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[Android Apps and Games] Szczepanik:
Customize Homescreeen

This is good way to clean up home screen.

Maybe needs one line of explanation such as: "Check / uncheck items to hide / show" ? It is not clear to me from screen shot which way round it works.

Nice app getting better all the time. Particularly like the swipe to view next image :)

Cheers

Tom
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Thanks, yes, there will be instructions at the top, it's not quite finished yet.
[Android Apps and Games] ardax:
I like the design for customizing the home screen. It's a good way to get all the disparate options into a single space
[Android Apps and Games] Pons:
I have an idea. When you select the font size (picture attached), how about scale the small, medium, and large to what it's going to look like?

And a bug report. I'm on tapatalk, and when I told tapatalk to attach a file, it gave me a couple of options. One of them was FX image viewer, so I tried that. It opened to a blank screen saying it could not read the file (didn't get to pick one). Next time around, I chose Quickpic which opened to a gallery where I could choose my folder, then picture. Perhaps something similar for FX, or if not, remove the option?
[Android Apps and Games] peterbonge:
I know that we are close to the final, but I have two feature requests for the built-in image viewer:

- Double-tap zooming. Every other image viewer I've used has this. So I wonder why it is missing here.

- Swipe horizontally to switch between the pictures. Swiping vertically is a little bit strange...
[Android Apps and Games] MegaKegHead:
6 Month user

Hi!

Using for about 6 months with no issues.

I'd like to see Ubuntu cloud included.

Also can't wait for the final "Premium" RC.

Keep up the great work!

Mega
[Android Apps and Games] ardax:
Have you seen an app that implements that? I'd be surprised if the standard Android selector widget allowed for that. That'd make a great custom widget though.

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+1. Would be nice, especially when I'm using my phone one handed.
[Android Apps and Games] Nucleotide:
I agree with both of these, especially switching between pictures.

It's almost a standard that double-tapping will zoom, swiping left to right will scroll through pictures. It would be great to see FX updated with both of these.

:good:
[Android Apps and Games] MegaKegHead:
Hi!

What's the status of the wifi accelerator?

BTW....I use FX every day!

Mega
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Thanks! Is the Bluetooth Wi-Fi accelerator not working? You need both phones to have FX installed for it to work. If both phones have FX and the accelerator is running, it should perform the actual transfer over Wi-Fi rather than Bluetooth. Both phones also have to be on the same Wi-Fi network of course.
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Double tap zooming needs to go in, may have to be post 1.0. (1.0 is VERY soon now...and there will be plenty of 1.0.x and 1.x.x releases afterward for stuff like this).
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
I want eventually re-do the entire settings screen. I'm not a fan of the stock Android screens, but it'll be a bit of work to do it right.

I'm not sure why the FX image viewer came up as an option to attach an image. We do register a file chooser activity for such purposes, but the image viewer is only registered to open image files, not choose them.
[Android Apps and Games] MegaKegHead:
Hi!

I figured it out!

Thanks!

Mega
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Release candidate 2 will be available shortly....new features/improvements include:

Added "customize home" panel to configure what items are on homescreen. Accessible via settings of from home "View" menu.

Added "add-ons" screen to show available/installed add-ons (can be disabled in any version via "customize home").

Fixed text editor rendering bug.

Added specific notifications for failed background operations.

Archives may now be automatically downloaded/opened from remote servers.

Release of 1.0 is imminent. Thanks again for reporting bugs, quirks, issues, and annoyances!

This release has been uploaded to the Google Play Store, but it may take about an hour for it to actually be available.
[Android Apps and Games] RatusNatus:
I'm using this for about5 months. i'm not a heavy user.

Never had any issue.

This is my favorite explorer by far. The best!!!
[Android Apps and Games] elban:
I think the addons dialog should be launched from the settings page, not the home page.

The home customization is very good :)
[Android Apps and Games] ardax:
This is awesome! I find the warning every time I go to uncheck something rather annoying though -- perhaps that could be shown upon entering the customize screen as a help tip? With this "Customize Home" panel, the "Show Non-Root System" option in Root Options is redundant now, and the Quick Search option could probably be relocated as well.

Does this really make sense on the home screen? It does really increase their visibility though. Along the same lines, perhaps "Available Add-Ons" should be displayed above "Installed Add-Ons". I imagine you want to promote the add-ons that the user doesn't already have. :)

Also, I have some post-1.0 feature requests:

Copy/Move to Another Window: If I've got multiple windows open, most of the time it's so I can send stuff between them easily. It'd be nice if there was a faster way to get there. I'm not sure how to present the option though. Maybe displaying a list of windows when the user selects copy or move from the current menu -- you'd have to include the clipboard in the list too, of course. If there's only one window open, then files would just go to the clipboard as they do now. A "New Window" option's a possibility too -- that'd put the files on the clipboard and then open a new window. Or long-pressing the copy/move buttons could trigger it, but that's not very discoverable.

Retain Selections When Switching Windows: If I switch from one window to another, I lose my selection. It's not often that I'd use this, and it's a minor thing, but it's one of those little touches that you don't notice isn't there until you stumble across it.

Search to Select: It'd be nice if there was a way to select a number of items in a folder by typing in a search phrase. This one has the potential for serious feature creep though. Wildcards? Globbing? Regexes? (Whee!)

I know you're close to 1.0 but I wanted to get the ideas out before I forgot about them.
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
It's currently available from the "About" page and from the (optionally, on-by-default) from the homescreen. It is there for evil revenuing purposes. It's can be disabled:

By long pressing it and tapping "Hide this item".

By tapping the "View" menu, tapping "Customize Home" and unchecking its item.

By opening the settings, tapping "Home Screen"", "Customize Home Screen" and unchecking its item.

By opening the "Add-Ons" screen, tapping its "View" menu, and unchecking the "Show On Homescreen" toggle.

I really want to make it ultra-obvious that this option can be turned off...some people simply despise stuff like this, and I'm 100% okay with those folks turning this off immediately and never buying anything. I only want people to know that the option exists to buy add-ons if so desired.
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
The warning is intended to be as annoying as possible. The problem is in someone buying the product, disabling features, and then complaining that the product is broken and doesn't include those features. I apologize for the fact that this will needlessly annoy intelligent users, but I've seen huge problems before on the Android market as a result of *NOT* doing this. The same user will constantly file one star reports and complain...and will never email us...and will claim we never respond to their one star ratings (nevermind that there's essentially no method for doing so).

I like all the other suggestions. I think it'd have to be a long-press for Copy/Move though, otherwise we wind up with a negligible savings of clicks. If you long press Copy/Move, a dialog would appear saying "Copy to:" or "Move to:" with a list of items, e.g.:

------------------------------

Copy to:

5 files selsected in Media Card/Documents

Clipboard

/data/data/someapp

Server/Archive/Misc

Location...

------------------------------

The last item would open a file chooser for folks that dislike using clipboards. The two middle items would be the other open windows.

Selection/masking is definitely on the todo list and is fairly high priority. I even run into the need for this myself way too often (e.g. copying all the videos from a recent trip out of a directory with 1000 photos and 50 videos...not fun without it.)
[Android Apps and Games] Nucleotide:
Just updated. Loving the home screen customisations - already removed a few things I never use.

I've loved watching this app develop. It is just so slick, quick and fluid - everything flows beautifully.

Definitely purchasing the add-ons the day they become available.
[Android Apps and Games] Pons:
The root is available already on the Play Store.
[Android Apps and Games] Nucleotide:
I meant the other add-on(s). Already purchased root. :)
[Android Apps and Games] elban:
I completely agree, but still, if I disable it and forget were it was, I would look for it in settings, not in "customize home" :)
[Android Apps and Games] ardax:
No problem -- I can certainly understand why. It's not as if I'm constantly re-organizing my home screen anyway. :)

That'd be brilliant!

Aside: I just noticed that I can long press with multiple items selected to get a context menu. Nice touch!
[Android Apps and Games] MegaKegHead:
An amazing app I use everyday.

Works great for me on my rooted t679 and nexus 7.

Megs
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
That same dialog is also accessible from the Settings, it's under the "Home Screen" menu item.
[Android Apps and Games] iXNyNe:
New home screen customization is perfect! Only thing I noticed is root options still has a toggle to show non system root, which is now handled by the new home screen customization. Otherwise this was an amazing update!

My opinion for having home screen customization in settings vs view menu is both are fine, a bit redundant, but neither are in the way of functionality, so it shouldn't be bothering anyone. I don't have a preference if one were removed.
[Android Apps and Games] MegaKegHead:
Hi!

I'm unable to delete/uninstall fs file manager.

It does not show up in fx.

I'm using jocala from for Sammy 679.

Please advise.

Mega
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Sorry, I'm not quite following. You're trying to delete ES or FX or something else? Are you trying to remove it from /data/app? Or am I way off target here?
[Android Apps and Games] MegaKegHead:
Hi!

I'm using a sammy t 679 rooted (jocala). FX w/rooted upgrade

Fx does not recognize Es file manager and titanium.

I'd like to uninstall/delete.

Sorry, I can't take a screenshot at this time.

Mega
[Android Apps and Games] MegaKegHead:
Hi!

I was able to delete es w/titanium.

I'd like to delete titanium.

Please advise.

Mega
[Android Apps and Games] Fri13:
Just tried the app and functions are great. The look is just weird because it doesn't use Android style.

My personal suggestion is to update theme to follow Holo style. What to do for used GNOME icons is questionable, do they look good on Holo? Thats why I would suggest to add feature to use KDE Oxygen icons as well.
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
You want to delete the Titanium APK from /data/app? What happens when you try?

I'd generally recommend using Android's uninstaller (or a similar application installer product) to remove non-system apps located in /data/app. FX certainly should do it though. You'll want to end your homescreen launcher process afterward.
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
I do eventually want to offer the ability to add custom icon sets. What we're using right now is Tango...Gnome has taken some stuff from it as well, but most modern Gnome systems use something else (at least my last Ubuntu and current LinuxMint don't seem to use any of it). Tango was released to the public domain, and we have a lot of custom icons drawn in the Tango style, so it'll be a project to convert them.

With regard to the Holo theme...in my opinion, some of the standard Holo stuff doesn't "scale" well to applications with the complexity of FX. FX has a tremendous number of options available in its menu system...on a typical file browsing view, you have 27 options available, (not counting switching/closing windows if you have more than one window open). The "upside-down icon-grid pulldown menu interface" is the best way I've discovered to package and categorize these options. They're quick to access. They're thumb-sized. Converting this into a Holo action bar would be (again, just opinion) a turn for the worse. It'd add extra taps and the action bars tend to be a bit too tiny for rapid use.

Going to a sliding tabs/panes Holo UI for switching windows would eliminate swipe-to-select, which I think of as one of the best features of FX.

It does look a bit different. I've tried to keep a few aesthetic principles of the Holo theme (e.g. colors and a "crisp" look, backing away from heavy gradients a bit).
[Android Apps and Games] MegaKegHead:
Hi!

It worked.

Your the man!

Mega
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Hello all,

FX 1.0.0 is now available!

This release is a fairly trivial update to 1.0.rc2, just a few minor bugfixes. It's available on the Google Play Store in the usual place: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nextapp.fx

The final beta expiration date is extended one more week, to September 27. Note that if you do a clean install of FX (i.e., if you don't have a previous beta installed), the beta-trial-mode won't turn on. If you need to work around this, download an old version first, e.g.: http://android.nextapp.com/fx/r188/FX.apk and install it. Then open the old version and agree to the license agreement (this will store a setting indicating that you have used the beta). Then upgrade to the new version.

The paid "FX Plus" add-on is available here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nextapp.fx.rk (~$3) and the root add-on is here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nextapp.fx.rr (~$2).

Thanks again to everyone for all the help in testing FX. Though this may be 1.0, the intent is very much to continue development...there are quite a few features that I'd like to see go in, e.g. WebDAV, NFC, Wifi Direct, more cloud services, network search, select-by-mask...actually too much to list. Please feel free to continue with the suggestions, they're greatly appreciated.

Best

--Tod

P.S.

If anyone who previously posted in this thread would find it difficult for any reason to purchase it (e.g you don't have a Play Store account, or you're in college and it would interfere with your refreshment budget), please drop me a PM with your email address.
[Android Apps and Games] iXNyNe:
Purchased plus, already had root. Thanks for all your work.
[Android Apps and Games] Nucleotide:
Excellent to see v1.0 released. Purchased FX Plus module - already had root.

Thanks a lot for all the hard work. Brilliant. :)
[Android Apps and Games] akaSM:
Do you have plans for selling this outside of Google Play? Google doesn't like my debit card AND I like your app and would love to pay for it. Also, I would prefer to have a single app installation, do you have plans for adding the addons and app into a single pro version or something like that?
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Thanks! Just send me a PM with your email address.
[Android Apps and Games] spyrale:
got FX plus and root module, well deserved.

Tapatalked.
[Android Apps and Games] everlethal:
Finally

This the best file manager.

Good luck.

Now i will purchase this awesome app
[Android Apps and Games] doumer:
finally out of beta :laugh:

just purchased both modules, great work :)
[Android Apps and Games] MegaKegHead:
Purchasing today.

Mega
[Android Apps and Games] ardax:
That pretty much sums it up for me. I saw the update for 1.0 available and when hunting for the Plus module -- already had Root.
[Android Apps and Games] MegaKegHead:
Hi!

I'm a fx plus user!

I noticed that my icons don't have the + on them.

Is this something coming down the pike?

Mega
[Android Apps and Games] akaSM:
It's nice to see the app is out of beta :D

I sent you the PM a couple days ago, tliebeck ^_^

Also, I just noticed I didn't get to try the non-lite features and still, the app was better than many other file managers I've used before
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Thanks! The FX icon will look as normal even if you have Plus or Root modules installed. It'd be kind of neat if we could add a Plus to the icon when the module is installed, but as far as I'm aware icons are hardcoded in the APK.

You've got mail. Sorry for the delay.
[Android Apps and Games] akaSM:
I cannot wait to mess around with the apps, hopefully, without murdering my phone...again :p. Thanks tliebeck ^_^
[Android Apps and Games] paul c:
bought the 2 add-ons - thanks tliebeck, it's a very functional and elegant app!

One thing though - I have my PC set up as a FTP server (running Home FTP Server).

Downloading isn't a problem, however if I upload a file (copy/move and paste), independently of its size, once the process has completed and the FTP folder refreshes, I get a "folder is empty" message. I then can't access the FTP folder until the connection is interrupted then re-established

I have also set up the same computer as a LAN connection over my wi-fi network, here it copies/pastes fine and the folder refreshes without issues, so it's not due to the connection.

I actually have a copy of ANDFTP (which I don't use any more because of FX Explorer), the interface is different in that you upload a file to a given FTP server you are already connected to- but I don't have problems uploading.

First question - is copy/paste the correct way to upload to FTP? Second (if I'm doing it properly), can you reproduce this?
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Sorry for the trouble, copy/paste is the correct way to perform uploads. It definitely sounds like something is going wrong between FX and this server.

I'm not familiar with "Home FTP Server"...is this a Windows built-in item or an independent product? Do you have a link I can use to download it? Additionally, are you seeing the files successfully uploaded once you break the connection and refresh?

Thanks for the report!
[Android Apps and Games] paul c:
Home FTP Server is freeware, you can find it here.

My PC is running Windows XP SP3 with all the latest updates as pushed by MS.

Indeed - important point - the files are uploaded OK, just that the pipe seems to break when the upload completes.

I've been using the FX FTP functionality for months now, and as far as I recall uploads were working OK (I use it primarily to download sfuff to my phone). Unfortunately I can't remember the last uploads that completed without issues, to try and link it to either a new version of FX, or say the network add-on key.
[Android Apps and Games] elban:
Hello!

I've recently aquired a samsung captivate glide, a phone with keyboard.

Unfortunately it looks like fx is not working with the keys: cursors move but you can't see where you are, clicking ok does nothing, etc.

Do you plan to add support for keyboard? I'd be glad to help testing if needed.

Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
More extensive keyboard support is definitely in the plan. I'm a Droid 1->2->3->4 user myself.

The basic priorities are:

add keyboard navigation to menu

arrow key cursor navigation within directory views, space to select/deselect, enter to open

arrow key navigation amongst home screen items, enter to open

type-ahead find (lower priority, but really think this would be convenient)

I don't have an ETA at the moment.
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Seeing the issue with Home FTP Server. Think I found the problem and have it fixed, but still testing. Hope to have a 1.0.1 out fairly soon with this and a few other fixes.

Thanks again for reporting this, really appreciate it!
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
1.0.1 is out, changes include:

Added measures to help prevent FX background transfers from being stopped by aggressive task killers.

Fixed issues with uploading multiple files to some FTP servers.

Added simple root access diangostics to System Status screen.

Added capability to bookmark network and cloud destinations directly from the network/cloud home screens.

Paul C, please let me know if this cures your FTP troubles. I've been testing with Home FTP Server and the problem was reproducible and now appears to be corrected due to a bugfix.
[Android Apps and Games] paul c:
Thanks very much Tod for the quick turnaround!

I can confirm that I can move files and folders from the phone to the FTP server without problems (they transfer OK, the view refreshes OK, I can see details of the file via the FX menu, and I can do other transactions with the FTP server like download, delete on the server from the phone).

I also did several large downloads to the phone, switching the screen off, to see if the connection would be kept awake - and it was, the downloads completed OK.
[Android Apps and Games] thedicemaster:
i got a bit of a problem with setting wallpapers on a galaxy note 2.

for android the ideal wallpaper size is always 2x width, 1x height when viewed from portrait.

i've always made my wallpapers according to this rule, and with FX i've always been able to set my wallpapers without any cropping, stretching, or quality loss.

that is, until i got my note 2.

on the note 2 the ideal wallpaper resolution is 1440x1280, but if i try to set a wallpaper that size in FX the FX image viewer closes, a popup saying FX crashed comes up, and after pressing ok on the popup FX itself closes too.

this is rather annoying because the gallery on the note 2 always cuts off more than you tell it to making FX the easiest way to set a wallpaper without cropping.
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Thanks for the report and sorry for the trouble.

Can you go into the "System Status" and post the memory usage data from the phone? Just tap the Windows menu, tap "Operations", then, "System Status" and then post the "heap used", "heap size", and "maximum heap size" figures.

Regrettably the process by which Android allows apps to set the desktop wallpaper leaves a bit to be desired. When an app requests it, Android runs its own memory-inefficient image resizing code inside our app's process, possibly resulting in an OutOfMemoryError and such a crash occurring. I played with this quite a bit to try and avoid these errors, and thought I'd found an approach that would entirely prevent them.

Additionally, just to be sure this is an OutOfMemoryError and not something else, is there any chance you can get a logcat? I'll bet it's an OutOfMemory error, but there's always a chance this could be a new unique problem.

(And even if it is a memory issue, I'll be looking into finding a better solution, or at the very least recovering from the error.)
[Android Apps and Games] JHimmelbauer:
I love this app, but is it still possible to add a "Select All" feature in the file menue

Josef
[Android Apps and Games] mdalacu:
I will answer this for you
[Android Apps and Games] thedicemaster:
mdalacu: not the same.

i don't get an out of memory error, FX crashes completely.

tliebeck:

22 heap used, 24 heap size, 64 max heap are the values for me.

logcat is at http://tny.cz/57013e72 (edit: their viewer can't load it, click download to open it as txt file)

normally i'd use pastebin for logcats but the note 2 makes huge logcats.

i always reboot before doing a logcat to prevent too much other apps/events from cluttering the logcat, but that's still not enough to keep it below 500kb.

the most relevant bit seems to be "java.lang.illegalstateexception: can't compress recycled bitmap"

view > select all