=4004386]Ultramanoid[/MENTION] that might be an issue with how you've set images to open in FX.

I suspect you have it configured to use Android's default, and have android configured to use FX.

as it goes through android, the FX File viewer doesn't get all the required file location data to show the next image.

if in FX you use the option to always use FX image viewer it does pass along the correct information, and you should be able to switch between images.

I did get a new issue with the issue viewer's fullscreen mode, it's fully automatic now.

I'd prefer to switch manually, so it stays in fullscreen mode when swiping between images.
[Android Apps and Games] Ultramanoid:
No, I have not set defaults for anything very much on purpose on my system. Android asks me what application I prefer to use.

Anyway, the setting within FX doesn't change anything, whether it's set to open images by default or not, tried both. The previous version works fine, with the same directories, the same images, and the same Android settings, so it would be a regression in version 7.

Edit : I've removed completely FX, and reinstalled. Tried with the default set up, same thing. Imported my usual backed up preferences and the FX Key, same thing. Tried a second device, same conditions as the previous, 7.1.2, fully rooted, no Google applications or Play Services. No can do. The image viewer is broken for me. Can provide logs, but not sure of what exactly. This is with internal device storage by the way, I'm not even trying with SD card or USB OTG.
[Android Apps and Games] thedicemaster:
[MENTION=4004386]Ultramanoid[/MENTION]

if android asks you what application to use it means you're going through Android's default app system.

and that would be your problem.

you need to open the images through FX, and you need FX to override your default(or in your case "no default") image viewer setting.

the problem you're encountering is most likely an unavoidable consequence of dropping support for very old versions of android.

android used to pass on direct file locations and still does so for "old" apps(and apps that pretend to be old), but uses a more "roundabout" and "secure" method now.

with FX opening its own file viewer directly it can pass on whatever data it wants, bypassing this limitation.
[Android Apps and Games] klau1:
FX is not working with SMB 1.0 .

I'm unable to copy files over to a Windows 2003 SP1 File Sever.

SMB 1.0 mode was set

Please help

Using version 6301
[Android Apps and Games] thedicemaster:
[MENTION=762956]klau1[/MENTION]

FX is compatible with SMB 1.0, but you need to manually select it in the advanced options for that specific connection.
[Android Apps and Games] klau1:
SMB 1.0 mode was set
[Android Apps and Games] Ultramanoid:
Like I already said if you read my previous reply, setting the default to open images always with FX within FX settings ( meaning it doesn't go through Android -- which is not what I want at all, but anyway, I know there's an 'open with' option within FX.. ) changed nothing.

And apart from the lack of access to other images in the same directory, there's the lack of full screen, which doesn't work either and I doubt has anything to do with that. I don't use Xposed, or any other dubious UI / system hacks of any kind that might interfere with that either.
[Android Apps and Games] techguyone:
With the new extended touch context stuff, I notice I can now delete items, suppose I deleted the downloads bookmark in FX, is there anyway to get it back ? (thankfully it at least does a 'are you sure' confirmation)
[Android Apps and Games] Ultramanoid:
Navigate to the directory you want to bookmark > tap three dot menu on top right > tap bookmark icon, the one in the middle on the top of the menu > dialog with many options for the bookmark; icon, name, etc...
[Android Apps and Games] techguyone:
hmmm ok so go to home > download, long click, select delete.

How do I get that Download folder 'bookmark' back?
[Android Apps and Games] Ultramanoid:
Just what I posted above.
[Android Apps and Games] techguyone:
ah yes I see, I looked in Help for bookmarks, the little flag icon threw me I was expecting a 'bookmarks' text I guess.

Is the help file up to date with all the recent changes?
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
In-app help is updated but is not 100% checked against 7.0. Tutorial needs a bit of work as well.
[Android Apps and Games] peterbonge:
Image viewer: The toolbar hides after a few seconds, but it comes back if I swipe to the next image. That shouldn't happen.

I think it should be a little bit more like the Google Photos app, the Dropbox app and Google Drive:

1. No auto-hide at all.

2. A single tap shows/hides the toolbar.

3. Swiping doesn't change the state.

4. And a normal swipe animation would be nice.
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Anyone here running a Pixel 1 XL or Xiaomi Mi A1? (Or any Android 8.x device with these symptoms...)

Seeing some reports of a crash with the circular reveal animation but can't reproduce.

Think I'm just going to order a Xiaomi unit, but if this a problem I would prefer to have it fixed before it gets here. I can't reproduce on Pixel C (8.1), Nexus 5 (8.0) or emulators.
[Android Apps and Games] mbc07:
The Image Viewer improvements are good, however, on my device (which has on-screen buttons), the navigation bar remains solid black. AFAICT it was supposed to be transparent and the zoomed-in picture was supposed to be drawn behind it, just like the status bar, or I'm wrong?
[Android Apps and Games] peterbonge:
No crashes here so far on my:

- HTC U11 life (Android 8.0.0)

- Google Nexus 5X (Android 8.1.0)

- Google Nexus 5 (Android 6.0.1)
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Presently any touch is triggering it, probably should change to a proper click. Not sure on not auto hiding though, might increase delay.

Presently not drawing over navigation bar at all, need to work on this to get that to transition smoothly.
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
I've uploaded an updated beta to Play Store to fix the potential Android 8 animation crash bug. I don't understand why it's happening, it behaves as though it's trying to run the same animation twice even though that's not actually possible . I was only able to force the error by experimentally deliberately doing this, and then added a workaround to deal with the resulting situation.

A nice bling-gold Xiaomi Mi A1 should be here on Sunday, allowing me to reproduce the bug directly and figure out what's happening, but I didn't want to leave anyone hanging with a potentially busted update.

Direct download of the updated beta is here: http://android.nextapp.com/fx/r6922/FX_r6922.apk
[Android Apps and Games] klau1:
I have SMB 1.0 selected inside the SMB Advanced.

I can browse and copy files from the server but I cannot copy files to the server.

I'm using the same UserID and PWD under TotalCommander.

This works under TotalCommander. But I'd like to be able to use FX instead.

There is something wrong with FX.
[Android Apps and Games] slonn:
Anyone successfully added and connected to Gdrive under Cloud Storage? I can add it and give permission but when trying to connect a message saying "a network error occurred communicating with host Google Drive". I tried adding it a few times already.
[Android Apps and Games] Oblias:
Works fine for me. I just connected using the second beta version of FX, released last night. I downloaded a file I had stored there, and uploaded a new one just to test things out. No problem at all.

Have you double checked your SMB settings? Sounds like a problem in that area, perhaps??

In fact, overall, I think version 7.xx is much smoother, has more visual appeal, and it could just be me, but it seems faster even with the expanding circle animations enabled. Two thumbs up!!
[Android Apps and Games] Oblias:
Is there a way to do a folder sync between a folder on my phone and a folder on my PC? I cannot find a function like that, and I'm just wondering if I have missed it somehow. Or, if not a true sync, does FX have the ability to at least compare the two folders? If it could do even that, then I could manually copy over the files that weren't on my phone.

What I'm trying to do with FX is to sync the music folder on my PC with the one on my phone. I know I could just plug the phone into my PC and use my computer file manager, but I'm wanting to see if it can be done via WiFi with FX.
[Android Apps and Games] thedicemaster:
[MENTION=7705885]Oblias[/MENTION]

there's no direct and reliable way to do that in FX.

the closest thing is to copy the files from a shared folder and telling FX to skip existing files, but that won't process deletions or update modified files.

I wanted to do the same thing, and for that I ended up using dropsync.

I use dropbox on my PC to sync my music folder with the dropbox server, and dropsync then syncs that with the music folder on my sdcard whenever I connect to Wi-Fi.
[Android Apps and Games] dancer_69:
@tliebeck:

Please check your PMs
[Android Apps and Games] tzrchallenge:
Looks good, downloading.