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[Android Apps and Games] iXNyNe:
Yes its practical. I do it very frequently with titanium backup pro. I don't think android offers this capability by default though. Since you can't uninstall system apps (without root) the button android presents is "disable". but you can uninstall user apps, so android doesn't offer that button for user apps.

Edit!

Also note that if you disable a user app via some other app fx DOES recognize that it's disabled, and tapping it shows general information with an "enable package" button. But once enabled there is no disable button.

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If you don't have any other items enabled under media on the home screen customization (as in the only one checked is apps) the whole media heading is hidden from the home screen.

Enabling any of the other media items shows the heading and apps appears with it.
[Android Apps and Games] paul c:
Sorry I didn't explain myself there, I too do a lot of freezing/unfreezing via Titanium Backup (enabling/disabling would be the term here). I was wondering about FX enabling/disabling user apps in the same way it can now do for system apps.

I don't think there should be a problem, it's more a scope thing for FX, since that may open things up so you may start getting requests to change an app from system to user and other exotic stuff that TiBu and others do, but which is not necessarily file explorer stuff.
[Android Apps and Games] peterbonge:
How does it look with this? Any chances to see these changes in 1.5.0?

Don't understand me wrong. I really like new features (and there were really a lot since adding cloud thumbnails), but at the moment I would prefer enhancements of existing features. And compared to other file managers thumbnails and the image viewer really needs enhancements.
[Android Apps and Games] rosswaa:
+1
[Android Apps and Games] iXNyNe:
I'd have to agree that the app manager is already somewhat creeping into the scope of other apps and outside the scope of a file manager, but it is a nice feature to have. Also consider this. Titanium requires root, whereas fix having the app management features without requiring root gives it a purpose. Mainly for the fact that you can track down apps that take a lot of space or have a lot of saved data without having to browse each app individually through settings.

So I think it's a good feature overall, but its definitely dancing between file management and app management (which can be considered its own category)
[Android Apps and Games] GermainZ:
Reposting what tliebeck said a few pages ago, as I guess it is a suitable response to the FX scope discussion - just in case you guys didn't see it.
[Android Apps and Games] thedicemaster:
it seems "Fixed issue with SMB connectivity and fully qualified domain names." in the 1.5.0 test release actually broke things if you make use of crossbreeder

specifically the DNS component.

disabling the DNS modifications fixes the problem, but also disables it's ad blocking system.

EDIT: I forgot to mention the exact problem this causes.

when I try to access a network folder by device name it now spends about a minute connecting and then tells me my password is wrong and I need to fill the correct one in.

disabling the DNS modifications in crossbreeder or using the computer's IP address let's me access the shared folders without a problem, spending less than a minute trying to connect.
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Thanks for the reporting this, I'm not quite certain what's happening though.

FX uses the samba.org's JCIFS component for SMB browsing. FX through 1.4.1 was configured to do SMB host name lookups only using NetBIOS broadcast queries. The 1.5.0 test release reverts to JCIFS' default setting, which is to first do the NetBIOS broadcast and then do a conventional DNS lookup. According to the API spec for JCIFS, "the operating system's default name resolution mechanism is responsible for resolving DNS names" (it's just calling java.net.InetAddress.getByName()).

What happens if you just do "ping hostname" or "nslookup hostname" in a terminal for the same hostname you entered in FX?
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
I've enabled the ability to disable user apps, I'd deliberately not allowed it since Android didn't (but had left in the ability to re-enable disabled user apps). Homescreen bug is also fixed.

Just curious, in the other app you're using, is Android's own app manager aware of the disabled apps (either user or system)?
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Thumbnails are a bit larger (I think as of 1.3.0 or whatever version added cloud thumbnails, they're now cropped rather than fitted). Allowing you to vary their size shouldn't be horribly difficult to implement.

What bugs you most about the image viewer? I do want to get a new implementation in place soon and have some test code put together for some new features, but would definitely like to hear opinions on what people hate most about it/want added to it.

I don't think I can make this happen for 1.5.0, I want to get it out fairly soon. Currently trying to get zip encryption added.
[Android Apps and Games] thedicemaster:
i can think of a few improvements that could be made for the image viewer:

gif playback(currently shows as static image)

smooth zooming instead of steps

double-tap to zoom in/out(switch between fit to screen and real size?)

i'd like to have fullscreen view back(i used to be able to hide the buttons on the bottom with the menu button, but it stopped working a long time ago)

'open with' button in the image viewer

an option to save image rotation

as for my dns problems: nslookup doesn't work on my phone, but ping returns a remote IP address: 67.215.65.132
[Android Apps and Games] GermainZ:
I personally think the fade effect is a bit weird, and would probably be prettier if the next image also faded in simultaneously (instead of waiting till I release my finger). Also, it would be great if the Next Image/Previous Image buttons were a bit smaller and/or could fade in/out as well.
[Android Apps and Games] ethicalsatan:
Wow great app man...really fast....I specially like the way it classifies files..

Thanks:):good:

Works great!!!!!!Looks Greatt!!!!!
[Android Apps and Games] peterbonge:
It should be a little bit like the Android gallery:

- Horizontal swiping.

- No "Previous" or "Next" texts while swiping.

- Double tap to zoom.

And these feature from other file managers would also be nice:

- Pre-loading of the next image (in both directions).

- Caching of the full images.
[Android Apps and Games] 2LoT:
Navigation history?

Hi Todd,

Sometimes I just navigate quickly to check a file. Or copy a file to another folder without using the multi Windows. I think that if FX remembers a history of visited locations and gives a way to move back/forward in the history would be quite practical.

The Multi-Windows feature is nice, but this is useful when you have many or repetitive operations to perform between 2..N different locations. For simple navigation a history is better. What do you think?
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Thanks, yes, this is on the to-do list, to be implemented an option by long-pressing the path bar. Thinking the current Path context menu will be replaced by a "history" popup (with the current context menu options residing in the history popup's menu).
[Android Apps and Games] iXNyNe:
No. Androids app manager doesn't recognize a frozen user app.
[Android Apps and Games] WeSiDe:
I would love to see websharing integration within FX, but in the mean time here is a method using websharing with another client. If it's been covered I apologize.

For the server we will be using websharing with webdav enabled and default port on one device and + or - 1 on the port for the other device. So one Android will have the port at 2112 and the other at 2111 or 2113. As long as it's not like 55000, the app did not like that range. I used the paid version not sure if this works with the free one. Nextapp makes killer apps though so worth picking up. Make sure to set a password for the owner login.

Paid: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nextapp.websharing.r1&hl=en

Free: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nextapp.websharing&hl=en

For the client side we are gonna use the EStrongs file manager.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.estrongs.android.pop&hl=en

Public test for ver. 3

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2210417

When you load this app up on the receiving device (on both in my case, for bi-directional transfer) swipe left or right to bring up the "FTP" client (you will see net and LAN shares too, skip those. Tap new, then tap the WEBDAV option. You need to put the local I.p. of the other android with the http header, to read like so; http://192.168.1.••• or however your dhcp or static settings are. Put 2112 or whatever you set for port next. HTTPS is left unchecked. Then for username put owner then what you set for password. Hit connect and you should be connected to what acts like an FTP server.

On a wireless g network I get between 5 and 10 mbit. On a crappy public wireless n I was hitting 20. Oh yes both devices have to be on the same wifi network. If you can make this work ad hoc please share.

Sent from my Nexus 7 through Tapatalk Xparant Skyblue, big ups to b-boytm for his mad skinning skills.
[Android Apps and Games] thedicemaster:
I just had an idea for a new feature: batch/smart renaming.

if multiple files with the same length filename are selected offer an option to rename, but replace unique symbols with * in the renaming screen.

so say I'd have a few files named [RGP]someshow_01[AAC][1080p].mkv, [RGP]someshow_02[AAC][1080p].mkv, [RGP]someshow_03[AAC][1080p].mkv, etc.

selecting them would give a name change screen with [RGP]someshow_**[AAC][1080p].mkv

changing this to Someshow **.mkv would change all filenames to Someshow 01.mkv, Someshow 02.mkv, Someshow 03.mkv, etc.

with automatic adding of numbers if there's a collision(2 or more files getting the same name)

* would be a wildcard for each unique symbol, so deleting one would remove the symbol in that location in all files(so in my example removing the 1st * would result in Someshow 1.mkv, Someshow 2.mkv, etc.)

this would make renaming a large number of files much easier.

would something like this be doable?
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Working on WebDAV (client) support in FX right now, hope to have it in next release and in a test release up soon. This of course will give FX the capability to connect to WebSharing (if WebDAV is enabled) and also OwnCloud. Server support in FX may happen soon (albeit not next release).
[Android Apps and Games] WeSiDe:
Awesome news, great to hear. Thanks for the hard work and I love the app portion added in this current test release.
[Android Apps and Games] DrUnKenSTeiN:
I recently started to use swiftkey and noticed that in the search bar or while naming a new folder i can't use "flow".

Another thing is that from the home screen when i browse my media files i don't have the option to rename them(there are less options than when i long press the same file while i go through the "Main storage" for example).
[Android Apps and Games] WeSiDe:
I think the media view is just that. A separate entity from the file manager portion of the app. I think that's why your options are different. I'm guessing.

Sent from my Nexus 7 using Xparent ICS Tapatalk 2
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
1.5.0 Test Release (likely final) now available.

I've uploaded a new test release of 1.5.0. This release adds the following (relative to 1.4.1):

(Items in black are *new* in this test release, items in green were in the previous test 1.5.0. test release)

Added new UI visuals for the "content area" of file/item listings. Added new selection/tap highlight.

Added basic theme selection.

Added WebDAV support. (FX Plus)

Added Zip AES-128/AES-256 Encryption support (create and browse). (FX Plus)

Improved zooming in image viewer.

Improved scrolling when viewing music by album/artist (FX Plus)

The Images catalog in FX Plus now shows thumbnails crop-zoomed rather than fit-zoomed (resulting in larger images). This is especially useful when using the "Large Thumbnail" view (see screenshot).

Full-resolution icon support for devices up to XXHDPI (480 DPI).

Added "Apps" section to FX Plus (under "Media" heading). Browse user apps, system apps, all apps, or view apps by permission.

Fixed issue with SMB connectivity and fully qualified domain names.

Updated "categorized" view menus, with sorting options displayed directly in the menu.

The first (left) screenshot shows the "Lucid theme" (which is the default).

The second (right) screenshot shows the "Monochrome Theme", which does away with wallpaper in favor of black/white backgrounds.

First (left) screenshot shows the theme selector (available from Settings->Appearance...it's the first option).

Second (right) screenshot shows updated image viewer with crop-zoomed thumbnails.

The new test release can be downloaded here:

http://android.nextapp.com/fx/r279/FX_r279.apk <-- This is the NEW TEST RELEASE.

If you would like to revert back to the version on the Play Store (1.4.1), you can download it here:

http://android.nextapp.com/fx/r268/FX_r268.apk <-- This is the OLD RELEASE from the Play Store.
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
And for those that were looking for OwnCloud support...OwnCloud supports WebDAV. The URL you're looking for is:

/files/webdav.php (if your OwnCloud is in the root directory).

/owncloud/files/webdav.php (if your OwnCloud is in an "owncloud" directory).
[Android Apps and Games] elban:
I like the new look, thanks for this release.

Is it intended that, on changing theme, the list background is automatically changed to white?
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Thanks,

The Semilucid and Monochrome themes use the "off-white" background for lists and icon views, the "Lucid" theme uses wallpaper.

You can actually set up everything a theme would do by configuring individual appearance options, the themes simply apply them in bulk in nice-looking configurations.
[Android Apps and Games] babylonbwoy:
Satisfied user since the beta and using no other file explo since day one I installed it.

I like app with great UI, I found the new app management icon not really fitting with the rest of home screen, plus it looks smaller than other medias icons, hope you're gonna change it.

I know it has nothing to do with usability and it's less important than other bug fix, but it count...
[Android Apps and Games] doumer:
great! love to see FX moving towards holo, since this is/was the only thing bothering me (a little bit) - the features are superior to any other filreexplorer for android :good:
[Android Apps and Games] thedicemaster:
finally free zooming, a small change but it makes the image viewer feel much more like a proper replacement for the gallery.

the theme options don't really interest me in fx though, i'm happy with the default theme and charcoal header.

i did notice most header colors are a bit too bright.
[Android Apps and Games] elban:
a little issue: when deleting an image in the gallery, it doesn't honor the "confirm deletes" option.
[Android Apps and Games] thedicemaster:
i can confirm this, and add some detail:

in the media section (plus only) you always need to confirm with a checkbox, this goes for all files in the media browser even if the confirmation checkbox is disabled.

in the regular file browsing mode it hides the confirmation box as it should.
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Thanks, corrected and will be in 1.5.0.

(I believe this issue has always been present.)
[Android Apps and Games] DrUnKenSTeiN:
Sad to say that i hated the new look.Simpler is better imo. This yellow tint on long pressing was really bad. I loved the all black i had, with cyan headers. Highlight was better and the "non boxed" looks were better imo. I would like it as an option to keep looks as they were.

Back to the market version for now.

Just my honest opinion.
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Thanks, very much appreciate it (even if I was hoping for a different response :D). Regrettably it will be difficult to offer the original look and the new look as well. You can still run the cyan header, and everything will look the same as it used to in the icon view. In the list view, I don't think it's too horribly different, but that's only my opinion.
[Android Apps and Games] WeSiDe:
Will we be able to select the color of the highlight when when we swipe select a file? I liked the the dark blue color highlight as well but that is a very small thing and by all means if its a pain in the arse then I'm sure we can live with the new lighter color. Makes me think of gold golden oreos. Yum.
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
It would require a fair amount of work to offer such a capability. Currently using PNG images and have them rendered in a few colors (transparent, blue, yellow, and red, each for light and dark backgrounds). Each color currently has a specific purpose/meaning.
[Android Apps and Games] jcmm11:
So today I created a 7zip file (7z extension) using Zarchiver. There's no easy way to open that file. Clicking on the file doesn't recognize the file type. Open with doesn't give a valid option. Having a choice of file type archive would probably work, but that's not currently an option either.

Now I can work around it by simply tacking a .zip onto the end of the file name. Then if I open it with Zarchiver it still works, but I shouldn't have to do that.

Note that this isn't the only file explorer with this problem :)
[Android Apps and Games] GermainZ:
tliebeck, this is probably a heavy request, but if you could make the FX Archive Explorer compatible with .tar archives (and others) some time in the future, that would be great.

Currently they're handled using the Archive Extractor, which loads all files at once, doesn't allow easy browsing, and doesn't let me extract one particular file/folder.

I'm using the terminal to extract single files/folders from these archives at the moment (BTW, have you considered adding an "Open Folder in Terminal" button? I suggested it a while back and you weren't certain about compatibility with all terminal emulators), but it'd be great if we can get the Archive Explorer's functionality everywhere.

Thanks :D
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Thanks, ".7z" files will be associated with "application/x-7z-compressed" in the next release. Just tried it out and it will open Zarchiver. Thanks for reporting this!
[Android Apps and Games] WeSiDe:
Tap the .7z file, then in the box that pops up tap the "File Type" button to the left of the cancel button on the bottom row. On the next dialog box tap "Application". That will bring up a list of of all your apps. Scroll down to ZArchiver and tap and it should open up the file for you. I made a 7z file and it worked for me. Not sure if u can make it a permanent file type association or if u can how to. Hope that helps.
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
This is in the plan, and I'd like to simply eliminate the "Archive Extractor" once it's implemented.

Regarding opening folders in the terminal, just looking at Jack Palevich's term (the most common one and the one I'm most familiar with), it appears possible but it's not a certainty. They offer the ability to run scripts, I need to determine if running a script of "cd /somedirectory" will work. To do this I have to add another permission to FX's manifest, which is very annoying as it causes major update issues (people have to manually update). I may push such a permission to the root module. This feature would only work with that particular terminal emulator app as well (it may be possible with others, but will likely be equally proprietary).

Directions to implement this for jackpal's Android term: https://github.com/jackpal/Android-...ng-Android-Terminal-Emulator-from-another-App
[Android Apps and Games] GermainZ:
AFAIK "sh /somescript" will always work even if the location is mounted as noexec.

Also, I wasn't talking about scripts (only folders), tho that would be nice as well. :D

Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
We're on the same page..i just want to run the script "cd /the/directory/you/chose". :D

Of course, given the capability, it'd be nice to have the script executor offer a "Run in Terminal" checkbox as well.
[Android Apps and Games] GermainZ:
Oh, that makes sense. Including it in the Root module is probably the best way as you said, it won't hold off updates for all of FX (if someone relies on auto updates), plus most people interested in this are already rooted anyway.
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Here is the release that is *likely* bound for the Play Store, r281:

http://android.nextapp.com/fx/r281/FX_r281.apk

I'm still doing some final tests but this one is looking good. Please report any problems ASAP. Otherwise it will be live on the store in several hours. Thanks again everyone!
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
1.5.0 is officially now on the Play Store (same APK as above).

Full feature list is as follows:

Added new UI visuals for the "content area" of file/item listings. Added new selection/tap highlight.

Full-resolution icon support for devices up to XXHDPI (480 DPI).

Added basic theme selection.

Added "Apps" section to FX Plus (under "Media" heading). Browse user apps, system apps, all apps, or view apps by permission.

Added WebDAV support. (FX Plus)

Added Zip AES-128/AES-256 Encryption support (create and browse). (FX Plus)

Improved scrolling when viewing music by album/artist (FX Plus)

Improved zooming in image viewer.

The Images catalog in FX Plus now shows thumbnails crop-zoomed rather than fit-zoomed (resulting in larger images). This is especially useful when using the "Large Thumbnail" view (see screenshot).

Fixed issue with SMB connectivity and fully qualified domain names, and improved SMB error messages.

Added "categorized" view menus, with sorting options displayed directly in the menu.

Thanks again to everyone who helped test this! Please also continue to let me know what you love/like/don't like/hate about the UI updates.
[Android Apps and Games] 2LoT:
Clipboard should be preserved if operation voided

Hi,

Using FX 1.50. I selected multiple items, copy. And navigate to a 2nd Windows, to a network shared folder. I paste the items from the clipboard. The copy operation failed because of "permission denied". This is a legitimate error because I didn't enable proper user permission in the samba shared folder. After the error FX cleans the clipboard content. The procedure has to be restarted from scratch: multi select, copy, navigate 2nd Windows, Paste. Of course, if you are lucky, there will be another error and you are good for a 3rd run.

Do you think that it would be OK for FX to keep the clipboard content if the Copy/Move operation was had failed (either right at the begining or even partially failed, like destination run out of space)?
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Anyone having trouble with SMB connectivity? I've had a couple complaints from 1.5.0 users about not being able to reach Windows shares...1.5.0 does add support for connecting to SMB shares via fully qualified domain name, but it shouldn't hurt any existing connections in my estimation (and of course I haven't seen any problems testing with numerous devices).
[Android Apps and Games] thedicemaster:
i already mentioned before that the dns speedup in ťhe crossbreeder mod prevents you from connecting through a device name after your smb changes.