Out of beta, at last !

Compared with the previous beta, this version includes the following modifications:

– fix item rotation in orientations other than the natural device orientation

– always limit drawing to the box (may affect items visibility when rotated)

– the “holo” selection effect is now the default, and the default box selection color is now 0xffffffff instead of 0x80ffffff.

I hope it will please everyone !

But that’s not all.

It took quite a long time for this version to reach a stable status for two reasons. The most important one is that I don’t have as much as time as I would like to work on LL, but this is not the only one.

The other reason is that I am conducting important architecture changes in another branch of the app, in order to reach a triple goal:

– allow a clean inheritance model,

– allow a much finer granularity when handling templates (merge desktops, load only styles, and so on),

– prepare foundations for scripting.

This “preliminary” work is nearing completion, so expect a new beta soon. But relax, I will wait a bit before to drop a new test version: I understand that it may become tiring to always live on the bleeding edge. Some stability is welcome sometime 😉

New beta to fix a few other bugs and improve small things !

– improve performances when using the holo selection effect with big items

– fix a bug when snapping detached items with attached items

– propagate the ‘always show stop points’ option to panels

– allow text shadow offsets to be negative

– fix autoscroll when moving items

– add a “All settings” menu item in the panel menu (should help in case of fullscreen panel)

– when swapping items, don’t swap stop points

https://play.google.com/apps/testing/net.pierrox.lightning_launcher

https://play.google.com/apps/testing/net.pierrox.lightning_launcher_extreme

“Quand on aime on ne compte pas”

Ahhh… Sorry for the annoying bugs left in the previous beta yesterday. I hope this new beta version will behave correctly. These modifications regarding the grid and the item animation are driving me crazy.

Paradoxically, I couldn’t resist to add a new feature… One particular setting has two new choices, we will see who will notice it first !!!

https://play.google.com/apps/testing/net.pierrox.lightning_launcher

https://play.google.com/apps/testing/net.pierrox.lightning_launcher_extreme

(beta)

A few bug fixes again ! At a slower pace…

– refinement in the way the grid is displayed in edit mode

– adjust stop points editing (geometry tool, handles)

– improve highlight feedback when launching an app

– automatically disable snap to page when stop points are active

– lockscreen: fix a problem where some apps with notifications are not seen (or immediately hidden) when unlocking

– prevent a third finger touch to break pinch zoom

– don’t execute the global tap action when tapping on a widget (only if it has been explicitly set for the widget)

– fix a bug where the item transformation could be lost when set through the geometry editor

– fix a bug where the menu could be misplaced or invisible when opened through gestures

Hope it will look good, so that I can move it to the production channel 😉

https://play.google.com/apps/testing/net.pierrox.lightning_launcher

https://play.google.com/apps/testing/net.pierrox.lightning_launcher_extreme

Beta for LL and LLX.

No big thing in this version, although…

I am still in a “stabilization” phase. There are mostly bug fixes and minor improvements, except one ongoing modification regarding the item selection state.

The current selection feedback is not very nice (a plain square) and in order to prepare support for multi selection, the selected state need to be split in “highlighted” and “selected”. For these reasons I am introducing a new “Selection effect” (found in items settings, “+” tab). At the moment it is set to “Plain”, and everything will work as usual. But if you set it to “Holo” (in the box settings) and select an opaque selection color, then the launcher will look a bit like other well known launchers:

– icons will be highlighted using the selection color when touched, and there will be some holographic shadow when moving an item on the grid, the item background is kept transparent,

– in edit mode, the selected item is drawn with a standard overlay, but the background is not changed as it is now with the selection color.

In the future I would like to make this the default, but this is not a minor step and I prefer to walk carefully. The changes need some polishing : feedback welcome 🙂

And the full change log is:

– in edit mode, the selected item is now drawn with a contour and a light overlay

– add a few animations in edit mode when an item is dragged

– introduce a “Selection effect” option

– do not truncate the text in when it is left or top and there isn’t enough room, but truncate the icon instead

– copy style: don’t copy gestures attributes

– improved search in app drawer: the keyboard shows a go button which will launch the first app, which is focused, text highlighting, better sort (apps that start with search are displayed first)

– fix a bug where a swipe on an item to unlock the screen would leave the item selected

– yet another fix for shadowed/italic text (may appear on two lines previously)

– fix several crashes in rarely seen situations (but that happen anyway !)

– fixes several inconsistencies with the geometry editor when selecting different items

Edit:  9.3.b2 to fix a crash with the lockscreen when unlocking with a gesture.

https://play.google.com/apps/testing/net.pierrox.lightning_launcher

https://play.google.com/apps/testing/net.pierrox.lightning_launcher_extreme

A bunch of bug fixes and minor improvements, some of which were waiting for too long, but now it’s done !

Here is the list, in no particular order:

– fix truncated text when using italic or shadow

– fix auto scroll direction when moving an item in a panel

– better handling of scrolling with panels : a panel won’t prevent scrolling the desktop if it is not scrollable (a bit like widgets)

– fix an issue with first widget scroll after reboot

– fix “Not clickable” option with widget

– fix the keyboard management when searching apps in the app drawer, as well as the associated “condensed” screen effect

– fix size when moving an item in a folder/ or desktop that has never been opened before

– (attempt to) fix lockscreen not being displayed sometimes

– fix several issues with position of newly created items

– improved texts (menus and settings)

– fix translated texts (add/item/unlocker, customize screen now shows a meaningful and translated title)

– fixed a crash (desktop navigation action triggered in the app drawer through global events)

– warning message when selecting a lock screen

– add some feedback when copying a style from an item

– box editor: long tapping on a border will select/de-select all borders, same for margin and padding. Content select/de-select everything.

– box editor: improved visualization of overlapping content and padding areas

Update available soon…

Edit: 9.2.2 revert the panel scrolling thing.

No more a beta, it’s time for this version to reach a wider audience. The update is rolling out now!

Thank you Testers for your feedback and helping in debugging the app and especially this new lock screen feature 🙂

A kind of release early, release often…

Fixes only, and the list is:

– fixes a problem with the lockscreen being randomly shifted

– the LL lock screen can now be used even if android security screen lock is set to none

– improved english texts thanks to +Josh Gray

– fix the LL action shorcut screen not being translated

– attempt to resolve issues with the status bar not hiding after unlocking

https://play.google.com/apps/testing/net.pierrox.lightning_launcher_extreme