Wow this permanently runs at over 100 mb of ram, can you please make a way to disable all the apps and xposed bloat and just have it as a forum browser?
+1 for that. And a setting for disabling push service will be handy as well.
Please either make the forum part a separate downloadable app or make the ability to disable the other features as they don't really seem needed for me (and probably a lot of others)
So this is to address the whole concern/suggestions about splitting up the app. This is also to address posts that claim having both the forums and apps/xposed/wallpapers section of Labs is bloated.
First off, we are looking into making it so that you can disable or at least hide various parts of the app depending on your interest. The goal here is to create a better XDA experience, and while there are users who just primarily use the forums, there are also users who heavily use Xposed or who use Labs to get the latest apks before Play pushes them out.
Separating all those things out would first off make a ton of different apps to install, but also make it harder for us to maintain and develop for.
Second, and this is how the app currently works, each section of the app is handled using Android's native memory management. What that means is that say you're in the
Apps/Xposed section and you switch to Forums. When Android needs RAM, it will automatically stop the Apps/Xposed activity and reclaim that memory. This means that sure, if you go from one to the other, they're both in memory right after that, but Android will appropriately clean up depending on what it needs and what section you're actually using.
This allows us to have a Forums and Apps/Xposed section in the app and to effectively hide one of those activities in the user interface and never load those activities in memory.
Right now if you enable the XDA Forums launcher icon, the app will load the Forums
only and unless you go to Labs proper, will not load that part of the app in memory.
This doesn't address the issue people have mentioned where they want to disable the Labs part entirely and only have forums (with 1 launcher icon), but it does address the fear I've seen here that imply simply having an Apps/Xposed section the app is using up memory or causing "bloat".
So in the cards the idea of being able to disable/prioritize sections of the app you use most is
definitely something we're considering and putting a lot of thought into.