There is now a builtin image picker in this beta. It will improve/fix a few things:  faster image picking from icon packs, increased compatibility with some packs, allow background color selection for better viewing, allow picking of nine patches from other packages.

Still no direct compatibility for icon pack other than ADW compatible ones, but since it is possible to pick resources from any app, this option might be a good enough workaround.

Because at that time I was worried about other personal stuff, I failed to give a full explanation. I am sorry about.

A few minutes ago someone asked on Facebook where the LL app was. I replied quickly, and since the answer might shed some more light on this decision, I am quoting the post here. Ok, maybe I should have done this earlier here, but hey such is life!

So here is an excerpt in case someone is interested:

I don’t want paid users, I want to be able to develop the app further, this is as simple as that. Please understand the gap between user expectations and the energy needed to fulfil them. On one hand building an app, even a small app, requires a lot of time, not only to make the software, but also maintain it, publish updates, answer users questions, and so on (I am sure you already know that). On the other hand the time spent on building an app is time that cannot be spent on other things. As a standard developer, I have the same activities as any other standard person: work, family and spare time. And as a standard developer I need to work to pay my bills. When I don’t work I don’t get money, so the equation is simple: if I want to do something other than the usual work (without losing too much time for my family and spare time…), then this thing need to bring some money to pay the bills. FYI when an app is priced $1, a french developer like me will receive $0.46, or 0.33€ (one liter of petrol is 1.5€). I am sure I speak for a lot of mobile apps developers, not only for myself. This is said with no animosity, but so that things are clear and can be understood. Regarding the freemium model, it does not work with LL, because the old version was already a full version.

Link to the FB post: https://www.facebook.com/LightningLauncher/posts/768270299884260

“Ok Google, add hotwords detection to the launcher”

Thanks to MohammadAG and others.

(Edit: 10.1.1)

A few more fixes and improvements compared with the previous version, the most visible modification being the way borders corners are drawn. When using transparency adjacent borders don’t overlap any more.

Full list of changes:

– fix unlocking when requested from an event run in the context of the home screen (https://plus.google.com/105066926163073195690/posts/AfKnJ8SYpXq)

– when drawing item borders, draw corners using a triangle shape when they overlap, but keep a rectangular shape when a single segment is drawn in a corner (adjacent segment size is zero, not transparent color)

– in paused/resumed events, script Event.getContainer() will now return the container being paused/resumed

– add script Event.getSource()

Ah, ah, it’s been a long time since the last update, isn’t it?

No, I am not dead yet! (Only my dev laptop…)

A few new features and bug fixes. Nothing tremendous but some improvements were truly needed:

– new options to configure the app drawer bar: visibility and background image (LLX, expert mode)

– new container events: resumed and paused. This can be used to detect when a container is displayed or hidden, although resumed/paused are finer grain events

– increased resolution of some app drawer icons

ability to replace an item target with a shortcut (previously only an app)

– exclude panels when computing grid/stack folder icons (https://plus.google.com/104484987458557530625/posts/A8dJHePDuVn)

– keep app drawer configuration in templates, and use it when applying them when replacing, not merging (https://plus.google.com/104684441318752696089/posts/b8mBenAQEzQ)

– do not process tap events for panel when it has been configured at the container level (https://plus.google.com/105066926163073195690/posts/AfBmUvtmBwH)

– fix a bug when modifying the panel configuration through a script run from the on tap item event (https://plus.google.com/u/0/106201536507820539535/posts/Szhhntr8Lin)

– allow more than one stop point to be matched at a time

– fix edition of floating point value with locales using coma as decimal separator

– workaround for the icon drawing bug in the desktop configuration screen

 – remove quoting around the data passed to scripts using LL.runScript

– fix a few problems when status bar transparency is combined with status bar hiding

– fix a few crashes

A non stressful release, with only bug fixes 🙂 – fix a bug where an empty and untitled script can be created sometimes

– fix folder z order (inability to change this order when folder icon is set to grid or stack)

– attempt to fix a problem with transparent bars on 4.4 on phone layouts when switching the orientation (not tested)

– fix LL.setPosition when not using animate

– when reseting or removing a desktop used as a lockscreen, disable the lockscreen until another one is selected

– remove swipe events and pinch/zoom options for panels because they are not supported

– fix a crash that could appear when applying templates and when the process was interrupted

– fix newly created widget position under some rarely seen situation

– fix a crash that may happen seldom while add an item to a folder

Available soon.

A minor maintenance release with the following bug fixes:

– adjust items order in widget menu

– fix translations in the script editor and template screen

– fix a bug when loading some icon packs without background image

– prevent addition of new items in app drawer folders opened through a “Open folder” LL action

More to come later…

I pushed the button.

V10 is now available for anyone (although it may take one day or two to reach everyone).

Thank you for your precious feedback and huge help in making this latest version a reality

Last one before release. I think it’s ready.

Changelog:

– use alternate backgrounds in icon packs, when available

– fix the switch between desktops not having the same transparent bars/overlap settings

– fix an LL->LLX importation problem when LL data themselves comes from a previous LLX setup

– when exporting a template, reset the lock screen option if the lock screen desktop is not exported too

– script : add LL.getOpenFolders(), LL.getItemById() and Container.setTag()

– fix a few minor crashes