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[Android Head-Units] Scopesys:
[MENTION=1633144]speedfire[/MENTION].

A couple of suggestions for your consideration, based on using lastest version of FCC.

(1) Move the DELETE icon far away from the edit icon. Suggest moving Delete Icon to Bottom Right, or over to the far left. (as it is, far too easy to slip, and delete when you are trying to edit).

(2) Player Widgets that display Artwork. :-

Give any Text/Graphics that get placed on Artwork, either an Outline, or a back Shadow.

Whatever color text is, at some times it will blend in with the Artwork, and be unreadable.

Needs a Contrasting outline, or a dark back shadow behind test.

(3) With status Icons turned OFF across the top of screen, artwork scales correctly to display 100% of the artwork in the Player Widget.

If Status Icons are ON, the Top parts of the Artwork gets cropped off, often loosing artwork text information.

Can FCC re-scale the Artwork so that if FCC has the Status Icon turned on, it scales the artworks so that 100% of the artwork fits in the allocated area for the artwork (ie Does not crop off the top)

(4) Player Widget that just displays Artist & Title.

If FCC Player Widget option is selected to swap, then the Top items scrolls correctly, but the bottom one does not scroll.

If FCC option is NOT selected to swap, NEITHER Scroll.

(In Player Widgets that show Artwork, the Artist & song never scroll at all, no matter if they are swapped or not )

(5) Have FCC PAUSE the current player, before switching to a new player (With Player Widget), might significantly improve the reliability of switch between players. (Manually pausing the current player before switching players, certainly does). Also ensure that Player automatically starts when it become the active player.

(6) Still times when Player Widget stops updating artwork, and/or Artist/song title.

When this happens, the Pop-Up notifications also stop displaying, so it might be that this is the cause. : - FCC stops receiving/processing Notifications from players when they change songs etc.

Note: Players still seems to be sending Notifications, and if you do a PULL DOWN to see system Notifications, the player notifications there are present and updating correctly.

(Re-starting FCC restores normal operation again)

Thanks for your consideration ....

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I am using the Player Widget to select one of 7 "quick" player.

I have 3 Instances of the Player Widget, 2 with 3 quick players, and I have now put PoweAmp into its own 3rd Player Widget. (ie with only one QuickPlayer).

This seems to work better, but PoweAmp is still a NAUGHTY BULLY app, that seems to like to take over when it is not invited !!!

ie PoweAmp does not "Play nice" with other players, and needs to be kept apart from the other players !!!!
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
Delete button is already moved. Will be available in the next beta
[Android Head-Units] Julian75ts:
Minimap is almost ok in my unit.. sometimes i have to fully restart my unit but it's ok!

Strange behaviour.. i don't know why..

Hi
[Android Head-Units] Scopesys:
Thanks .. hopefully no more deleted items by mistake,or slip of the finger !

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@Speedfire

Slight BUG in the color selector in FCC.

When selecting color, the option is to select a preset color, or a custom color.

Custom color can be edited by editing the hex code.

ie #00FF00 etc

When one goes to edit this color (ie the above example) #00FF0 is put into the edit screen

You cannot edit this to #00FF00 ie adding the missing digit, because the # is at the start, and the edit field is 6 characters.

IF it is saved, the the color gets updated to ##00FF0

So, as it is at the moment, the 1st time you go to edit a color, you have to delete the leading #, and add the last Hex character, before saving,'If you then go to re-edit that same color, it works correctly, just displaying the 00FF00 in the edit window, and saves that correctly.

As soon as you try this, it will be clear what I am talking about.

Not a BIG DEAL, once you realize what is going wrong, but hopefully something that is easily corrected :)
[Android Head-Units] Ben.suffolk:
This is not what I see. I find the top line scrolls fine, but the bottom line never scrolls, with DAB the default is the top line has station information which is long, and the bottom line is radio name which is short. But I want to swap them, and that puts long text on the bottom which unfortunately does not scroll.
[Android Head-Units] HgtDave:
Speed Dial widget issue

Hi SpeedFire

I am having a problem with using the direct dial widget, the idea is to have one or more ‘speed dial’ icons on the Home Page, just need to press the icon to call the number.

HU is Dasaita PX5 MTCE HU running Oreo

Results of trial

•	FCC Contact Icon, click on ‘pick a contact’ select contact from list, fails to attach contact

•	FCC Contact Widget, click on ‘pick a contact’, select contact from list, select phone number and apply, click icon on Home Screen does nothing but flash FCC Launcher on notification bar and flash the icon as it’s trying to work

•	Google Contact widget (no Dial widget on HU) , select from list places widget on home page, click on widget opens contact item. I can press the phone button to call the number but this requires two button presses

FCC is set with all permissions, have I missed something on setting up FCC, is there a simply answer or is this a bug. I get similar results on a Samsung S7 mobi, FCC doesn’t dial.
[Android Head-Units] Scopesys:
I think we are both seeing the same common thing ..

TOP line scrolls ok,

Bottom line does not scroll when it needs to.

Since both can be longer than the allocated Widget size, both should be able to scroll if the text is too long to fit.

Just to be clear, we are talking about the Player Widget that just has the 2 lines of text.

The widget that can display artwork, with the 2 line text on top behaves differently, and the line that does scroll in that widget, does not scroll correctly.

I have stopped using that Artwork Player Widget + text, because often it is difficult to read the text on the Artwork background, so have chosen to display the text in another "Just text player Widget"
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
This is technically not possible. Android allows to scroll only one text field which is currently "in focus".
[Android Head-Units] Ben.suffolk:
Could you see which line is longer and set that as the scrolling line? E.g if the top line is short and the bottom line is long set the bottom one to scroll?
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
Unfortunately not. It should be "hardcoded".
[Android Head-Units] Scopesys:
With that Android limitation in mind, if one wanted Both Artist & Song to scroll, then they would have to be in separate widgets.

Is the "Display Secondary Text" meant to stop the 2nd Line displaying, or some other function. I do not see it making any difference.

If it were possible to have two instances of the widget displaying, one just displaying one line of Artist, and the 2nd just one line of Album, then both should be capable of scrolling .
[Android Head-Units] Scopesys:
Thanks :) Just got updated beta --- That's so much safer !!
[Android Head-Units] Scopesys:
[MENTION=1633144]speedfire[/MENTION]

2 quick questions : In Player Widgets

(a) What is additional text (on/off), ? Is it the 2nd item Artist or song, or is it something else.

Setting on or off, I cannot see any difference.

(b) FCC seems able to extract the Meta Data & Images from Mp3 audio files.

Does it also support Mp4 (The Itunes Format), - it seems to be able to extract the Song/Artist ok, but not the Artwork.

If it does not support Mp4 artwork, can it be made able to.

Note: Cannot display Mp4 artwork in Player Widget, or in Notifications

Yes, I could convert all my Mp4 files to Mp3, but they end up being significantly bigger, and it takes for ever to convert 1000 titles !

Mp4 (Itunes) is a very popular format for Music files .. would be nice if FCC could display their artworks .
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
Generally FCC doesn't extract album art by itself. Music player extracts it and puts into notification. FCC extracts this album art from the notification and shows in a player widget. So you may try another player.
[Android Head-Units] Scopesys:
OK.. Thanks ... Good to know ... ( I'm still an Android newbie)

I uninstalled PoweAmp, because it seemed to be taking over other players.

So for Mp3 on the USB, I am using the Head Unit's default Mp3 player, which would appear not to be supporting putting the artwork into the notifications.

Armed with your reply, I will check further ...

In the meanwhile, I'll just continue converting the mp4's to Mp3's, for the Car's USB drive, and then all should be good... Thanks.
[Android Head-Units] Ben.suffolk:
Of course, great idea, use the same widget twice, and swap the lines around, turning off the second line. We just need the turn off the second line bit to work. Although both lines work in one widget space at the moment so that’s not ideal I guess having 2, but maybe better than nothing.

For me only one line is longer but I want that to be the bottom line, so maybe a choice box to select which one can scroll would Be fine.
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
You can swap artist and track. The longer one will become on top and will be scrolling.
[Android Head-Units] Ben.suffolk:
By default for me the longer one is the top and scrolls. But I want the top to be the station name so I swap them. Then the longer one is at the bottom but it does not scroll. What I want is the longer one at the bottom and scrolling :) this is because the short one is the station name and the long one is the program description. It looks silly to have them the other way round (in my opinion)

The other option I’d be happy with is a single scrolling line made up of both bits of text separated by a :
[Android Head-Units] Scopesys:
[MENTION=1633144]speedfire[/MENTION]

OK, given that it will ALWAYS be the TOP line one that should scroll :-

The Top one only scrolls if the option is selected to swap artist/song

ie If the SWAP is NOT selected, the Top one does NOT scroll.

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If the "No Top scroll when SWAP is OFF" bug could be fixed, and then option added to only display that TOP Item, then I believe that would provide the solution for everyone.
[Android Head-Units] sbruda:
I have a strange problem with the FCC multi-widget: It currently displays the distance travelled, the trip time, and the average speed. A press on the first display is set to reset the values. When that press happens, the trip time is reset just fine, but the distance travelled is not. Any idea what causes this? It did not happen a few versions back (when everything was correctly reset). Many thanks.
[Android Head-Units] jun81:
[MENTION=4292729]SpeedFire-[/MENTION]

latest beta on px5 KLD

1. Player widget issues with fm radio is back intermittently

2. Minimap issue- location is updated but address is not. Resolve only when fcc restarts.
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
3.110 is released:

- Trip reset fixed

- Podcast Player support added

- Fixes and added translations
[Android Head-Units] Smess1210:
Well done [MENTION=1633144]speedfire[/MENTION]

Did you manage to look at bluetooth A2DP controls? Skip forward pauses playing track, skip back un-pauses playing track & play pause does nothing in the media player widget but works fine if I launch standalone A2DP app.....
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
You probably have a new PX5 device.

Go to Settings -> BT call and change connection protocol to "PX5+" and restart FCC launcher.

This should work.
[Android Head-Units] Smess1210:
Thanks for the quick response, I'll try that this evening although my device is an older android 6, it used to work fine maybe that setting got changed in a beta....
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
Then probably you need to change it back from PX5+ to MTCD (I think it was automatically set to PX5+).
[Android Head-Units] abagos:
Hello [MENTION=1633144]speedfire[/MENTION], is there a way to know which version of PX5 we have? Which functions does this setting influence?

Thanks,

A.
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
You can check if A2DP or Phone calls work. If not -> change protocol.
[Android Head-Units] rigattoni:
[MENTION=4292729]SpeedFire-[/MENTION]

Would you please add the new DAB+ App by [MENTION=7838245]realzoulou[/MENTION] to the player list?

Zoulou moved his app to the Google store and renamed it so there should be no difference to the XDA hosted one.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zoulou.dab

By the way:

Station name, song name etc. are only visible for some seconds in the widget.

The picture from the station is refreshed first if the next song comes up. The problem is, that most DAB station change the picture first after some seconds, because the picture is transmitted in the DAB stream. The DAB+ app shows the correct one always in the notification. May be you need to get in contact with realzoulou about the behavior.
[Android Head-Units] Ben.suffolk:
That’s going to be the same issue I mentioned a few pages back with the details only being shown for a few second and then them going for a few and coming back. There was a release of fcc a few backmwhere it all worked, but then it broke again.
[Android Head-Units] rigattoni:
I didn´t see your posting, sorry for that.

But I need to say that there seems to be the additional issue to not update the slide show picture. This is something DAB+ special I think, but would be great if this would work as expected.
[Android Head-Units] Ben.suffolk:
The radio station I listen to does not have album art, just a station logo so I would. It see that change. But I know the program info changes on a regular basis as it shows program name, then after a while description then back to program name etc.
[Android Head-Units] Scopesys:
@speedfire

Sorry to be a squeaky wheel, but the Song/Artist text is still not working correctly in the Player Widget.

(1) Turning on/off Secondary Text does not work. (all Appearances)

(2) Top Text only scrolls in the Title/Artist Text + small artwork Appearance Selection.

(ie in the Other Appearance designs, where Text is on TOP of artwork, the Text never can scroll)

This may help in figuring out what is going on :-

I did delete and re-create the Player Widget with the Title/Artist Text appearance.

(Note: Initially set NOT to display the secondary text). (But it still did)

When I defined the two colors, the 2nd one's color was incorrect (Stuck on white), until I turned on to display the 2nd Text line, and then it changed to the correct 2nd color.

But I still could never turn the 2nd line off. It is always ON :(

At least could you confirm that you see the same happening on your test system .. thanks

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Played around with Player widgets this evening, and found a way to get BOTH Artist and SONG to scroll. :)

(a) Run two Artist/Song widgets.

(b) In 2nd one swap over the Artist/Song

(c) In both set 2nd Line Text Size to "0" (and then it won't' display the 2nd line !! OBVIOUSLY Duhhhh)

Gets around the Display 2nd line ON/OFF not working

(If you wanted the same, but did not want either to scroll, do the reverse, and set both 1st Line Text size to "0" )

See update after this quote: :):):):)

UPDATE:

Poweramp just pushed out an Update to Version 799

This seems to have corrected the Artwork Update issue ... ( very strange, but I am not Complaining !!!)

Poweramp 799: Album Art Download Logic Updated.

No idea why this Update would have fixed the Artwork Locking up issue with FCC, but it has !!!

(At least it worked 100% of the time for over 80 next song song changes, many in very fast succession .. could not break it !!) :):):):)
[Android Head-Units] Scopesys:
Example of FCC page with Multiple Instances of the same Widget.

Top two Player Widgets , first displaying Song second displaying Artist. Each one can scroll, so effectively a Screen with BOTH Artist & Song able to scroll at the same time.

Along bottom is another example of Multiple Instances of same widget.

The Player widget, showing QuickPlayers. This allows 6 players to be selected, and their info display in other Player widgets on the same screen .. ie Song Widget, Artist Widget, and Artwork Widget in the center.

"Poweramp" shows as the current Player.

I don't know how appreciated it is that you can have Multiple Widgets of the same type, with different edited options, on the same screen, and they Interact as you would want, but I think it is is really GREAT .. impressive programming by [MENTION=1633144]speedfire[/MENTION] !!
[Android Head-Units] jnx77:
Guys, how to delete widgets? I can move them between screens only, no option to delete them.
[Android Head-Units] Scopesys:
When you MOVE the WIdget, there is a white X that appears on the right lower side of the screen. Move the Widget over this delete mark, and release... Widget will be deleted.

There is also an white edit icon towards the top right... if you drag over that, the widget will go into EDIT mode.
[Android Head-Units] Roerbakeitje:
[MENTION=1633144]speedfire[/MENTION]

Android auto have a in app display see image.

When click a icon on the right it shows app in frame. On the left.

Wil be nice to have
[Android Head-Units] Scopesys:
[MENTION=6872709]Roerbakeitje[/MENTION]

My 2 cents .. ( and that is probably twice what my thoughts are worth !!)

My wife's car has Android Auto, so I recognize the menu.

"Dummed down" Android Auto basically only gives you the 4 options

(1) MUSIC

(2) PHONE

(3) GPS

(4) QUIT

And to keep it really simple, they keep that 4 option menus displayed all time.

The advantage being - easy selection of a limited (4) Options

Disadvantage, it takes up Valuable screen space, that it is always stopping other apps from using.

Personally, I would not choose to use such a limited system even if FCC supported it because it is so limiting.

If you really want a Menu to the side, there are plenty of Floating Menu (Macro button) type apps you can use to effectively get a menu overload on your current app, without loosing screen area to a fixed menu.

On the other hand, yes, with such a system in FCC, you could build a screen that acted is the same look & Feel way as Android AUTO (which is kind of COOL), but it is so limiting. I think you can build a far superior menu system with FCC than the "Dumb down" Android Auto Interface.

This becomes even more true when you have Steering wheel control ... why mess about with that simple menu on a screen, when effectively, you can have that menu on the steering wheel buttons, and save loosing that menu area on the screen.

But each to their own -- If such a feature could be added to FCC, then it would make FCC even more flexible & configurable, which is not a bad thing.
[Android Head-Units] Scopesys:
[MENTION=1633144]speedfire[/MENTION]

Like the new COLORED Delete & Edit Icons :)
[Android Head-Units] Contra01:
this is a very nice launcher I like the fact that all of the widgets that you can add to it are customizable in size and location that is great I paid for this because I think it is very much worth it you did an excellent job here the only question I have is do I need to root this in order to get it to control my phone book on my telephone?
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
No. Root is not required. But on some devices / firmwares it seems that standard Android Contact Picker is removed
[Android Head-Units] Contra01:
I'm sorry I don't understand what you said but are you saying that it is something that I can't do or something that I have to do?
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
Most probably this question is caused by inability to select contacts in FCC's contact widget? I tried to investigate this issue yesterday. FCC sends a request to the built in Android Contact Picker app. But it turns out that this app is not available on some devices. If it is a custom firmware (like Malaysk) probably it was removed.

Do you have a standard firmware?
[Android Head-Units] Contra01:
Well it is an Android car head unit, most likely modifiied by the manufacturer
[Android Head-Units] saken.sf:
Hi, just tried this on my phone and looked good, but when I tried it on my head unit on my car (Atoto A6 pro) the image quality is bad.... even the player (I use deezer) has low quality art). Is this something I can fix? It's an IPS screen
[Android Head-Units] Roerbakeitje:
Yes you have les space on Your screen that's treu.

But whats happen now is in my case . I play my song open waze and start driving. For 80% of my driving time i dont see anything of fcc. When have a in app frame i have the advatage of fcc widgets and a app that i open. The navigator screen dont have to be big on screen for me. And calling Also. My old Tom Tom navigator is small and that Also works. It Will be Nice to have to have one screen that says everthing without push swipe more buttons than nesseery . And It muts more save. I hope that [MENTION=1633144]speedfire[/MENTION] can considder this option.
[Android Head-Units] Scopesys:
You can run Android Auto as a stand alone app on your head Unit.

When it is running, it is going to look like the standard Android Auto, with the side menu, and the 4 main function Phone, Music & Navigation (Google Maps or Warez), and Quit.

You could launch AA from an Icon on your default FCC Page.

Then, use HOME to get back to the Default FCC screen to run anything else.

Note: A month or so ago, when I downloaded AA from the Play Store, it would not install/run on my Android 8 head unit. I had to go to another download site and get a later version ? Not sure why Play Store had old version ??)

UPDATE:

Just tried the above. It's VERY COOL.

Works very well -- you effectively get all the features of AA and can jump out of AA at any time and run anything else.

I have started using BlackPlayer as my Mp3 App. AA displays the BlackPlayers menus far better than BlackPlayer does itself !!

This is a KEEPER ...

Current version of AA on PlayStore does not install on my HU.

Version of AA that works on my Eonon Androis 8 head unit is:

com.google.android.projection.gearhead_3.5.583024-release-35583024_minAPI21(arm64-v8a)(nodpi)_apkmirror.com.apk

Have attached the APK, but you might consider it more secure to get it directly from apkmirror.com
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
It turns out that solution is easier than expected. Just install Google Contacts: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.contacts&hl=en_US
[Android Head-Units] Contra01:
I actually did what you said and it worked great it gave me the icon that I was looking for but when I push the icon it doesn't dial out on my cell phone I know that my phone is connected Bluetooth because if I use the built-in Dialer app it works just fine so somehow I need to get the FCC Dialer app to connect to my phone
[Android Head-Units] TT_Vert:
[MENTION=4292729]SpeedFire-[/MENTION] Am I the only one on 4.4 experiencing this or perhaps most do not have android 4.4? Is there any other logging I can do to help resolve this? I'd love to have album art working w/ this launcher. I was a very early adopter and did a ton of logging to try to resolve problems and this is one that just sort of never got addressed. If others on 4.4 w/ a malaysk ROM have this working I'd love to hear from you. Heck, if anyone on a 4.4 have this working I'd love to hear from you.

Dave
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
What device do you have?
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
I have beta testers on 4.4. Album arts work for them, but they don't use Pandora - they mostly use Spotify, Google Music, PowerAmp
[Android Head-Units] Contra01:
I have a pumpkin head unit running 7.1

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I have a pumpkin Android head unit running 7.1
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
Try different protocols in FCC BT call settings.
[Android Head-Units] Contra01:
How would I do that?
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
FCC Settings - Calls via phone - Version of BT interface.

v4 or v5 should work