[Nova Launcher] Malversan:
Bugs report for 1.3.2.beta1

Hello to all.

I wanted to report three Nova Launcher bugs (apparently). I know the developer does not use to respond here, but I think he reads all the messages so he could take this into account.

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In the applications drawer the selected tab is sometimes incoherent with the applications group displayed. When returning from grouping applications into tabs/folders, the tab content shown is the content of the current tab, but for no reason the first tab becomes the selected one. As a consequence, you can see the first tab selected while incoherently displaying the contents of another tab.

Scenario to reproduce: Let us have the application groups "A" and "B", being "A" the first tab in the drawer. Select the other tab, "B". Long press any application icon and enter drawer groups management, then press "back" to go back to the drawer. Contents of the group "B" are still shown, but the selected tab is the first one, "A".

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Another bug related to applications grouping in the applications drawer: when an application is in more than one group, after unselecting one of its groups it is excluded from all the groups it was in.

Scenario to reproduce: We have two application groups, and an application that belongs to both them. We get into that application's groups management and unselect only one of its groups. When back to the drawer, the application is not grouped in any group, it has come back to the "main" applications tab.

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The last bug is more annoying and probably very difficult to reproduce.

I have a launcher screen with three scrolling-list widgets: Google Reader, GMail and standard mail (all three widgets are from the stock Android from Google). Sometimes this screen is not redrawn.

More specifically, when swiping from the adjacent screens, sometimes the cube animation stops at the half and I can see two launcher screens (previous and next to the offending one) "fighting" to be the current screen, freezed in the half of the animation. Sometimes the cube animation finishes but the offending screen is not drawn at all, showing only the wallpaper, even without the dock. Sometimes the widgets are shown intermitently, with a heavy flickering, and then they disappear.

Even when the screen is not drawn, the widgets are there. I can blindly press them and the stock applications open. But it is a very bad idea to do it, because when returning from the application to the offending screen (using either the "back" or the "home" buttons), the phone hangs for some seconds (freezed in the opened application, so before the launcher screen is drawn) and then REBOOTS. Sometimes this spontaneous reboot happens without previous symptoms (I mean, no problem redrawing the launcher screen), so this renders that screen completely useless and even dangerous.

As you can imagine, this is very annoying.

When I say "sometimes", I mean this is not all the time. It seems this happens when the device has been used for a while. I do not keep track of the memory use, but changing the wallpaper from animated to a static one reduces the chances of this fatal error happening. The fact is that this problem only happens when using Nova, never with the stock launcher or Apex configured the same way. So if it is a memory-related problem, it seems that Nova is crossing some limit when redrawing that screen.

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Test environment:

- Device: Samsung Galaxy Nexus (free), 1Gb mem.

- Android version: stock 4.1.1, not rooted.

- Nova Launcher versions: 1.3.1 and 1.3.2.beta1, with Prime.

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Thanks in advance for your attention.