[Android Apps and Games] LighthammerX:
Howdy,

I was looking for a good place to offer feedback and this looks like the place.

I've used a lot of app organizers in my time. Honestly, I feel like a good android setup is reliant on a fantastic app management strategy.

Over my time, I've used a number of app managers such as Glextor, Smart Shortcuts, Folder Organizer and Nova Launcher.

I've recently moved everything over Jina. It's pretty close to what features I'd love to have in an app organizer, but it comes a little short of hitting the mark. Make no mistake though, it's become my daily driver for app management. It's hitting enough of the right things to be awesome.

Here's some things I'd really like to see added in the near-ish future that would make this app a better experience overall:

- The first thing I feel like I need to point out is Nova Launcher Beta is getting PRETTY CLOSE to what I want in app organization. It's my primary launcher and has been since 2012; but it's lacking enough features that it can't be my daily driver; however, I would suggest zoning into what their new Beta is doing. It's faster, cleaner and more fluid.

- The biggest problem I have with Jina ATM is the correlation between Labels and Folders feels like it takes someone who understands (at least in passing) how arrays are used in programming. I'm finding it to not be very user friendly. If the correlation between the two were made more clear as Nova Launcher Beta is doing right now, the user interface would become a lot more clear very quickly. I feel like the key to making this app more user friendly is to fine tune the correlation between Labels and Folders. In particular, what makes Nova Launcher Beta easier to see what's going on is the tab system they employ. You can readily see by swiping back and forth, how things are organized. There is probably still better ways to do this, but that simplicity is what I am personally looking for. I also feel that this point is the biggest barrier to entry for an app like this.

- The biggest reason I use organization apps like Jina and the aforementioned is because I use a lot of websites as apps both for security, managing storage and for insurance I'm getting an up-to-date experience without constantly updating my apps.

To build my case for this, let's look at something like the Facebook app. The Facebook app is an absolute hog on system resources both in terms of disk space and CPU/Memory. I get virtually the same experience by using their website over their app and force the experience to start and end when I open and close the webpage. It's limited by what Webkit / Android Web View is able to do and as such, it's not probing my contacts storage, calendar storage or phone storage. I can also limit its access to location data.

Many other Social Websites fall into the same place.

As such, with this strategy, its important for me for websites to appear side by side with my on board applications.

The aforementioned app organizers do a better job of this then Jina on the backend. However, the big reason I jumped to Jina, is it does a better job of this on the front end. The presentation of my bookmarks side-by-side with my applications looks a lot cleaner and feels a lot better once everything is setup. However, I'd like to see the backend experience improved greatly.

In particular, I'd like to see the ability for Jina to manage Bookmarks as Apps by allowing the import of Bookmarks and sort them within the Label / Folder system.

The final aspect that spring to mind that I'd like to see improved is "app security" (after a fashion). What I mean by this, is I'd like to see the ability to lock down all the front end folders so they can't be edited.

I'd like to see the followings able to be turned off on desktop folders:

- Drop down options menu

- View Button

- Sort Button

- Add Application / Shortcut button

Heck, I'd actually like to see security that would allow me to require a password to open folders or app settings. I'd love for these things to be locked down so that I could in theory give the device to a kid and have them unable to open parts of the Jinx UI I don't want them getting into.

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Giving the UI a brief lookover as I am writing this post, an idea does spring to mind:

Labels might make more sense on the backend if they acted more like headers when you are scrolling down the app drawer. Turning a "header" into a folder then seems to make more sense from a sorting standpoint.

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All that being said, I do want to say a few positive things that pulled me towards this app as my new daily driver:

- The performance is REALLY nice. You've managed to add some nice folder open/close affects without it bogging down the system at all.

- Somethings are evolving to be easier to recognize whats going on at a glance. For instance, I can see the number of apps in a given folder on my desktop at a glance.

- I can make changes to folders on the fly.

- I can use a template to keep all opened folders looking the same.

- Folder Customization is really good.

- Jinx is trying to act like a bonified app drawer.

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If I'm comparing this app against everyone else on the market, I'd probably be inclined to give the app a 4.2-ish (I gave it a 4 on Google Play). If I was judging this more critically, I'd probably drop the app to 3.2 --- but once again, I think the app is doing a lot right, it can do better and I hope you guys continue to improve.

Primarily, I'd love to throw money at you guys if you make a pro version. Better website management is the primary thing that would make me go to a pro version without too much thought.