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]]>V12.4 is finally ready :-)
V12.4 is finally ready 🙂
Originally shared by Lightning Launcher
V12.4 A brand new editor UI for Lightning Launcher.
I am really excited about this new release! It’s all about a new builtin editor where changes are directly done in the desktop: no more frequent switches between the settings screen and the home screen. The goal is to make editing in Lightning smoother, easier, faster, more fun!
For an introduction on how the new editor works, please have a look at this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gkh_RdH8FTk
I would like to say a big thanks to the beta testers, they really drove the development of this version in the right direction!
Update is in progress right now, the new version will appear soon on your device 🙂
V12.4 Out of beta, at last!
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
]]>V12.4b7 beta, hopefully the last one before the release.
(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
]]>Here is a link to the list of modified strings since the last stable version 12.3.1.
http://www.pierrox.net/android/applications/lightning_launcher/translations/strings-12.3.1-12.4.diff
(file encoding is wrong, please don’t pay attention to it)
V12.4b4 beta
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!
]]>v12.4b2 beta
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
]]>This post could have been in the “App update news” section but it’s right place is here because I need your feedback.
Sorry for the poor video quality, bugs can be seen, and there is no audio, no comment, not even text (OT: by the way could someone suggest a decent and cheap video editor for Mac? I really like Camtasia but my trial ended, and the price is a bit expensive. It is worth every penny but I only make at most two videos a years…)
Back on topic now. I’d like to show a preview of what I am working on at the moment. This is a major UI rework to make editing faster. In short it consists in new bottom and right toolbars that can be shown/hidden using a little arrow in the bottom right corner (sorry no left handed mode yet). The content scaling is partly inspired by a post from TrianguloY .
There are also some utility boxes that can be shown/hidden too: one at the top for operations found in the usual popup menu (edition, position, actions), and one at the bottom for item properties (partly implemented on the video). This properties box will display settings that are now found under customize/item/more. The benefit of these toolbox is that they are “sticky”: select another item and the boxes are updated with the newly selected item values.
Also shown on the video are new undo/redo buttons, and new snapping options. No more confirmation on folder deletion, it can be undone 🙂 Folders can be cloned too (all items in fact).
This version is currently far from a beta and even from an alpha but I would really like to know your opinion on this new UI. I know this is uneasy to understand and feel it just by watching the video (without any comment…), if someone is interested in playing with it I will be able to provide a direct link to a snapshot tomorrow.
V12.3
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
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