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[G1 Apps and Games] TheReaperUK:
@ rogro82.

I have five screens, 3rd being home screen, have tried all transition, new cube lags once and a while, normal lags again once and a while (by the way thanks for the normal transition now able to loop), old cube and Stretch lags about every 2 to 3 screens, and fade seems ok lags only when other apps are running in the background, the transition quality is set to normal and menu animation to slide.

My memory after task killing most of the apps running in the back ground is between 24 and 28, where as with 0.2.0.9. it was 28 to 32, nothing else has been installed and 5 screens are setup with the same widgets and icons as i was running on 0.2.0.9.

I uninstalled again, switch off phone, took battery out for 10 mins, replace battery, switch phone back on, reinstalled gde from market, set it back up with widgets etc, now the app drawer is working ok, no more freeze's but still lag on old cube and stretch and memory still around 24 to 28 meg, i'll stick with normal transition as thats not to bad.
[G1 Apps and Games] rogro82:
The only way to correctly tell how much memory an app is using is by doing the following:

if you have adb installed run:

adb shell dumpsys meminfo [processname]

and look at (pss) total. That is the amount of memory the process is using in total.

in this case:

adb shell dumpsys meminfo com.rogro.gde

It should use less memory.. or i will eat my shoes :)

Is it a real lag or more like a short stutter? There has been some changes to the caching because the old way was eating a lot of memory which could result in f/cs.

This does not mean we are satisfied with less performance.. So im going to take time to profile the drawing process and see what we can improve.
[G1 Apps and Games] TheReaperUK:
@ rogro82 Again.

Good question, its sort of like 4 or 5 little judders then a slow scroll untill screen is focus and stopped scrolling.

As for adb installed your now going over my head:), if i could get my head around all that i would have rooted my phone.

Sorry not much help for you there.

Don't worry, now the normal transition has loop i'll stick to using that as for some reason i like normal transition, but thanks for trying to help.
[G1 Apps and Games] brucemcl:
I think there are a couple of free apps in the market that list memory for each process. I'm thinking of Robotop in particular. Perhaps that would be helpful?

http://www.androlib.com/android.application.com-kfold-robotop-jDD.aspx

One thing that people should do is to remove all widgets from their standard home screen. That might be causing lag or other problems with GDE.
[G1 Apps and Games] sofox:
Just some feedback, somehow when you change the transition quality to high, it does not lag as much as when it is being set to normal, not sure why
[G1 Apps and Games] nakeman:
yes, it's strange.

no problem so far but not as smooth as previous one.

hope it would be fixed in next release ;)

btw, the new effect is so nice. good job.
[G1 Apps and Games] brucemcl:
Comments on build 0.3.0.1

Memory use seems good. I have a stock mT3G running Android 1.6. GDE with three screens uses a bit less memory than the stock home app does.

The change folder view bug is still present. Create a new applications folder, open it, put a few things in it, and change the view. The folder goes blank until I back out and come back in again.

The print color of the explanatory text in the Personalize appearance, Display settings, and Button settings areas does not change as it should. It stays gray.

Both of these bugs have been around for quite a while.
[G1 Apps and Games] goldenarmZ:
It's pretty simple really.. If you target your eclipse project to 1.6 (right-click project properties, select android, then choose version) the hdpi folder will be created automatically. you need to add a copy in there of every drawable you want a hi-res version of at 150% of the original size. ie; 320px becomes 480px.

I find it easier to work backwards.. create your whole theme at the n1/droid res, of 480x854px, then reduce each drawable to 66.67% of original size in photoshop.. this will probably look scrappy but you can use it as a base to redraw the bits that need work.

Back on topic, the new release is awesome. Faster, more stable, smaller memory footprint, and normal cubed rules. :cool: I'll be sending you some ideas for improvements to the theme framework Rob.. I hope you have time to implement some of them now you have this stable base to work from. Really great work. :cool:
[G1 Apps and Games] nakeman:
is it possible to have a function to backup all the setting including shortcuts for GDE? thanks
[G1 Apps and Games] 1024k:
Update installed on my ADP1 1.6, all is fine except the fact that slow down incoming call screen.

Calling picture doesn't appear if not after 4-5 seconds.
[G1 Apps and Games] TheReaperUK:
update has fixed my problem.

Wow that was fast, update 0.3.0.2. Has fixed my lag/jerking problem and memory after taskkilling is going up as high as 39mb, old cube works great again, thanks rogro82.
[G1 Apps and Games] jaymez007:
Lost Sliding App drawer

Any possibility the sliding app drawer will be added back in?
[G1 Apps and Games] goldenarmZ:
New theme in the market now: Thrashed Pink

As usual, comes with 2 custom designed wallpapers and 2 sizes of clock widget.

Edit: Cupcake version is up too. More colours soon!
[G1 Apps and Games] goldenarmZ:
It's back already :D Check the market for 3.0.3
[G1 Apps and Games] overground:
Use Titanium Backup. Even the non-donate version will do this. Just make a backup for GDE. Then you can uninstall and reinstall, or install new version, then restore data for GDE. I've found that I sometimes have to replace most widgets, however GDE appdocks and folders restore fine with all items intact. Just know I've been on rogro82 to implement this within GDE...eventually I always win. :D

EDIT: I forgot you need root to use Titanium Backup...I'll push harder.
[G1 Apps and Games] nakeman:
wow~~~

anyone tried? is it as fast and smooth as 2.9?:D
[G1 Apps and Games] nakeman:
Thanks^^

i will try it. i am using backup for root right now, but i found it is not that good... i mean sometimes my G1 crashed after restore data from it.

sorry for my Eng. again :)
[G1 Apps and Games] NetGenSuperstar:
I'm hoping it's possible, but I'm actually getting used to simply tapping the button. It's not a huge deal, and there are obviously other priorities. Still, it was fun to play around with when I was bored.
[G1 Apps and Games] goldenarmZ:
Thrashed Green now in the market!
[G1 Apps and Games] eminembdg:
It's in the current version right now. I'm using it. It slides just like the stock home app did.
[G1 Apps and Games] TheReaperUK:
Still got problems.

Gone back to 0.2.0.9. after last update 0.3.0.3. for some reason at random times my icons and widgets would disappear from 3 or 4 of the home screens, a reset of gde or a reboot of my phone would put all widgets and icons back bar 1 icon witch still would not appear, also if i used a small wallpaper (one screen size) on some of the transitions the wallpaper would go all blockey and faded when scrolling to next screen.

0.2.0.9. is still flawless on my voda htc magic so i'll stick with that version.
[G1 Apps and Games] nakeman:
i like the animate of 3.x, but the it is not smooth as previous version. so i tried to go back 2.09 without deleting the 3.01 (just overwrite it). after installation, while switching GDE, it loops with force close. :rolleyes:
[G1 Apps and Games] NetGenSuperstar:
I upgraded very soon after the update came out, but I had gotten so used to tapping the button that I didn't even notice until recently. So...yay. :D
[G1 Apps and Games] daeymon:
Is it possible to change which Contacts app the Contacts toolbar button launches? So it would launch aContacts for example.
[G1 Apps and Games] tsouza:
Very specific problem: I'm using 0.3.0.1 and I've just installed CyanogenMod 5.0.5, since then, the Weather Widgets is getting a refresh delay (the clock updates with a rather long delay), although this doesn't happens with Launcher2.

Anyclue anyone?

Regards,

Thiago Souza
[G1 Apps and Games] rogro82:
Are you using the widgets on both of the launchers?

Because the updates of the weather widgets takes some time.. you can see that by looking at the logcat. But i cant think of anything that would cause a delay.

The widgets are mostly updated by a service that is hosted from within the widget and all other updates are managed by androids appwidgetmanager, but still i will look into it.

As for everyone having lower transition speed... Im doing all I can to raise the speed and I hope to deliver an update today.
[G1 Apps and Games] tsouza:
Hi,

Yes, I tested it in both launchers. In Launcher2, if the phone is sleeping for sometime and I turn it on, the clock widget is showing the same hour as the clock in status bar.

But with GDE, when I turn the phone on, the clock widget is behind the clock in status bar... after a few seconds and interactions it gets updated...

Regards,

Thiago Souza
[G1 Apps and Games] nakeman:
thanks rogro :)
[G1 Apps and Games] rogro82:
ahhhh... i now know whats different..

The original launcher doesnt stop listening for widget updates when the activity is paused ( and thus using battery, performance etc ), but it starts listening at oncreate and stops at ondestroy only.

When GDE is paused it stops listening for widget updates until it is resumed and that is why you get the short delay.

Ill see if i can set it to start listening a bit earlier, but atleast i know now what is happening.
[G1 Apps and Games] tsouza:
Thanks for the reply. Didn't understand much, but just to remember you that this happened AFTER I upgraded to CM5.0.5

Cheers
[G1 Apps and Games] rogro82:
Version 0.3.0.4 is in the market.

It should raise transition performance and fix some minor issues reported using the automated exception handler mailings.

Besides that ive changed the widgets stop/start listening to see if it fixes the delay in updates.

Please let me know if all is ok or what can be improved.
[G1 Apps and Games] Daneshm90:
Hey how come in normal mode it still does endless loop ? wheres the option to turn it off ? any help thnx
[G1 Apps and Games] rogro82:
It is on the request list.

At first everyone wanted endless loop for all transitions so we included it for all transitions.

Now we get requests to make it an option because people were using the normal transition so they did not have endless loop.

I will make sure it will be an option within a week ;)
[G1 Apps and Games] goldenarmZ:
Your method makes much more sense imo.. updating widgets while the phone sleeps is pretty pointless.

In other news; transitions in 0.3.0.4 are noticably faster. Good work. :cool:
[G1 Apps and Games] rogro82:
Thanks ;)

Maybe we now finally get some time to improve the theming framework... as soon as "everyone" is happy we really should start a chat to see what the ideas are.
[G1 Apps and Games] goldenarmZ:
I'm gonna jump on this right now while I've got your attention :p

Here's a few things floating around in my head right now:

Is there any way to make the notification bar themeable within GDE? It's the most common question I get from the market. I know you can't touch the status bar directly, but maybe you could make the same status calls as the normal android bar and overlay a themeable copy on top of it? There would be no need to implement the notification pull-down as if should still function from underneath... I dunno if that's evem possible.. just spouting ideas.. but people really seem to want it. I've had quite a few refunds for "Does not include black notification bar"

Add ability to control positions and sizes of theme elements (buttons, menu bars mainly) from an xml in the theme template. I realise that would require a substantial rewrite of the layout engine, so I don't expect you to do it anytime soon.. but it would give me something to get my teeth into :p

Include scroll bars in theme template

Make conversations widget themeable

Add font support for all GDE internal menus and homescreen icons
[G1 Apps and Games] rogro82:
Ill give answers straight away:

•Is there any way to make the notification bar themeable within GDE? It's the most common question I get from the market. I know you can't touch the status bar directly, but maybe you could make the same status as the normal android bar and overlay a themeable copy on top of it? There would be no need to implement the notification pull-down as if should still function from underneath... I dunno if that's evem possible.. just spouting ideas.. but people really seem to want it. I've had quite a few refunds for "Does not include black notification bar"

I think this will be quite hard to accomplish withouth re-implementing the notification bar within GDE but i will look if i can find a good way to do it.

•Add ability to control positions and sizes of theme elements (buttons, menu bars mainly) from an xml in the theme template. I realise that would require a substantial rewrite of the layout engine, so I don't expect you to do it anytime soon.. but it would give me something to get my teeth into

I have already been thinking about this myself and indeed it should be done.. I am also looking into making the whole toolbar configurable based on user settings... However if anything drastically changes i will make sure old themes will function like they should

•Include scroll bars in theme template

I now use the default android drawables, but i will copy them so they can be skinned

•Make conversations widget themeable

I will add the drawables of the conversation widget to a new theme template and also add the background drawable of the application widget ( i am still working on the last )

•Add font support for all GDE internal menus and homescreen icons

Font, size and color shouldnt be a problem... i will also make sure you can control the "bubble" color which is behind the application shortcuts titles.

It will take me some time to implement, but these ideas are the least the theming framework should have. Like i have said before i am focusing on the toolbar at the moment and going through various ideas so if anyone has an idea just yell....
[G1 Apps and Games] goldenarmZ:
Good stuff. :cool: I know its gonna take time to get all this stuff working, but I'm in it for the long haul :p I'll keep theming as long as you keep developing.
[G1 Apps and Games] rogro82:
Some people sometimes think i have stopped developing but if you dont hear from me for a long time you can be sure i am working even harder...

In 0.3.x about 90~95% of all code has undergone major changes that needed to be done, but would take a lot of time... so this time i took it and had to ignore a lot of comments.

Sometimes you have to go for the quick fix, but if you really want something to work it will take time.

The code now only uses like 5% of the original launchers code but still we are still able to implement all the new features like live wallpapers and support the large crowd that is running on android 1.5 devices.

So I am also in for long haul although sometimes it seems like i went MIA, but i can assure that has never been the case... but i need to set priorities.
[G1 Apps and Games] FormelLMS:
Hey,

thanks for your hard work.

Could you make it possible to take other apps to the buttons?

Like Normal SMS/MMS (not sending like it is), camera, Music....

And second:

I'm developing themes with glass Statusbars. Now I can see, that under the statusbars, the picture is not right shown with GDE. Can you change that?

And when I use 3 screens and the second is Home Screen, why is the background wallpaper not in the middle of it? Is it changeable?

But now its great. LiveWallpaper with GDE is very cool. Thanks again.

Bedankt!
[G1 Apps and Games] mic_888:
Read through all 152 pages of this thread today so I hope I haven't missed anything...

Am really impressed with the speed at which GDE has progressed - story will be on XDA front page soon :)

I couldn't find a good screenshot without a theme (only one allowed on the article at present), so I've used one I found in the thread, sorry but I can't remember whose screenshot it was, I hope they don't mind).
[G1 Apps and Games] rogro82:
Thanks that would be really great!

If you need any info etc just let me know.

Ive added the screenshot that is on the market detail if you need one.
[G1 Apps and Games] mic_888:
Cool thanks, I've replaced with your screenshot.

Will let you know when it get's published :)
[G1 Apps and Games] mic_888:
Article has been published: http://www.xda-developers.com/android/gde-home-replacement-for-android/
[G1 Apps and Games] :
Works like a charm on my acer liquid, this is the best homescreen replacement i've come across, simply amazing!!!
[G1 Apps and Games] nakeman:
Thanks Rogro, the latest 3.0.4 works flawlessly in my G1 with SuperD. smooth and fast. :)
[G1 Apps and Games] rlaxton:
*****IN!!!:D
[G1 Apps and Games] NetGenSuperstar:
I just thought of another request. In landscape mode, the configurable buttons on the toolbar don't rotate. It's very off-putting. Is there a way to make the button icons rotate so that they're always right-side up, or is this a limitation that can't be worked around?
[G1 Apps and Games] goldenarmZ:
That wouldn't be easy to do.. consider my themes with text instead of icons on the buttons, if those buttons rotated with the phone, they'd hang off the bar and look awful. :(
[G1 Apps and Games] kron2:
I like it the way it is but if it did change all you would have to do is make the images 9.png rogro : I would like it if you can make it so we can add shortcuts to the toolbar like the helix launcher and have a way to change icons
[G1 Apps and Games] goldenarmZ:
Can't 9patch text... that would be messy lol.
[G1 Apps and Games] kron2:
After I replied to you post I reread it and seen text and it would look messy lol
[G1 Apps and Games] stevebarak:
Motorola Droid with GDE 0.3.0.4 cannot use email

I get FC every time I click to get into an email. I can see the list but clicking into any email produces FC. Is there a way to go back to 0.3.0.3 ????????????

Please need help, I don't want to get rid of GDE Home I like it too much...
[G1 Apps and Games] lhernana2j:
I am back to using this all the time. kept jumping between DxTop and this. I did notice that in switching from Advanced Task Manager to Advanced Task Killer (sorry for the unauthorized plug), I get no lag at all whenever I want to go back to the home screen. The only thing I am waiting on is to be able to theme the icons. That would be great. Keep up the great work.
[G1 Apps and Games] jhankinson:
Hey rogro82 thanks for the latest updates, it is running great on my droid. I am glad to see that you are back on the board too, it 's nice to hear what's going on. I was wondering if you might be able to add an option for the 4 customizable quick launch buttons like in helix launcher. I saw you in the credits on their thread. It is another great launcher but it doesn't have all the features of gde, however those 4 buttons sure are nice.
[G1 Apps and Games] robsum46:
GDE download. problem

Can't download GDE from market - please advised
[G1 Apps and Games] nakeman:
GDE is a pay app. due to the policy of android/google, it is not open to all country by this moment; thus if you can see pay app in your market, you can find it there too. good luck.
[G1 Apps and Games] nakeman:
recently i decided to uninstall the app "gesture search (google) " due to it make the screen laggy. i love gesture search & GDE, torned between 2 lovers, i choose GDE finally :D
[G1 Apps and Games] goldenarmZ:
Loads of new colours for Thrashed in the market now.. and my new site showcasing all my themes will be up very soon. :cool:
[G1 Apps and Games] goldenarmZ:
New theme in the market - Glacial

This one includes all the usuals and 3 versions of the wallpaper. :cool:
[G1 Apps and Games] mitsubishigt25:
Can't DL GDE

I dunno if this is the right place to post but I can't DL GDE. I go to pay for it and I keep getting payment declined. I made sure that the international charges to my card can go through but it still says denied. Do you have another method in which I can get GDE ?
[G1 Apps and Games] rogro82:
@mitsubishigt25

All payments in the market are handled by Google and there are some people who have problems with some cards ( with various applications from different developers ) and Google has been notified about this problem,

I am sorry but there is nothing I can really do besides contacting Google about it.

@everyone:

I have just released a widgetpack which includes an application dock ( non-scrollable, but browsable using buttons ). This is not really necessary when you are running GDE, but its also contains a clock widget (1x1 / 2x2 ) which you can customize by adding clocks and changing the images. So if you want your clocks personalized, but dont want to go into all the packaging work etc this can be really easy.

If anyone has it let me know if you like it.

@golderarmZ:

One word... WOW! :)
[G1 Apps and Games] Jak Crow:
I created a folder and placed a number is my commonly used apps in, but there doesn't appear to be a way to make that folder the default app folder for the middle button. I tries the last folder option but it kept bringing up the all applications folder. Suggestions? Or is this not possible right now?
[G1 Apps and Games] goldenarmZ:
Reworked Glacial in a sinister black style - "Magma" is in the market now.
[G1 Apps and Games] shiznit05:
...sorry if this has been asked already but, is anyone else having issues with changing wallpaper in the latest build. When I change wallpaper, it acts like it's applying the change, but it really doesn't. The wallpaper doesn't actually change until I power off, then power the phone back on.
[G1 Apps and Games] goldenarmZ:
I had that on some of the older versions but not recently.. :confused:

Quickest way round it is to go into control panel/desktop settings and click the restart button.. Should save you a reboot.
[G1 Apps and Games] IHaveADroid:
I think it would be really cool if you could rotate the cube in any direction. Up and down or even diagonally.
[G1 Apps and Games] Cammarratta:
I do too. I think GDE needs something new under its belt to warrant me purchasing it further. Its a great app when it works but I'm tired of the same ol' cube effect, trasition and the other ones. Ihome by panda911 has like a lot of transitions it just doesn't work AT ALL. So maybe if GDE were to take from it?

Also I purchased widgetpack v.1 just for the app dock but its not like the one that came with GDE. So either can we have that one from gde or a vertilce one? Maybe an app dock with various sizes! Like 2x1 3x1 etc. That'd be amazing.
[G1 Apps and Games] rogro82:
@Cammarratta:

We are working on a lot of new features ( context menu on items basically the same way handled as IHome but with a normal context menu to uninstall etc )

Besides that I am thinking about changing the complete layout/function of the toolbar... i have heared a lot of good suggestions but i still need to make it in to a complete idea ( one thing that must get in is adding apps to the toolbar ).

@Goldenarmz:

Can i contact you by email/chat to discuss some of the above theme-wise?
[G1 Apps and Games] goldenarmZ:
New theme just gone up "Micron".. Very simple and elegant matte look on this one. :cool:
[G1 Apps and Games] mastermind777:
This got buried way back about a dozen pages, reposting this.
[G1 Apps and Games] mercuryzzz:
I bought a Htc Legend and i like very much this apk. Can I buy it from the market? Will it work on my legend? Thanks
[G1 Apps and Games] koxx:
Is anybody interested in scrollable 3rd party widgets like Pure messenger with Home++ beta here :

http://koxx3.wordpress.com/2010/04/03/pure-messenger-scrollable/

I'd like to make GDE compatible with this.
[G1 Apps and Games] BSDADON:
I'd love this function. It already has a scrollable widget that shows texts and phone calls, but not emails. I personally don't need to see the phone calls so if you could make the widget scroll with GDE I'd definitely use it. I stayed with the beta on Home++ for a while because I liked that function.