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[Android Apps and Games] sunsero:
Thanks for the useful hints!

Just regarding the long swipe to quit:

Usually I'm using the floating fooView browser because I do NOT want to leave the running app. But long swipe will actually leave the running app and show the launcher app.
[Android Apps and Games] fvalpha:
When in floating window mode, actions will be sent to current app with focus, in this case, fooView floating or underlying app.

When you touch fooView window, it will get focus, with its edge blue. In this case, long swipe to quit fooView, or you can click "exit" in left panel in fooView to get the same effect. When you touch underlying app, fooView loses focus, with its edge gray. In this case, long swipe to quit underlying app and back to launcher.
[Android Apps and Games] fvalpha:
V0.8.6.1 2017.09.13 Changelog:

1.	File Module:

-- Support Long Press & Drag

-- Support 2nd Finger To Select Interregional

-- Add Directory Tree In Address Bar

-- Add Subscript On Buttons To Show Default Value

2.	App Switcher Module:

-- Support Group

3.	Search Module:

-- Input Path To Open Path

-- Support Local Song, Artist, Album Search

4.	Action Module:

-- Can Add Shortcuts To Home Screen

-- Improve Compatibility On Different Devices

5.	Other Minor Improvements
[Android Apps and Games] affliction_emrah:
hi guys,

Thanks for this great app.

Wonder how could I reposition the icon? Long press doing whatever I assigned.

Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] bhargavk04:
Hi @fv

While using screen recorder. How can I just record audio & video without mic. I just want to capture a playing video with it's audio.
[Android Apps and Games] fvalpha:
Long press, and then tap the "move" icon on the other side (it seems like a cross), then move.

Not like traditional floating dot app, fooView will stay on the edge (to be more effective, so that you need not take time to find the icon first before swiping it), so you can only move it up or down.
[Android Apps and Games] fvalpha:
Current it only supports mic sound. You might use an earphone and put it near to the mic to get a better sound. Other features could be in future versions.
[Android Apps and Games] thisisarjun:
Hello, how to navigate down a page to record it in action??
[Android Apps and Games] fvalpha:
Currently action supports only click and fooView back, more actions will be supported in future versions.

However, it will scroll a list automatically to find an item, so sometimes it doesn't require scroll down.
[Android Apps and Games] thisisarjun:
Hello,what is the use of "select window" in record action section??
[Android Apps and Games] fvalpha:
Sometimes many apps don't use system UI components, and the system don't return anything when we record windows, so we can't record actions successfully. When this happens, you can use ‘select window’ and then select a point (it will be shown in the result window) to find and record the window.
[Android Apps and Games] fvalpha:
V0.8.6.8 2017.09.25 Changelog:

1.	Main Window:

-- List UI Update To Card UI

-- Tag Update To Keywords Card

-- Improve Performance

2.	Video Module:

-- Support Video Merge, Cut, Add Text, Mute, etc. (Android 4.3+)

3.	Browser Module:

-- Add Forward, Find In Page, Open In Background Menu

-- Add Incognito Mode

-- Support FTP Link

-- Support User Agent Switch

-- Confirm Before Downloading

4.	Other Minor Improvements
[Android Apps and Games] paed808:
This is one of the first things I install on my devices after a ROM reinstall. I've been using it since the beginning. Please don't sell out like you did with ES File Explorer.

Also, when are you gonna release the open source licenses?

Otherwise it's a great app!
[Android Apps and Games] fvalpha:
Thanks for the feedback. The license of the application is to be decided. The open source licenses item in the settings is used for the open source projects fooView has imported such as apache projects, etc., we will list them all later in 1.0 version.
[Android Apps and Games] paed808:
Thanks. I hope you open source it at some point if only so if you get bored and stop updating another person can take over. That and so it can be on F-Droid and that will give you a lot of exposure! : P
[Android Apps and Games] akboy7015:
Hi,

Your app is fantastic, I like the Idea to take localized screenshot or video to translate or to share them.

Another useful tool is the Image search (not available on the mobile version without your app). But when I perform a search the result is displayed in the internal browser. It could be useful to force the result in an external browser like chrome or Firefox (toggle, so user can choose). All my bookmarks, modules and settings are in Firefox for me, so I don't like to use other browsers.

Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] sunsero:
Great! I'd never expected this to become an inbuilt functionality :good:

Some wishes:

- support exact start/end positioning for cutting videos

- add option to not recode/transcode the video for maximum performance
[Android Apps and Games] affliction_emrah:
Hi,

After a period of time, the app getting slower and also making my scrolling freeze at any app like Instagram or Facebook. After restart, it's back to normal. I'm using U11.

Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] fvalpha:
It's the very first version of Video Editor, more features are on the way.
[Android Apps and Games] fvalpha:
Thanks for the feedback!

Once we had considered the possibilities, but unfortunately it cannot be implemented. Because fooView is not a shortcut /URL forward app like ones in the old times. To be more powerful, when clicking a button, many API, computing, cookies, parameters, actions might be involved, which other browsers cannot support. In many cases we cannot just submit a URL to another browser and get the result we need.

For the bookmarks and some features, or browser experiences, we will try to figure out how to narrow the gap.
[Android Apps and Games] fvalpha:
fooView itself can hardly get this effect since it does not change system settings, you might try to disable accessibility permission for fooView to see if this case is related to system accessibility. We will look into the possibilities.
[Android Apps and Games] affliction_emrah:
I made the change you suggested, but no avail, it's nowhere to near the speed of starting apps directly from drawer. From drawer it literally instant but when I try to open the app from Foo, it takes 2 seconds almost. Hope there would be a solution cause I really like the app
[Android Apps and Games] fvalpha:
For the response time when starting an app, it's another story.

Normally fooView just sends a "startActivity Intent" to the system, and all the process is controlled by the system. The response time may vary on the apps, there're a few hints about it.

1) If you press HOME to return to the launcher from an app, the system won't allow this app to start by itself or 3rd party immediately, it might be delayed.

2) If the app is in memory, it would be started immediately, but if it needs a cold start, it might be slow.

3) Some apps don't implement a saved instance, so when started by 3rd party, it starts from the beginning and is slow.

And

4) If all the apps are slow whenever starting from fooView, it's not a normal case. Please provide some system/launcher information, we will look into the possibility.
[Android Apps and Games] affliction_emrah:
Thanks for detailed explanation.

Im using ADW Launcher at U11.

Yes, if I go back to home and start any app, almost all is very slow. But if I go directly from an app to another, it's fast for some apps and slow for some.

But from app drawer, all app starting in lightning speed.
[Android Apps and Games] ggonsalv:
Is it possible to change the number of items on the App Switcher? I want the floatie icon on the bottom right, but I think the App Switcher icons are preventing the float icon to a lower position.
[Android Apps and Games] fvalpha:
Currently it cannot. But we're considering the problem.
[Android Apps and Games] affliction_emrah:
If it may help, downloaded LG V30 Floating Bar app, it behave exactly same.
[Android Apps and Games] sandeshdroid:
Is it possible to show search results shortcuts in search results?

fooview and naked browser both uses system webview but naked browser is much faster than fooview. Please fix it.

Add option to use system download. I prefer adm over fooview downloader.
[Android Apps and Games] nijihana:
Black mode D:

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Seconded!
[Android Apps and Games] affliction_emrah:
Hi,

Im loving this app a lot!

BUT!, it needs a REAL! guide, better explanation with videos on youtube for almost all feature which not covering in "Guide" section in the app. Personally, have lots of things that i dont understand:)

For instance:

* Actions

* Group

and almost all new features :)

Cheers
[Android Apps and Games] maybeme2:
I second that request. Lots I don't understand either.
[Android Apps and Games] fvalpha:
Thanks, it's still in beta and some importance features are in the development. Guide will be completed after that.
[Android Apps and Games] fvalpha:
V0.8.7.2 2017.10.23 Changelog:

1.	Browser Module:

-- Add Ad Filter Settings

-- Support Force Zoom For Web Pages（5.0+）

-- Support Set Thumbnail

2.	Main Window:

-- Use Statusbar

-- Swipe From Right Edge To Search

-- Size Changer Moved To Top-Right Corner

-- Support Thumbnail For Keywords

3.	Video Editor:

-- Support Insert Pictures

-- Support Insert Music

4.	Gesture Module:

-- Add FlashLight

5.	Other Minor Improvements
[Android Apps and Games] wrbird:
Internal browser

The help guide shows a swipe up to access the internal browser. However, swipe up opens Fooview UI. How do I open the internal browser?
[Android Apps and Games] fvalpha:
Just as the guide shows, fooView Window is a browser.
[Android Apps and Games] toole:
Can we get an option to toggle fullscreen on and off. I really like the fullscreen it used to be before this last update. After the update, it does not go into fullscreen
[Android Apps and Games] wrbird:
Stitched Screenshots

I'm trying to stitch together screenshots of the Fooview internal web browser using auto scroll. It works great when I'm viewing the Fooview UI. However, if I'm on a different web page it takes the first shot, but then it doesn't scroll. When I'm using my phone's web browser Fooview will sometimes take the first shot, then automatically scroll, take the next shot, then will give a message, "out of scrollable region". Other times it won't scroll at all.

Is there something I'm doing wrong?
[Android Apps and Games] hotcell:
Coming from Folder Organizer, Glextor, Everywhere Launcher, I'm currently using combo of fooView and Jina to handle apps. Launchers like Nova lack the ability to group apps by custom tags used as dynamic virtual folders. The idea is simple: new installed apps cause a notification. Click from it opens tag association window where all untagged apps are shown. Making and maintaining simple folders for categories by hand is not productive, so until fooView has tagging functionality, it will require an extra app just to handle user's installed apps. BTW I don"t use sidebars functionality of Jina at all, only its folders part. Home folder that includes custom tagged categories, system settings shortcuts [which includes folder with untagged apps], plus most, last used and newly installed apps virtual folders.

Would you please consider similar functionality in fooView?
[Android Apps and Games] redsun_ravi:
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[Android Apps and Games] coolvabs:
Can you please add ability to increase font size in browser. I use custom LCD density and font is too small to read. This option is already there in Chrome and other browsers like edge under accessibility settings and I hope is not too difficult to implement, I need it badly. Keep up the great work... :svetius:
[Android Apps and Games] coolvabs:
Screenshot attached
[Android Apps and Games] fvalpha:
Some devices such as Samsung S8 has changed Android full-screen behavior so that full-screen cannot be judged correctly. And change-size button is moved to top right corner to avoid system navigation bar conflict. Status bar is added to avoid these issue. We will consider your advice.
[Android Apps and Games] fvalpha:
fooView doesn't not hack the system using root, so it has to depend on the underlying app to scroll. If it sends a scroll instruction for a region, the underlying app says no, it will fail and show "out of scrollable region". Some app only allows fullscreen scoll. We will consider how to improve it.
[Android Apps and Games] fvalpha:
Thanks for the advice. We will look into it.

BTW, fooView has a gesture search feature. When you're in App Switcher, handwrites some letters, it will show the related apps. Hope it helps.
[Android Apps and Games] toole:
The best App I ever use. Thank you!!
[Android Apps and Games] hotcell:
I got it. There 2 drawbacks in this approach:

1. For some reason long tap for AppSwitcher isn't reliable, no action is in about 30% of taps here.

2. In this mode handwriting is mixed with popup editor of entered chars, which complicates the entry and makes handwriting + editing mix rather cumbersom and slow. The first letter selector would IMHO work easier and quicker with popup keyboard instead of handwriting [just single letter touch is required]. Also, unpredictability of the place where an app appears require constant attention to scan the dynamic placeholder area, which is located on the lower side, not especially convinient. As to search algo, check Nova launcher algo, it works much better as there is no requirement to enter a first letter right.

Edit: maybe after long tap AppSwitcher should remain open, so the entire operation can be performed by one hand [no need to keep the ring pressed]? Any subsequent tap/touch of the ring should dismiss AppSwitcher.
[Android Apps and Games] coolvabs:
Totally agree! +1
[Android Apps and Games] fvalpha:
Thanks， will improve it.

And app Switcher can be set to other gestures such as double tap, in this way, the Switcher will remain open.
[Android Apps and Games] Artieza:
Since last version: floating window doesn't stick to the top of soft keyboard. It always sticks to navbar. Hmm?

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Just using while using AIDE. If keyboard is opened in AIDE, then fooView was opened, keyboard isn't hidden automatically, so it's looks strange...

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Btw, I liked when soft keyboard isn't hidden automatically and fooView sticks to the top of keyboard. So I can do quick things such as music play/stop and continue writing in some app without focus left... ?

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You should fix something of this, I guess. ? At least automated keyboard hiding in AIDE.
[Android Apps and Games] hotcell:
I know, but double tap and others are already assigned to other tasks. I think your choice is great as the long tap suits the AppSwitcher the best. Just an option to keep it open afterward would improve handling IMHO. As now performing long tap and then detouch will run preselected app, with no chance to cancel the action/gesture.
[Android Apps and Games] Artieza:
Here is one thing which makes pain for my eyes. Please, set some nice icon for system apps category and here is you can see problems with width of this view.
[Android Apps and Games] Artieza:
But maybe it's better to totally disable automated keyboard hiding to makes usage of fooView really non destructive (without unfocusing from main content). Or this behavior could be selective. ?
[Android Apps and Games] Artieza:
Ups, why did I write "system apps category". I meant apk files on SD card. You could set default folder icon from material.io instead of ugly "APK".
[Android Apps and Games] hotcell:
Looks like DNG files are readible, but thunbnails of these images do not load. Is there an option to show the content in DNG thumbnails in file manager lists?
[Android Apps and Games] thisisarjun:
Hey ,bro can you improve the download functionality by adding pause and resume function to it cause because of this app I have removed many apps from my phone where fooview replaced all of them like music players,browsers,youtube,video player etc

Please add pause and resume to downloading in next update

Thank you very much for this wonderful app
[Android Apps and Games] hotcell:
After recording with regional screen recorder and then choosing gif format there is black bars added. Any way to avoid those?
[Android Apps and Games] akboy7015:
Hi, your application try to communicate to 52.36.238.208:37623 very often (every minutes), can you tell me why?
[Android Apps and Games] redsun_ravi:
He is spying us O_O
[Android Apps and Games] kidgoo:
I used an emulator and proxy to check the traffic. This is very concerning.

First, the requests are all insecure.

Second, Fooview updates many libraries using this method.

Third, it pings the server with possibly encrypted data (haven't tried unpacking it yet. See one example, below) and receives a unique user ID back.

This is pretty nefarious and insecure behavior for an app that requires this many permissions. :-/

Example POST data:

0000000 5f 0e 6e 7f 8e 7d 95 ff 28 8e 69 63 e0 14 35 40
0000010 32 99 ff 9c d7 fb 83 b1 ed cf 8b fe 23 c9 d0 7a
0000020 35 ac 31 b1 ec 78 bc e1 8c a1 24 b9 e8 95 b9 af
0000030 9e 50 bd 96 20 9f e5 9c 7c 4f f6 84 bb d8 3e 9a
0000040 28 dd d5 ac 6c c6 54 c0 aa 83 67 4e 8c 9b 47 89
0000050 97 c3 dd c4 14 06 1b 4e 7e ef ed a9 7c 82 4b 73
0000060 54 c3 c0 ad 44 91 00 c2 61 fa bf fd a3 3f c0 d0
0000070 1d e1 87 ee e8 96 31 c8 50 9d 79 c3 69 db 93 df
0000080 29 ea 09 b4 95 f2 e2 3f 9d 51 91 ab ab 2c 11 e4
0000090 d2 78 6e 5e 00 4c 4c de a2 8e 11 ba 4a 9f 87 6b
00000a0 a1 8b 02 71 8b 7f 03 92 98 30 cc 73 0f da 0d fa
00000b0 3a 86 55 d9 be bd 6b 69 4e 69 88 72 0c 31 d2 3e
00000c0 13 ef 38 a4 9f 9f 6a 13 66 e3 59 9e ab 2e 9f dc
00000d0 83 d2 7e 4f 48 00 68 ba fc de fb 98 08 1d 1d 76
00000e0 15 b1 19 f7 df 2e 82 ca 68 4f d4 f2 fb 1f 48 ba
00000f0 4e 16 83 5a c8 7c 16 14 97 f8 8d e9 6f 67 e3 39
0000100 21 61 9b 08 47 6c a2 61 2d 8c 3e 7c b7 ec b6 86
0000110 1c 15 84 36 bc f0 ee c4 04 31 93 7e c1 90 33 20
0000120 fa 74 d5 28 fa 7e 25 77 c1 0a 72 20 4a 76 f8 1c
0000130
[Android Apps and Games] hotcell:
How are you guys see that activity? I don't see such the connection in my connections list, care to share a screenshot?
[Android Apps and Games] toole:
[MENTION=7171610]fvalpha[/MENTION] would you consider adding jump to last app action to actions menu. So that we can be able to cycle from one app to another. Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] kidgoo:
Here's a video of Fooview being installed on a fresh Android image, and the full log of network traffic caught by mitmproxy. You can open the log with mitmweb. It clearly shows Fooview pinging home to get a unique user ID, then downloading libs over http.

Video: https://anonfile.com/q2z5V4c8b7/fooview.mp4

Log: https://anonfile.com/t3z9V5cdb8/fooview.log
[Android Apps and Games] hotcell:
I see. My version is 0.8.7.2 (69) from Yalp Store and has size 7 050 313 bytes, the same version from APK Mirror gives size 7 050 225 bytes. Obviously different files. Through WiFi connected device mitmproxy I saw once a single POST HTTP request to http://update.fooview.com:37623/check2 upon killing of fooView from Settings. Probably pure coincidence for randomly scheduled update check. But after re-run fooView I don't observe anything like you mentioned... Also OS Monitor, Simple System Monitor, Connects, Spy Monitor or MatLog show nothing suspicious. BTW I do keep Location (no idea why it needed at that stage!), Telephone and Contacts permissions disabled. Actually, only Storage permission is normally required.

If anything, [MENTION=7171610]fvalpha[/MENTION] could just provide an opt-out option in settings to disable check for updates / calls home. That would satisfy everyone.
[Android Apps and Games] fvalpha:
It's update.fooView.com on Amazon. If you find the connection often, it might be downloading ocr training data for text recognition, please check it in settings or /sdcard/.fooView/ocr to find if the data cannot be downloaded completely, so that the connection is blocked and cannot be released.
[Android Apps and Games] fvalpha:
No
[Android Apps and Games] fvalpha:
Long press and swipe down by default.

You can also set any gesture to "Last App" from settings.
[Android Apps and Games] fvalpha:
The location permission is required by some webpages and some future features.

No telephone permissions required (maybe your system means read_phone_state, which is a normal permission required by most apps, it can detect current phone state(in calling or not) and get a system id, it cannot call or dial...)

No Contacts permissions required (maybe your system judges any WiFi permission as Contacts, I don't know)

Currently it's still beta, update is required. Daily update check is also used for downloading latest supported search engine list, we're keeping adding more.

And if you enable some thumbnails, it will visit you website at your scheduled interval.

However, if you find it connects very often, there might some error.
[Android Apps and Games] fvalpha:
Download Manager will be provided later.
[Android Apps and Games] paed808:
You might have to remove the accessibility service from the Play Store release of fooView as Google now wanting to be more like crApple announced a new policy that apps cant use accessibility permission except for helping disabled people.
[Android Apps and Games] fvalpha:
The update server on Amazon checks daily update on search engine lists/library update , downloading some training data libraries. We will keep improving it including security and performance.
[Android Apps and Games] fvalpha:
V0.8.7.5 2017.11.12 Changelog:

1.	Music Editor:

-- Support Merge, Split, Preview Music

2.	Downloader:

-- Support HTTP, Mutiple Threads

-- Manage Downloaded Files

-- Manage Download Progress

3.	Video Editor:

-- Support Add Music Into Video Without Music Track

-- Edit Multiple Videos At A Time

4.	Action Module:

-- Support Record Notification Panel On Android 7.0+

-- Support Record Gesture On Android 7.0+

5.	Other Minor Improvements
[Android Apps and Games] hotcell:
dunno, that's LG stock Nougat 7.0:
[Android Apps and Games] redsun_ravi:
Then spy me ;____;

I need someone to watch me
[Android Apps and Games] KodexDroid:
i just installed this morning and it help me very much until now. thank you very much and good luck... if you want a litle help to translate to arabic i will very happy to do'it...
[Android Apps and Games] kidgoo:
Thanks for the info. Can you speak about the data that is sent to your server? I looked at more network traffic and it sends a PGP subkey at one point, so it seems like that sent data is encrypted.

It's important for users to know what data is being shared with your server and why to make informed decisions about if they want to use the app.

Edit: Just to clarify, I really appreciate this app and am impressed with it. I'm asking these questions because I'm sensitive to unnecessary data gathering and profiling, and I think it's a good idea to have these practices out in the open.
[Android Apps and Games] thisisarjun:
Hello,

Can you add feature to put the music into playlist or something so that the music plays continusly without us selecting individual songs each time to play them.

This app can serve as music player without the need of any other music player at all

Thank u for this wonderful app:good:
[Android Apps and Games] fvalpha:
Thanks for the information. Actually fooView has many features such as single hand design, text size changer, future voice feature... to help disabled people, as well others. We will talk to Google about this.