Open ptlambert opened 5 months ago
Thanks for your suggestions. It would be better to post things like this here on this repository, because I don't really use GitLab and I just wanted to announce my fork there for anyone looking for updates. As for your requests:
Adding a few more requests here (I can create separate issues if you'd like them treated as actual bugs):
Thanks again for your time and please feel free to Close this entire "issue" with no action at all. :^)
(Peter)
CHANGELOG.md says we have these options for Back button behavior (good enough for me, thanks):
About running a background process, I'm not sure if it would benefit performance at all. I believe most apps do that to listen to notifications from online services, or do some active work in the background, and there's not much that in the app that can be put in a background service: the connection to the database, retrieving the list of apps from the system? Besides, my TV only has 1 GB of RAM, and most of the time only 300 MB of that is available, putting more work in the background would just probably make things worse in my case.
I just assumed from the beginning that using Flutter would be the cause for performance downgrades, but that's just a guess, I would need to test what's taking so long for the app to start.
- Pressing the Back button from the FLauncher (original version) home screen seems to always restart the app (as evidenced by the splash screen reappearing). Can FLauncher be programmed to ignore the Back button in that case? Or only respond to a long-press? AFAIK the regular Android TV Home app doesn't respond to the Back button (does it?)
Does this still happen using any of the new options for the "back button action"? I'm assuming it's got something to do with the "Ambient Mode" not being available.
- Pressing the Back button from the FLauncher (original version) home screen seems to always restart the app (as evidenced by the splash screen reappearing). Can FLauncher be programmed to ignore the Back button in that case? Or only respond to a long-press? AFAIK the regular Android TV Home app doesn't respond to the Back button (does it?)
Does this still happen using any of the new options for the "back button action"? I'm assuming it's got something to do with the "Ambient Mode" not being available.
That Back button behavior is what I was seeing in "FLauncher (original version)" so Ambient Mode is still available there. I discovered after that post that you added other Back button options in FLauncher, and I still need to give your version a try...
Sorry for not following up sooner... I've finally got the your FLauncher fork installed (latest build 0fa886a) and it works like a charm, thanks!
Splash screen/load times are somewhere between 1 and 2 seconds (doesn't feel slow at all).
I've got the Back button configured to "Do nothing" which solves the annoying re-launching behavior I was seeing in the original version from GitLab.
I managed to get the Clock display configured to my liking but that was a bit awkward. I'll open a separate ticket for that.
Here are a few feature requests (please let me know if you prefer to see such requests at you comment on the orig. author's GitLab page):
Thanks for your time!