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[Android Apps and Games] asianmusicguy:
Hey @spocky12

I hope this message finds you well. First off, kudos on developing the Projectivy Launcher! I've recently started using it on my up-to-date Nvidia Shield, and overall, it's been a fantastic experience for a newcomer to third-party launchers.

However, I've come across a minor issue that's been affecting my user experience. When attempting to use the "Double Tap Home to view recent apps" feature, it seems to be a bit unresponsive. Rarely, if I double tap exceptionally fast, I can trigger it, but it's not consistent. I've made sure to have accessibility turned on, and the override option is checked.

I was wondering if you could look into adjusting the response time for this action. Perhaps tweaking it to match the speed of the stock experience or providing an option for users to customize the response time would be great. It would significantly enhance the overall usability and, in my opinion, make the Projectivy Launcher even more outstanding.

I understand you're busy, but if you could spare a moment to check into this or guide me on any potential solutions, I'd greatly appreciate it. This issue is a bit of a downer for an otherwise flawless launcher experience.

Thank you for your time and hard work in creating such a fantastic launcher.

additionally how is default launcher set without root noticed the setting in general how is that achieved
[Android Apps and Games] ricksrod:
I've searched the thread for an answer but don't seem to be able to find anything. I have an issue where my youtube cards are not populated. If I go back to the stock launcher and look at my youtube cards I can now see there are two of each of them, one is populated and one is not. I assume projectivity has created the secondary set?

Edit: disabled and re-enabled the Youtube app and cleared the data and now only have one set of cards. I assume this is a Youtube profile thing so I'll leave this here in case it is a bug in Projectivity. Stock launcher could choose from all of the cards, projectivity could only choose 1 set.
[Android Apps and Games] MrKaon:
I installed it on Google TV with Chromecast 4K and disabled the stock launcher with the adb command. It is beautiful and perfect, thanks. I bought a premium as appreciation.
[Android Apps and Games] rligg:
Would doing this alleviate the need to enable the Accessibility Option?
[Android Apps and Games] MrKaon:
Accessibility is turned off for mine, and all is working well. It is the default launcher when pressing Home, but I guess some features may not work, like parental control, which I don't use.
[Android Apps and Games] rligg:
Does the cast function still work?
[Android Apps and Games] manaurys:
Have anyone tested this on the Amazon fire stick devices for it be nice, if the developer need the fire devices I can provide them
[Android Apps and Games] rligg:
I don't believe the home button works to return you to the projectivy launcher. Even if you can get it to work, Amazon will break it.
[Android Apps and Games] MrKaon:
Casting works fine without accessibility permission.

My CCwGTV 4K feels much faster and more fluid after disabling the stock launcher; I can jump between apps without them being closed down.

I already thought that the stock launcher was still running in the background.
[Android Apps and Games] rligg:
Has anyone tried this method on a TV like a Sony or Hisense?
[Android Apps and Games] ricksrod:
Yes works fine on Sony Android TV
[Android Apps and Games] mikesul:
Topic: Tryimg to get "Pick user defined wallpaper" to work on Nvidia Shield TV

I installed Projectivy on my Nvidia Shield TV and purchased the premium option. I want to use a user defined wallpaper, but when I select "Pick a file" the default Files app dialog (com.android.documentsui) comes up, but the navigation buttons (up/down/left/right) on my Shield remote don't do anything. I cannot navigate the Files dialog to pick a user defined wallpaper. I had transferred some wallpaper files to the Shield, but the Files app dialog doesn't let me navigate to it.

How does the Pick a user defined wallpaper supposed to work ? Is there a location within the Projectivy app where I can just copy my user defined wallpaper to and your app will use it ?

If I disable the default Files app chooser and install FX File Explorer for example, will Projectivy use that file chooser instead or does it only use Files app (com.android.documentsui) chooser ?

Any assistance on getting user defined wallpapers to work on Nvidia Shield TV would be appreciated as I have a premium option to allow that function. Thank you.
[Android Apps and Games] asianmusicguy:
Whats the difference between using adb vs using change under the settings?
[Android Apps and Games] ricksrod:
Just open FX File Explorer from the app menu (not the set wallpaper menu) and find your image. Select it and you will get the popup asking which application you want to open the file in, one of the options is to set projectivity wallpaper. This is if you haven't set a default option for the file type already, if so you'll have to revert that.
[Android Apps and Games] mikesul:
Thanks so much for a prompt reply and solution. I opened the FX File Explorer app, navigated to and selected the desired jpg file I wanted for my Projectivy wallpaper. I selected "Open With" for the selected jpg and one of the options was to open with the Projectivy application which had a title of "Set as user wallpaper". I requested that and now Projectivy background has my desired wallpaper. Had been using FLauncher, but switched to Projectivy (thanks to Lon.TV YouTube channel review), very similar but with more function and configuration options. Also, FLauncher is no longer being enhanced as opposed to Projectivy.
[Android Apps and Games] asianmusicguy:
starting to wonder if the project is active I have a few basic questions and a bug report non of which have been answered or addressed by the dev or fellow users
[Android Apps and Games] Katsler18:
Hello,

I want to put this on a smart projector. Does this also change the existing software on the projector in some way?

Will I lose my warranty when I install this?
[Android Apps and Games] iShahin:
I have the same issue on my TCL Google TV (Netflix doesn't show in either

Watch Next

or

Channels)

but I don't have this problem on my Walmart's onn. streaming box (both TCL TV & onn. box have Android TV 11 and the latest version of the Netflix app installed). It's most likely a bug.

P.S.: I'm now certain it's a Projectivy Launcher bug. As soon as I gave the accessibility service access to the Projectivy Launcher the Netflix dedicated button on my TCL remote stopped working! clearly the Projectivy Launcher has something to do with, it messes with Netflix in more than one way.​
[Android Apps and Games] Peat1980:
Are you sure both have Androidtv?

Because you said your tv has GoogleTV.

Then probably your streaming box has AndroidTV.

That IS a difference.

The netflix channel only shows on AndroidTV and NOT on GoogleTV.

I experience this myself.

(BRAVIA TV with GoogleTV vs ShieldTV with AndroidTV)

I could bet the netflix row does also not show on your tvs stock launcher. So this almost surely is not a launcher issue...

The other issue with the button could indeed be caused by projectivitys acessibility service.

Try if it helps to use the alternatve configuration.

You can find that in the launcher acessibility settings.
[Android Apps and Games] szczemp:
Is any way to set this lanucher as default on amazon firestick?

'Override current launcher' doesnt work, because there is no accesibility setting like on google tv. But i can use adb, but i dont know what i need to change.
[Android Apps and Games] iShahin:
Google Screwed up big time with their naming, it's incredibly stupid and confusing. on my TV box and user manual, the name of the TV is TCL S470G with Google TV (whatever that means), but when I go to the About sub-menu in the TV system settings, it displays: Android TV OS version: 11. so I'm not sure which is it! but this is the device where the issue occurs.. thank you for the suggestion about the other issue (netflix button on the remote), I will try alternative configuration to see if it fixes the issue.
[Android Apps and Games] M1Sh0ka:
In the end i figured out what was causing the slow loading of the projector and the crash of some of the google services on the fengmi 4k cinema... i always update my magisk as the first step after a reset and its newer versions turned out to be the problem :D

Тhe latest version of the application does not load my profiles and does not automatically switch to HDMI, which I set in the settings. I'm just sharing, I went back to the old version and stopped the updates because it has everything I need (I use nvidia shilleld and I only need the profiles)
[Android Apps and Games] MrKaon:
With adb command you can truly disable or uninstall system apps, also you can use ADB TV app to do it:

ADB TV: App Manager - Apps on Google Play

The application manager with ADB features for your Android TV!

play.google.com

Disable or uninstall these app for CCwGTV (4K)

com.google.android.apps.tv.launcherx
com.google.android.tungsten.setupwraith
[Android Apps and Games] adamankhelone:
Hello,

I recently discover this wondefull software, i started to try it on my nvidia shield.

Everything seems ok except Emby (i run a server), it is my primary use software on the shield, but in watch next, tiles are grey with exclamation mark, not the movie or tv show poster.

Thanks for help.
[Android Apps and Games] skadoooosh:
I've installed Projectivity Launcher directly onto my Sony TV. I've paid for premium, however, when trying to select my own wallpaper and clicking on 'Pick Image' it says "no application can handle this action" Any ideas on this?

I've successfully installed and picked my own wallpaper on my Nvidia Shield which is connected to my other TV (also Sony, if it matters).

EDIT [SOLVED]:

I ended up downloading a 3rd party file explorer (FX File Explorer - as it was mentioned earlier in thie thread) and it allowed me to select my wallpaper.

Additionally are there any plans on implementing the ability to rotate through a folder of wallpapers every X minutes/hours like Windows?
[Android Apps and Games] Asmund:
Yup same here. Or at least a loooong "pause" :(
[Android Apps and Games] Pig-E-Wig:
I have the same issue, anyone worked out a fix for this? Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] skadoooosh:
Does anyone find it extremely difficult to navigate the file explorer system when choosing your own wallpaper?

I can hardly see what I'm selecting and feel the UI is glitchy.
[Android Apps and Games] Lhark00:
Anyone know how to get rid of the input sources popups? They show up every time I hit a button on my remote to launch an app (set with Buttonmapper).
[Android Apps and Games] Pig-E-Wig:
Any help with edit channels not showing up on fire tv devices?
[Android Apps and Games] Vladdic:
Looking for some help with setting background image. It says set when I Open As but nothing changes. It looks like I get a blip of text on screen but it goes too fast to see. Any suggestions?

Projectivy 4.36

Chromecast 4K

Build STTE.230915.005.S1.10942527
[Android Apps and Games] dctrbnsttr:
Use a file manager on the chromecast device to select the background image. Then share it with the Projectivity app. It should become your custom background.
[Android Apps and Games] Vladdic:
Yes I've tried 3 different file managers so far including fx. They all say error on the thumbnail for the file but says ok when I open as background image.
[Android Apps and Games] Vladdic:
Turns out I downloaded it on a computer and transferred it to a USB and it shows up but shows error on the thumbnail. I instead put them in Google Drive and downloaded them and still showed error. Finally from drive on my phone I used Send Files to TV and the thumbnail image showed and it worked. Just fyi. Thanks for quick response.
[Android Apps and Games] TonyH89:
I have the exact same issue on the exact same Xiaomi box. Anyone know of a fix?
[Android Apps and Games] LazerHawk84:
We need this!
[Android Apps and Games] ~Nismo:
@spocky12

Trying to use the Shield OS feature where you can map different tasks to the long press and double press of the menu button. On Projectivy on the Shield Pro 2019, Settings > Remotes & Accessories > Customize Settings button, if you try and map menu long press to something, and then try it, long press just seems like it opens up some display white box at the bottom asking about profiles or home from Projectivy. If you setup a menu double press, it seems like also does something different. Can these function be fixed to work like they do on the Shield launcher?

For example, I am trying to map double press menu button to Match Frame Rate (beta). And long press menu button to close all open programs in memory, but Projectivy seems like it doesn't understand or wants to do something else besides that.

BTW, great work on this launcher, everyone loves it!
[Android Apps and Games] ~Nismo:
@spocky12 Update on the buttons. Someone gave me a tip over on Reddit that if you go into the projectivy remote settings, and uncheck the double menu option, that you can then assign that double press to anything else that you want. That works for me. However for the long press, projectivy still has no way to change that function to anything else but projectivys menu. If you could add a third button in the remote settings of projectivy that would allow us to map long press on menu to anything that the Android settings allows, that would be great. You can still get to projectivy settings even if you did that, all you got to do is hit menu once and then projectivy settings is right in that menu.
[Android Apps and Games] paradoxiumwind:
Hi,

I bought a license, but some options think compatability mode isn't on but it is, but others I can change.

Watch VID_20240127_234941 | Streamable

Watch "VID_20240127_234941" on Streamable.

streamable.com

on an nvidia shield pro, just factory reset.

also how come we can't rename categories / heading titles? that's part of other launchers I tried.

I wanna have like, Favourites/TV Apps/Music Apps/Tools and hide everything else.

Edit: I just found you can press left and access settings for that stuff. nice.

there is enough screen space for me to be able to just move around without the categories moving, and when going to the bottom it leaves a huge whitespace; any way to change this already if not some kind of option would be awesome. like, keep the screen static but move around the icons.
[Android Apps and Games] paradoxiumwind:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ShieldAndroidTV/comments/1ad8jrj

@spocky12
[Android Apps and Games] paradoxiumwind:
Suggestion; some kind of 'lock editing' mode, which among other things turns off these:

Because once you've finished setting it up you don't need to see that stuff and it takes up real estate.

And the ability to add widgets (which are generally kind of buggy but can be made to look decent) would be cool.
[Android Apps and Games] iamryanj:
I really want this to become my go to launcher as I have 6 rooted Nvidia Shield TVs in my home (magisk delta, sw version 8.2.3). However, I cannot get the settings export/import to work as others have stated after trying the suggestions posted and tinkering myself. I am using the latest release of Projectivy.

I have tried MiXplorer and X-Plore. I have tried saving locally or sharing via another app, copying the files across via the built in file sharing capabilities of the shield over IP with windows, opening the backup with multiple file managers that prompts Projectivy to state it will overwrite the settings... everything results in the "error occured" message.

This is a great piece of software and as a mobile developer I am impressed by the polish and thought put into the development. It is easily worth it to buy premium however my use case is to to sync across all the devices with SyncThing so each shield has the same UI and I can easily export on one device and import on the rest to keep everything the same. The export/import to work is something I really hope is fixed soon. I know the dev was working on this from his last release. If anyone has another suggestion please let me know.

Thanks

Edit: I managed to get this functional across all my devices. I have no explanation but the settings export/import started working after I uninstalled the package pushed via ADB instead using Google Play to install. I had already installed MiXplorer and the launcher was granted in Magisk. I paid for premium and hope the project isn't dead.
[Android Apps and Games] Neo3D:
Another vote for this feature!

ProjectIVY already has random wallpaper from Reddit. But, that's too risky to use on a family room TV.

Interval change timer would be great as well.

Would be a good reason to pay for premium.

Thank you!
[Android Apps and Games] Neo3D:
When you try to edit a title, the app says to use "phone keyboard"

But, pressing ENTER on the phone keyboard (of the Nvidia Shield TV app) doesn't save the changes?
[Android Apps and Games] Neo3D:
It just uses whatever file browser you have installed. If you don't have one, then install one.
[Android Apps and Games] paradoxiumwind:
Check out 'Fotoo' app, basically a screensaver app tjat can look in a directory and shjow those images, shuffle them, etc. It costs £19.99 though in order to get the option to replace the system screensaver (which is why anyone would want to use it anyway).

If the app can pull random files from reddit etc a shuffle option on selected folders for pro usersw, really dpon't want to have to buy fotoo
[Android Apps and Games] Neo3D:
Is anyone seeing blank cards with the Kodi app?

Cards with Plex and Netflix and YT work great!
[Android Apps and Games] Neo3D:
I own this app already but it cannot be used as a wallpaper on ProjectIVY can it?

I don't think ProjectIVY supports live wallpapers. I think supporting live wallpaper would be a waste of resources and just make the home screen laggy.
[Android Apps and Games] DJWho123:
Hi guys!

Just installed this launcher (and love it), but have encountered an issue with enabling accessibility settings. In short, I can't see "Next Up", "Kodi" and "Playing Now" cards even though they are set to visible. They all have a small eye symbol in front of a cirkle with X (like it's forbidden). I believe this is connected with the accessibility settings (?).

I have:

-Turned on projectivy launcher under accessibility settings (in shield settings)

-Turned on acceptability shortcut and chose projectivy luncher (in shield settings)

-Turned on notification access for projectivy launcher under Special app settings (in shield settings)

-Deleted cache of both the projectivity app and shield, in addition to re-installing the app from Google Play Store

Within accessibility settings in projectivy launcher, it says it's enabled (Enabled=Yes). When I'm clicking show accessibility settings, it just says "You don't have an app that can do this". In addition, it doesn't seem like any of the "perks" of enabling accessibility settings are active/available.

Any suggestions on how to resolve this?
[Android Apps and Games] thenags:
Trying to use this on a 4k Chromecast and it works fine for the most part. However, I can't get it to auto launch an app. I've ensured the service is enabled and tried th alternate config. Yet every time I turn the Chromecast on it just goes to the home screen. Any ideas?
[Android Apps and Games] juro1971:
Hi all,

today I found this great launcher! Will be my default launcher from now on!

There is one issue with the auto start of an app on my NVIDIA Shield 2019 pro latest firmware. When you enable “override default launcher” and select Kodi to “start after boot”, Kodi starts lo load and after 2 seconds Projectivity Launcher loads. Kodi load is interrupted, it’s also not in the background. It seems that Kodi will be loaded first and then Projectivity Launcher. Should be done the other way round?! I tested this many times also re-installed. When you disable “override default launcher” Projectivity Launcher just works as an auto start app, so Kodi will be loaded but the standard launcher is active.

Second issue: accessibility permissions . In the night I power of the Shield. After reboot stock launcher is started. PL has to be startet manually. Accessibility permissions messages pops up again and says that it's not set. But in Android settings accessibility permissions are still set to YES?! And now the funny thing, If you now reboot everthing works as expected. Of course I cannot start my device two times just to usee PL.

How can I solve these issues?

Thanks, and greetings!

George
[Android Apps and Games] JohnK71:
I really love this and how awesome it has made my Android TV again. I would love if we could add our zip, and get a weather icon/ temperature in the top right corner. Unless I missed it somewhere to activate it or turn it on.
[Android Apps and Games] juro1971:
Ok, seems that I am the only one with these issues. Unfortunately no response how to solve this. The launcher so brings no addes value to me. I will de-install it because it is not working for me as expected.
[Android Apps and Games] ylsf:
Great launcher, been setting it up for my mom on a new Google Chomecast with Google TV. I used to use WolfLauncher but decided to give this one a go based on feedback on Reddit/etc.

My question is, is there an ability to create a "folder" so like on the main screen I can click on that and show apps in there that aren't main apps but will only show up when go to the folder? If I add another category it will mean more apps on the main page and I don't want my mom to see all of these different apps but I would like an easy way to access other apps when/if needed.

Right now I just have one category with all of the apps she needs and I have moved other stuff to another category or hidden them. In order to access those apps now I need to go into the "manage apps" section of play store or use voice control.

I would like to be able to have some kind of folder named "Other apps" or something and then click that and see more open up or just have it minimized or something equivalent. Or an icon/quick way to access all apps. Any suggestions?

EDIT - What I have done in the meantime is to make the main apps Medium size and the additional apps as Extra Small and I have also enabled Parental Guard so things don't get messed up by accident but open to other ideas as well as this might still cause her to click stuff accidently
[Android Apps and Games] mikesul:
I believe the best solution is to disable the default Android TV launcher via the Android SDK platform tools (i.e. adb) and not use the "Override default launcher" option in Projectivy. That is what I do on my Nvidia Shield TV. For an example of overriding the default launcher via "developer mode/network debugging" options see this article:

https://techmogulchannel.com/tutori...lt-launcher-to-custom-launcher-windows-guide/

Basically you want to disable the following:

adb shell pm disable-user --user 0 com.google.android.tvlauncher

adb shell pm disable-user --user 0 com.google.android.tvrecommendations

adb shell pm disable-user --user 0 com.google.android.leanbacklauncher

adb shell pm disable-user --user 0 com.google.android.leanbacklauncher.recommendations
[Android Apps and Games] paradoxiumwind:
Yeah I paid for Fotoo and it works fine with this launcher.

Requests: Let us change the icon for rows, delete any of them etc.

When you get to the bottom row, don't move the screen all the way down and leave huge empty space at bottom of screen.

ability to shuffle background images of your own files not select just 1
[Android Apps and Games] paradoxiumwind:
yes you can make new rows
[Android Apps and Games] juro1971:
Thanks for your reply. Isn't this the same you could do with launcher Manager or adb link?! My underdstanding is, that this is no longer working unter Android 11, because Android does not allow to disable the stock launcher. With launcher Manager this "old method " definatly did not work. Network debuggung of course was on.
[Android Apps and Games] paradoxiumwind:
Index of /SHIELD/APKs/

download launcher manager and use that to set it. works fine.