[Galaxy S6 Android Development] stangdriver44:
This would be something I would have to revisit.

The reason being, the method of using gif for different views was brought to a development thread I participate in active discussions.

Someone had found some files that could do this and was curious about our thoughts.

There has been animations with android versions in the past and with the progression we are finding new ways which all use different resources with different amounts of stress on the system.

My conclusion was that, although the convenience of having the ability to add an animation to a bg view with just a single file was super cool, very easy and in the theroy would be a good idea.

The results we quite the opposite as far as performance and stress the system was concerned,

I experienced extreme lag with any of the views that contained the animations.

Another things about the GIF image, is that they don't have the same ability to manipulate the size for better fits. Example I can fit an image that is a quarter the size in dimensions as the original one and it looks the same but has a much smaller size and impact on the system.

That being said. The amount is strain, lag and resizing restrictions weighed far heavier than the convenience of using a single image file.

The revisit could be to see which view might work for the view you all would prefer to the the animation.

I'll release this version using the method I've been using and discuss the possibility later

Blur, well I've been working on that one for hours with similar results I had months ago. Unless I can iron out the issues I don't like, that may have to be revisited first future updates as well!

Sorry, but I'm not willing to sacrifice performance or visual bugs for any feature!

Performance, stability and minimal to no visual bugs is a must for me!

ok, well it sound like the lost and found was a good place to look. lol

but yeah, the location of which folder the images are definitely behave strangely sometimes. I had that bug with them actual image displaying different thumbnails. fixed by move to different folder.

Glad to hear all is well and to hear how durable these phones are too, or maybe that's just the edge+ phones that can take a beating? heard your last phone could be the star piece of an infomercial about smashed up phone that still keep going! lol.

welcome back and sounds like you're enjoying the update.

That is always good to hear!

I totally see what you're saying about the toggle panel bg, and that might not be the best example to show "poor scaling" because I noticed something about that view right away when using the Carbon Fibre style.

the reason for this is that the image for that view is being stalled to fit "the whole panel" even the section that is not seen, this whole view is determined on the amount of scrollable toggles that are set.

So if you have 20 toggles set for the scrollable amount, it stretches that view, even though you can't see it, to allow w0 toggles to fit. see the screenshots below. the shots test looks bad with poor scaling are because the left side is the begining that gets stretched all the way our 20 toggles and ends on the right,,where you can see the curved inside edge of the Carbon fiber style.

the solution is to set the scrollable number to match the viewable number like 5 shown with 5 scrollable or 6 and 6. get it

the max number viewable only goes to 7 (because anymore than that a squished look with text overlap behind and doesn't look good at all), if you want more than 7 scrollable and the look bothers you, that I can only suggest below

it isn't as noticeable with bgs don't have a defined vertical edge. and it's virtually impossible to notice this with a solid colored bg.

so again, that's not the best example of poor scaling if you have others, please do not hesitate to share with my so I can see of there can be a solution or something where simply some styles don't work well

For quick coloring options within the app, did you try the "Quick pick, one click" options available in the colors/bg controls section?

there are several options to set the colors of text,icons and accent colors as well as the option to set the pulldown BG to synced together with just one selection.

I totally agree with you, that it was guide boring, sometime to point I could fall asleep setting each of the color via the old copy and paste method.

Sounds like you were definitely away for awhile, because this particular feature was probably one of if not the most daunting task performed for the last update. took a few weeks to do and involved me requesting help from the community to take some strain off of me, for which we have [MENTION=6542352]LuisAngel321[/MENTION] to thank for getting v5 out 2 weeks sooner! thanks bro

So I thinks that about takes care of that one!

As for your "whining", lol, not at all, and especially since I did ask for it even less so.

I do appreciate the time you spend looking around and post the findings.

Glad we are able to have solutions for them and please don't hesitate to share of you see others, also keep hunting around in OC because the answer might be right in front of you on one of those sections.

Oh yeah, forgot to show an example of "poor scaling" or technically what is the result of using a "malformed" patch nine 9.png image.

The same thing can happen when using a regular png with the extension changed to 9.png. while these can added to a compiled apk to trick the system and can be done often times without noticing something isn't right, but for those images that change sizes dynamically in front of you, like dialog popup boxes with text, toast notification or the same toggle panel bg in the extend all view.

Notice the inside corner edges, they look blurred and distorted. Not supposed to look like that and that image will fail during the compiling process of an apk everytime, unless you know trick around it. But that's not why were here. So if you see other items that the edges aren't tight and don't look right let me know.

Another example which I've already corrected was the button bg for El Diablo and Blue Chrome.

See the El Diablo shot in tiB with the red button, they didn't look like that for v4 and possibly v5. They definetly don't for v6. These are very minor issues and most people don't know they are even errors, maybe strange looking, but unaware.

These are the kind of things that do not meet my standard and I would like all of them resolved!

But with close to 35,000 images between 14 diferent theme bases and who know how many different views where any of them can be called on from Android.

thanks and good day

This is a very strange problem and unfortunately I am unable to recreate the scenario thus making troubleshoot it very difficult!

Let me ask, is the the case when sending pics to any and all recipients or just a select few or even just one person?

Which version bootloader/modem are you running and do the match, as in they are both from the same build number.

with my LP version rom I did have 1 or 2 users experience similar, not identical issues to the only fix, which do work, was to Clean wipe everything and do a Full Odin flash of the official TAR file.

of course you will need to reinstall custom recovery, but that's another 15 seconds of ODIN time. Then you can simply just flash the OZOP zip or the rom your choosing, to install and get back to doing what it is you are wanting to be doing!

Hope thay helped and the solutions can be resolved easily.

of you can think of any other things that could help link any similar coincidence that might be causing the problem.

thanks again everyone and I'm out for the night. these long replies are exhausting!

And yeah, Trump has got this thing and it's going to be interesting for the next while!