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[Android Apps and Games] pakitos:
Oh right, I thought you meant from the top.
[Android Apps and Games] demoncamber:
[MENTION=2463901]dennisxl[/MENTION] Dev, why aren't you just rolling back changes and providing test builds to your customers/users until you find the direct cause for the folder rendering issues?????

This is seriously getting annoying.

Sent from my d801/20e kdz.
[Android Apps and Games] Technical:
It's a pity... Testing Nova and it never crashes... I've sent an email to the developers but did not receive any answer.

Apex is unusable if you have high phone usage... It just crash, the dock disappears, none gesture can be used, apps tray can't be restored...

(By the way, I'm using Apex Pro).
[Android Apps and Games] Braakie:
Can't change the app drawer icons sometimes!, only when I drag the second time the adjust option is visible.

Latest Apex Pro installed.
[Android Apps and Games] ihebmakhlouf:
I just installed this launcher.. really nice
[Android Apps and Games] avd:
touchwiz widgets won't work on apex.
[Android Apps and Games] greatdaneduke:
Is the desktop locked?
[Android Apps and Games] Braakie:
No, the options are invisible at the first attempt, only at the second attempt you see the options for the shortcuts in de app drawer.

See pics
[Android Apps and Games] droid3k:
Feature request for one more folder setting

Hello,

while i was using the google launcher + [xposed] gel settings, there was a very nice folder setting options which is called 'smart folder'. There are two more ways to open a folder:

1)Swipe = launch directly the first app in folder

Touch = open the folder

2)Touch = lauch first app

Swipe = open folder

Thanks for reading and for apex. It's awsome!

Best regards
[Android Apps and Games] Seraph08:
i love this launcher
[Android Apps and Games] TsuMura:
Bug

Sometimes when I get out of any application I'm encountering a problem like the following.

Samsung Galaxy Alpha, Android 4.4.4
[Android Apps and Games] greatdaneduke:
I've seen it as well.
[Android Apps and Games] AnaguaMateus:
Just one suggestion.. I would like to have the search bar a little bit bigger. Like the size of Google launcher. But this is only a little detail.
[Android Apps and Games] pakitos:
Damn it, my OCD is kicking hard, I just cant leave an app with a Play Store notification wanting me to update the app (I know I can turn this off) and started to try Nova, it is a lot faster on my Galaxy S4 running CM 11 M9 but I dont want Nova, I want Apex.

I know XDA encourages not to ask for update times but I must ask, any news on the folder transparency issue? and maybe a fix for the lots of crashes and slowness of the app drawer?
[Android Apps and Games] Braakie:
I found out why I have this bug. It's the animations of Android. When turning off, the bug is there.
[Android Apps and Games] SergeGardien:
Possible Bug.

Apex Launcher Pro v3.0.3

I've created 46 folders in my drawer to store 390 apps (circa) however I'm having some issues. First of all Apex Pro became exceptionally slow, quite often get stuck and sometimes even crashes.

I've tried to move some apps from a folder to another one and now I have them in both folders (which should be impossible) and there is no way to remove these apps from the old folder.

Moreover when I sort the apps/folders in the drawer Apex shows many apps outside of the folders although these are inside other folders.

I've just noticed another thing, i.e. apps randomly jump outside folders with no reason (if you need I can post a picture).

It seems that the behavior of the folders in the drawer is quite hectic.

Pls check the attached images.

Can you pls confirm this is a real bug?

Is there a quick solution to fix the issue?

I've just started to use Apex yesterday and I preferred it vs Nova bcs of the possibility to create folders inside the drawer and custom sort them but if this is the outcome I get I will probably move on to Nova soon as they offer folders in the drawer (hoping they don't mess up).
[Android Apps and Games] 13lack13ox:
If you have apps in multiple folders (which are using custom sorting), whichever folder you dont want the app in change sorting option to default, save, then set back to custom sorting. I think its a bug with custom sorting option. Play around you'll see how it works.

I'm talking about custom sorting of icons in folders that are in the app drawer, and not the custom sorting of icons (apps and folders) in app drawer. Just play around. You'll get it! =P

Sorry editing this post as there are a lot of sorting options hehe in apex. Hope its not too confusing its a pretty simple fix, just toggle custom sorting to default save then set back to custom. Had this bug happen to me a few times, as I set all my apps in the drawer in subfolders. Using the app drawer as a folder main of sorts.
[Android Apps and Games] SergeGardien:
Cool, thanks 13lack13ox, that fixed the issue.

The other problems I've written about are still there but at least we're -1 now ;)

Anyway, I've tried out Nova Pro and it is much faster, it's on another planet respect Apex Pro.
[Android Apps and Games] simpsonr:
Any chance the random transparent folder bug has any headway on getting fixed?
[Android Apps and Games] fone_fanatic:
On Android 5.1 on my Nexus 5 if I have all animations disabled in developer options then Apex doesn't display app icons in folders on the home screen and has difficulty displaying the app drawer ( looks like it's really zoomed in).

If I go into developer options and change Animator Duration Scale to anything other than off, it works fine.
[Android Apps and Games] twili9ht:
Just changed Animation duration and that seems to solve my problem. So it's the same bug.
[Android Apps and Games] fone_fanatic:
Yep. I prefer having all animations off (makes it seem snappier). This bug only appears when you disable the animation for "Animator Duration Scale" so the current work around is to set that one to anything other than off ( i have it set to .5x, the lowest allowable). The other two animation settings "Transition animation scale" and "Window animation scale" can be set to off without causing any issues with Apex launcher.
[Android Apps and Games] jed84:
After more than 3 months of waiting I finally bought pro version of Nova and removed abandoned (yep, abandoned!) Apex. 3 months of constant waiting for new release which would not be a beta version (and trying to not update to the new version of Apex full of bugs), 3 months of dealing with developer who is not able to deal with bugs and who is working on different "features", which will make people "happy", instead of fixing annoying issues. More than 2 years with Apex - It was a good time, but finally it's time to say goodbye and choose something better, since developer is not doing anything to make his product better. 1/4 of year of waiting is enough and definetly too long. And since it's disrespectful to people who donated, there was no other choice. Goodbye Apex. It looks like creator of this ship is not here anymore.
[Android Apps and Games] twili9ht:
I switched to Smart Launcher for the same reason. Totally different but I really like it so far.
[Android Apps and Games] greatdaneduke:
Switched to NEXT launcher. Flawless so far.
[Android Apps and Games] Weebe:
Great launcher

Great launcher
[Android Apps and Games] petrsiri:
I switched to Nova too and it is in general a better launcher. On the other hand i found out that there are one or two things missing which are important to me (maybe not much to others) like the ability to set a third party app for specific unread counts (eg evolve Sms showing unread sms counts) and 2 swipe shortcuts per icon.
[Android Apps and Games] hawkwind212:
And someone asked me a while a go why would I ever used 4 different launchers (Apex, next, nova, smart). This is exact reason why, when a launcher is getting a major upgrade. Just have to give it some time, and use other launcher. Then I'll come back and use it again, once Apex is finished with the upgrading. I don't see each launcher as better than the other. Rather, I see each launcher as having different features. Like next is about eye candies and Nova is about customization.
[Android Apps and Games] replica9000:
Too blingy for my taste. Looked through the play store last night and there is a **** ton of launchers now. Other than the folder issue, I haven't had any real issues with Apex. I just hope it doesn't get abandoned like Fancy Widget (same dev) seems to have.
[Android Apps and Games] Igoreha-96:
Good afternoon.

Sorry for my bad English and that, if I may mistakenly thought that this topic is sitting developer.

Please do so that the tabs in the application menu for android 5 appeared after the appearance of the animation will take the application menu, and disappeared before the application menu will disappear. And it turns out badly: Pressing the "Application Menu" on the home screen, first appear tabs ugly overlapping widgets, occurs animation unfolding "Circle" and a menu of applications (map); and vice versa, press the back button in the application menu, there is a folding animation "Circle", while for some time remain tabs, again overlapping widgets, and then they abruptly disappear.

Thank you in advance. Launcher super!
[Android Apps and Games] Technical:
Stability: this is what I am looking for.

Apex is fantastic. But it is crashing and reloading too much in Lollipop, specially with a lot of apps installed.
[Android Apps and Games] eRPeeX:
About 500 apps installed on lollipop 5.0.

Never crashing or rebooting

No transparency issue at all.
[Android Apps and Games] Technical:
How can I troubleshoot mine then?
[Android Apps and Games] MatVekk:
Is possible, long press in homscreen --> apex launcher options?

In my nexus don't have hardware menu button. And I don't want a a menu icon in my homscreen.

Inviato dal mio Nexus 7 2013 Euphoria 5.1
[Android Apps and Games] simpsonr:
Ok, I seem to have come up with a workaround for the transparent folder bug... This was mentioned in another post I think so I don't take credit... only verifying that this seems to work.

In Developer settings for the OS, I changed the three animation scale settings from the ROM default (.25x) to 1.0x. The settings on my device are : Window Animation scale, Transition Animation Scale, Animator Duration Scale.

I tried the other day to change those from the default .25x to .5x and that didn't have any impact on the bug. So it seems that the values have to be somewhere in the 1.0 range.

Hope this helps folks and the dev.
[Android Apps and Games] subhani:
Since updating to lollipop on my Xperia z3 d6033, the app drawer has become super laggy and clunky responsive. Nothing works, from clear cache and data to fresh reinstall of Apex. Not even a fresh factory reset. I hate to find serious lag, esp on this Sony when it never lagged before and esp now that I'm running lollipop.

Is there anything I can do devs? Do you think you could kindly look into this? Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] Technical:
For me it's the app itself which crashes, the app drawer could be involved, as removing all of them make launcher much more lighter.

It's becoming really really annoying to have Apex as launcher with such crashes...
[Android Apps and Games] pakitos:
Yes, it's under behavior menu or something like that, I use Spanish so that's what it says.
[Android Apps and Games] Burkoff:
Hi guys

I am using apex pro 3.0.3. After updating Galaxy S4 from 4.4.2 to 5.0 apex action "Notifications" is not working aymore. I used it daily for sliding down the notifications area. Now i have to do it the classic way. Does somebody elese has this problem or a solution?

:confused:
[Android Apps and Games] wizwin:
Bugs on 5.1 Nexus 7

Bugs? (Nexus 7 (WiFi) Lollipop 5.1)

1) App icons are missing - Application icons inside folders in app drawer are not displayed, it just shows a blank area. Apps inside folders on dock or desktop does not have this issue.

2) Transparency issue - Desktop icons, widgets and graphics are showing up in app drawer causing a display clutter.
[Android Apps and Games] Tmp341:
Using rooted phone, but when i change system font, it only becomes default font's italic version.It doesn't change completely.
[Android Apps and Games] pinkflozd:
thanks that worked perfectly
[Android Apps and Games] danial.aw:
any way of getting adw notifier to work on this launcher?... i would love to have badge notifications on my phone... but dont want to leave ur launcher lol
[Android Apps and Games] rosmarcelino:
I am helping with Portuguese translation! :)
[Android Apps and Games] matius44:
Hello mates :)

I've been running this launcher and absolutely love it! :D

However, I enabled the ICS softkeys on my Galaxy Note and then tried to make it transparent, did all the necessary xml edits but in the end it only got half way transoparent, I think it's related to how the wallpaper is showed..check attached pic

nova used to display this properly but in recent builds it also started to show the same half-transparent background..

If it's not too much to ask, is there a possible fix? And can you tell me how to remove the gradient at the soft keys area?

Am sorry for asking too much..
[Android Apps and Games] RickROM:
Found a bug. If you have a folder that scrolls, the icons that are past the normal section cannot be rearranged easily.

Tried to rearrange the icons at the bottom of a scrolling folder, but I cannot rearrange the last row.
[Android Apps and Games] a4840639:
Another issue

Auto rotation is still working when system level auto rotation is turned off, it really should not.
[Android Apps and Games] vlt96:
yes it should have 2 options for rotate: follow phone rotation and follow system settings;)

I was born in the '90's... 1290's >:)
[Android Apps and Games] AmirAli44:
when coming to the last homescreen it hacks or have a delay to get to the other side of the homescreen. Why is that?

And the launcher is really good:)
[Android Apps and Games] cruel91:
There is a issue with Apex auto-rotation and system auto-rotation. The homescreen and drawer only follows Apex auto-rotation, the rest follows system auto-rotation
[Android Apps and Games] Romonster:
Noticed a bug about folders. If you put a labeled folder in dock and then remove it from there, the label disappears. And then there's no way to label them.
[Android Apps and Games] christgill:
Blank notification/status bar

Sorry if this has been covered before, but there's no search button on this thread (for me, at least).

Using Google, I managed to sort my "Apex Launcher has stopped" problem.

But now it's running, I've got a blank notification bar at the top of the screen - just the black background. I know there should at least be icons for the time, phone and wi-fi signals and 3G Watchdog.

Any ideas... thanks
[Android Apps and Games] dennisxl:
1 & 2. Will be fixed in the next version.

3. There's not enough room to display the labels on your screen. If you absolutely need labels, use a different grid size.

More folder customizations are coming in future updates.

Sorry, no dock for tablets, at least for now.

I can't reproduce the overlapping issue on my side. Did you update from an early version or did you do a clean install?

Not sure how to resize dock icons now. May look into this later.

1. What exactly is the bug?

2. I can't reproduce it.

Said this many times, please perform a clean install (no updates).

Will consider that in future versions.

ADW notifiers won't work with Apex. We may implement our own notifiers in the future.

The bottom bar (where the soft keys are) is not part of the launcher. I don't think we have control over its layout.

Will be fixed in the next update.

There's no delay for the contents (icons and widgets) on the desktop. Only the wallpaper transition lags a bit.

Thanks for reporting this issue. You can expect a fix in the next version.

The notification bar is part of SystemUI, not part of the launcher. Sorry, but I have no idea why it's empty for you.
[Android Apps and Games] alonso444:
perfect very fast the last beta thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] christgill:
Thanks for your quick reply - I assume mine is a unique problem? (Since there's no indication of help) Although it's to do with the notification bar, to say that it has nothing to do with the mod is a tad naive.
[Android Apps and Games] Milamber33:
This isn't a mod, it's an app. You might as well suggest that Angry Birds is at fault.

Sent from The Past into The Future via The Present. :)
[Android Apps and Games] system60:
Tried 0.6 and it went longer before lagging again, if I restart Apex it's back to being smooth. i'll stick w/ 0.2 for now.
[Android Apps and Games] Fr33L4nc3r:
It was an update from 0.5 to 0.6, but it seems not related.

Following your comment, I cleared cache / data / uninstalled / put as system app (0.6) / reboot / choose apex as default and make another attempt :

Desktop Visualizer Widget ________________________________ Agenda Widget

On the first image, I created the central widget (2*2 on a 4*4 grid size) and was able to add 3 overlapping widgets, as if the [3,3] block only was "used".

I was able to to something similar with another widget (Agenda Widget)

Ok, thanks for acknowledging this. I had an issue related to it when using 7 icons / folder in dock. The 4th icon was the app drawer, and wherever I touched it, it was either the folder on the left or right poping up, instead of showing the app drawer :(
[Android Apps and Games] davidstre:
Could you add support to allow the overlap of widgets? Thanks, the launcher is great so far.
[Android Apps and Games] RickROM:
Still experiencing laggy exit animations for the drawer and preview screen. Not sure what the cause is.
[Android Apps and Games] knnstrs:
looks nice, testing it. thanks
[Android Apps and Games] replica9000:
I tried this, but it didn't help for me.
[Android Apps and Games] greatdaneduke:
Running 5.0.1 on 910V, Apex seems to be running smooth.
[Android Apps and Games] scubamikejax904:
For me I put them the three animation speeds to .75x and that has mostly cleared up the empty folder bug (though the everything seems so slow now) I may just deal with opening than closing and reopening a folder to keep the animations quick
[Android Apps and Games] Mindstar_1:
exact same problem, still no solution :(

This was one of those small features you don't appreciate until it's gone. It really makes a difference for one-handed use of large phones.
[Android Apps and Games] Cistoran:
Nova has this same issue. Apparently this is an issue with Lollipop and requiring Accessibility in order to pull down the notification menu. Nova fixed it in their beta but it looks like something has not been pushed for Apex yet.

Source:

http://forums.androidcentral.com/sa...e-nova-swipe-expand-notifications-broken.html
[Android Apps and Games] sramkumars:
Nexus 5 - Android Lollipop 5.1 - Battery Saver Mode - Drawer Animation

After upgrade to Lollipop 5.1 in Nexus 5, when the battery saver mode is turned on, the drawer animation (set as fly in/out) is not properly completed. So the drawer is not visible. Attached screenshot.
[Android Apps and Games] finotti:
Just to confirm (and add to the bug report), I have the problem too. T-Mobile Galaxy S5 (G900T), running latest Apex Pro and Twi5ted Lollipop 5.0 V4 (http://xdaforums.com/tmobile-galaxy-s5/development/rom-twi5ted-lollipop-5-0-v1-deviant-t3037766). Same thing for "Quick Settings" action.
[Android Apps and Games] MatVekk:
No swipe down gesture for "show notifications" in my Galaxy S4 Lollipop ?

Inviato dal mio Nexus 7 2013 Euphoria 5.1
[Android Apps and Games] kroogar:
Folders not working on CM12.1 Nightly

Apex 3.0.3 Pro, CM12.1 1704 Nightly: Folders on my home screen is not working. Was the same on an unofficial build I tried earlier. Anyone else seeing this?

edit: Okay maybe I should be more specific: The folders seems to be working. They have the right size and the apps start when I click them. The folders just appear to be empty. No icons are displayed.
[Android Apps and Games] musti20:
Me to om my Galaxy S6 lollipop 5.0.2
[Android Apps and Games] MatVekk:
S4, s5 and s6? It is a big problem.

Change launcher and problem persist. Touchwiz is the problem [emoji24]

Inviato dal mio Nexus 5 Cataclysm 5.1
[Android Apps and Games] kmoore11:
I'm using the Switch UI icon pack, and I'm noticing when I replace an icon with another (from the same icon pack), the quality goes down. The sharp lines are now blurry. I have my icon size set to 120%, but all the default icons look as crisp as they should.
[Android Apps and Games] Technical:
It would be nice to see an option to change the interface (settings) to dark ;)
[Android Apps and Games] manpildo:
You need to enable "animator duration scale" in developer settings.
[Android Apps and Games] kroogar:
Thank you! I don't know why this is needed though... I don't like animations :)

But it worked after a reboot. Thanks again. :good:
[Android Apps and Games] cromatn5:
Hide separator

Can I hide this ? I found options to hide indicators and separators but not for this.

[IMG="hide separator"]http://dl-1.va.us.xda-developers.com/3/2/7/5/8/8/1/Screenshot_2015-04-22-10-41-39.jpg?key=w6xxzQO14rwUIOvONyaY_Q&ts=1429693720[/IMG]

Edit :

Solved. You must have 2 desktops activated, and the option to hide separator work.
[Android Apps and Games] nokiagye:
Just a suggestion.

The tsf launcher working different of other launchers it have it own memory and the lags on app drawer like apex just don't exist. I want to see the apex free lag like this..☺☺
[Android Apps and Games] bhitman:
Nexus 6 Android 5.1.1

Apex 3.0.3 is working on Android 5.1.1 without any issues.

:good:
[Android Apps and Games] Technical:
I've noticed Link2SD puts Apex Launcher in the "can be moved" list of app. Shouldn't we have a "setting" to mark Apex as non-movable?
[Android Apps and Games] MatVekk:
Don't move Launcher, and primary app.

Inviato dal mio Nexus 5 Cataclysm 5.1
[Android Apps and Games] aceloq:
thanks very good
[Android Apps and Games] Technical:
I know that... But other Launchers have this movement blocked and Apex doesn't... :(
[Android Apps and Games] hawkwind212:
Why is preventing the users from making a wrong decision the app developer's responsibility? If a user decides to make other decision that's not the default, then he/she should be adult enough to handle the consequence. Like the old saying goes, when a person makes a mess, don't expect other to clean it up.
[Android Apps and Games] Loulou-13:
hi !

big problem :

On CM11 (dalvik) => it work fine ! .......... i try with ART => FC !!! don't want to work ...... i come back to dalvik => it work fine again !

I try with CM12 (and Validus too ) ==> FC !!!

this great launcher don't like ART ??? :eek:
[Android Apps and Games] KAMBOTMT:
just installed this launcher.. really nice and smooth. love the features too.
[Android Apps and Games] hawkwind212:
This great launcher just hasn't got around to support ART environment yet. Why the dev hasn't got around to it I don't know, but it's not the only app that's having problem with ART. IMHO ART isn't that much superior to dalvik as it initially hype up to be. But that's just me, and that's why I'm still using kk with the dalvik.
[Android Apps and Games] Madsunable:
I'm on ART since lolipop is out. And I had never any problem on ART with Apex Launcher.
[Android Apps and Games] eRPeeX:
Same here, no problems.
[Android Apps and Games] hawkwind212:
Just because the OP stated that ART wasn't working with apex, I purposely installed the newest Bliss pop 3.2, which is equivalent of LP 5.1, just to see what would happen when I ran Apex launcher. Well, now not only apex launcher is running without so much as skipping a beat, which sometimes it did on KK. Now I'm hooked on using lollipop, which I said i would never do until more development was done on it. I seriously can't see what some of the complaints with LP are about, but may be I'm just luckier than some when comes to installing LP? But overall Bliss pop is a joy to use, especially the newest version. So if your device has one build for it, go get it right now.
[Android Apps and Games] Loulou-13:
ok ....... i try again ,but with Validus "updated" on AOSP sources ,and it work .

"maybe" Lollipop unstability problem .....