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[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Thanks, I think I see what's going on here. This is definitely a bug in FX, it'll be trivial to fix and will be corrected in 1.0.2. A workaround would be to NOT exactly size the background for your desktop. The failure is due to our wallpaper-scaling code not working properly if scaling the wallpaper *isn't* necessary.

Really appreciate the detailed reports!
[Android Apps and Games] thedicemaster:
thanks for looking into it.

for now i'm using an ugly but effective wallpaper cropping app to set my wallpapers.
[Android Apps and Games] elban:
I've found a little problem, which may or may not be fixable.

Suppose you are copying a very big directory three, from a slow network or cloud to another network or cloud which requires keyring access.

If the initial process of gathering information about the files to copy takes longer than the duration of the keyring, it will always fail.
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Thanks for the report, I've managed to get a fix for this into 1.0.2 (release announcement in just a moment).
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
1.0.2 will available momentarily in the Google Play Store (it may take 30 minutes to 1 hour from the time of this post). This is only a bugfix release, mainly for problems reported in this thread, please keep them coming!

Fixed bug when setting background that has already been perfectly resized to device screen.

Fixed bug where keyring password could timeout during file transfers.

Fixed bug related to pinch-zoom responsiveness in image viewer.

If you've ever been frustrated by the quality of the pinch-zoom in the image viewer, this release should help. Additionally, what does everyone think of the pinch-zoom rate? I'm tempted to decrease the rate a good bit, but left it alone in 1.0.2.
[Android Apps and Games] thedicemaster:
my wallpapers are now set properly, and zooming works much better.

zooming is a bit fast and jumpy, perhaps a good solution would be to double the amount of zoom stages.

it still works much better than the unpredictable zoom speed in older versions though.
[Android Apps and Games] sanghaviraj:
It's now my default file explorer,but what i greatly miss is contextual search,that is search filter by wild cards, file extension, and yes your search function it's more slower compared to file slick, which is no more on the play store as the Dev has stopped development, please look into my request,n I'm willing to pay for this
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Thanks for the suggestions, wildcard searching is on the to-do list. The initial search time with FX may take a few moments (while the index database is created). How many files/folders are on your device? (Just go into the search, tap the "Tools" menu and then tap "Index Status".)
[Android Apps and Games] iowabeakster:
I used the search function on this tread, but I didn't find anything on this, sorry in advance if it's been covered before.

I guess it's a feature request in regards to media streaming with FX. Maybe I just don't know how to do what I want to do. That's very likely. Maybe you won't be able to do anything about this because changes might need to made to somewhere else (like a music player app), and not in FX.

Anyhoo, I have FX set-up for ssh (public-private key, no passwords) networking with my home PCs, both LAN and web based connections.

I can stream music via FX and play it with either stock android music player (2.3.7) or google music player (and even Opera browser). What is not so great is that I can only stream one single track. Then it stops. In order to play another song, I need to back out of the music player widget or app, select the next song/file/track with FX and repeat that at the end of every single song. In order for FX to be a convenient streaming option it should automatically jump to the next track/song/file in a folder and play it. As it is, streaming with FX is not a safe option while driving if you have to fiddle with your phone at every song break. And it's just not convenient when jogging, biking, etc.

An even more awesome option would be to allow creation of playlists of files stored on the networked server (PC). I can create playlists with FX, but only on locally stored files, not to files connected by network.

Anyhow, I have been using FX since very early in the Beta. I have bought both plugins. I think you have done an amazing job with FX. It's already the the most useful android app I have found... period. Congrats, this thing is great. More convenient streaming capabilities would just be thick fluffy icing on the cake.
[Android Apps and Games] toxicpaulution:
I know you guys are trying to make money with the app but really charging users to pay to see root access and even cloud? Esfile explorer does all that... free and looks great. I love your app. Tried it for a few has what I like but just can't grab my attention if I'd have to pay for a convenience that I can get with other apps. Maybe make a donation version to get your fund but until I'll keep checking back. Bye.
[Android Apps and Games] everlethal:
What do think about translations in other languages?

And not only for this of your apps.
[Android Apps and Games] waterpolo:
+1 for root. I use the root function only with a new ROM.

I bought the root addon because of your work and support.
[Android Apps and Games] Pons:
And it's for this reason I disagree with removal of paid add ons. The average Android user doesn't need them (especially root). The more advanced members do, and are usually more generous when it comes to quality apps and ROMs. So they'll buy the root add on with no problem and see it as a donation well spent (I do at least).
[Android Apps and Games] Nucleotide:
Stick to using ES then. Simple. :D

Alternatively, don't think of it as paid add-on, think of it as a donation for an application that is extremely well built and comes with great support from an active developer on these forums. Money well spent in my opinion - and I'm more then happy to pay the very small amount of it.

Totally agree! :good:
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Everyone wants the features they like most to be in the free app: "I don't use _____, put that in the paid version." And it's not as though I neutered the free version of FX; it's fully functional if you're looking for on-device user file management.

The no-ads key for Astro is $3.99, and it is significantly less capable than FX. Root Explorer is $3.99, just for root-access features, without any networking/cloud/media support.

ES File Explorer is "free", but lacks the polish and ease/efficiency-of-use of FX and has an unknown revenue model. They claim to have 20+ employees, and intend to make money from ES. Source: http://androidforums.com/android-applications/561326-paranoia-es-file-explorer.html#post4495760 I'm not going to compete on price against a "completely free" product with an undisclosed revenue model. I'm going to compete on capability, user experience, and user interface. Water is free, beer is $5.

FX is priced against a boutique cup of coffee, a subway fare, a fraction of a gallon of gas, a cheeseburger at McDonald's. One day of the average amortized cost of owning a smartphone. And it's comaprable in price to most other decent apps on the Google Play Store.

Donations? Why don't you try that revenue model out first? When you go into work on Monday morning, tell your boss that you no longer want to draw a salary and that you'd be like to be paid by customer donations. Apps are not a hobby, this is how I make my living: I've poured about 10k hours of work into FX. I have no interest in relying on the charity of people who can't justify spending $5 on a product that they like enough to complain about.

I realize this response is very harsh, but I think it needs to be. If people continue to demand everything on Android be free, the platform will continue to suffer with low-quality ad-riddled crapware. If you like a product (and I don't just mean mine), then pay for it.
[Android Apps and Games] bencairns:
worth every cent imho. keep up the good work
[Android Apps and Games] iXNyNe:
Some users are ungrateful. T previously said myself and others deserved a free pass for the paid features because we suggested features and helped point out bugs. Those of us who were here to help (by helping him make the app better for us and others to use) were happy to chip in a few bucks and go on with our daily lives. To us its just an app.

I don't know T's situation (though his post implies this is his primary source of income) but without a second thought most of us were happy to support everything he said in the post I'm quoting without even knowing it.

Ad supported apps that have us "pay to remove ads" are bull****, especially some that charge more than $0.99. The dev probably makes more than $0.99 when a used commonly uses an app just because the ads are being loaded. Removing ads isn't a feature, its a gimmick that doesn't benefit anybody.

This is an amazing quality app, one of the best in the play store currently, and its extremely under-noticed by comparison to its competition which are far less deserving of their ranks as top downloads.

People who demand free everything especially in a thread for this kind of app are wasting the developer's time, likely slowing down progress on bug fixes and new features, and discouraging the developer from wanting to do us the favor of providing their services to us (making the app).

Consider your stock out of the box ROM on any run of the mill phone. Did of even come with a file manager? If it did, was root included? Cloud? Etc... even the free version of this app operates easier and smoother and looks nicer than anything packed in a stock ROM. Blame HTC and Samsung and Motorola and the rest for NOT doing a good enough job.

T, keep up the good work. I don't even use the + mod, just bought it to show support.
[Android Apps and Games] Nucleotide:
Well said! Purchased both modules so far. Both well worth every cent.

Keep up the great work. :good:
[Android Apps and Games] akaSM:
I fully agree with what you said, tliebeck. As a suggestion, add your app to more app stores, Google isn't fond of debit cards, at least from Mexico and, right now Google Play is the only app store with your products.
[Android Apps and Games] Guanfy:
Is there a way I can pay for your app without purchasing through the play store? Google thought someone hacked my account and has locked it pending their clearance of verification that I sent.
[Android Apps and Games] EP2008:
Your work shouldn't be given away as charity, but to say you spent 10,000 hours on a file manager is bull****.

BTW, 10,000 hours is 3.5 years, working 8 hours a day, everyday.

I'm sure you put a lot of work into this app, but don't guilt people into thinking you slaved over it for that long. That's totally unethical.
[Android Apps and Games] iowabeakster:
I can't speak to how much time he really put into this. I don't know and neither do you.

but about this...

This is entirely possible for a hard working person trying to establish an income from self-employment. I know I did it... except I was working over 10+ hours a day, everyday, for the first three years of running my business. This is quite common amongst the newly self-employed. Just because you haven't done it, or would never do it... doesn't mean other people didn't do it.
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Yep, just for a file manager.

I figure very roughly that I'm at 3,000-3,500 hours per year..likely on the latter end for the last two years. I love what I do and am not burdened with commuting, so that number isn't even extraordinary compared to the 2,000 hours per year of the "theoretical" 40-hour work week that developers tend not to enjoy. FX itself has been in development for 2.5 years, and the included libraries I've written in the past are in that estimate as well...some of which predate any Android endeavor, but if I took them out I'm pretty sure FX wouldn't build. That time does include research, development, graphic design, testing, marketing, support, and other business nonsense.

And if you count the open-source libraries underneath it, in the APK, of course excluding Android iteslf, I'm sure that number would be well over 100k hours (see the FX About dialog). Perhaps even another order of magnitude. Just for a file manager.

And I didn't slave over it. I enjoyed the heck out of it.

This wasn't a request for guilt, it was simply to inform certain individuals that this is a more-than-full-time project, and that doing such work and then begging for donations in return is downright ludicrous. My issue here is only that you can't reasonably complain that it isn't free. I see this as a frequent occurrence in Android culture. It hurts the progress of the platform, and it annoys me.

I'm sure I could rebuild FX from scratch in 1-2k hours. But then I wouldn't have to design it, and throw out designs myself or users didn't like. I wouldn't have to learn about all the features of Android and other libraries I used, or those darn cloud and networking protocols. And I would never even dream of putting in those bugs I added the first time around. It'd be a piece of cake. But you can't estimate development time by asking "here is a finished product, how long would it take to recreate exactly this?"
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Sorry for the trouble...PM me an email that can accept attachments.
[Android Apps and Games] elban:
I honestly don't understand all this talk. If someone thinks fx is not worth the money, just don't buy it.

Will you tell Ferrari their cars are not worth? They are way more expensive than most other cars...

Personally, I bought the app and all the add ons and I am very happy with it.
[Android Apps and Games] EP2008:
I know lots of people enjoy your app and I hope they express their gratitude by purchasing an addon.

I wasn't aware that you also developed SystemPanel (one of my favorite apps), so I'm going to install FX and purchase an add on as a token of appreciation for the work that you put into it.

I meant no disrespect by my last post. You've obviously put a lot of sweat into this app and the positive reviews show it.
[Android Apps and Games] everlethal:
Hi tliebeck

Do you think to translate your app ?

And System panel too

Sorry for double question, i already ask , but i guess that you did not see it because the previous discussion.
[Android Apps and Games] mdalacu:
Hi, can you add an option to preserve date on copied files (Ex. photos from internal to external card)?

Also, you should update folder contents only when the whole transfers completes , not after every file, there are a lot of screen updates when you are coping pictures.

Thank you.
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
I'm trying to work out a system to allow translations to be provided by external modules, but it's been a difficult problem...possibly not a solvable one. I think Google made a significant design error here, in that all translations are required to be embedded within the app. So each release must have all the translations synchronized, or new text elements will appear untranslated. Any error to any translation must be fixed by a new release.

I came up with this "solution": http://stackoverflow.com/questions/...-to-localize-android-applications-localizatio, but it has a few problems, notably issues with such strings being referenced from other XML resources.

I'm also worried about what happens when contributed translations are no longer maintained. A hypothetical customer looks at FX 1.1 and it's translated to his language. He purchases the Plus/Root add-ons. By version 1.5 though, the translator has lost interest and no one has picked it up. That customer has every right to be very upset.

My other concern is that some people are invariably going to contribute translations of low quality, and I have no effective means of verifying them other than post-release feedback. I don't think translating back via Google Translate/Babelfish is a solution. It's my understanding that low-quality translations are a widespread problem in all software, so as much as it makes me cringe to read bad English translations, perhaps users will be accustomed to it. I'd still like to provide the option to allow users to revert to always showing the original English version for such cases. I really want to look into this option (allowing users to revert to English), as between it and a warning of "You're using a contributed translation, you can turn this on/off via the settings, contributed translations are provided by third parties and are not maintained by NextApp blah blah blah." might be a solution.

Would greatly appreciate any advice here, e.g., am I blowing this completely out of proportion and should I just integrate as many translations as possible as other apps do? And for users of apps who prefer languages other than English, what do you think of the translations of other apps...e.g. are they filled with grammatical/spelling errors?

(and specifically to everlethal: I have no doubt you'd do a good job. I'm more worried about the guy who grabs the strings file, does a quick translation via Babelfish/Google, spends 5 minutes correcting a few obvious errors and then sends it in).
[Android Apps and Games] akaSM:
Hehe, you're right, some translations are downright cringeworthy :eek:

However, those mistakes are, I think, because the translator isn't really familiar with the language they're translating to; if the person that is doing the translation knows both languages well, the translation shouldn't be a horrible thing to read.

Also, I've seen apps with the option to choose the language you want to use (Titanium Backup comes to mind). If you ever need someone to translate your app to Spanish, feel free to poke me. Yeah, you don't have to worry about me losing interest either, as long as you poke me whenever you need more text translated, I should be able to do it ^_^

I've translated a couple apps before and, in case you're wondering, I use whatever app I want to translate looking for every single line of text so that I can read it on context and don't end up making some silly mistakes.
[Android Apps and Games] everlethal:
Thanks tliebeck for clearing your point.

I can talk only for Bulgarian.

I really don't remember some serious translation mistakes.

But I guess that's because there is not so much apps with bulgarian translation.

Any way, when you are ready and want to add other languages I can help you with Bulgarian. And not only for one time.
[Android Apps and Games] elban:
Translations have always been a problem.

But, in my experience, I've seen that it's also the easiest contribution to a project, because it requires minimal knowledge.

This means that you'll easily find people willing to help, in this forum or elsewhere.

Unmaintaned translation may be a problem, but low quality ones are easily found on commercial products as well: I have some experience of this too.

I had external translators working for my company, tried multiple times, but if you don't follow closely with some internal people, quality will fall easily. And it's expensive!
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Sorry for the delay in response, missed this one.

Preserving dates need to happen, should be fairly straightforward to implement.

The auto-refresh on directory updates features can be disabled via Settings->File Management->Auto Refresh. I want to clean up the behavior of this feature, I too am starting to dislike the way it works in certain scenarios.
[Android Apps and Games] sanghaviraj:
Please don't mind some ones comment regarding your price model, some people will have their opinions that's just it, the thing is that you are doing a great job,n please don't get distracted,nothing comes free
[Android Apps and Games] Nucleotide:
tliebeck - do you have a thread on XDA for System Panel?
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Not yet, I need to make one...especially given that I want to do a significant update to that product in the not too distant future.
[Android Apps and Games] Nucleotide:
Sounds good. I was using it again last night and was going to leave some feedback but I'll wait until the thread is up. :good:

Good to hear you're still working on it, or at least going to work on it.
[Android Apps and Games] zeratos:
I can help you with the Spanish translation if you need any help (:

Very nice app, I'm ditching root explorer for this one

Sent from a magic carpet
[Android Apps and Games] DigitalUnderground:
I also ditched root explorer for this. I love the settings and UI. Great work. I bought the add-ons too and rated all 5 stars
[Android Apps and Games] everlethal:
Hi tliebeck

Do you think to merge FX and WebSharing ?

Maybe this is the only thing that is missing from FX.

Maybe in separate addon or like a part of FX Plus.
[Android Apps and Games] DigitalUnderground:
+1 :thumbup:

Sent from my Wicked Galaxy S III
[Android Apps and Games] doumer:
Hi, I have a minor problem: I just freshly set up my PC and now I can't connect to it anymore. Do I need to enable something special to grant FX access to my PC?
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
You don't need to do anything to FX. Just make sure the computer name is correct (try scanning for it) and that your settings on the computer are the same (e.g. is the "simple file sharing" setting the way it was previously)?
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Have thought about adding server functionality to FX at some point, e.g. add a "Sharing" option on the home screen under Internet/Network. It'd be nice to have FTP and WebDAV, and possibly the whole WebSharing UI as well.

Regardless, WebSharing needs some updates at this point (e.g. access to multiple storage locations, replacement of Flash-based components with HTML5 wherever possible, DnD file upload).

APK size impact wouldn't be too severe, FX is 4MiB, WS is 2MiB, but much of WS is icons/graphics, which would be largely redundant. WebDAV server code is small.

FX of course needs a WebDAV client (on the list regardless of whether server functionality is added).
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Working on the text editor a bit, one a few changes coming soon. Find, Undo, and pinch-zoom, and keyboard shortcuts are being added.
[Android Apps and Games] Nucleotide:
This will come in very handy. Thank you! :good:
[Android Apps and Games] thedicemaster:
could you perhaps improve the problem handling a bit?

these are some things Microsoft took years to figure out:

when copying files if an error occurs the copying is cancelled.

it would be more convenient to have a question pop up with the options to retry, skip, abort, and perhaps even undo(which deletes all other copied files)

abort/skip should also delete the incomplete transferred file which triggered the error.

and for duplicate files it would be convenient if there was an option to keep both files, which would add a number to the name of either the original or the new file.

this would also make it much easier to duplicate a file in the same folder.

right now I'd have to make a copy in a different folder, rename the file, and move it back.
[Android Apps and Games] doumer:
hm, when scanning my PC isn't found :(

when I try to connect after I manually added my PC (IP or name, doesnt matter) it allways says "the password was not accepted"

But I don't exactly know, how the settings have been bevore the reset. ATM I have everything enabled I could find...

Gonna search for more, maybe there is something hidden ...
[Android Apps and Games] EP2008:
Is there anyway to improve photo thumbnail support for cloud services? I only see icons when browsing through photo directories for Sugarsync, Dropbox, etc. It's kind of a pain, since filenames don't tell me what the photos about and I dunt want to use a separate program for something like that.