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[Android Apps and Games] thedicemaster:
it works.

i moved an image around a bit, and the media view updated its location properly every time.
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Stable Release: FX 3.0.1.2:

(Moved from Beta to Production)

Available now on Google Play. This is the same version as the last beta (if you're in the beta channel, you already have it).

Direct download version: http://android.nextapp.com/fx/r3046/FX_r3046.apk

Complete list of changes relative to FX 3.0.0.42:

Album art is now displayed for music files in file listings.

Image thumbnail generator now creates correctly rotated thumbnails for rotated images (that have EXIF data). Delete the Android/data/nextapp.fx directory to regenerate all thumbnails (this is the one in your storage/on your SD card...NOT the one in /data/data/nextapp.fx)

Added option to "Appearance/Theme" settings to show "Delete" button in selection bar (rather than in the menu).

Added option to "File Management" settings to not sort directories first.

Network host add/edit dialogs are now more tolerant of information (e.g. URLs) being entered in the "host name" field.

Fixed action bar layout when creating cloud service connections.

The "Media Management" preferences are now enabled for all users (these were incorrectly being disabled for non FX+ users).

Text Editor now has full-screen mode, and ability to hide its menu. You can now edit text files and see nothing but the file (and optionally your keyboard).

Added "Recent Files" option to text editor open dialog.

Fixed issue with Windows 8 email-address-based usernames.

Fixed issue where moving media files wouldn't result in media database being updated properly/consistently.
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Just an FYI..updated the first post of this thread to include new FX3 screenshots. And this quick-and-dirty video showing gesture-related features:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHV-4PzOSYA

[YOUTUBE]PHV-4PzOSYA[/YOUTUBE]
[Android Apps and Games] doumer:
great update, love the UI changes!
[Android Apps and Games] djsubtronic:
When I open the "All Tracks", "Artists", or "Playlists" section of the music browser, the scrollable slider shows momentarily when the list appears, but when I move the list up/down the scroller doesn't come back. Works fine on "Albums", though. I can't say anything about the other views as I don't have anything in them.
[Android Apps and Games] Magissia:
I have trouble getting music from external memory to show on fx 's music page, but if I use the file manager and go to the path myself I can correctly interact with the files.

Power amp correctly find them for it' s database. What would you need me to do to find the reason of this problem?

Regards
[Android Apps and Games] AndreiLux:
Hi, fan of your app, but I have a suggestion:

I like the translucent wallpaper background in FX, however as an app developer the overdraw is really itching me.

This could be sorted out by applying the alpha directly on the wallpaper drawable instead of having an alpha overlay on the views above it.
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Thanks, this definitely needs to be corrected.

I looked into this issue a while ago and ran into some fairly significant roadblocks with the Android WallpaperManager API being unwilling to give efficiently me the bitmap drawable. If I attempted to copy it, I'd still have the extra copy permanently stuck in memory. I tried applying a ColorFilter to the returned drawable, and that worked well on 4.x devices but had severe performance detriments for 2.x stuff (which was more prevalent at the time).

I'm currently playing with this again, current (obvious) idea is to just use the ColorFilter solution in 4.x and the old stuff for earlier devices. Given the simplicity of the change, I'm now extremely curious as to why I didn't do it earlier (hopefully it wasn't for some horrible bug I don't remember :D).

Thanks again...think performance is running appreciably faster, will release to beta channel soon if all goes well.
[Android Apps and Games] hallowman:
Go beyond..

[MENTION=2954544]tliebeck[/MENTION]

1st..This file manager is far better then any other i ve used.. Thank you so much..

And I have few suggestions to make it one step better..

If i forget to unlock and go to /System and select some files before i mount as R/W and try to cut these files.. it says "Error" the filesystem is currently mounted read only…

And i have to go back and (unlock) mount as R/W .. Then do the same things i did before..

Wouldn't it be much better if it asks me to unlock to cut these files instead of going back and mount as R/W and select these files again etc..

And 1 more.. There should be always a button to select all files..
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
The select all option is in the "View" menu. Also available once you start selecting in the dropdown.

There is an option to disable those preemptive error dialogs in the settings (under root access), but I agree that there needs to be a better solution here.
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
The issue is likely that the Android media database is out of date. Go into the directory where the files are located and tap the menu, then "Rescan Media".

I believe PowerAmp doesn't use the Android media database, but rather does its own scan of the filesystem/only uses folders you specify.

Did you put the media files on with FX or with some other app. If you're using FX, the media database should update automatically (provided the "Update Media Database" setting is checked under "File Management".

As a last resort if none of this helps, rebuild the media database. to do this, open the Android control panel for the system app "Media Storage" app and hit "clear data". Then reboot the device, and the media database should rebuild. FX can do it as well using "Rescan Media" on the root, but for a full index it's faster to let Android do it at boot.
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Thanks for reporting? What Android version do you have?

You're saying that when scrolling, the scroll bar never appears in anything except the album view, correct? Or just the draggable "fast scroller"?
[Android Apps and Games] djsubtronic:
I'm on CM 11 (4.4.2) on the Nexus 5. The normall scroll indicator appears, just not the draggable one. So I can only scroll by flicking.
[Android Apps and Games] AndreiLux:
I'm using this little hack in regards to the stupidity of the FastDrawable and the bitmap memory problems:

public static Bitmap drawableToBitmap (WindowManager wm, Drawable drawable) {
Display display = wm.getDefaultDisplay();
Point size = new Point();
display.getSize(size);

Bitmap bitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap(size.x, size.y, Bitmap.Config.RGB_565);
Canvas canvas = new Canvas(bitmap);
drawable.setBounds(0, 0, canvas.getWidth(), canvas.getHeight());
drawable.draw(canvas);

return bitmap;
}

.....

wallpaper = new BitmapDrawable(
Utils.drawableToBitmap(
getWindowManager(),
WallpaperManager.getInstance(Synapse.getAppContext()).getFastDrawable()));

WallpaperManager.getInstance(Synapse.getAppContext()).forgetLoadedWallpaper();
System.gc();

wallpaper.setColorFilter(Color.parseColor("#202020"), PorterDuff.Mode.MULTIPLY);
getWindow().setBackgroundDrawable(wallpaper);
....

Ugly, but effective. Plus you gain double the memory footprint over the API drawable.
[Android Apps and Games] Sami Kabir:
This must undoubtedly be the BEST file manager I've ever used on my phone! I really am bored with Samsung's and CyanogenMod's ones, and so I began looking for the "perfect" file manager and then I found this thread... Thank you for making this awesome app!

Anyways, I liked it so much that I'd like to include it in my ROM's upcoming update. So would you please allow me to do it (if it is not against any agreement or rules - because I did do a cursory reading of your licence and agreement but didn't find much information on this topic)

Sent from my GT-I9070
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Thanks, it's fine if you bundle the free stuff in your ROM, just obviously not the Plus add-on. The only thing I ask is that the signatures be left intact, such that it'll accept Play Store upgrades.

I'm actually making an assumption here, I've not actually tested the mechanics of embedding APK in /system/app and seeing if the Play Store will update to new versions the same way that it works for Google apps.
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Thanks, at the moment I'm just using getNotFastDrawable() :D method and setting a color filter on it (in the unreleased but soon-to-be-released-to-beta-channel 3.0.2 version). I need to investigate whether using the fast drawable without the color filter is worth the trade-off of having to temporarily have two copies of the bitmap in memory. (Can't use a ColorFilter with the fast drawable).
[Android Apps and Games] Pons:
It works. Take SuperSU and other apps that get commonly moved to system. It just updates to a different directory. I forget which off the top of my head, and too busy to go look real quick.
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Thanks, just wasn't certain if there were any Play Store flags or wacky manifest stuff that has to happen. Glad to hear it's automatic, it certainly makes sense that way but sense is not always made. :)

Looks like the updates are being placed in /data/app with all the other user-installed stuff.
[Android Apps and Games] djsubtronic:
Yup these are the apps where you can "Uninstall Updates" in Manage Apps, which removes stuff from /data and reverts to the system APK.
[Android Apps and Games] bombadier:
[MENTION=2954544]tliebeck[/MENTION]

Feature request

If I want to install an apk from a network location,I must first download a copy then navigate to the download folder to then install,is there a way that I can directly install the apk from the network location?

I can do it in one step with ES File Explorer

Hope that makes sense

Cheers
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
I really need to expand the download dialog to provide the ability to open the downloaded file after completion (that one has been on the TODO list for way too long).

When you say "one step", are they bypassing the standard APK installation dialog after downloading it? For the direct install approach (without the system warning), root access is required (have to invoke "pm install" as root). If I offer that in FX, it would be optional and not enabled by default of course.
[Android Apps and Games] bombadier:
Not sure about the behind the scenes with ES File Explorer but phone is rooted,etc and am comfortable with all that jazz.

To complete the operation with ES all I need to do is navigate to the apk on the network and tap,I get a "opening as read only" dialog then the standard APK installation dialog appears,to do the same with FX I would have to tap,download then navigate to the download folder before being able to install it,

Thanks for the response
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
If the standard installation dialog can be present, root isn't required. To bypass that you need root access.
[Android Apps and Games] peterbonge:
And what about the possibility to overwrite files?
[Android Apps and Games] schriss:
I was copying 650MB file today. I love the way it works, but for some reason the data transfer rate was very low: ~450KB/sec and the time shown was in minutes, like 15-18 minutes remaining.

Its not the network or router, because I test the same file over the same network in the same room with other application and it has been transfered much quicker, I think it took something like 1-2 minutes. I could retest to see exactly how long it took.

Also, the same file over the same network in the same room can be downloaded to my laptop at 10MB/sec, so network is definitely not a problem.
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Yes, plan is to have a dialog that requests whether files should be overwritten when conflicts are detected.
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Thanks for the report, it certainly shouldn't be performing this poorly.

This is on your Galaxy S2, and I'm presuming a N network given that you're seeing 10MB/second on your laptop?

What protocol were you using to transfer the files (SSH, FTP, SMB?) And can you check the CPU load on the device while the copy is in progress? Tap the "Windows" menu, then "Operations", then "Net Status".
[Android Apps and Games] schriss:
Apologies, forgot to update signature, this is on Samsung Galaxy Nexus. But I do still have Galaxy S2, I might try the same action there.

It is N network.

For some reason I'm unable to connect to 5GHz network from Galaxy Nexus, while Galaxy S2 was able to connect.

Protocol used was SMB (I dont like to play with FTP, I only use that to transfer files to my web hosting server hosted in other country).

I will retry the test now. My router is Linksys WRT610N dualband. What I will do now is to connect my laptop to 2.4GHz network and test transfer speed.

Then will do the same from Galaxy S2 and finally from Galaxy Nexus.

I won't be testing on 5GHz until all devices can connect (I'll play with settings, I think I might need to disable 40MHz band OR get a tweaked ROM/kernel for Galaxy Nexus).

I'll report my findings soon.
[Android Apps and Games] schriss:
I've restarted my router, then connected with Galaxy S2 and downloaded 650MB file, transfer rate was steady 1.6MB/sec over SMB.

Then I did exactly the same thing on Galaxy Nexus and transfer rate was 1.1MB/sec.

When downloading the same file to my laptop connected to the same network I was getting between 3-6MB/sec.

Then I tried some of the other WiFi file transfer apps which you install on the phone and upload files from desktop via the browser and it appears the transfer rate was more like 2-3MB/sec, but not 100% sure.

EDIT: Forgot about CPU usage :-)

---------- Post added at 02:51 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:41 PM ----------

Retested: CPU usage hovers at 20% and at ~520MHz.

---------- Post added at 03:02 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:51 PM ----------

Retested some other app trat transfers files from desktop PC via browser, was getting ~2.8MB/sec. Galaxy Nexus, same WiFi network as previous tests. CPU usage while that transfer was in progress was 700-800MHz, 40-50%.
[Android Apps and Games] Nucleotide:
Any idea when the next update is coming? ;)
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Have a few minor updates in the queue, but most effort has been toward going toward root and search. Hope to have something out this week/by Monday but can of course never say for certain.
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Have you seen anything run faster than FX when transferring files via SMB to your phone?

From what I've seen, web based stuff seems to run a bit quicker than SMB on Android devices. My Droid3 pulls 28-30mbps (3.5+ Megabytes/second) with WebSharing, but only manages 1.6 with FX over SMB.

We're using JCIFS (Samba Java implementation) as a backend for the SMB work. I imagine most other developers are using this as well (if I recall correctly, it was the obvious choice when selecting an SMB backend).

FX will likely eventually get HTTP/WEBDAV connectivity as well, so it should be able to achieve these speeds if you set up a WEBDAV share on your PC. (This feature is on the to-do list but is likely post-1.0).

Let me know if you see another app beating FX's SMB transfer rate, and in the meantime I'll continue trying to tune it for performance. (Just picked up a high-end consumer Cisco/Linksys Dual-band N router for testing).
[Android Apps and Games] schriss:
I did another test, this time used other file manager like you suggested and transfer rate was 1.2MB/sec.

Then I mounted my network drive with CIFS manager and used FX to copy/paste a big file to my phone local folder, transfer rate was the same: 1.2MB/sec.

The same file transfered over the same network to my laptop is transfered at 4-6MB/sec.

The network I tested on was 2.4GHz, 40Mz band, Linksys WRT610N Dualband router.

I'm yet to test 5GHz network.

The other thing I noticed is that I think there is no option to change font size.

On my phone it appears the list of files/folders takes a lot of space for each row, resulting in only 9 files listed on such big screen.

It would be great if I could select smaller font size and get a condensed look.

And I think I would prefer to see KB/MB rather than KiB/MiB.

Here are 2 screenshots:
[Android Apps and Games] peterbonge:
Will the next update include the fix for the overwrite bug/problem?
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Working on it...
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
I do want to add some file-density related options, possibly with the option of using smaller icons as well.

How I wish Android natively supported SVGs...we're rendering all of our graphics from SVG to PNG at build time. I still need to look into alternative solutions.
[Android Apps and Games] peterbonge:
Does "Cancel" cancel the whole operation or just overwriting of the conflicting files? Wouldn't a "Skip" button be better?
[Android Apps and Games] everlethal:
Is it possible to add function to send files to other android user over wifi like File Expert?
[Android Apps and Games] Nucleotide:
Looking forward to the next update. I've been using this more and more where possible instead of ES File Explorer and really liking it.
[Android Apps and Games] blackbearblanc:
I just need appbackup, before i can kill Astro for good

.......

Android blog: blackbearblanc.dk
[Android Apps and Games] waterpolo:
+1 for app backup
[Android Apps and Games] schriss:
Maybe do a poll because I for example am completely not interested in app backup.
[Android Apps and Games] quertiy:
Well said. I am also completely not interested. There are backup programs for that.
[Android Apps and Games] Magissia:
If signature isn't touched, updates will be installed on /data/apps and Android will compare apk from /system/app and /data/app and load the latest version.
[Android Apps and Games] Kapetan:
After long search around net I've found this post and it describes my problem exactly.

Please, any help how to get around this annoying problem?

I have 3 PC's in LAN, and it's possible to share files between them. I can share files from and to my Note 2 and 2 PC's and vice versa.

But my Note II has been rejected by office lap top.

I really have no clue whats the problem....

Otherwise fantastic app!!!
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Thanks, but not sure what would be causing this problem.

Anything in the logs? (Tap menu, tap Operations, tap menu, tap System Status, tap menu, tap Log)

Does the problem PC show up when you search for it using the "Browse" button?
[Android Apps and Games] Kapetan:
Logs says nothing but basic device info...

I can list computers in Homegroup, get into my laptop and see shared folder tree but that's it....No access to any of them.
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Beta Release: FX 3.0.2.0:

Available in the beta channel on Google Play (may take a moment to become available, uploaded shortly before this post).

Direct download version: http://android.nextapp.com/fx/r3054/FX_r3054.apk

This release focuses on improving UI responsiveness and smoothness.

UI optimizations (e.g. reduced overdraw) to generally increase performance.

Pinch-to-zoom is improved, especially in the FX Plus media catalogs. For example, try pinch-zooming on the Images album list screen.

UI relayout operations are now postponed until animations complete, increasing the smoothness of the animations.

Higher-resolution thumbnails are now generated for videos. These do take longer to generate...this still requires improvement, e.g., a temporary icon to display while thumbnails are generating.

Image Viewer now operates as a standalone process.

Fixed bug where progress dialog displayed incorrect information after transferring more than 2GiB of a single file.

Google Play Beta Testing information

You can sign up for beta testing using the Google Play Store's new app beta-testing feature.

If you'd like to beta test FX, you can do so by joining this Google+ community: https://plus.google.com/communities/101301040394875566704

Once you've joined, you can opt-in to use beta instead of released version here: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/nextapp.fx
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Open question to everyone...has anyone been seeing Google Drive uploads randomly freeze? I've been seeing this with certain uploads > 10MiB in size. At certain times of day. On certain devices. And only until I start trying to debug it...at which point everything starts miraculously working perfectly.

I finally managed to get it to break with a modified version of FX that logged everything, and found Drive was simply hanging on a specific request.

The workaround for the problem is to simply open another connection to Google Drive (without canceling the transfer) and everything starts magically working again.

I've just implemented the workaround to fire automatically when this problem is detected for the next release of FX, but wanted to ask if anyone else has seen the problem?
[Android Apps and Games] bombadier:
Cannot say I have noticed a problem,upload to google drive a lot although generally <10MB files
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Thanks...think this might be an extremely rare issue. The workaround I'll be putting in the next release shouldn't cause any trouble at least (it simply detects a timeout and attempts to open a single new connection to the Google Drive server, up to 3 times, at 10 second intervals).
[Android Apps and Games] djsubtronic:
[MENTION=2954544]tliebeck[/MENTION] the bug I reported about the draggable sliders not appearing might not be a bug with your app but rather Kitkat itself.

http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/0...not-work-on-first-listview-a-fix-is-incoming/
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Awesome, thanks for finding that!
[Android Apps and Games] kryzeK:
How view hidden folders? (.folder)

Enviado de meu Nexus 4 usando Tapatalk
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Tap the "View" menu and then "Show Hidden". The View menu is the one that looks like a box with a mountain in it, second from the right.
[Android Apps and Games] freelsd:
Отправлено с моего GT-N7100 через Tapatalk
[Android Apps and Games] kryzeK:
Perfect (: thanks!

Enviado de meu Nexus 4 usando Tapatalk
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Beta Release: FX 3.0.2.1:

Available in the beta channel on Google Play (may take a moment to become available, uploaded shortly before this post).

Direct download version: http://android.nextapp.com/fx/r3056/FX_r3056.apk

This is a very minor update to 3.0.2.0, will likely be headed to production very soon.

Misc fixes to crash bugs reported via Android crash reporting.

Added workaround for Google Drive upload stalls.

Google Play Beta Testing information

You can sign up for beta testing using the Google Play Store's new app beta-testing feature.

If you'd like to beta test FX, you can do so by joining this Google+ community: https://plus.google.com/communities/101301040394875566704

Once you've joined, you can opt-in to use beta instead of released version here: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/nextapp.fx
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Stable Release: FX 3.0.2.1:

(Moved from Beta to Production)

Available now on Google Play. This is the same version as the last beta (if you're in the beta channel, you already have it).

Direct download version: http://android.nextapp.com/fx/r3054/FX_r3054.apk

Complete list of changes relative to FX 3.0.1.2:

UI optimizations (e.g. reduced overdraw) to generally increase performance.

Pinch-to-zoom is improved, especially in the FX Plus media catalogs. For example, try pinch-zooming on the Images album list screen.

UI relayout operations are now postponed until animations complete, increasing the smoothness of the animations.

Higher-resolution thumbnails are now generated for videos. These do take longer to generate...this still requires improvement, e.g., a temporary icon to display while thumbnails are generating.

Image Viewer now operates as a standalone process.

Fixed bug where progress dialog displayed incorrect information after transferring more than 2GiB of a single file.

Misc fixes to crash bugs reported via Android crash reporting.

Added workaround for Google Drive upload stalls.