[Android Apps and Games] Viper_21:
Profile Flow - feedback and feature requests

I too am a long-time user of EasyProfiles, which for the most part as been become broken since JB 4.3 and sadly the dev seems to have abandoned this great app. I have been scouring the web and installing a few profile management apps in search of a replacement. All have been uninstalled rather quickly, except for Profile Flow. ;) I really like the simplicity, the does-what-it-promises, and the design. As other users have indicated, there are a few capabilities that are missing and some usability issues that are preventing me from completely switching over to it from EasyProfiles (and purchasing Pro version). I would like to list my feedback in the hope that the devs will take it into consideration for future implementation in an upcoming release. If I have misinterpreted something or there are workarounds I'd be happy to hear them (the sooner I can ditch EasyProfiles the better).

The majority of my profiles are activated

manually

. The only one that is activated automatically is "Night" which is activated from 00:00 to 06:30am. I personally find the way that Profile Flow prevents automated profiles from activating while a manual profile is activated severely cripples the flexibility and usage of the app. I think you could provide a global on/off switch that can allow users to determine for themselves if they want this restriction or not. EasyProfiles has this in the main app and in their profile selection window (see "Rules active" toggle button in attached screenshot, where green light means that rule-based profiles will be activated if manual profile is running).

(Keep in mind that most of my profiles are activated manually) In my current setup, I use GMD Gestures to call up the EasyProfiles profile-selection screen (see attached screenshot) with a two-finger downward swipe - then with a single tap on a profile the rest is taken care of... could not be easier than that! Manually activating profiles in Profile Flow is extremely cumbersome (many many taps). PF needs to give the user quick access to the complete profile list in the form of a widget so that they can easily activate the profile of their choice. As I mentioned before, the widget should also include the toggle switch I mentioned in the previous point.

Besides being able to launch an app, Profile Flow should also allow shortcut access to the "Locale" plugin interface from which I can then automatically toggle the GPS setting and pattern lock via the Secure Settings app. I only have pattern lock on when I am away from home and the out of the office ("Default" profile), and GPS is only needed when I am driving and I need to use Waze ("Car-GPS" profile).

I would like to be able to set the default profile that is started when I reboot my phone ("Default" profile).

PF should allow the user to never show again the Activate Profile and Deactivate Profiles prompts after they display for the first time.

In my opinion, some basic icons for certain profile type for the notification bar are missing or existing ones are too vague/busy. For example, car symbol, simple musical note (without movie or other symbol), better home symbol (current looks like an information "i" icon), crescent moon (for night mode), I'm-in-a-meeting symbol (perhaps a table with 3-4 peoples heads), music note with an "X" through it (to indicate phone is in complete silence), and a walking man icon (used when I am out for a walk and want the phone in default mode but without the pattern lock on).

I also noticed that there is an inconsistent mix of color and monochromatic icons - would be create if there was one of each (I guess some users prefer all a single color while others prefer all in color).

I would like the option to allow a profile when deactivated to exit directly to another user-selected profile. I would sometimes use this when exiting a profile while moving on to another so that the phone picks up some default settings from the "Default" baseline before a subset of those are tweaked differently or new ones are set in the newly activated profile.

After tapping the "+" icon to add an entry/exit task, the tasks that are already added to the profile should be visually marked in the Entry?exit tasks view so that I know what has already been added.

I noticed that one can add the same task more than once to the same profile, even with a different setting - I think this is a bug.

In the "toggle setting" popup for each task, the button text "Link" is very confusing - "OK" or "Set" are clearer in my opinion. "Cancel" is also better than "Discard" (In fact, in various parts of the UI, the word "Discard" is used and should be replaced with the standard term "Cancel" - discard means to explicitly remove or delete something.).

A local backup/restore would also be great.

Sorry for the LONG post. I hope you can chomp on it all and give it some serious consideration. Apologies if some of the feedback came across as negative or critical.. it is done with a good heart. :fingers-crossed:

Thanks.