[APP][4.0+] Fancy Switcher - Your new Task Switcher | Android L Recent

JKab · Jan 14, 2014

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Changelog:

3.0

New style: Android L recents view

New feature: Favorites apps for Smart-Slider

New feature: Launch from Search button

New feature: Show/Hide buttons as you like

New feature: Kill apps with root

Feature now free: on/off Smart-Slider visual indicator

Improvment: the notification icon is now hidden by default

2.0

New style: Grid style

New: Swipe a card up to kill

Improvement: Faster rendering with Icon pack (up to 3x faster after a first set up)

New: Link added in help section to join translators

New: Use your wallpaper as background

New: Setting for fullscreen (enable/disable)

Fix: UI fix on app switching during "fade" transition

Fix: Bug with Smart-Slider shortcut

Fix: Bug when swiping out an app

2.0 Beta 1

New style: Grid style

New: Swipe a card up to kill

Improvment: Faster rendering with Icon pack (up to 3x faster after a first set up)

New: Link added in help section to join translators

Fix: UI fix on app switching during "fade" transition

Fix: Bug with Smart-Slider shortcut

Fix: Bug when swiping out an app

1.5

New feature: long-click popup menu

New feature: home button

Fix: the Smart-Slider area should not shrink anymore

Fix: various UI fixes

1.4

New feature: exclude apps from the app (Applications > exclude list)

New feature: Smart-Slider shortcut opens the recent bar (act like a widget, so do what you want with it, i.e. replace soft key, use it with Tasker, ...)

New feature: enable/disable the Smart-Slider through notification

New transition effect: fade

New: 'flat' visual indicator for the Smart-Slider (Smart-Slider > Indicator style)

Fix: close the recent bar with back/home button

Translation: portuguese, german, spanish and polish

1.3.2 - 1.3.3

Bunch of bug fix

1.3

Improved UI

Icon Pack support: use your icon pack into Fancy Switcher! It only supports some packs for now, so tell us if the pack you need works

Smart-Slider: start with gesture. Prevent unintentional activation with a simple touch

Smart-Slider: open the recent bar with a single touch

Closed apps: no more black and white apps. Running apps have a visual indicator

New: 3D icon effect (Settings > More options)

New: message is shown when an app is killed

New option: hide reflection

1.2

New transition animation: "Open" effect (available for Fancy Switcher and for the Smart-Slider)

New "Data" settings: Backup and Restore all your settings

New functionality when you swipe the thumbnail back to the edge: choose if you want a list of recent apps, or start Fancy Switcher (Go to Settings > Smart-Slider)

No more "transparent" notification icon: hide it completely

Reverse the order of apps (Scrolling options > Reversed)

Transparent Background (Settings > Background Color)

New RAM management (RAM consumption has been reduced when Fancy Switcher is not in front)

1.1.3

Decrease RAM consumption

Notification: if transparent, the icon is still visible in the notification panel

Notification: ability to remove it completely (the choice is given when you want to hide it)

Rework buttons UI, added a new "RAM" button

Ability to turn off Fancy Switcher globally

Ability to hide closed apps

Improved global stability

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XDA:DevDB Information
Fancy Switcher, App for the Android General

Contributors
JKab

Version Information
Status: Stable
Current Stable Version: 3.0
Stable Release Date: 2014-10-05
Current Beta Version: 3.0 Beta 8
Beta Release Date: 2014-08-27

Created 2014-01-30
Last Updated 2014-11-06

Gio_ital · Jan 14, 2014

I will give it a try

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killoid · Jan 14, 2014

@JKab any possibility of GB support?

JKab · Jan 14, 2014

killoid said:
@JKab any possibility of GB support?

Unfortunately app thumbnails appeared in 4.0, so it's not possible to see them prior to this version

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Gio_ital · Jan 14, 2014

I played a bit with this app today and I have to say that it is a very nice. And I only tried the free features

. The only thing that makes me not to use this app is the ram consumption, over 100 mb.
OP if you can make it lighter it will be a really great switcher :thumbup:

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JKab · Jan 14, 2014

Gio_ital said:
I played a bit with this app today and I have to say that it is a very nice. And I only tried the free features . The only thing that makes me not to use this app is the ram consumption, over 100 mb.
OP if you can make it lighter it will be a really great switcher :thumbup:

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The RAM consumption is mainly due to thumbnails saved in cache (= smoother app). I'll do my best to lower that number, or maybe add an option to let the user choose between using RAM cache or not?

Thanks for feedback :good:

Waynehead69 · Jan 14, 2014

[APP][4.0+] Fancy Switcher - Your new Task Switcher

Looks pretty good. I'm going to give it a try. Thanks

xPr0metheus · Jan 15, 2014

Hey I tried the free app and I would like to request some things:

1. transparent background like in stock switcher
2. Option to list the apps under each other instead of next to each other (also like in stock
3. Different position of clear and settings button. Like this:

4. Option to disable app drawer icon
5. Notification icon: isn't there a way to just keep the notification and not the icon? The space is very ugly. Swipe home button for example lets you disable the icon and has just a message in the notification bar with no empty gap...

And then I have a question: what is the + symbol standing for when I pull the last app away from the screenside?

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JKab · Jan 15, 2014

xPr0metheus said:
Hey I tried the free app and I would like to request some things:

1. transparent background like in stock switcher
2. Option to list the apps under each other instead of next to each other (also like in stock
3. Different position of clear and settings button.
4. Option to disable app drawer icon
5. [About notification]

And then I have a question: what is the + symbol standing for when I pull the last app away from the screenside?

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Well, thanks for suggestions

1. Planned for next release

2. Why not, I try to develop a different switcher compared to the stock one, but I'll think about it
3. Looks like you really like the stock switcher, don't you

?
4. That's a good request, but not an easy one... I'm definitely going to look into it
5. Consider it done for next release

And finally, the plus symbol let the user know he can swipe back to show other apps. Is it too much for you?

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xPr0metheus · Jan 15, 2014

JKab said:
Well, thanks for suggestions

1. Planned for next release
2. Why not, I try to develop a different switcher compared to the stock one, but I'll think about it
3. Looks like you really like the stock switcher, don't you ?
4. That's a good request, but not an easy one... I'm definitely going to look into it

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Well, I use swipe home button to get into stock switcher, that makes it better and faster than every other switcher out there. But your app look very cool and promising. And, what lacks the stock switcher, it's customisable. Yet it is still simple and elegant.

There are two reasons why I suggested to chance the button positions: first, I think that it would look more symmetric, and second is that they would be easier to reach. Especially on my note 3^^

Oh and I found a bug: when I re-enable the notification icon, the app crashes.

My device is btw SM-N9005 (international note 3 with snapdragon 800) running on android 4.4.2 kitkat samsung firmware (leak), cf-rooted and xposed framework installed.

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JKab · Jan 15, 2014

xPr0metheus said:
Well, I use swipe home button to get into stock switcher, that makes it better and faster than every other switcher out there. But your app look very cool and promising. And, what lacks the stock switcher, it's customisable. Yet it is still simple and elegant.

There are two reasons why I suggested to chance the button positions: first, I think that it would look more symmetric, and second is that they would be easier to reach. Especially on my note 3^^

Oh and I found a bug: when I re-enable the notification icon, the app crashes.

My device is btw SM-N9005 (international note 3 with snapdragon 800) running on android 4.4.2 kitkat samsung firmware (leak), cf-rooted and xposed framework installed.

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This is absolutely right.

I think I can make only one simple button where you pointed out (the "close all" button), and leave the settings in the menu key, in a more android-way.

It's the first time I see this bug. It happens every time? I hope I will get a crash report from the Google developer console.

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xPr0metheus · Jan 15, 2014

I can try to send a bug report.
Maybe you could do it (again like in stock switcher, lol) that you make a row of three buttons under the the switcher (in the position I pointed at on the screen) : task manager, settings, clear button.

I like it that you always can reach the settings from the switcher itself.
I also like the plus symbol, maybe you could make an option to enable/disable it, and also different themes (like only the plus symbol without the stuff around or the color or something like that) I already guessed that it stands for the gesture, but I wanted to be sure.

And what I really love is the animation of the clear button

, it's really cool!

Edit: sent report

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bhsvault · Jan 15, 2014

Here is a video of the app in action:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeKdKVs-ry0&feature=youtu.be

JKab · Jan 15, 2014

xPr0metheus said:
I can try to send a bug report.
Maybe you could do it (again like in stock switcher, lol) that you make a row of three buttons under the the switcher (in the position I pointed at on the screen) : task manager, settings, clear button.

I like it that you always can reach the settings from the switcher itself.
I also like the plus symbol, maybe you could make an option to enable/disable it, and also different themes (like only the plus symbol without the stuff around or the color or something like that) I already guessed that it stands for the gesture, but I wanted to be sure.

And what I really love is the animation of the clear button , it's really cool!

Edit: sent report

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The report could really help fixing weird bug like that.

I'll set those buttons up in future release.

I love animations, I try to make all of them as beautiful and cool as I can

. So if you have an awesome animation idea, let me know !

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xPr0metheus · Jan 15, 2014

bhsvault said:
Here is a video of the app in action:

Haha best part when you started with the black and white calculator

But you missed the beautiful clear all animation. Try that one, it's awesome!

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burt_ie · Jan 15, 2014

Ah I really wanted to use this but it force closes on launch :'(

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xPr0metheus · Jan 15, 2014

JKab said:
The report could really help fixing weird bug like that.

I'll set those buttons up in future release.

I love animations, I try to make all of them as beautiful and cool as I can . So if you have an awesome animation idea, let me know !

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I have two ideas that maybe go too far:

First one: support of xhalofloatingwindow; that could be in different ways
1. Longpress on a thumbnail could open a menu like this:

2. The smart-slider option could open apps in xhalo windows.

The second one is even crazier;
First, take a look at this video:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/997cyp7ed4hn13d/SCR_20140115_032447.mp4

Now I imagine that when you do the gesture from the smart slider and then drag it up/down it could change between the running (and only the running) apps like in the video;

I made a quick drawing how it could look like (of course not so ugly xD)

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PROFESSOR25 · Jan 15, 2014

Thanks for the awesome app switcher! :good:

I have one thing that bothers me, and prevents me from using it as my default switcher. I wish that when I don't have any apps open it would show an empty switcher. Sometimes it can be hard to differentiate between whats gray and whats not, and I like to have it this way just in case a friend or someone else is using the phone so they can't see my recently "closed" apps. I see from other post that you are working on some upcoming features in new releases , so just wondering if this is something that can be done.

Thanks

But other than that GREAT WORK. KEEP IT UP!!!!

SmiLey497 · Jan 15, 2014

Cool app. I got this basically for the swipe to switch to the previous app function but the RAM usage is too much. Is there a way to maybe have option not to use as a full task switcher but to only be used to switch back to the previous app only.

User_99 · Jan 15, 2014

Nice idea! Well done!

How about other translations? I can do the German one

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