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[Android Head-Units] Scopesys:
[MENTION=2734955]KoTiX2[/MENTION];82406529

Thanks for the info ... but since we are really looking for your App to work with our FCC Player widget, can you give us any idea when you plan to implement "Media-Button actions" in your app ?
[Android Head-Units] KoTiX2:
I'll try to work on it during this week but I have no idea when it will be ready.

Anyway this is not the right place to talk about my app, I just wanted to point out that NavRadio send the metadata of those station details and independently of the actions they should be displayed just like other apps do.
[Android Head-Units] Dac0908:
Which reminded me, FCC displays radio stations names which are named manually within FCC, but does not display metadata from RDS, only station frequency? Or did I miss something.
[Android Head-Units] dadonali:
Can someone tell me why the device only opens the radio app after standby but not the fcc launcher and the speed camera app? Only when you press the home button does the launcher and speed camera start. Here is the data of my radio
[Android Head-Units] matrixx1:
Hi I have the same issue, no one ever answered me this question when I have asked it some time ago. For me it is also only launching fcc when I press home button after the HU wakes no matter if you enable start launcher option under settings. To circumvent this, I have downloaded macrodroid which is a very easy program to use and set it to launch home screen when the display turns on this way I could automatize the launching process otherwise fcc doesn't launch by itself.

By the way, update your mcu from ver. 3.30 to 3.45
[Android Head-Units] Dac0908:
Joys of android. Most people have some similar problems, my system wants to launch any recently used app over already started FCC, after turning on. Browser, or settings, or doesn't matter what. After exiting them, next time it doesn't happen or maybe it wouldn't even without doing anything except pressing home button.

Then, using FCC autostart options also can make weird things, sometimes it starts apps like I wanted to but they don't stay in background, they start to play where they stopped and then 3 players make noise for 1s each. But sometimes they don't seem to start at all.

Standard music player sometimes sends music info to FCC, sometimes it doesn't or sends it in the middle of the song so when I skip song it shows previous one and so on... Luckily that was fixed using alternative player - Aimp seems to work great :). But that might answer my previous question about reading fm metadata. Who knows how it is implemented with various apps.

Anyway, there is FCC starter plugin on play store. Maybe it could help?
[Android Head-Units] matrixx1:
Hi, forget about the starter plugin, it was for a much older version of the launcher for, I think, some specific configurations. The best way to automaitze the launcher start is to use macrodroid. After macordroid starts the FCC launcher FCC launcher will start apps you set up previously.

As for the song info, sometimes it happens to me as well, but when you press change to next song it will display the correct info, at least for me.
[Android Head-Units] Scopesys:
FYI: I use an app called APPKILLER occasional (say once a week) to "kill " any apps that have run, and are still lurking around in memory.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tafayor.killall&hl=en_US

I do not know if this is really "Necessary", but it does give me a good feeling to know that all those apps I ran during the week, are no longer taking up memory, or slowing down my Unit.

Does it do any good ? Does it help ? Maybe, Maybe not, but to quote someone "Famous", who recently said "Why not try it -- what have you got to looses". :confused:

It is however very Satisfying to run, and see all those no-longer needed to be running programs, get removed from memory. :)
[Android Head-Units] dadonali:
I have already asked xtrons, but they don't want to give me the current firmware as long as I have no problems :(.

And unfortunately I have not found any suitable firmware here. Do you have one?

But after the update to the current version, the problem remains the same, right?

So just create a macro that starts the FCC as soon as the monitor is on and then it should work right?
[Android Head-Units] matrixx1:
If you have an mtcd/e device you only need to check the prefix (for example HA or different) and you can find the suitable mcu here on xda. It won't change the behavior though probably but who knows.

Yes just create a makro: action is screen on and then there is a specific predefined task for launch Home screen in macrodroid
[Android Head-Units] ric69:
I have no problem to start FCC launcher at cold boot or standby (also automatically apps launched by FCC settings works fine) but : There's also this app to autostart

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microntek.bootcontrol
[Android Head-Units] rigattoni:
[MENTION=4292729]SpeedFire-[/MENTION],would it be possible to add support for split screen?

I have a new unit 12.8" which can be used in portrait and landscape mode... and portrait mode looks terrible...
[Android Head-Units] Scopesys:
I have a head unit that does support Split Screens, and FCC is able to run in a Split screen BUT -- demands about 75% of the screen, leaving only 25% for the other app.

FCC will not allow the "split" to be moved anywhere closer to a 50% screen for FCC.

I "'assume" that when running in Split screen, FCC switches to a lower resolution mode, and if so, then maybe the reason why it is limited to 80%, is that there is not a lower resolution that it can run in. ?

My head unit has a resolution of 1024x600 .. assuming FCC can run in 800 x 400 that may account for why it can run and take up 75% of the screen in split screen mode.

maybe if it could run in 512 x 300 then it would take up 50% of my screen ??

I really do not now exactly why it cannot just take up 50% of the screen, but it can run in Split screen mode... just not a very equal split !!
[Android Head-Units] Prostheta:
I installed this for ten minutes. Currently running Auto Mate, which I prefer. This application doesn't like to install easily, which was an annoyance. I may come back to look at FCC Car Launcher, but for the moment maybe not.
[Android Head-Units] rigattoni:
My unit is 1920x1080 at 320 dpi...

If I don´t set FCC as standard launcher, I am able to split it in landscape mode, but not in portrait mode. As standard launcher there is no way to split 50%.

On top, in portrait mode, the button text is not shown and font size cannot be changed.
[Android Head-Units] JeepLash:
**Complete Noob Here**

I've installed FCC two days ago and it seems to freeze up/crash after about 25 minutes. This has happened roughly 5 times.

I'm currently running the stock fw on a px5 MTCE device. Should I install a custom rom like Hal9k?
[Android Head-Units] parisisal:
Hi,

When i turn on the device, the player widget shows as cover a YouTube video that i watched in my phone. Why???

Then if I turn on the radio it shows the radio cover as well...Why at startup it takes a cover

from a youtube video that i played from my phone (the day before) ???

Thank you.
[Android Head-Units] Scopesys:
Well, at least you gave it a FULL 10 Minutes to evaluate it, and determine that it was a LAUNCHER and not a simple Automation app like "Auto Mate"

It's reviews are not good (understatement)
[Android Head-Units] Prostheta:
It works well for me and does what is most important; a clutter-free driving mode UI that integrates with Poweramp, Maps and Waze. I was hoping FCC might present more, but simply provided too much complexity which is not what one wants for a safe driving mode UI. Needless to say, I got my answers pretty quickly evaluating FCC and two of those ten minutes were spent trying to get it to uninstall. Anyway, chill. No need to get your pants in a bunch.
[Android Head-Units] bajoseph04:
Automate is also a Launcher. May be you looked at a different automate app. It depends on individuals choice. Few prefer to have it simple.. just install and go. FCC is certainly not that kind of launcher. You can't find two uses using the launcher with the same kind of customization. It's highly configurable and customizable. But not everyone is ready to spend time on that. So let's treat someone with a different opinion more politely.
[Android Head-Units] liamstears:
Thanks for the replys guys

So it seems the issue is mainly FCC not supporting NavRadio+?

I cant even select NavRadio+ on widget settings so something is not right, can this be looked into? These 2 working together is the best radio solution for any supported unit as you have both done amazing work :good:
[Android Head-Units] ntldr:
Indeed, it would be a pity not to have the best car launcher working with the best radio app
[Android Head-Units] rigattoni:
I was long time in direct contact with the dev of AutoMate. We had nearly daily contact for a long time, because I tested the launcher, gave feedback, German translation, ideas....

The launcher was never thought to be used on car units, it was always thought to be used on phones, mounted at the dashboard.

AutoMate does not recognize any BT connection on head units.

So, this is no alternative to a good developed car launcher. It´s for sure nearly perfect for phones... but that´s all.

He stopped the development and support on the app.

Beware of calling this app as a car launcher... it isn´t one and will never be one. AutoMate is nearly useless for cars compared to a launcher as FCC.

So please back to topic.
[Android Head-Units] bajoseph04:
I agree with everything you say. I've too used Automate on phone and that's the reason I said it's a launcher and never said it as a car launcher and have never tried it on my head unit. Having seen quite a times people in this forum going more offensive to those having different opinion, I just wanted to convey to be more polite. I totally agree FCC is the best car launcher and has everything you needed to make it look like the way you want it to. Attaching screen shot of my head unit running FCC.
[Android Head-Units] Super_paulie:
Whatever you do don't say FCC isn't brilliant at something, some get angry at you... It's good, but not for everyone. This single forum isn't helpful for issues as most messages get lost and some members are just thread-hogs, but don't suggest another way to support as the same people give you angry responses...
[Android Head-Units] ric69:
Last month (your post 10/04) you said Nova launcher was perfect (with FCC widgets lol) So just to be sure, you are angry with nova or FCC now ? :silly:
[Android Head-Units] Dac0908:
Which free music player would you guys recommend? Aimp doesn't like to start and resume play after boot, unfortunately
[Android Head-Units] Super_paulie:
Not angry with either, but I know the limitations of both as I've used both. It's when people go on like you have personally insulted them when you have recommendations or questions, not cool.
[Android Head-Units] ric69:
Today I tried to update GMaps from playstore. block at 98%. I tried to clear cache from playstore, service and maps. Impossible. I removed GMap, I deleted my Google account ... impossible to reinstall GMap lol

I tried to boot in safe mode (without FCC) impossible.

Finally I saw a lot of people in comments with same problem

Shame on Google for giving buggy versions :(

I found an old version in apkmirror and finally it's working... I will not update since next :p
[Android Head-Units] WizzardMaker:
Radio channels list widget

Is there a way to have a list of channels/frequencies available as a widget?

I want to change to specific channels from my home screen without entering the radio app

Doesn't need to automatically read the channel list from the radio, a hand made list is just fine
[Android Head-Units] Scopesys:
Nice idea .. but a "list" would probably be quite a BIG widget, so it would probably need to be almost be displayed by itself, taking up most of a new screen... then it may as well be the actual radio app. (most of which already have Pre-sets)

Personally, I am happy with the way it is at the Moment-- tap on the radio Artwork on the Home screen, to being up the radio app-- full screen -- select the wanted station, most likely from a preset, and then press HOME to return to the main Home FCC screen.

An alternative to a Big list, might be a widget that is a Radio station selection Button, and you can put a few on your screen to select specific stations directly from the home screen

However, even if it were a BIG LIST widget that had to be displayed on a separate screen, it would be a nice feature, especially it it displayed a list of the Radio Stations that have already been identified to FCC, with their associated user created artwork. and Radio station name etc

I could see pressing a widget button on a main screen, to switch to another screen with this large widget, and then selecting the radio station from that, rather than from the head units normal tuner Application screen (as one does at the moment).

Maybe we should start a Pool, and bet on the date when FCC exceeds the 100 Meg size :rolleyes:
[Android Head-Units] WizzardMaker:
Well, I thought about a scrolling list. I created a quick mockup. I would create it myself, but I have no clue about how to interact with the radio application and changing frequencies.
[Android Head-Units] Scopesys:
That take up a lot of screen.

I would sugest a Radio Freq Button widget, that could have user defined text on it, and that called up a change to a defined Radio Station.

Then create a separate page, with as many buttons on as you want, and maybe a HOME button.

Then on you normal main Screen, put a RADIO TUNE button that take you to that page full of radio Buttons.

If you want a select-able radio station, all you do is press the Radio Tuner page button, which is a FCC widget that takes you to your Tuner page.

Press the station button you want, (or press a few to see what you want), and then when happy with the selected station, press the Home button to take you back to your normal Home

page.

But really, How many times do you want to select another radio station, and is it really worth taking up 50% of your Home screen with a menu list of radio stations ?

Also, since there may be "technical" difficulties in making any sort of radio Frequency selection widget, all this may be irrelevant, especially as the radio app essentially has a set of Presets, which is your menu list in any case.

In the end, it's whatever Speedfire- chooses to do, or not do ;) -- I'm happy with Radio Station selection it as it currently is -- but then, I very seldom listen to the radio, preferring my own selection of Mp3 music, or something like Spotify for new selections.
[Android Head-Units] rigattoni:
May be a good idea to use Tasker to go automatically back to the home screen after some seconds not touching the screen?

I have this solution for each player I am using. After 5 sec of no touch event on the screen, the home screen is called automatically.

So there is time enough to choose the wanted station/MP3 or whatever else because each touch interrupts the call back home each time for 5 sec.
[Android Head-Units] Scopesys:
Neat idea to use Tasker for that.

I have most common FCC operation mapped to my steering wheel (5 buttons on each side), so I very seldom even need to touch the head unit screen.

So that 10 short press functions plus another 8 Long press functions to play with. Just need to remember what each Button does !!
[Android Head-Units] okij:
FCC Car Launcher and NavRadio+

[MENTION=4292729]SpeedFire-[/MENTION], yesterday I posted this on the NavRadio+ thread:

And this is what its dev [MENTION=2734955]KoTiX2[/MENTION] answered:

Could you please also have a look into this issue?

I just asked [MENTION=2734955]KoTiX2[/MENTION] on his thread if he could give you the full version of NavRadio+ for working on this, maybe you could give him a licence for the full version of FCC Launcher in return?

And last but not least, could you make a test version where NavRadio+ is selectable in the FCC player widget, even though currently it's not a mediaplayer? Maybe this already will help to let the player widget show the media infos that are broadcasted by NavRadio+.

I hope that you are well and thanks in advance. :)

Edit: It comes to my mind that the FCC player widget seems to have its own special way to show the frequency, station name and logo of FM stations, which now prevents NavRadio+ to show its broadcast intents on the widget, so IMHO this special way must be turned off when NavRadio+ is used as FM radio app.
[Android Head-Units] rigattoni:
I normally use my steering wheel buttons too, but sometimes you need to manually change anything, like switching to a station and don´t want to skip through 10 stations to get the right one... and there are player (FM) which needs to get full screen activated to play anything. To search for the Home button on the screen is not necessary now. ;)

Just keep your fingers off screen and it switches back home as expected.
[Android Head-Units] SoberXDA:
Just program one of your wheel buttons to go back to home screen...
[Android Head-Units] rigattoni:
Why should I.... It just works perfect without doing anything.
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
Hi, all!

Here is something in the early alpha:

[YOUTUBE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_v_sIbBIkD4[/YOUTUBE]

As you can see there is something positive:

1) One button go to the split mode!

2) Launcher can now be resized to 25%, 50% and 75% of the screen!

And something not perfect:

1) Launcher stops updating widgets in some sizes

2) Sometimes I see memory leaks messages (most such split mode related memory leaks were killed in the past few days, so they are not that often now)

So I need to work on this.
[Android Head-Units] hapaman:
I disovered a bug since the latest beta with mini map. Minimap is not visible when selecting, after going to minimap settings via menu, fcc crashes and then minimap is visible.

https://1drv.ms/v/s!AqBx6DjK0ovThy8PXEb1T9Svwoyq
[Android Head-Units] Smess1210:
I've witnessed this bug too although it's been going on for some time for me on play store betas, a re-start or 2 of the launcher makes the map visible again but it fails to render to the sizes I've set it to be on other screens.....
[Android Head-Units] Scopesys:
One obvious issue, Text & Image sizes being too big when in split mode.

Can the sizes be automatically scaled to the fit on the resized screen.

ie if 5O% screen, they get automatically resized to 50%
[Android Head-Units] ric69:
Omg this should be the best feature if it works (in this case, I will say good bye Google maps :laugh: )

Fingers crossed :good:
[Android Head-Units] rigattoni:
I would prefer to have it dependent on the screen width.

If you split the screen in portrait mode, the width keeps the same, but the height is 50% or what ever is used.

Only in landscape mode the width is different.
[Android Head-Units] Scopesys:
Good point, but if the height is reduced by 50% in Portrait mode, then there is less height for Text or icons etc, so they would most likely need to be reduced in size to fit as well.

So the text and icon scaling really are needed for BOTH Landscape & Portrait modes.

How much is "needed" would depend on the initial sizes, and how you choose to initially size your items on the screen.

So maybe, since the Split can be 75%, 50% or 25%, there could be a "user defined scaling corrections" for each Split size, that would modify a FCC default set scaling of 75%, 50% and 25%.

That way, any user can correct to make thing fit, no matter how they design their 100% screen, with typically the default FCC scaling being good for most screen layout designs.

[MENTION=4292729]SpeedFire-[/MENTION] Does the FCC split screen feature only work if the head units (Android version ?) that supports split screen ??

---------- Post added at 07:17 ---------- Previous post was at 07:08 ----------

??? Isn't that really the reverse. ??

Currently, without this split screen feature, one can only insert a FCC Mini map into your screen, while still having other FCC widgets visible, but you cannot insert a Google map display

ie You CANNOT have Google Map as say a 50% of your head unit display, and still have FCC widgets on the other 50%

If the proposed FCC slit screen feature is used, then its really "HELLO Google Maps" -- I can now display a Google Map along with FCC widgets on the same screen.
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
Yes. Android should support split screen.

One button transition to split screen may require an even newer version of Android (9+ or API 28).

You can check the current alpha here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=154Q9wD63zIfMF8sU27euSnLpzFJbBsea

FCC Test2 icon should start BlackPlayer and FCC Launcher in split screen mode.

P.S. I've made some other optimizations of widgets update process. So please check that nothing is broken.
[Android Head-Units] tonimontoia:
who kindly explains the operation I can't understand thanks to who will help me
[Android Head-Units] Scopesys:
What is the question ? Operation of what ? The whole of FCC, or some specific part of it. ?
[Android Head-Units] ric69:
[MENTION=9325785]Scopesys[/MENTION] : I prefer Waze in my country (for my driver license lol)
[Android Head-Units] rigattoni:
Okay, did some first tests with the Alpha.

There is a crash when adding any app to the launcher as button.

Workflow:

Set FCC as standard launcher.

Cold boot without any other additional apps in landscape mode.

FCC started as expected in full screen mode.

Long click on a free space on the desktop.

Choose "Apps"

Choose any installed 3rd-party app and drag it to the main screen

Expected behavior:

App is added to the free space the app was dragged to.

Observed behavior:

FCC crashed.

App was not added to the main screen.

Healing:

none

Edit:

This only happens if I try to drag the app to the screen bottom. You can see the free space there.

If I drag the app to any other place on the screen, the app is added and no crash happens.
[Android Head-Units] tonimontoia:
on this new version I don't understand how to split the screen
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
For me dragging the app works fine. Looks like some issue in your layout, maybe there is some "invisible" widget in that place. Can you send me your backup?
[Android Head-Units] rigattoni:
If I store the app somewhere else on the desktop, I can move it afterwards to the wanted location. So there is nothing else at that place.

Did you have a look into the log file?
[Android Head-Units] okij:
Not properly working FM radio integration

[MENTION=4292729]SpeedFire-[/MENTION]: Recently I made two posts about the not properly working FM radio integration with

the close-to-stock FM Radio of Hal9k Mod 4.0.2, please read my post #5968 from 19th April.

the well-developed custom FM radio app NavRadio+ by [MENTION=2734955]KoTiX2[/MENTION], please read my post #6044 from yesterday.

Unfortunately I didn't get any feedback from you yet, even though I made some suggestions about how those issues can be tackled, which is for issue #

The file last_fm_albumart.png.png in /data/data/ru.speedfire.flycontrolcenter/app_pics doesn't get updated anymore in FCC 3.362 v14 which needs fixing.

NavRadio+ uses its own way to access the MTCD/E radio chip and broadcasts the station name, logo and RDS information via the usual media intents. So far this isn't handled properly by FCC Launcher, because it uses its own access the MTCD/E radio chip and has its own station name and station logo support. I suggest to add a toggle in FCC settings to bypass FCC's own handling of the MTCD/E radio chip and at the same time allow NavRadio+ to be selected as a player in FCC's player widget. This way the growing community of NavRadio+ users can enjoy this great radio app together with FCC launcher and its great player widget.

So please have a look at these FM radio integration issues and tell me what you think. :)

For me personally, this is far more important than the Split Screen Mode support that you are working on (although I have to admit that it's a fancy new feature ;)).