yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Android Apps and Games] fvalpha:
The text preview is limited to 2k size, there're no many lines, so it has no fast scroller by design.
[Android Apps and Games] Artieza:
What about swipe to expand, and unlimited view, and fast scroller? :)
[Android Apps and Games] fvalpha:
Will consider the possibility:)
[Android Apps and Games] BleedingIris:
Official announcement?

True.. Except None of us here [MENTION=243864]xda[/MENTION] or the media were informed about your retirement from the ES file explorer application. Whereas Steve jobs out of apple was well known. Obviously, Whichever company you sold it to, used unethical means to keep you mum about the deal. Or Is it?

Regardless, How can we be sure that you won't sell this application too without prior information to another shady company? While we continue to update this application?:confused:

:victory: Anyway, All your applications are great:highfive:

I really hope you won't sell this or at the least, make a statement before selling.

Cheers.
[Android Apps and Games] fvalpha:
Thanks for the support of both old ES and fooView.

It seems that in your thought, I made an app and sold it to a bad company, who then destroyed it after it's sold. No, that's not true in reality.

It's more about values and people.

Like I have said in the post, I left the group from 2015. Then someone who has different values with me took over it a year ago, and did something I can hardly agree with. I cannot stop them, so I do my best in another app. No sold, no deal, no... in this year.

When I read something that ES went in another direction in the end of 2015, as a developer, what I can think is making another one for the users, that's why I said fooView is for ES Users. I have already said ES is not in my control any more in the post. I guess the post didn't spread so you had missed it before.

Yes, I can promise you if there will be some major changes for fooView, I will publish the news at the first time.

Last, only the app can prove all.

Thank you!
[Android Apps and Games] BleedingIris:
Thanks for the explanation:) I did a lot of googling about this and nothing came up about this..

Guess I misunderstood:silly:

Anyway, So, You're the only one working with this app right now... Am I right?:fingers-crossed:
[Android Apps and Games] Artieza:
I see you have blurry plans, but have something. What did you mean? :confused:
[Android Apps and Games] hotcell:
The product is in Alpha stages, so no commercial plans for this year. In my understanding it has to have major file manager features to replace Es Explorer. In a honest and decent way, with no calling home espionage techs. Am I too naive and out of base?

What interactions supposed to be available with fooView cards or tabs? When the basic file manipulation routines coming, like selecting files/folders on one card, then dragging the card onto another one to copy/move?
[Android Apps and Games] Artieza:
I don't want to see this app handed out to third party company. If creator think that it is possible, so I'm very sad. I hope this guy will hold development for himself. :fingers-crossed:
[Android Apps and Games] hotcell:
Sure, but in the end the Dev might just need to have something back for his hard and creative work.
[Android Apps and Games] Artieza:
Cannot start FTP server via Wi-Fi Tethering. :(
[Android Apps and Games] fvalpha:
In that case, I meant no sold …event happened for ES in 2015.

For fooView, the only thing now, is going to beta and 1.0(it needs quite some time, I guess 1.0 might be in 2017), makinging it better. Many old users are waiting, as you know.
[Android Apps and Games] fvalpha:
Thanks!

You are right, fooView will include a clean file manager as its basic file infrastructure.

The multiple windows UI will be improved in future versions.
[Android Apps and Games] fvalpha:
Will look into the issue. Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] hyof:
When 'Animator duration scale' on developer settings turned off, this little bug happens on fooView alpha Guide:

http://giphy.com/gifs/3o7TKL013oruF9T9Wo
[Android Apps and Games] fvalpha:
Thanks! will fix it in next update.
[Android Apps and Games] Artieza:
When you will code Samba module, don't forget about Wi-Fi Tethering too. Many developers of file managers don't consider this scheme, but it is very important for me.
[Android Apps and Games] adwinp:
Really nice consolidated toolbox;

comments/suggestions:

- allow the customization (add/remove/blank page) of the tiles on the home/main screen

- enable "expanded" mode, i.e. autohide top/bottom menu bars (show them again on a specific gesture)

- expose html5 links in the browser to allow streaming via external apps (mxplayer/vlc)
[Android Apps and Games] fvalpha:
Follow up:

The develop setting will disable the animator or change the speed of it, it's normal that the speed changes and only a few people will change the setting, so currently we will not fix it.
[Android Apps and Games] fvalpha:
Luckily since I started the project, till now we have 3 developers, so I guess each update would be sooner than before.
[Android Apps and Games] fvalpha:
Will consider the case. Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] BleedingIris:
This is one of the best productivity tools in the play store..A couple of questions

Why does cast screen icon come whenever I use the browser? How does this app work. ..I mean why is cast screen needed?

And whenever I visit XDA through inbuilt fv browser,i get SSL ID mismatch [ok / continue] .. That's not the case with my chrome browser. Is it possible to make the inbuilt fv browser as a chrome custom tab?

And is the floating fv browser movable from the top left??

Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] Artieza:
I see that development of ES File Explorer is almost stopped, so I guess you all are ES App Group.
[Android Apps and Games] hotcell:
IMHO fooView has the kind of nature that complements native guesrure based ui. So naturally it should focus the initial efforts on the most needed features first. Like an ability to easy launch apps from any screen with just a single gesture. Quickly, without extra slowing down animation effects. Without an ability to custom grouping of apps according to user preferences, it would be hard to achieve in a single swipe. I'd suggest creating user defined categories/tags/app folders, all other apps including new ones should go into a single heap category. Making full-blown browser requires proper addblock, bookmarking, tab and session management, diff media links handling... too much for the initial stage!
[Android Apps and Games] fvalpha:
Because we have enabled exceptions in last version to find out more potential bugs, so sometimes you will meet fooView crash issue. We will fix the bugs asap and it will be more stable then.

When it crashes, most of time it will restart itself and it can still work.
[Android Apps and Games] fvalpha:
Thanks for the advice! They all would be in future versions.
[Android Apps and Games] Torrentula81:
In the future will this app work offline after verifying with Google license? I've always disabled internet with file browsers. Have a sepereate app for wifi transfers. Never knew about es sending data. Glad I do block internet for file managers so please allow us to block internet through xposed and it will still run as long as it was verified once.
[Android Apps and Games] Artieza:
Web Browser: selected text is thrown down if I scroll a page. It isn't correct behavior.
[Android Apps and Games] fvalpha:
1) The cast screen icon shows only when you drag the icon and make a screenshot or video record. It's system behavior that when you do screenshot, the icon will show. It will disappear several seconds after the screenshot is finished. The browser itself doesn't use the cast icon.

2) The SSL error dialog shows when the system webview tells fv there's something wrong in SSL certificates. I will check the issue later.

3) I have investigated in chrome custom tab, unfortunately currently we cannot use it because it doesn't support floating window and other behaviors, each part in fv is floating, so we cannot lose it.

4) Yes, when you are in a webpage, swipe up the main icon, it will go into floating window mode, drag the title to move(tap the page to make the title bar appear), and drag the corner to change size.
[Android Apps and Games] Artieza:
Also there should be one (line) action bar which changes when text is selected. Like in other apps.
[Android Apps and Games] Artieza:
Surely you must enable caching in WebView.
[Android Apps and Games] hyof:
why so many background data? if the application is not in use, this is very strange.
[Android Apps and Games] Antieco:
Same here...

Enviado desde mi A0001 mediante Tapatalk
[Android Apps and Games] fvalpha:
Because almost everything in fooView is floating window(Except Guide in fooView is a foreground activity). from system view, it all runs in Background all the time.

When you view webpages in fooView, all traffic is counted as background data.
[Android Apps and Games] fvalpha:
It's the difference between fooView and normal apps.

fooView is a floating window, so foreground data is counted as background data by the system.
[Android Apps and Games] fvalpha:
ES App Group is current ES developers(who created ES 4.0 and above, not us)' name, we had built old ES versions but we using fooView name now.
[Android Apps and Games] fvalpha:
All local features will work without network, such as local file, app switcher, screenshot, recorder and sharing.... Even you have disabled Internet, you can still use these features.
[Android Apps and Games] hotcell:
[MENTION=7171610]fvalpha[/MENTION]

Could you please outline the community your nearest priorities in development fooView, possibly with rough time markers? I'd like to know about these features [priority, included, fully implemented, approx time slot to make]:

1. Local files manager

2. Network access ftp, ftpes, samba, clouds

3. Ftp server's user profiles, ssl self-signed certs

4. Apps launcher, single swipe, custom app grouping

5. App Manager

6. Web browser with bookmarking/tabs/session/ads control

7. Gesture control, home launcher integration features, like drawer/Google now replacement...

Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] fvalpha:
Will implement it in future versions.
[Android Apps and Games] Artieza:
Wait. What is the trick? You said that you only one from ES. But I think that ES App Group is about 3 peoples (in the past I saw only 3 guys in 4.0 Beta Testing Google Group). It means that you killed ES File Explorer friendly and started to create fooView. But before this you made it paid in Google Play Store. Then this strange warning about hid data transfer in ES, but without data analysis. Which kind of data does it collect? So you moved attention of public to fooView. What did really happen? If you sold it, how much money did you obtain if not a secret?

And you still didn't answer about your status. Incorporated. Are you really registered? If yes, so this means that you are planning to receive big money by tricky partnerships.
[Android Apps and Games] BleedingIris:
[MENTION=7171610]fvalpha[/MENTION],

Thanks.. One more question, whenever I use search, FV browser opens in full view,

Can I make it to use float and smaller size by default( without all the swiping up and resizing)? If so, How? And could you make it remember my last float size dimension and the exact place on the screen, where I left it?

A little Transparency would be nice( easy to read what's underneath the browser).
[Android Apps and Games] hyof:
I had uninstalled.. installed again and little use, in one day used 100mb of wifi, It's accessing the Internet alone
[Android Apps and Games] fvalpha:
For new installation, when wifi is enabled, it will download the library first, size depends on your system.

English characters recognition library and your local language library, each one is 10~20mb.

If you are using x86 phone, it will download x86 library, because inbuilt one is for arm architecture.

If you have view zip files, it will download zip plugin.

normally it will takes dozens mb of wifi for one time.

If you have used the browser, surely it will take wifi too.
[Android Apps and Games] fvalpha:
New ES 4.0 is made by a group of people, I think 20+. Because I do not belong to the team, I have no more ideas about it. If you need more information about it, you can contact them.

I haven't killed ES, it's still online and I just have left the team 1.5 year before and not in charge of it any more. I'm not only one from ES in any way. If you mean old ES, some developers working on fooView have developed on old ES. If you mean new ES, none of us belong to it.

When I was in charge of it before 2015(from ES 0.9-3.0+), no paid version, no lockscreen and splashscreen ads, no collecting data, no background download,... so I can't answer the question.

I have said, we just believe in different values. Things I believe in are reflected in old ES and fooView, not in new ES.
[Android Apps and Games] fvalpha:
The floating windows size should be remembered and resizable, we will implement it in future versions.
[Android Apps and Games] Antieco:
What does foreground data means? Every screen capture is counted as data? Or just data downloaded from internet? As I haven't used built in browser that much as to download 480mb.

Enviado desde mi A0001 mediante Tapatalk
[Android Apps and Games] fvalpha:
Foreground data means you open fooView to view webpages. Normally fooView won't download 100mb+ data(but if you delete libraries on sdcard many times, it will download again, it's also a possibility)

480mb can mostly happen when you open fooView as browser, such as search, weather,...
[Android Apps and Games] Artieza:
But under what license did you collaborate? Or ES App Group was a proprietary company sponsored by somebody?

Sounds good, but are you rich enough? :confused:
[Android Apps and Games] fvalpha:
As to the old stories, ES has a long history with ideal, belief, capital, cooperation, competition, proprietary, people.... BUT nothing has impact on the app much itself, in the recent 3 years, there's not any change in external environment. And I have explained why new ES is different with old ES. I don't belong to ES App Group any more from last year, and different people have different values.

As to being rich, someone pursues money, someone pursues technology, someone pursues spirits, what we pursue is in our app. The app can talk, just like old ES and new ES, you might wait and see fooView in the following years.
[Android Apps and Games] thanh_nhan02:
good app
[Android Apps and Games] hotcell:
[MENTION=7171610]fvalpha[/MENTION], at very least just have to know your stance and timeline on

4. Apps launcher in a single swipe, custom app

grouping

If those are not your immediate plans, what app, beside a device native home launcher, would you recommend for the purpose? Asking because I don't see a suitable tool for variety of reasons.
[Android Apps and Games] fvalpha:
As a whole, they will be all improved in future versions.

As to each item, we need look into it before the promise, such as ssl, session/ads control, etc.

FTP/FTPS will be in next update, the others, I cannot give out time table, because there're still many features to develop before 1.0 version, so we only have very recent plan.
[Android Apps and Games] fvalpha:
A complete customization feature will be released before V1.0, currently I have no time table too.

App group feature is a part of App manager, you can show groups in app manager, by frequency or by name, and more groups will be added.
[Android Apps and Games] hotcell:
AppManager groups are unusable for a single swipe app launch. User would need:

1. Swipe up to show fooView main window

2. Touch App Manager icon

3. Scroll long app list vertically to find the app

4. Touch the app icon.

That's far from a single swipe app launch. That's why I'm asking whether you even have implementation ideas and the plan. Just remember, it may become something greater than just file manager, and we all here are Alpha testers:good:
[Android Apps and Games] fvalpha:
Got it. Will improve.
[Android Apps and Games] BleedingIris:
So, Why?

Why do You do what you do? What's your motivation for creating this app or the old ES? It's not for charity.. Right:confused:

What's your gain from all this???
[Android Apps and Games] fvalpha:
V0.7.8 is in final testing and will be released in a day.
[Android Apps and Games] Artieza:
Bug: I used fooView's root app installator as default. Now I can't change it. It always try to use your. Even if I disabled root in preferences, it do nothing. When I try to "Open as...", the same...
[Android Apps and Games] fvalpha:
Currently you need clean defaults in system settings.

Take Samsung Note5 as example, goto System Settings/Applications/Application Manager/fooView Alpha/Set as default/CLEAR DEFAULTS.

Another way is clear data, in that way you would lose app settings.

It's inconvenient, we will provide an own setting for it.
[Android Apps and Games] slst:
[MENTION=7171610]fvalpha[/MENTION] I was looking ages for this thanks alot. You proved people think alike. Only thing is its memory consumption is too high its almost taking 30mb to almost 300mb. Can you optimize its memory consumption. And in video/audio player can you include features like subtitle download, mp3 tags editor, screen aspect ratio just like in VLC???
[Android Apps and Games] fvalpha:
Each great company has own mission. For Google's mission is to incorporate global information to benefit the people, that is, to make a better world.

For fooView, it has a slogan, "Be Simple", it appears in the demo video and in the title of this post. If we can make something simple, everyone who uses it will save one's time. For example, if in one day a 100 million people use it, each saves 10 minutes, that's 1 billion minutes, nearly saves 1902 years in a day, compared to that I can live only dozens of years. It is the way how we will make the world better, it's our value, and the greatest gain. That's why we will never make money using the ways hurting user experiences and losing the values.
[Android Apps and Games] fvalpha:
V0.7.8.2016.09.13 Changelog:

1.	Video Recorder Module:

-- Regional Screen Recorder (In Long Press Menu)

2.	Homepage Module:

-- New UI

-- Can Be Customized

-- Can Add Desktop Shortcut

3.	Cloud Module:

-- Support FTP (FTPS/SFTP) Client (Add From Homepage)

4.	Handwriting Module:

-- Can Be Used In Any Module

5.	Many Minor Improvements.
[Android Apps and Games] fvalpha:
All will be improved, thanks!

I will explain the memory issue. As a floating icon, it takes little memory, normally 10-30mb. When you use it as a browser, it uses system webview to open the webpages, webview itself asks for dozens to hundreds of mb memory(according to your device) to make use of your device performance, as other browsers. But when you close the webview, it will release these memory immediately, and won't occupy your system resources. Each feature will release the occupied memory after it's closed, it won't impact the performance, so take it easy.
[Android Apps and Games] hotcell:
Description: ftpes setup has non-empty remote startup [root??] dir like /a/b

Problem 1: no way to edit name or connection params after initially added

Problem 2: share function causes invalid or empty error in an email or a messenger apps, probably the file should go as binary attachment from local cache?
[Android Apps and Games] Artieza:
Setting? Setting is already exists. It is "open as..." and "set as default" then. :confused: It just should be fixed.

---------- Post added at 09:06 AM ---------- Previous post was at 08:39 AM ----------

Great update! What do you think about launching ftps://... server in fooView? Is it possible?
[Android Apps and Games] Artieza:
Navigation drawer is almost useless. It should contain some really usual used features. And it should be various for various modules (for pictures module the one, for file manager the second, etc.).

---------- Post added at 02:21 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:16 PM ----------

Problem with a changing of a position of the icon in invisible mode. It should be visible while user changes it.

---------- Post added at 02:46 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:21 PM ----------

About three quick access bubbles in the down. You could make it configurable. In configuration of bubbles will introduce "last opened app" point.

---------- Post added at 02:57 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:46 PM ----------

Hmm. I also want to pin FTP server in the bubbles, but it opens FTP tab instead of server autostart (and autoclose if server is in work).

---------- Post added at 03:44 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:57 PM ----------

You can allow users to setup every bubble (3 at the top too). In chooser should be 3 groups: fooView's, apps (system apps can be moved into 4th group) and shortcuts. There should be search feature.
[Android Apps and Games] slst:
Really excited for improvement in navigation and most usable features to ditch separate apps like browser, photo/video/audio editor, video player, (docx, pdf, txt, ppt) readers. I know it's somewhat more but you're already done more than half. :good: :)
[Android Apps and Games] Artieza:
Bloat. "Open as..." should override this all.
[Android Apps and Games] fvalpha:
Yes. It will also be fixed.
[Android Apps and Games] majee12:
I couldn't take multiple screen shot with the app . It doesn't allow me to scroll through the pages beneath it.

---------- Post added at 09:43 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:41 AM ----------

Sorry fault alarm I fix it.
[Android Apps and Games] Artieza:
Interesting calculation. To increase simplicity you should investigate how people use your app.
[Android Apps and Games] fvalpha:
will look into and fix the issue.
[Android Apps and Games] AL_IRAQI:
[MENTION=7171610]fvalpha[/MENTION] Wow!!, youve done amazing things with the app, its getting better and better with every update :D

im trying to theme the app, everything looks good but navigation drawer is completely hard coded in layout/block_left_navi.xml

i hope that you reference "android:background="#ff404040"" & android:textColor="#ff4c4c4c" to another color in colors.xml, so it can be themed

navbar preview:

and please also reference all hardcoded colors in /layout to colors.xml, for easier theming, themers tend to use apps that is usually easier to theme without modding the original apks

Thanks :)

Edit:

check this apk here, referenced all colors to colors.xml, use compare app to check the changes, maybe it will save you some time :D
[Android Apps and Games] fvalpha:
Will organize it later in more formal versions, because UI is still in fast changing. Thanks for the great advice.
[Android Apps and Games] Artieza:
Why does arrow Back mean close window and only in the web browser it repeats Back of a navigation bar?

---------- Post added at 06:40 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:34 PM ----------

What about a web pages chain on a long press button Back of navigation bar like in Firefox? Also for file manager. Folders chain.
[Android Apps and Games] Artieza:
I found a problem with a bubbles ring dislocation when the icon was hid. You see that bubbles outs of the screen.
[Android Apps and Games] Artieza:
And... When I pressed FTP server's switcher, saw ugly shadowed square. Such animation isn't used with modern switchers.
[Android Apps and Games] fvalpha:
More and more configurations will be added.
[Android Apps and Games] majee12:
There is crush when am trying to take multiple screen shot
[Android Apps and Games] hotcell:
Here it works. Don't know how to make capture of long Web pages (autoscroll)... Already taken area markers would help to do it manually this way also.
[Android Apps and Games] Artieza:
Bug: cannot dismiss "download is finished" by swipe. It goes away only if I press it.
[Android Apps and Games] Artieza:
Could you add the button "pictures list" in an action bar? If I press picture on the main screen (3 pictures close to "Pictures" point), it goes in non full screen mode (navbar should be hid too) without ability to open all pictures list.
[Android Apps and Games] fvalpha:
Will change it