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[Android Apps and Games] AndroidDeveloperLB:
I am very sorry for this. It takes me a long time because it's a hard task to re-think a lot of what I did, and I also don't have a lot of time for each day. In the upcoming week I will even have less time to work on the app. :(

I didn't know it would be that hard, and maybe I should have just continue to work with what I have done, and add other small features.

About features, I can PM you a list of things I plan (without any specific order), and the one I want to add to the next version. It's not something big, but could be useful for both root and non-root devices, and I don't think I've seen it on other apps.

About the issue, thank you for checking it out.
[Android Apps and Games] HasH_BrowN:
Yes you can send me a PM with the list, please and thank you.

No I just was curious what ideas you had, I know you have a life besides XDA. I'm sure that most do appreciate the work you provide for the community. I wish I knew what I was doing with programming and development, to provide assistance aside from testing.

Please don't feel rushed, its just a great app. And again thank you.
[Android Apps and Games] AndroidDeveloperLB:
I've switched to a different translation website, and of course I've imported all of the previous translations:

http://www.getlocalization.com/AppManager

Sorry for the inconvenience . This website seem much more professional, and it's still free.
[Android Apps and Games] AndroidDeveloperLB:
ok, I've finally made a version (2.10 - 110) that I've tested a lot, and published it.

Please report about any kind of issue, and try to write the scenario so that I could know why it has occurred.

The version handles the fetching of the list of apps, and handles events that are related to it.

That's why issues that are related to this version are almost entirely UI related, but crashes can still occur.

Bugs that might occur (which I hope I've fixed) :

1. duplicate items.

2. events (uninstall, disable/enable, clear data,... ) aren't being handled correctly.

3. list filling or size fetching is stuck

4. selected items counter isn't updated when items are removed.

The changes to this version are essential for a new feature I'm planning, which should be useful for both rooted devices and non-rooted devices, and I don't think any app out there has this feature, especially not the way I think about it.
[Android Apps and Games] vikasb32:
App is very good and lots of feature but ui need little improvment.

There is no action bar color and status bar color in lollipop which is 1st thing of material design.

If u use appcompat library use following attribute in your style theme

colorPrimey =@color/your favourite color

Colorprimeydark for statusbar color

If u don't use accompat library just add android: in all above attribute.

Thanks for this awesome app.
[Android Apps and Games] AndroidDeveloperLB:
I actually use AppCompat, and I do use "colorPrimary" , but I didn't decide about the best color to use, and I didn't change the status bar color (using "colorPrimaryDark") .

I just used the default ones, more of less, of what Google provides.

You can notice them change if you choose the theme from the settings (light vs dark).

Would you recommend using a different set of colors?

Would you prefer if the action bar and the status bar would be of the same color?

If I do it for the "light" theme, the status bar's color have white background and white icons, which is a bad thing to look at. Do you know how to handle it perhaps? I've searched for this a lot but couldn't find how to solve this issue.
[Android Apps and Games] vikasb32:
As Google guide lines status bar color should be same but little dark as compare to action bar and you can add a functionality to user to choose color theme as action bar and statusbar and for light color use theme.materail.light.darkactionbar

I just added this functionality in my own app . user select color theme like following. And don't provide white and black color to user for white icon on white status bar problem.
[Android Apps and Games] KNIGHT97:
With material design, you could use #00BCD4(material cyan) or #00897B(material teal) for the header/action bar. These are from the official material design pallets colors by Google, and look quite good in a material design app.
[Android Apps and Games] AndroidDeveloperLB:
Would you really prefer if I used it for the light theme?

Also, what should the title and action items color be ?

What would you change for the dark theme?
[Android Apps and Games] AndroidDeveloperLB:
About the status bar color, I see. Makes sense especially because of its name.

How did you support dynamic color changing via code?

Did you do it only for the action bar, or for other things as well ?

It's just that I'm not sure as to how important this feature would be. I think I prefer working on app-management related features.

How much work is needed for this task?
[Android Apps and Games] vikasb32:
U can change action bar and statusbar(only lollipop ) color through programmatically.

I know features is important things but ui is also imp as user also want a beautiful ui but if u don't want to add then it's ok.onece again thanks for great app.
[Android Apps and Games] AndroidDeveloperLB:
Can you please point out to how to change the primaryColor and primaryColorDark values in code?

Or do you mean you set it per component, like this one for example:

http://stackoverflow.com/a/27093330/878126
[Android Apps and Games] vikasb32:
this is the code i used in my app.mSelectedColorCal1 is the color return when user select a color from preference
[Android Apps and Games] AndroidDeveloperLB:
Why do you set the action bar color twice (with the same value), and why do you calculate "darkenedColor" outside the Lollipop handling?

Do you use it below for something else?

Also, what did you do for the color of the navigation bar?

How would you suggest me to handle it, now that I have 4 different themes? 2 of them are with cards, and 2 aren't, for example.
[Android Apps and Games] vikasb32:
1st 2 action bar thing was mistake u have u use only once and u have to use this code in on create method.and according to Google guidelines u set statusbar transparent then u have to set navigation color to transparent otherwise leave the navigation color same.and don't worry about ur current themes just type this code in oncreate method and it will work with ur current theme.
[Android Apps and Games] AndroidDeveloperLB:
This is interesting.

I will think about it. Not sure when I will add these features though.

I'm not sure I understand something about the guidelines though and how they fit on my app:

Making the status bar transparent is a bit weird in my case, as the content is between the action bar and the nav bar. Even if I make the action bar hide itself, it will be weird as some content will be shown beneath the status bar.

I think it's better to use an opaque color for both (and without doing anything to the nav bar).

Maybe I will just allow to customize the action bar color and automatically change the status bar color, or something.

Say, what colors do you see for the action bar and status bar when you open the settings of the device?

For me, both are the same color...
[Android Apps and Games] HasH_BrowN:
Here's my feedback upon initial test. I went into device settings and cleared data after force stop (after updating). Opened the app up (loading was fast!!), went into App Manager settings and changed accordingly. Each setting change caused a FC. Also choosing overflow menus caused FC. All settings stick after being changed.
[Android Apps and Games] AndroidDeveloperLB:
Sorry you had to see so many issues. I was sure I've fixed a lot of them and tested for a whole week...

Have you sent a crash report? If not, it's very hard to fix...

Also, can you please provide more info?

What is "each setting change" ?

what are the "overflow menus" ? you mean sort/filter?

What do you mean by "all settings stick" ? and is it a good thing?

Soon I will publish a new version, with some bugs fixes and I hope that I will also handle some events before the OS even tells me about them (uninstallation mainly). On the official version, I just always refreshed the entire list each time you went back to the list.

I didn't like it that the user will need to see so many loading-phases , so at last I've minimized those cases to only the really important times. This could also help me with other features I plan to add.

EDIT: published it now (version 2.11 - 111) . I've put some bugs fixes, and I hope it will be better for you this time.

Sadly I didn't have enough time to put the new optimization of events. Hope I will do it next time.
[Android Apps and Games] HasH_BrowN:
No I wasn't able to send a crash report, I wasn't near internet. I should have been a little more specific. If I changed ANY of the settings from default it would FC the app. The overflow menus at the top right, sort and filter, the same thing - anything changed it would force close. BTW, I tried the app again and he same thing happened, but it didn't give an option for sending a crash report.?.? (Strange). The settings change that causes the FC, whatever the setting is changed to is still selected when reopening the app, is a "good thing".

I will test on my other devices and see if the issues are there as well.

Also, please don't be sorry that bugs arise in the development of the app. I am completely happy with the app, I love it!!

Just saw me another new update, will try and post update

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Wicked turn around time on a fix!!

You are awesome, thanks!!
[Android Apps and Games] AndroidDeveloperLB:
You don't have to have Internet to send the crash report. It will be sent automatically when Internet connection is available again.

About the issues, I can't reproduce. I will try on other devices.

Can you tell me on which device and Android version you've tested? Maybe I forgot to handle "old"-versions of Android somewhere (so it tries to use a too-new feature of the OS), so it crashes.

Please let me know more details about the issues. I will think about them when I get back home again.

The upgrade issue is also something I should check.
[Android Apps and Games] HasH_BrowN:
It wasn't giving option for sending crash report.

FC's were happening on Acer Iconia A500 running OmniRom 4.4.4 After latest update, there aren't any more issues. It works great. Didn't test on other devices yet, not home.

I can't believe how fast it loads upon first opening!! I have 16gb internal with 197 user apps and then all the system apps as well, this is Lightning Fast!!
[Android Apps and Games] AndroidDeveloperLB:
That's odd , because any app you install from the play store allows this.

Do you still see issues? If so, I can make a version just for you that will allow you to send the crash logs directly to my email (or at least the error itself).

About the speed, thank you. The thing I worry about now is bugs.

For next version I hope to handle the events better (specifically the uninstallation event, not sure about the others). The OS sometimes take a long time till it tells my app that an uninstallation event has occurred.
[Android Apps and Games] HasH_BrowN:
Previous issues have been fixed. Uninstallation event seems to work better, low latency from app to OS.

Only issue is have now is disabling apps. I tried to include a pic, showing the error in notifications. For some unknown reason it isn't allowing me to attach any images. Not every app gives me the error, just certain (not sure how many of them) ones refuse to be disabled. The one that was in the pic was "******* bypasser pro".

I haven't done a logcat before, but can send one if you like.
[Android Apps and Games] AndroidDeveloperLB:
Some apps cannot be disabled or removed, as this is how the ROM protects against such actions.

Sadly, the error I usually get for those cases are really useless and sometimes they don't make sense, so much that I've just decided to write that it failed, instead of telling why.

Which app did you try to disable?
[Android Apps and Games] HasH_BrowN:
Adf. Ly bypasser pro, I don't know why is showed ****.
[Android Apps and Games] AndroidDeveloperLB:
It doesn't seem to be an app that's built in. You could just remove it if you don't want.
[Android Apps and Games] HasH_BrowN:
No I was just testing different scenarios in your app. I was trying to disable apps to see if I was still getting errors while disabling. That was just one of the apps not wanting to be disabled. Just thought it was curious that even system apps could be disabled, yet certain user apps can't be disabled. It figures.
[Android Apps and Games] AndroidDeveloperLB:
It's odd. I think all user-apps I've seen could be disabled.

Anyway, for user-apps, you can choose to stop them. It's supposed to be almost the same, as the app goes to "stopped" state, just like what happens when you only install it but don't run anything in it.
[Android Apps and Games] AndroidDeveloperLB:
Published a new version now ( 2.12 - 112). Should handle uninstallation events faster, at least for the apps-list screen (but for both rooted and non-rooted devices).

I have ideas to make it even smoother/faster than that, but I think it's ok for now, and that I should go back to adding new features.

The new version is available for now only for beta users, as I wish to know if there are any issues.

Please let me know if you've find any weird issues.
[Android Apps and Games] AndroidDeveloperLB:
finally published the new version for all (113 - 2.13 ).

Please do report if you've found an issue. Also, if you think you know why it happens, or on which scenario, please write it down.

I hope that next version will include a new big feature that will differentiate my app from all others even further.

Here are some interesting statistics (for date : 2015-3-8 )

- I think now the daily installs are around 100, while 20-40 of them are staying.

- Searching for "app manager" is finally showing my app as one of the first items. on my device it's #5 currently. Wonder if it's different for other countries.

- Total installs are now above 17K ,and current users count is almost 3K . Probably above right now.

- Sadly, the ratings of the app got to be the lowest ever for it (4.334), lower than a lot of competitors out there. The bad part is that most of them don't even write why they've rated it this way, so I can't reply to them.
[Android Apps and Games] Syntax323:
Weird. It's definitely my favorite app manager by far, and very easy to use.

Appreciate your work, very much, and interested in seeing what the new feature is that you're working on.
[Android Apps and Games] beckyhan:
Compared to the app management of installing or uninstalling actions, I prefer this kind of app management of controlling running apps. I have tried some apps which will close some background apps, but some apps will automatically restart and this is really troublesome. Besides, it will be great if you can give some indications that which app should be uninstalled.:D
[Android Apps and Games] AndroidDeveloperLB:
well, if you want to see my plans and tell me what you think, PM me and we will talk there.

I didn't start working on the new feature yet. All this time was in order to optimize the app and make it ready for a new feature I wanted to add for a long time, yet the app wasn't ready for it.
[Android Apps and Games] AndroidDeveloperLB:
I can't decide for you what should be uninstalled. It's up to you to decide what's good for you. :)
[Android Apps and Games] AndroidDeveloperLB:
Someone with a Galaxy Note 3 (hlte) and Android 4.3 claims he got crashes when exiting the settings screen.

I looked at the crash report and I think there is something wrong with the play services, maybe something with the donation mechanism.

Thing is, I'm not sure if what I'll do will fix it.

Can anyone with the same/similar configuration please tell me if it crashes for him?

Do any of you have issues when exiting the settings screen?

I've already tested the app for a long time and never had this issue. Then again, I never donated to myself because Google doesn't allow this, so this part wasn't tested much.

EDIT: I've added the workaround. Hope it doesn't affect anyone.
[Android Apps and Games] HasH_BrowN:
a bug

When batch selecting apps from main page, top toolbar blanks out.

Tried to include photo, but browser isn't letting me. If you want I can send photo to email, plus tell me what part of a bug report you need and I'll send that as well.

The app is looking really polished!! Great work LB!!

Edit: this bug is present on all of my devices

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How would the app be able to tell which apps to uninstall? That would be dependent on a per device setting. There is no way for the app to know which ones would be safe/unsafe/useful/unuseful or anything of that sort. Even if there was, the database would be too large to incorporate. Or it would have to have a connection to a server, which would constantly have to be updated (which then wouldn't be useful w/o internet connection).

There just isn't anyway for a feature like that to be made viable across the android platform.
[Android Apps and Games] AndroidDeveloperLB:
I don't understand what you mean by "blanks out". It is being replaced by what's called "actionMode", which has a different set of actions to perform on the selected apps.

Look at the attached image to see how to attach an image here.
[Android Apps and Games] beckyhan:
Maybe it can tells us some information, like whether the app uses too much battery, whether it is still active even you have exit from it. These are all the factors that I would consider when I am planning to uninstall some app.;)
[Android Apps and Games] AndroidDeveloperLB:
I have planned on getting battery info, and allow to sort by it, so I've made some research about it for a few days in the past, but it has some issues:

- quite protected and non-open information

- no documented, which means that even if I do succeed working on it, it may fail on some devices or Android versions. even if it works on all, it might fail on next version of Android.

- might need root. I assume a lot of the app's users have root, but it's another thing to think about.

- And last: Android already has this feature. Not only that, but I've provided a link to this part, right inside my app (via the navigation drawer).

Same goes about battery monitoring (plus it will make my app to try to run all the time). I've even wanted to sort by network usage. Don't remember why I neglected it, but it's probably similar reasons.

Don't get me wrong, I do think it's a good idea. I just want to work on other ideas first. I will go back to it some day.

The good news is that starting with Lollipop, I can get some interesting information about apps-usage (here), but the user must confirm it before using them.
[Android Apps and Games] AndroidDeveloperLB:
About the multi-selection, I've noticed something now on Android 2.3 (emulator), and I think it's because I've updated to the new support library of Google. I've reported about it now, including a fix (here) and a video of how it looks like.

A new version got published with this fix and another one.
[Android Apps and Games] HasH_BrowN:
Similar issue different results.

When using dark theme, action bar turns white with no visible icons. This result is reproduced on all my devices with varying Android versions.

(My browser WILL NOT let me attach any photos to my posts, so will be switching browser cause that's just BS. I appreciate your image in your last post, it was just the issue with my browser. I need to install XDA app.)

________

Edit: New update corrects my issue. Will post back if not working on other devices.

Thanks!!
[Android Apps and Games] AndroidDeveloperLB:
I have some questions about this:

1. has the recent update help in any way?

2. does it happen when doing multi-selection?

3. on which Android versions and devices does it occur?

4. Does it occur only when using the dark theme?

5. does the action items (the buttons of the action bar) really disappear, or are they just white on top of white background? Are they still clickable?

6. I don't understand how could it be that I don't see this issue. Do you have any guess?

Can anyone else confirm this issue?
[Android Apps and Games] HasH_BrowN:
Edited my last post, all issues resolved!!
[Android Apps and Games] AndroidDeveloperLB:
So now it's ok ?

you've probably missed this :

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=59418332&postcount=369

:)

But I don't understand how come I didn't see this (except for an Android 2.3 emulator).

What are the devices and Android versions that you've tested and noticed the issue?
[Android Apps and Games] electroshop.pc:
Thank you!

Thank you!
[Android Apps and Games] HasH_BrowN:
It was happening on Acer a500 4.4.4, HTC One V 4.2.2, Nexus 7 2012 (multirom) 4.4.2-4.4.4-5.02, HTC One V 4.0.3, and also on KitKat Bluestacks.

But the update fixed everything. The short loading time of the app at startup is phenomenal.
[Android Apps and Games] AndroidDeveloperLB:
Sounds very weird. I've tested it on multiple emulators, and on at least 3 devices. However, the updated support library usage was only recently, so maybe that's why I didn't notice it.

The loading is short because it loads only what the user chose to show. Before, it loaded the info (basically just the name) of both user-apps and system-apps.

The default view is for user-apps only, so only their information is being fetched.

When you also choose to show the system apps, it will load their info too.

The downside of this method is the extra loading time needed for the system apps later.

In any case, after it loads both of those types, loading the info should be very fast, like before (because it's saved inside the app).
[Android Apps and Games] VDI-IDV:
Loosing root permision

Hi, first App Manager it's really great, the best of these type apps on the market.

Second I have small problem. Every time when app was closed and started again, he loses root access permission. Then it's not possible, for example, disabled or even stopped any system or third party apps. I need to re enabled in App Manager settings "Allow ROOT operations", switch off - switch on, and after everything work fine until next app restart.

Uninstall and reinstall SuperSU v2.46 from play store doesn't help. Also other apps like ESplorer, Avast, NDR Utils or AppHider, never lose root permission.

My phone is rooted xperia z3 compact, kk 4.4.4, firmware 23.0.1.A.5.77.

Did anyone else have same problem?
[Android Apps and Games] AndroidDeveloperLB:
Sadly, I can't reproduce this, so I have no idea how to fix it.

Anyone else has those issues?
[Android Apps and Games] HasH_BrowN:
Find the flashable SU zip here on XDA and flash in recovery. Delete data first in android and then clear cache / dalvik in recovery. Then flash SU.

This issue IS NOT present in any of my 7 devices.
[Android Apps and Games] VDI-IDV:
In fact, SuperSU which I first uninstalled, before to install new one, was flashable zip v2.46 SuperSU, installed trough recovery. Whatever it's no big deal, at list App Manager is doing what I need him for and I don’t enable/disable bunch of applications every day, maybe one per month, so I can leave with that. Anyhow thanks on suggestions.
[Android Apps and Games] maddbomber83:
For the tagging I would want it to be a user thing. The user creates their own tags and adds them to their own apps. Nothing auto or server side or preconfigured.

For the tabs I agree. Maybe a pull down that the user can select from the searches they have created.

The below video from my phone will show the toggle I am talking about. It would be nice that instead of that toggle opening the apps, it opens your apps. I set the long press to open yours, and there is a custom button from Gravity Box I set to open yours; just as a demonstration.

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