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[Android Apps and Games] Magissia:
Is the over draw stuff supposed to fix the last when opening menu?

Regards
[Android Apps and Games] henrik.dk:
best file explorer.

What I am missing is to share file between computers in a more intuitive way.
[Android Apps and Games] jaydee 77:
Take a look at WebSharing

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2462683
[Android Apps and Games] henrik.dk:
thanks. Looks good.

seems like from the same developer. Would be nice to made part of fx explorer.
[Android Apps and Games] jaydee 77:
Indeed it's from [MENTION=2954544]tliebeck[/MENTION].

Yah, i think after the nice UI update of FX, WebSharing needs some polish. ;)
[Android Apps and Games] lorikarte:
Hello,

İ can not see any thumbnails of video. Above "thumbnails takes long time to generate". but l wait 5 minutes. Same standart icons there.
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Can you see any video thumbnails in the stock gallery in the stock gallery app? What kind of device (and what ROM, if applicable)?
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
The overdraw fix would have a fairly minor speed-up effect on general UI performance, but that would likely only be noticeable in animations. I still need to look at the menu performance issue more closely.
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
There are some updates planned for WebSharing, most notably it needs the new icon set from FX. Have a few other things I'd like to add as well.

Regrettably that product has not done well in the market, even though I did a complete overhaul of it six months or so ago with v2.0, Holo-izing the UI, adding support for drag-and-drop folder uploads in Chrome, with automatic queuing and very good performance. There are several competitors to it now on the market with inferior UIs that are doing much better. It's not as though it was late to the market either...it was the first of its kind. Even the Lite version doesn't see good download numbers, and like the free version of FX, the free stuff is very capable.
[Android Apps and Games] fiesta92:
Just installed it.

Looks nice ;)
[Android Apps and Games] lorikarte:
Hello,

İ use Xperia z ultra Kitkat orijinal no root. Yes İ can see video thumb in gallery, Quickpic, es file explorer.

İ send a screenshot.
[Android Apps and Games] jaydee 77:
This is sad. I like WebSharing and use it daily at home instead of a USB cable mainly for file browsing. But i'm also missing some features like:

1) ticking files to select them (like in windows explorer, see screenshot)

2) jumping in file list when pressing the first letter of a file name

3) sorting file by size and date

4) maybe tasker support to start/stop the app/service

5a) optional password in notification when service starts so it can be pushed to the pc by another app or

5b) maybe tasker support for catching the password and sending it to the pc
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Thanks, and sorry, I thought you were referring to thumbnails not showing up in the video gallery in FX+.

What you're seeing is unfortunately normal behavior, as showing the thumbnails in file listings wasn't supported. And that is totally lame. So they will be in the next version (just implemented :D).
[Android Apps and Games] lorikarte:
Thank you for your answer and waiting for next update.
[Android Apps and Games] henrik.dk:
maybe consider to integrate it with fx explorer. in the network section to start the webshare.

so people will give this app a try.

Do you have name of other apps? I tried websharing and got file lock if I want to manipulate the file

from the usb.

To me, the active development of the product is a key factor to choose the app or not.

I have systempanel installed and used for years. But I don't really think I will choose systempanel

if I am searching for a task manager now. I keep it just because I am used to it. But to attractive new users,

regular update I would think is important.
[Android Apps and Games] bombadier:
As hendrik.dk suggested I think WebSharing integrated into FX explorer would be a pretty awesome feature,It would be so useful to have all your file management tools under one app

Have actually just bought WebSharing to support the developer, shame it has not been doing well.

Keep up the good work buddy :good: so I can keep using funky apps

Oh and get tasker support plumbed in wherever you can :)
[Android Apps and Games] Magissia:
Linked play store link at some places, hope will help.

Regards
[Android Apps and Games] mbc07:
Well, a root add-on for WebSharing (allowing to remotely upload/download from any folder, edit file permissions, etc) could give some uniqueness to it compared to its competitors, and I'm pretty sure it would increase its success since there's no similar app offering something like that (at least from what I've searched in Play Store)...

Another possibility would be transforming it in an add-on to FX, what about it?
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Thanks all for the thoughts/suggestions on WebSharing.

I'm not certain on integrating it into FX...have definitely thought about doing so, but that's still TBD. May try one more significant update to it as a standalone app first.

Sorry to not reply earlier, at the moment I have another round of updates coming for FX (v3.1) that I've been extremely busy with, will post more info / beta within a couple of days.
[Android Apps and Games] Magissia:
Maybe a lighter integration ? If both Websharing and Fx are installed, add Websharing options inside Fx option, and add a "Hide Web sharing icon form launcher", same way you already do for the text editor. Then a little "Websharing" button that will open the current webshare app.

A nice feature would be to make an SMB share from the device itself, but it's probably lot of work and i don't know if you'd have time to jump on this.
[Android Apps and Games] Ultramanoid:
Would it be possible to send the mini music player to the background or minimize it in some way to keep using the file manager itself as it plays ? ES does this creating a notification, very handy to listen to a tune without launching a full blown media player and to keep, well, managing files, or whatever it is one was doing. And actually useful when editing sound files... ( Editing tags, going through a list of sounds, etc. )

A second suggestion; could we have size information ( or number of files inside, if it's a folder ) in icon view ?

And finally, something which might be a bug. Ordering things by size puts folders first not following the setting telling not to do so. Not sure if this is easy, as calculating the size of all items in a folder might take a while or choke up devices with limited resources, I can understand that.

Thanks for all the hard work, at any rate.
[Android Apps and Games] thedicemaster:
i got a little suggestion.

in windows folder-specific settings are stored in a desktop.ini file so you can change the display settings for that folder without changing system-wide settings.

perhaps you could add support for something similar to FX.

if ".FXconf" is found any settings described in that file will be used for that folder.

examples of several possible usage situations:

setting download folder sorting to "date descending" while all other folders use alphabetical, so newly downloaded files are easier to find.

setting zoom for wallpaper and photo folders high, while maintaining a good overview with lower zoom for other folders.
[Android Apps and Games] Ultramanoid:
Please, no. Seriously, no.

While it's easy to understand the purpose and the functionality you're after, littering every folder with a settings file it's little more than filling everything with garbage. OS X does the same with DS_Store files from its native file manager. Hundreds, thousands of DS_Store files everywhere.

Applications that use that method ( some Android media players for example ) are no better than spam in mail.
[Android Apps and Games] thedicemaster:
i never said anything about every folder.

you just create that file if you want that specific folder to behave differently.

and alternatively this could also be handled by a list somewhere else.
[Android Apps and Games] mbc07:
Little bug report here, if I use Terminal Emulator or adb shell to mount an image in an empty folder, like mount -o loop -t ext4 /path/to/image.ext4 /path/to/empty/dir, I can add/edit/remove files in that image from the console, but if I go to the empty folder where I mounted the image with FX it won't see the contents of the image, just the empty folder...
[Android Apps and Games] thedicemaster:
have you tried visiting the folder through the sytem(root) option?

you(as user) may not have the right to view the contents, so FX might need to request root permission(which it only does through sytem(root)) before it can see the contents.
[Android Apps and Games] mbc07:
Yes, even visiting the folder through System (Root) doesn't show the contents...
[Android Apps and Games] Magissia:
That's not a Fx bug that's how android work. Things you mount are mounted only for the UID that mounted it.

Regards
[Android Apps and Games] mbc07:
At least here, I can only mount an image in Terminal using root (so, UID is 0). FX with root add-on uses this same UID, doesn't it? If yes, the mounted image should appear, I think...
[Android Apps and Games] Magissia:
Not because you have the root add on that everything is executed as root.

Regards
[Android Apps and Games] kryzeK:
How hide FX TextEdit icon of app drawer?

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[Android Apps and Games] freelsd:
Settings - FX Text Edit - Launcher Shortcut (uncheck)
[Android Apps and Games] kryzeK:
Much better (: would be great one day this fantastic application being in my language (pt-BR) any help for this, I'm available.

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[Android Apps and Games] freelsd:
+1 vote for Russian. Continue to hope

Отправлено с моего GT-N7100 через Tapatalk
[Android Apps and Games] Ultramanoid:
Can't get FX File Chooser to work. Trying to upload a file from any browser ( Firefox, Opera, Chrome, doesn't matter... ) works with other file managers invoking KitKat's document chooser first, then the file manager in question, but picking FX File Chooser I just get a black screen. 'Home' on top, and 'cancel' at bottom...

:confused:

EDIT : Never mind. Don't know what the glitch was, but erasing all preferences and data and reinstalling FX fixed it.
[Android Apps and Games] SedyBenoitPeace:
[MENTION=2954544]tliebeck[/MENTION] congratulations for your great app! I have only one little question...respect the other File Explorer in the "share" tabs i have ony a few applications while in other apps (like ES) there are a lot of app! This is not a real problem but the main issue is that there isn't the bluetooth and then i can't share anything! Is my problem? I read here in the thread that in the newer versions of the apps there are modifications to bluetooth api...i didn't understand...however then i simply can't share with bluetooth or i have a misconfiguration?
[Android Apps and Games] freelsd:
[MENTION=2954544]tliebeck[/MENTION]

Could you add the old Tango icon theme too?
[Android Apps and Games] mbc07:
Hey [MENTION=2954544]tliebeck[/MENTION], in all Xperia devices we have built-in themes that changes the accent color. Would it be possible to FX automatically set the Trim color to be the same of the accent color from currently selected Xperia theme?
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Old Tango theme as in v1.x/2.x?

I do want to add an HD version of the new Tango theme regardless (with support for 480DPI displays with icons zoomed in to 200%) and with folder color choice like the Faenza item.
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Not sure how possible it is to do this. Do they expose an API to obtain the accent color?
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Does bluetooth show up if you try and share a JPEG item or zip file?

I removed FX's build in Bluetooth OBEX push sender and am relying on Android's own provided item in 2.0 and later. There were device compatibility problems with the FX implementation found in FX v1.x, and the open-source library used was no longer being maintained by its author.
[Android Apps and Games] mbc07:
I don't know if there's an API for that, but from what I've messed around, apps with elements that uses the accent color generally get them from the framework I think, they have things like that in their resources:

styles.xml

<item name="android:textColor">@color/theme_accent</item>

colors.xml

<item type="color" name="theme_accent">@com.sonyericsson.uxp:color/semc_theme_accent_color</item>
[Android Apps and Games] jaydee 77:
Please add ability for custom UI trim color or white at least.
[Android Apps and Games] SedyBenoitPeace:
Ok thanks for answer! I checked and with an image the bluetooth show up.. But with an apk not.. Then at this point I understand that I can't send apk with this amazing app! It's a shame :)

Inviato dal mio fantastico Nexus 5 con Franco's kernel
[Android Apps and Games] Ultramanoid:
I have noticed that the thumbnails created by FX are often huge, many of them 500 pixels to 700 pixels wide. I'm looking right now at a 720 x 480 px "thumb", which is ridiculous. Sure I like to use icon view with file previews, and sure, I have thousands of HD photographs and graphics in SD card memory and OTG USB devices I attach, but the size of these "thumbnails" is getting out of control, both in pixels and MB.

Since thumbnails do not seem to be created with a fixed size, I assume there's some percentage calculation, and the bigger the original image, the bigger the thumbnail, I suppose ?

Wouldn't it make more sense to have a fixed 128 x 128 px thumb ( or any other fixed number, 256, whatever... ), regardless of whether the original is 500 px or 7000 px wide ?

I also noticed that even though they are square when browsing folders, the thumbnail files are respecting the original image ratio, so there's more waste in there, in you only show a square image, why calculate and create a 3:4 or 16:9 one ?

Alternatively, could they be generated on the fly as an option on devices powerful enough, without leaving actual files behind ?

Or yet another option, could we choose where these thumbnails are stored ? ( This would be my ideal setting, actually. )

Blah, blah. ♪～(´ε｀ )
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
You can change the extension to .zip, or zip up multiple APKs and send them.
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Thumbnails are saved in /sdcard/Android/data/nextapp.fx/files/ImageThumbnail (this is not hardcoded, but rather the user-storage directory returned by the Android API).

Thumbnail size is based on a power of 2 of the overall image size that is greater than a certain minimum. The Android image scaling system can downscale very large images to powers of 2 very quickly. The large sizes are chosen to accommodate high resolution viewing, e.g, zoomed in on the icon view or viewing a directory of images using the FX+ image gallery at full zoom.

Continuing to retain the aspect ratio may no longer be necessary, as i believe only square aspect thumbnails are ever displayed in FX in 3.x (for along time this wasn't the case though).

I definitely need to add a better system for purging non-recently used thumbnails though and limiting max thumbnail count.
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Coming soon in next beta... the ability to configure icon overlays in icon themes.

<icon name="app_data_overlay_base" overlay-inset="150,150,850,710">
<image size="64" value="@drawable/i64_media_disk"/>
<image size="144" value="@drawable/i144_media_disk"/>
<image size="288" value="@drawable/i288_media_disk"/>
</icon>

Themes will be able to specify where an overlay image (e.g. APK icon) is placed within a base image. The coordinates are in permill values (i.e., like percent, but expressed between 0 and 1000).
[Android Apps and Games] iXNyNe:
@T

Loving the icons and pretty much everything about the new versions you've been cranking out. Keep up the good work!
[Android Apps and Games] Magissia:
The theming update looks badass, do you plan extending it to the whole GUI of Fx?
[Android Apps and Games] henrik.dk:
Just noticed an annoying issue.

If I multiselected files in the system with root access and want to delete them, it turned out that I didn't mount them with write access.

The context button covered the rw mount button unfortunately. I have to deselect and mount first. could that be fixed?
[Android Apps and Games] GermainZ:
Would it be possible to add an option for Tinted Status Bar users? If enabled, it would use this simple API: https://github.com/MohammadAG/Xpose...madag/colouredstatusbar/StatusBarTintApi.java

Thanks :)
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Thanks for the suggestion, I've added a remount-rw button to the selection menu if the current filesystem is read-only (for next release, not published yet).
[Android Apps and Games] iXNyNe:
Found a bug:

I was using sftp to copy ~3700 files from my nas to my phone, I pressed the x on the copy window to send it to the background, pull down the notification drawer and it's stuck on 38/3700, but if I tap on the notification it shows the operations view and the progress just fine (there wasn't an issue with the transfer, just an issue with the notification reporting progress).

I also tried this same thing copying over sftp TO my nas. But I haven't tested many other scenarios yet so I'll report back one I do.
[Android Apps and Games] Ultramanoid:
Yes, that's where I was looking at the files themselves. When I blocked that directory, a new one called .FX was created for them in /sdcard/ ( in my case this is internal memory on the device, the actual SD card slot which I do have, is sdcard1 ) and when I blocked this folder as well, FX was unable to create thumbnails.

I was blocking them to see if FX would create them on the fly, without leaving files behind.

That's the thing. A thumbnail as the ones I found, 700 or 800 pixels wide, are no longer thumbnails. They are for all purposes images. I see a privacy concern with this, combined with keeping the full ratio of the original images.

A small cropped thumbnail of a scanned document or image is not a privacy concern. A directory full of images reproducing original documents at big sizes is.

Hence the options I was wondering about...

1 ) Reducing the size of thumbnails. ( i.e. the difference between using file manager icon view and image gallery view. )

2 ) Generating them on the fly.

3 ) Being able to choose where they are stored.

Regarding this, I also found that thumbnails generated for previous sessions were kept and yet new ones were created again ( for the same image ) so yes, there's that too.
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
It at least won't appear black when translucent backgrounds are used now. I need to figure out what's causing a gradient/shadow on the header before I attempt to color match it with non-translucent themes though.
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
.FX is used for older devices, before the API existed to retrieve /Android/data/package.name stuff.

Keeping thumbnails them in memory can be a real problem...some devices have very small heap sizes, so FX would be generating them constantly, and scrolling through a list of images would be a fairly awful experience.

When you say you'd like to choose where they're stored, would storing them on the /data partition off /data/data/nextapp.fx be the alternate location, or did you have something else in mind?
[Android Apps and Games] Ultramanoid:
I understand this well, one-size-fits-all is very hard to do on Android. There's just a huge difference between devices and some common ground or compromise can't be helped.

On /data as you say would address the privacy issue somewhat, and from there they can be discarded eventually ( by age, or limiting number of thumbnails, limit the storage used, etc ) or by user action ( clear cache, etc ). Maybe also to be able to choose between device's internal storage and external storage ?
[Android Apps and Games] mbc07:
What about storing them in /data/data/nextapp.fx/cache? That way it would fix the piracy issue (although it's ok for me in current location) and users could automatically wipe that folder by selecting Clear cache in standard Android Settings => Storage menu
[Android Apps and Games] henrik.dk:
thank. it should be enough to work around my issue.

But in general to have a context menu to cover standard menu could

be a problem.

I remembered that the old fx has option to have context menu or not.
[Android Apps and Games] Magissia:
I think the thumbnails sound default to cache folder in data, but we should let the user change the path.

Regards
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
I agree this is the best option, but only for Android 4.x devices with FUSE-mounted internal user storage (where space on /data and space on user storage are shared rather than hard-partitioned). I need to figure out the best way to detect this (perhaps it's a requirement in a specific Android version, but I know some ICS devices do it while others don't....think it might be mandatory on JB). I suppose checking if the size of /data and user storage are equivalent might suffice.
[Android Apps and Games] Ultramanoid:
Would you happen to know how to completely disable 'sdcard' emulation in a device's internal memory with KitKat so that it is forced to use the real external media ? I know about your fix to enable writing to external media, but I'm talking about disabling KitKat's false SD card emulation altogether...
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Are you saying to make it behave like the T-Mobile G1/Original Droid, where all storage takes place on the MicroSD and there is no user-accessible general purpose storage on the on-board flash? I don't know how to do that or if its possible, I'm not terribly familiar with the process by which Android mounts/configures devices at boot up. I imagine it probably involves modifying the boot image though (default.prop/init.rc and such). Would ask in your phone's forum or ROM thread.
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Beta Release: FX 3.1.0.2:

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/r3118/FX_r3118.apk

Updated Faenza theme: http://android.nextapp.com/fx/theme/faenza/r3118/FX_Theme_Faenza_r3118.apk

FX+ Video home screen is now in the same format as the FX+ Images home screen (folder listing).

Added ability to icon theme engine to specify overlay bounds and skew.

Added ability to clear all thumbnails.

Trim color is now applied to path bar.

More trim colors.

Screenshots:

New Video Home View:

Looking at /data/data with default theme:

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