[Nexus 5 Original Android Development] kufikugel:
urgs wrote all that which will come now on tapatalk and it is gone :/ Really an app which I love and hate at the same time lol

so...hey guys :D

well this week the team needed to work a lot without me (was again some days in hospital lol). Result is quiet nice IMO...short summary

- Lockscreen got some more love from Juba (colors etc)

- Notification reminders got something new from Juba as well

- Tons of fixes and small ehancements.

- Memory leak due of the wallpaperservice is reduced a lot now....still present but we get it smaller and smaller. Honestly need to try to catch one of the google guys to check where this comes from or what exactly triggers it. It is definitly a problem of AOSP source but somehow we trigger it and no log or analyze shows it lol.

- Well and last night I spend some hours on SlimRecents...aside some minor fixes of reported issues (eg Google+ and Google+ Foto shows same icon and such stuff) 4 new features are now implemented

- Ability to set recent to the left side of the screen for lef handed ppl.

- Ability to scale the complete recent panel (3 scale steps are available...for ppl who want to have an inbetween step can use Jubas Chamber of secrets)

- It is fully RTL aware now and following googles RTL guidelines.

- Aaaaand I think interesting for some....it has now a favorite mode. So apps which are set as favorite are always pinned after the first 2 last used apps (or on landscape after the first last used). So apps you use often you can always access very fast due that they are more down in the list. Complicated to explain just try it and you will see it.

- Gapps will be fully updated to the new google apps. Only YouTube not...google gives us a hard time right now with it lol. So for next week. Was not able to solve this problem last night/today. PlayStore the new one will receive a TRDS version.

Think that are the major keypoint of the new weekly. For more details see gerrit merged section.

Jenkins will start in some hours...as usual waiting for some other devices :D. Will look to may update our kernel during this week when I get time for it and health allowes it.

A word to why no stock recent. It is so easy to explain:

- Stock recents is buggy as well on stock google image. Even google knows this. To fix this problems nearly a complete rewrite is needed and a new code concept for this part. Well exactly this we did.

- Recents was ever meant to be a multitasking tool and not a tool to kill an app. The "we kill all" was just a thing which came from the custom rom scene due that they are not much more possibilities to pimp the stock switcher much more (especially regarding functionallitiy).

- So result we did this step and wrote a new one....pretty simple or? And of course with our taste how we think that a multitasking tool should work. And we will even go one step further step by step now and will add to AOSP more multitasking feeling in the way that in the task stack not always the home screen is behind the last app....the app history should be in the stack. This is how multitasking works. But you guys will see this will come step wise. First aim was to replace the current stock one without bugs....next steps is to get AOSP to a better multitasking system.

Holding 2 versions...where even one is buggy and it is nearly impossible to improve it is not our way. We are not a kitchen rom.

That beeing said....have fun...stay tuned....and yes I can confirm that we actually plan to release stable next weekend of course if all is going well with the 3.8 weekly. So we will see....but looks good.

Thanks and see you later guys

kufi

EDIT: hehe just for the record....if I would do a custom rom just on my own you guys would have much harder time lmao. Navbar removed...always SlimPie enabled. SlimRecent. TRDS light condition mode as stock behaviour. Quicksettings like they are now. Chamber of secrets. And most of the customizations as default behaviour (like smart pulldown, showing wifi and data on the notification drawer etc etc) :D

lmao sorry couldn't resist but my dream rom would be with nearly no options and a perfect stock out of the box package :D (which does not mean that Slim is not my dream rom btw :p We just do some options due of user requests and not why we urgently need them)

EDIT2:

uh I forgot one major key point on the weekly sorry Xiao

Well the dialer got some major updates regarding the forward and reverse lookup. With good news and as well one bad one

- Googles reverse lookup (on incoming call not the forward lookup) we needed to remove. After inverstigating it with lawyers we are not allowed to use it till google opens the API for it. Google forward lookup is still there and no problem and will stay

- Well for reverse lookup you can use the other providers we backed in. Especially for europe some more will come in near future.

- And a new thing is ppl lookup.....so it is searching for ppl in the web and additional information.