Hopefully reaching an almost stable status 🙂

And here is the changelog:

– changes the way newly created folders behaves: the default value for “Use desktop size” in layout parameters is now yes (existing folders remain unchanged).

– reworked desktop and item menu (move app related options in a sub menu, add confirmation for folder removal, add a customize sub menu)

– improves copy style with items

– panels are now created on the bottom layer

– fix a rounding problem leading to 1px holes in the layout

– fix add widget when used through the shortcut action “add object…”

– fix a crash when double clicking on a folder at startup

– fix widget initial size in some situations

– fix item size when moving them from a desktop to another

– fix a few other crashes

That’s all !

Second shot (Still in the beta channel) ! With the following fixes:

– reworked the way the grid cell size is computed with panels (the old way, and the default panel size/config is adjusted to match the desktop)

– fix item preview in customize screen

– fix a crash when using a gesture to open a folder

– fixes problems with image pickers

No time to have a look at folders/panels configuration inheritance, this will be for the next one 😉

Just uploaded, it will appear in around two hours !

v9.0.b1

I am calling beta testers again to thoroughly test this release, because this is a special one. Stress it, shake it, turn it upside down without pity !

While adding support for panels, I felt like this was not enough for a single release… So I went on and started to tackle another long awaited feature 🙂 Afterall, Christmas is almost in a week, isn’t it ?

The special thing in this release is the new combined grid/free mode. Well, in fact there is no more mode at all. You have a grid, some items, and those items can simply be detached and attached again to this grid, and that’s all. It was like a mountain ride, but now it’s done. And the truth is that this is much more easy this way.

And, in case you may feel this is not enough, I have also dropped one limitation for background images (box and folders): in addition to nine patches, it is now possible to use any kind of image (but no animated gif… yet).

And a few other goodies:

– allow Template files to be reloaded from the backup/restore screen (without an APK, directly from a file). Such template files can be renamed and shared (email, dropbox, drive, etc.). APKs will still ensure a way larger audience though.

– restablish pin attribute copy when copying the style

– icons in menu have been removed

Enjoy !

Including panels.

This time this is in the alpha channel, download only if you don’t fear to be on the bleeding edge, and make a backup first. There are various caveats that need to be fixed before a release. You have been warned 😉

Available in around two hours on the Play Store:

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

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

Just a minor update with the following fixes/improvements:

    – add an animation when dropping an item into a folder, to help visualize the delay

    – fix an Android 4.4 specific bug (the desktop may seem unresponsive until home is pressed)

    – try to fix the background/theme in settings screens

    – fix several occasional crashes here and there

The goal of this version is to fix and improve a lot of small things. Here is the change log (in no particular order):

– fix a problem with wallpaper size not correctly set (Android 4.1+)

– fix widget being clickable in edit mode under some occasions

– upon rotation, the geometry toolbox is adjusted so that it doesn’t become unreachable

– don’t take hidden items into account when computing the desktop size (app drawer + fit desktop to items)

– if a desktop has been deleted, add it again to the list of configured desktop if it is accessed again through a link

– fix settings screen background

– move cursors at the end in some text editors (custom label, style name, backup name, screen name, settings)

– fix color picker paste

– fix rotation bug in app drawer

– upon rotation, attempt to keep the view at the same location

– in the app drawer, do not allow the content to be behind bars when they are transparent

– fix management of edit mode with folders

– copy folders window attributes in style, and restore them when applicable

Thank you all for your feedback and bug reports 🙂

Well, this is mostly the current beta, but without the beta status…

To recap the differences with v8.8:

– improve edit mode tap and drag behavior (made it the default)

– introduce a small delay before to drop an item in a folder

– allow zoom in edit mode, unconditionnal

– add a “folder options” menu item to directly jump to folder settings without having to open it

– fix a few bugs (translation and crashes)

Update is rolling out 😉

In the coming weeks I will have quite a lot of work, hence I probably won’t have the time to work on big features. I will instead focus on polishing things a bit. And this new version is exactly this: it improves (a bit) the layout editor:

– a brand new “geometry editor” is available through the item menu / position / geometry. This will allow setting precise values for position, scale, rotate scale and skew of any item (even stop points though this is weird and I still need to improve this, lol)

– an new option in general settings “Single finger scroll in edit mode”. Basically what it does is switch between tap and drag item moves the item or scroll the desktop. The purpose is to avoid false moves in edit mode. By default it is off to preserve the current behavior, but according to your feedback I may toggle it in a future release.

A few bug fixes also found their way in this release:

item preview size in landscape mode, home key occasionally not working, some random crashes.

Oh, and I finally added these transparent status and navigation bars options for Android 4.4 !

Edit: and here is a small video of the geometry editor: Lightning Launcher – Item geometry editor