A new app version to bring a few enhancements and various bug fixes.

Full ChangeLog:

http://www.pierrox.net/cmsms/applications/lightning-launcher/change-log.html

Only one thing to say: thank you to all beta testers. Without your feedback and suggestion this version would have been simply not possible. Anyone looking at the early preview and the final version will immediately notice how feedback shaped this new release.

Thank you, and have fun!

Full ChangeLog:

http://www.pierrox.net/cmsms/applications/lightning-launcher/change-log.html

(I praise the fast release cycle of Google Play…)

I believe this version is finally reaching an acceptable stability level. There are probably a few more bugs to fixes, but nothing catastrophic. If you previously feared to break your setup with buggy software, then it’s time for you to try this version before it is released 🙂

Full ChangeLog:

http://www.pierrox.net/cmsms/applications/lightning-launcher/change-log.html

Edit: V12.4b5 with some more fixes. Feature frozen until the release.

Edit: V12.4b6 hopefully this update will become a bit more stable.

Be prepared to see some more visible changes before to download this version…

This update features a reworked and somewhat experimental popup menu. The basic idea is to provide one menu content for the edit mode, focused on edit tasks, and another menu content in normal mode geared toward “management” tasks such as app info, kill, etc. That’s a disruptive change, I need your feedback on this!

In addition, the popup menu has now a header with most basic edit actions (add, delete, …), this way I hope the menu will still be a fast way to modify items.

Also related, but a more subtle change, is the behavior of the long tap and move operation on an item, while not in edit mode. I tuned the logic so that an item can be moved in normal mode, and the edit mode is triggered when the item is dropped, only if the “auto edit” option is checked. The default value for this option has also changed, it is now off by default. This stuff is not easy to explain, the best is to try it! And I also need your feedback on this new behavior…

Also in this update: lots of bugfixes and more tuning on the background image size. I expect it to solve pixelation issues.

Enjoy!

Edit: 12.4b3 to fix major issues, but another beta will follow for sure.

It’s finally here, and it packs a lot of modifications.

The editor has seen a lot of changes with many small and big improvements such as the ability to snap items when resizing them not only when moving, or fully functional item cloning (including folder and all its content), undo/redo, new editor bars for fast access to frequently used features, ability to edit items properties directly in the desktop, reworked menu, and so on.

Also there is a new “Run in” option when selecting a script to be run from elsewhere (Tasker and other compatible apps). This way you can select whether the script is executed for the desktop, the app drawer, the lock screen (not ready yet, will crash, lol) or in background. This last mode will not display the desktop when running a script but it is subject to important limitations. Please read the note about this in http://www.pierrox.net/android/applications/lightning_launcher/wiki/doku.php?id=working_with_tasker. I don’t know how it will behave in real world use cases. Please let me know how it works (or not) for you.

This versionalso  includes the Android Palette API which can be used from scripts to extract color from an image (sample code in the wiki http://www.pierrox.net/android/applications/lightning_launcher/wiki/doku.php?id=script_palette). I hope to be able to extend the color picker with this Palette later.

And more smaller goodies can be found in the ChangeLog…

I hope I didn’t broke everything while adding this stuff 😉

Full ChangeLog:

http://www.pierrox.net/cmsms/applications/lightning-launcher/change-log.html

Edit: V12.3.1 to fix a package build issue.

Not a lot of changes, mainly bug fixes and a new item type “Custom View”.

This new item type requires script and android framework knowledge, that’s an advanced but funny tool. Basically it allows almost any kind of content to be put in the launcher: that’s powerful but more complex. Please the documentation given in the “Create” option found in the “+” tab for a given custom view item.

I am curious to see what you can do with this…

(something bigger scheduled for v12.4…)

Full ChangeLog:

http://www.pierrox.net/cmsms/applications/lightning-launcher/change-log.html

A few more bug fixes!

A few other ones are probably hidden and will surface sooner or later but it’s time for a release anyway.

Full ChangeLog:

http://www.pierrox.net/cmsms/applications/lightning-launcher/change-log.html

Many bug fixes and a few improvements. Hopefully this will be the last beta before the release of V12.2, I have some goodies waiting in the pipe for V12.3…

Full ChangeLog:

http://www.pierrox.net/cmsms/applications/lightning-launcher/change-log.html

Edit: V12.2b2 published with bug fixes

No new feature, no bug fix, but a single change that I prefer to update unitary because it is tricky.

Various modifications in this beta aim to speed up the app drawer and large containers when they contains a lot of apps, as well as reducing the average amount of RAM used for images.

In some situations, mostly in the app drawer, you may see icons refreshing themselves, my hope is that it will not happen, or not too often.

Another area where I fear border effect is scripting. Due to the flexibility it offers, I wouldn’t be surprised is something goes wrong here.

If you don’t like to live on the bleeding edge, please skip this version, because it has the power to break things…