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farmerbb / Taskbar

PC-style productivity for Android
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feature request | show what apps are running #111

Closed aeknt closed 4 years ago

aeknt commented 4 years ago

like chrome os https://1drv.ms/u/s!ApRQygiWuy_t0nqspkz_tEfW-Knd I am not sure if its possible to do it on android , but it would be great feature.

konnaris commented 4 years ago

+1 for this feature and/or provide an overlay whilst using alt-tab (only Sentio seems to have this)

farmerbb commented 4 years ago

This feature is already implemented, but it requires Taskbar to be installed on your device's system partition as Android has restricted the relevant APIs so that they can only be used by system apps. (This requires a rooted device)

Once you've done this, go to "Recent apps" in settings and change "Recent apps to display" to "Running apps only".

Note that Taskbar on Bliss OS and Android-x86 has this enabled by default since Taskbar is installed as a system app on both of those Android distributions.

konnaris commented 4 years ago

Thanks, I've tried your instructions on two different rooted ROM's and was able to set "Running apps only", however, no apps show up on the Taskbar. Perhaps I'm missing something else?

farmerbb commented 4 years ago

Sorry for the late reply. Taskbar needs to be moved into the /system/priv-app directory in order for the "Running apps only" option to work. Can you double-check that Taskbar is installed in the right directory?

konnaris commented 4 years ago

Many thanks, I was moving it to /system/app and not /system/priv-app its working now