yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Android Head-Units] Scopesys:
I assume you did not realize that FCC support multiple screens. You can have almost unlimited number of screens (within reason).

You swipe UP or Down to move through the screens, and can define any one of those screens to be your HOME screen (ie the Screen that gets selected when you press Home).

There is also a FCC widget to go to a specified screen... , so you can effectively put a button on any screen, to take you to another specified screen.

If you have a lot of screens, (like I do), you can make the last screen a Table Of Contents, with buttons and description to take you to any of your other screens.

You can also define Steering wheel buttons to take you to specific screens.

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Long press on blank area of current screen to get Widget/App left side menu.

Select the app/widget you want and drag it across and down, to bottom of current page, and FCC will scroll down screens, and eventually get to a new Blank screen. Drop the widget/app there.

Lots of extra features with the Premium version

Read the full APP description on Google Play Store. (click on READ MORE) == Free features == and == Paid PREMIUM features ==

Also, one one the biggest perks of the Premium version is knowing that you are supporting the developer :)

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Old " FCC" Restart FCC App no longer works. You need to delete it from your Screen, and then place a new "Fcc" one there.
[Android Head-Units] davemazo:
Thanks Scopesys you've been a great help. I've been trying on my tablet to set it up before going back out to the car. I'm guessing that I had to restart the app after paying for premium as after doing that the premium options appeared.

I somehow managed to get a third screen appear but I thought it was because I had set the default screen to 4 in the settings. Obviously that wasn't the case but I had accidentally dragged an icon further down than I thought thus creating the extra screen, who new?

And yes you're right it is always good to support app developers especially when they are so active in constantly fixing bugs and introducing new features. I would have kept it anyway even if I never sorted it out as I just think it looks better than my previous launcher

Many thanks again for your help
[Android Head-Units] matrixx1:
Dear all, after the latest update I experienced weird issue and I don't know what can cause this? Maybe it's not fcc at all but cannot find out what can cause this. After starting headunit and fcc starts a window pops up to complete the action either by opening play store or f-droid store please see pictures on the link. Has anyone any idea what can cause this? Any help is really appreciated. I cannot insert the pictures please see link below

https://photos.app.goo.gl/BqdMTTSXPmpPDrew9

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Also I can confirm that since latest update the mode widget doesn't work, it just stops current player won't change to the next player set up in music widget
[Android Head-Units] rigattoni:
Have a look at your Autostart. There seems to be an app which is not available on your headunit.

I can´t confirm the issue with the mode widget. May be you need to edit the settings?
[Android Head-Units] Scopesys:
I wonder if this is also due to the change in names from FCC to Fcc (ie like the FCC RE-start APP)

How many other functions may be affected by this FCC --> Fcc text change ???

If there are more, it's going to very Hit/Miss, unless

(a) There is a List of Widgets/Apps that need to be re-installed.

or

(b) This can be done Programatically by something Speedfire can add to the App ? (or to backup/restore to make sure settings are restored with the correct renaming)

ie FCC should not exist anywhere in the Launcher, now that it's Fcc
[Android Head-Units] rigattoni:
I think you don´t need to install apps again.

It´s just that you have to edit the widget/Autostart again. That is what I found out on my current device.
[Android Head-Units] Scopesys:
If one has to delete the old widget, and then replace it with the new widget with the new "Fcc" embedded somewhere in it, that going to a real pain if you have a complex multi page setup.

So far, the only issue in connection with this I have experienced is the FCC Re-Start APP. (and it looks like others have reported issues with the MODE Widget ? )

Any issues connected with the FCC --> Fcc renaming should be limited to existing FCC APPs & Widgets placed on a screen before the recent name changes.

I guess that is not so bad to check - the biggest most complex widget to have to re-install & set up is the Player Widget, so "Finger's Crossed" it does not apply to that one.
[Android Head-Units] okij:
Thank you for confirmation!

I posted details about this issue here on June 28th:

I hope that it's not too early to remind you, now that Fcc Launcher has been correctly restored on Play Store. :)

Please have a look into this issue. I hope that my observations of the settings in ru.speedfire.flycontrolcenter_preferences.xml help you to fix it. :fingers-crossed:
[Android Head-Units] Scopesys:
[MENTION=4292729]SpeedFire-[/MENTION]

Contact Widget issues (since FCC rename ?)

I have a few Contact widgets, created some time ago. They are still working, displaying a reasonably big Photo of my Contact, and their name, in a reasonable font, displaying about 6 characters.

Not ideal, or adjustable, but usable,

If I try to make a new Contact Widget

When I go to FCC widgets, there are now 2 Contact Widgets.

The 1st one, can be selected, set up, but when the editor closes, the widget is not there.

The 2nd one, the widget does remain, but

The Photo is now VERY small, and the Text is VERY Big (about 3 characters), and once again, no way to adjust them.

So, from what I can see, the Contact Widget needs some repair.

And then there is still the issue of Default Icon sizes in widgets. Since about the time of SPlit Screen, the default is near Maximum size .

It was SO MUCH better (before Split screen) when a new Widget took as it defaults, the settings of the last widget edited :)

Attached Screenshot showing 2 Contact Widgets in Edit menu

SCREENSHOT - Double FCC Contact Widgets
[Android Head-Units] matrixx1:
I am very interested in the app whihc you posted here: https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=81361535&postcount=4950

Once the mode widget gets restored i hope you rapp will start to work again as i find it a very good concept

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Hi

Thats the issue. I dont have a specific autostart app. I use only FCC autostart to launch launcher+the option under auto start apps to start players in background

i use hal9k andorid 9 rom, and i set up the players to be kept in memory so once the HU wakes they can be started easily.

I did not change a thing and today suddenly the problem i posted the picture about started.

I think it has to do somehting with FCC but the issue is not caused by FCC itself but some other app but i dont know how to find out which app causes this.

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Hi first i was also suprised that after update the fcc restart widget got deleted from the homescreen, and was also looking for it under the widgets.

The widget is not gone. Its in the app drawer on the top. Just grab it from there, once you place it to the homescreen it will become a widget or if you switch, to an icon. And will work as before. So it has just been "misplaced"
[Android Head-Units] Scopesys:
You missed my point. The OLD FCC Restart APP stopped working. One had to delete it from the Screen, and then re-add it from theAPP menu.

NO ISSUE in finding it ... just the old version did not work anymore.

Note: "FCC RESTART" is NOT a widget, it's an APP

My mistake if I referred to it as a Widget, but I think I was very conscious of FCC being a APP, and not a Widget.
[Android Head-Units] rigattoni:
Folks... ;)

I predict this is a one-time-issue dependent to the restructuring with the new name.

It depends on the "older" stored settings from previous installations. For sure the code is case sensitive. In this case this functionality will not be found after switching from FCC to Fcc, with old settings for those buttons and widgets.

Result is no function on some widgets or buttons, or may be a Google Store popup because the app is not found. That´s quite normal in such situations. Best example is the FCC RESTART versus Fcc RESTART.

...and yes it could really be possible that with these changes in the complete source code shows some regressions, but I think the discussion is really obsolete. It has been reported and I am pretty sure that [MENTION=4292729]SpeedFire-[/MENTION] will take care to get any regressions fixed.

I hoped that this will not happen, but as we can see, it happened.

It just needs to be changed once and for further versions you should be good to go with it.

Just edit the related widgets and button settings and safe your settings as usual.

Don´t use older backups, otherwise you will have to do it again.

I did this twice now. The first one on top of the older v3 with a backup from April (The unit was stored in a cabinet for some time), and I too had a Google store pop up visible. After I switched the Autostart app once to another app and back, this issue was gone.

For me it was directly clear that this older backup should not be stable with all these changes in the deep of Fcc. So i decided to do a clean setup, placed my buttons and widgets on a fresh setup and I got rid of older settings.... and yes, I only have 3 pages with stuff on it... makes it easier. And I have the related screenshots to get it done in the same positions as before.

Just for testing purposes, I put the MODE widget after new set up on my screen (I don´t use it normally) set my players in there and I was able to toggle between all 3 player in there without any issues.
[Android Head-Units] kramttocs:
The TPMS widget is another one that isn't working with the latest Play Store update. I reverted back to 3.38 and it works, updated, doesn't work.

Also with the help of a guy in the Atoto thread I have adb and logcat working now so looking forward to providing some better rfps!
[Android Head-Units] matrixx1:
Hi I did a brand new set-up and still getting this play store pop up and mode button not working. Very interesting. What do you mean by "switched the Autostart app once"? I have only one "app" start players in background. Do you mean to change this in FCC Autostart to something different?. By the way the google play store pop up this means is caused by FCC?
[Android Head-Units] matrixx1:
I think I found the reason for the play store pop up. If I have app Autostart enabled to start players in background that causes the play store pop up if I disabled app Autostart in FCC the pop up disappears. Weird but at least I found it seems the reason. It is an FCC bug as it seems
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
FCC 3.415:

Restart button works again (this java class renamed back to the FCC*). If it doesn't work please delete the current widget and put it again on your home screen.

I think that FCC -> Fcc renaming doesn't affect much else.
[Android Head-Units] Scopesys:
I still have concerns about the length of time FCC takes to restart, after a prolonged shut down. (up to 30 seconds for all the widgets to finish "updating" on the screen, and even a Mp3 player to start playing)

It would make sense that if FCC was set to use an Internet Player (like Spotify), then there would be a delay while Spotify connects to the Internet, and the streaming starts.

By extension, this might imply that ANY widget, displaying live information obtained from the Internet, "may" cause the complete loading of FCC widgets to be delayed, while those widgets establish Internet connection, and get their data. ie Weather Widgets etc

Could this be why FCC could take so long to complete loading ???

I guess I could answer this question myself, by removing any such widgets/apps from my FCC setup, and do some testing -- but still think it is worth mentioning this as a concern.

As far as time to load is concerned, this is evident on my setup, because one of the last Widgets I added to my setup, was the Google Voice Widget on my Home screen., with that Widget/APP having a specified (non default) Icon.

When FCC loads, I see all the widgets on the Home screen appear, but the Google Voice widget/app initially has the default widget, and it not until just before the screen becomes responsive (some 30 seconds later ), that that Google Voice Icon updates to the one specified.

30 seconds to load is not a deal breaker, but it is long enough to become annoying/frustrating when we live in the world of expecting instant gratification ;)

EDIT: Tried removing any Widget that requires Internet Connection to display data -- made no difference to load time , so it would seem that it is not an Internet connectivity issue :(
[Android Head-Units] Scopesys:
[MENTION=4292729]SpeedFire-[/MENTION]

Ref: Satellite Widget

It was mentioned by someone else some months ago, but I don't think it ever got addressed.

The Satellite Widget's layout, prevents the text from being anything but very small, otherwise it is cut-off at the bottom, (by the Icon)

This is not an issue with the BlueTooth Widget or the Wifi Widget, and since they are all similar informational Widgets, could I suggest that the Satellite Widgets layout is changed to be the same layout as the Bluetooth and Wifi Widgets.

ie Icon at the Top, Text Underneath

Attached is a graphic, showing the current layout, and also showing a suggested, more consistent layout, that allows for bigger & more readable Text
[Android Head-Units] matrixx1:
Hi for me fcc starts immediately even if Spotify was the last player in use. If I restart fcc it reloads in couple of seconds. I have px6 Hal9k rom. Maybe try to reinstall and reconfigure the whole FCC and don't do backup restore maybe it would help, just a guess
[Android Head-Units] bajoseph04:
[MENTION=1633144]speedfire[/MENTION] reporting this for one last time assuming you may not have noticed this the previous 3 or 4 times when reported. In case you think this cannot be fixed, please let me know that too so that I'll stop bugging you. Thanks.
[Android Head-Units] rigattoni:
That was me... ;)

...and yes this should be fixed if there is time for it. Just now I think there are more critical things to get fixed.

Would be a good idea to have something like a bug tracker, ticket system or whatever else.

I don´t know how SpeedFire- is tracking the posted bugs, feature requests, change requests and hick-ups...
[Android Head-Units] kramttocs:
This has been mentioned a few times and I completely agree. This application is so large and customizable by design that a single thread isn't the best medium for tracking issue reports. Way too easy for reports to get lost and too hard to keep a single one on track to resolution. If there was a formal bug tracking system the reports would be more detailed as well.

[MENTION=4292729]SpeedFire-[/MENTION] think this would be possible?
[Android Head-Units] Scopesys:
Ref: Satellite widget: As you say, not critical, but easy. Sometimes it's nice to just relax do some easy stuff, as opposed to pulling your hair out trying to find & fix a complex elusive bug.

Split screen & navRadio+ were major changes -- Split screen must have been a BIG technical challenge that interested the developer, and Navradio+ seemed to be as a response to user request for support for that App.

My request fro User Player Artwork masks, would seem to come under the category --

"Done user masks before, it's not a challenge but it is tedious work - I would prefer to do something more interesting" -

and I can absolutely understand that

...

(plus. it's really just a 100% cosmetic thing, that only a small percentage of users might take advantage of, so very low priority)

Bug Trackers, ticket systems, a Wiki, detailed update notes -- all very nice, but can take up a lot of time, especially when its only one person doing it all.

Add more helpers into the equation, and up goes the time in keeping track of what everyone else is doing, as well as it becoming more a JOB than a Hobby.

I would think that Speedfire- gets enough feedback, and is on top of most aspects of his own App, that he know exactly what needs to be addressed, and what he want to address at any point in time, and so far, this has worked out very well.

On the other hand, sometimes a Squeeky wheel does get some oil, so I will regularly remind Speedfire about some things, in the hope that they will get some oil.

Like: Player Widget Artist/song/artwork not clearing when a new player is selected, or worse, changing to old data from a previously selected player. :(

Not CRITICAL, but most likely a symptom of something else that is wrong in the selection logic, that might be more important to correct, than just the cosmetic side of it.

(Squeek Squeek) ;)
[Android Head-Units] kramttocs:
Yes and no. Just my opinion but a thread like this is would be better utilized as the wiki as people can personally help others with specific implementation questions so that wouldn't require SF's time. The bug tracker is the one being discussed at the moment and in my experience it would save time and frustration. It can also feed the update notes making that easier and more detailed as well.

The problem with the squeaky wheel approach is that eventually everyone is screaming for their own thing and it's just more noise and other posts get buried faster.

None of this is new and I am sure SF has considered what works best for him and ultimately that is what is best for us also.
[Android Head-Units] Scopesys:
A dedicated FCC "Multi threaded" Forum might go a long way to make this possible, but then someone would still have to oversee it, or it will end up with 1000's of separate threads, and be even more of a complex thing to navigate, than the current single thread on the Xda-developers forum (which requires no administration from the thread started ( Speedfire- ).

Thought about this quite a few times, and always come back to the current way things are being done as being the overall best solution -- as I suspect Speedfire has as well. - or he would have changed it by now.

Minimal administration time and maximum development time.

Also, bear in mind, there are only a relatively few people posting on this English Forum -- and I believe there is also a Russian language support forum for FCC as well.

The important issues always seem to get addressed in a timely manner, and if they are really critical, the response time is amazingly fast for someone developing an Android App in their spare time as a HOBBY. ( have to wonder how much "Spare Time"Speedfire ends up getting these days for his own personal needs !!! )

.

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So, if Speedfire- agrees, who is up to creating and setting up the hosting of a FCC Wiki, and taking on it's administration ???

I 100% agree with your opinions, but at the end of the day Talking is cheap & Actions speak louder than words.

(Not directed at you.. but a general truth from someone who does not have a clue how to set up a Wiki )
[Android Head-Units] kramttocs:
Hey, no worries at all - we are on the exact same page with probably all of this :) There are a lot of things to consider and we are definitely just 'talking' since it all comes down to Speedfire's preference. I hadn't even considered that there may be another forum he is monitoring so glad you mentioned that.

As for the wiki, I know what you are saying but I don't think a formal one would really be needed. A mass thread like this would likely serve that purpose well enough. My thought being that FCC is right in the middle at the moment. It can be made complex enough by a user that it's good to have a way to ask for help and bounce layout and implementation ideas off other users. On the other hand, it's intuitive enough (kudos to SF) that it doesn't really need a ton of detailed HowTo's. I just think it would benefit to have the 'wiki thread' separate from the issues.

Hopefully SpeedFire knows that these suggestions are just ideas to make it easier on him, if it will, and they are coming from a bunch of people that know the value FCC already provides and care enough to try to help make it even better.
[Android Head-Units] Mickey4Mouse:
how to detach artist/track info from cover/logo?

i need a hint

when playing music through the integrated player (with standard skin), the artist/track text is shown within the small circle with the cover/logo (dab-z) which is barely readable in most cases.

i had this text detached from the "picture" in the past, but i have no clue how i managed to do so. I searched through the settings several times now and couldn't find the switch :(

i hope this feature hasn't been dropped in the latest release?!?

a minor problem is: the "circle" doesn't really fit into the background frame. The curved line touches the circle at one side and there is quite a gap at the other. It's impossible to drop the circle at the correct spot, or it is possible, but it jumps away when it has been dropped...

and last question: with all the frequent bug fixes: what's the correct way to upgrade?

do i have to disable auto updates, uninstall Fcc (i've read this somewhere) and do a manual install? Does Fcc prevents auto updates automatically? Or is it safe to upgrade it even over a running instance?
[Android Head-Units] kramttocs:
For updates I just use the Beta PlayStore app unless SpeedFire posts a build here that can be obtained from his share.

For the other:

Press the cover art widget until it brings up the menu. Uncheck the 'Show track and artist section' under Artist And Track

Then add a new widget for Player+Radio and put it where you want just the text. For the settings of this one you can uncheck the Show Album Art and the Show Control Buttons checkboxes. UPDATE: you don't need to do this checkbox part - choosing the correct widget makes this unnecessary.

This what you are looking for?
[Android Head-Units] Scopesys:
Just to add one thing to this excellent answer. (to turn off TEXT display in the Artwork)

Then -

When you have dragged a NEW Player Widget to your screen, the 1st thing you should select is the Widget design.

It sound like you want the design with just the SONG/ARTIST text.

Having selected that Design, then options associated with say Artwork, become irrelevant. The only options you need deal with are the SONG/Artist ones, ie Color, font size etc.

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One thing that is not obvious, and is a neat trick.

If you have a Player Widget with the SONG/TITLE design, only the 1st line will be scroll-able. (android widget limitation? )

So if you want BOTh Song & Artist to be scroll able, you need to make 2 separate widgets, one for song and one for artist, disable the 2nd line in both , and in one of them, swap the song/artist lines.
[Android Head-Units] matrixx1:
HI i updated FCC to the latest version and thought i will configure the whole launcher form scratch so i dont use the backupfile. I configured it as it has been. Funny thing is that since re-install NvaRAdio+ and music widget really dont like eachother. When changing a track in sportify or deezer it changes quickly to navradio then back to spotiy/deezer and seems to change tracks both in the music player and a radio station. When i re-enable stock Fm radio it works mostly fine except every 30 minutes or so the music widge while playing spotify/deezer changes to fm radio no matter what the forth player is (ie: not fm radio) but keeps playing in spotiy/deezer. In this way i loose music track change info as the active player in the music widget is fm and not the music player i am currently listening to.

I know that probably i am the only one with this problem, still i find it very peculiar