[APP][ANDROID TV] Projectivy Launcher

[Peat1980]

Regarding notifications:

My main device is also a shield tv. It's almost never showing notifications if i press home no matter what app (NewPipe, SmartTubeNext, Open Radio, KODI, etc.) but if the launcher is somehow refreshed / reloaded while something is playing in background notifications then show for every app.

 

[Peat1980]

Regarding visually disappearing icons:

Steps to reproduce:

Set your categories as multi row,
Highlight different things on each row,
and then change the rows a few times.
Sooner or later some icons will disappear.
It seems like the row acts like single row and hides some items as if they were slided off the screen.

Attached is a video demonstrating this behaviour.

 

[Peat1980]

Also would it be possible for a future version to have an option to close an app in the app long press menu? Maybe instead of the "open" entry?

I ask because i have to force close KODI often cause it tends to freeze sometimes.

Still, besides those little issues, projectivity is awesome and a joy to use.

 

[DoctorBRR]

@spocky12, thank you very much for the excellent work!

Undoubtedly the best home screen I've ever tested on my Xiaomi Mi Box and Mecool Kd3 Google TV Stick.

To be perfect just missing:

• Reduce the space between the first row and the top of the screen, so that more content (other rows) is visible (as in the first image);
• Go to the first shortcut on the first row on the home screen when the "Home" button of the remote control is pressed. Currently (with version 4.2.2) nothing happens when using the button;
• The size of the watch could be a little smaller (as in the first image).

 

[sdcollins47]

Great Launcher!! Only issue I'm having is locating where to unhide apps.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[brackenhill_mob]

Great Launcher!! Only issue I'm having is locating where to unhide apps.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

In the main row/block which listed all the apps when you first install ProjectIvy. At work so can't tell you what that row was called

 

[sdcollins47]

Thanks but I never could figure it out. Just cleared the data and started over. Lol! I did succeed in getting done though.

 

[Peat1980]

Thanks but I never could figure it out. Just cleared the data and started over. Lol! I did succeed in getting done though.

You just have to press left on the tv apps row and navigate to the gear logo, press ok then scroll down and choose the hidden item(s) you want to unhide. Thats it.

 

[stevevalo]

I have the WEMAX One rooted and cannot update any apps via the Play Store - when I click on update they just show Pending... and never progress to downloading or installing.

Can any advise on how to fix this issue.

Long version - WEMAX One rooted from the beginning, using Projectivy launcher since it was released. Up to version 4.02 I could not even launch the play store, it would just never work, no matter what I tried. I had version 4.21 installed for a couple of weeks and it was the same story, click play store and nothing happened or I got a login screen which did not work.
The other day I powered the WEMAX on and left the room for a couple of minutes, when I came back the screen was a set-up screen for android, this I thought was strange, anyway I followed the steps entered google username etc etc and the WEMAX started as normal. I thought I would try the play store and it worked, but nothing updates or installs.

Any advise please.

 

[djdrumz]

Is there anyway to make a backup of the the settings for this launcher?

 

[spocky12]

Regarding notifications:

My main device is also a shield tv. It's almost never showing notifications if i press home no matter what app (NewPipe, SmartTubeNext, Open Radio, KODI, etc.) but if the launcher is somehow refreshed / reloaded while something is playing in background notifications then show for every app.

Thanks for the bug report. It should be fixed in next release.

Regarding visually disappearing icons:

Steps to reproduce:

Set your categories as multi row,
Highlight different things on each row,
and then change the rows a few times.
Sooner or later some icons will disappear.
It seems like the row acts like single row and hides some items as if they were slided off the screen.

Attached is a video demonstrating this behaviour.

Thanks again. It seems to happen only on categories defined as multirow while having only one row.
It happens on the framework, but I thing I managed to implement a workaround. Hopefully it didn't break anythign else

Also would it be possible for a future version to have an option to close an app in the app long press menu? Maybe instead of the "open" entry?

I ask because i have to force close KODI often cause it tends to freeze sometimes.

Still, besides those little issues, projectivity is awesome and a joy to use.

Only system app can kill other processes. For your needs, just go to "App settings". There you will have the force close option.

@spocky12, thank you very much for the excellent work!

Undoubtedly the best home screen I've ever tested on my Xiaomi Mi Box and Mecool Kd3 Google TV Stick.

To be perfect just missing:

• Reduce the space between the first row and the top of the screen, so that more content (other rows) is visible (as in the first image);
• Go to the first shortcut on the first row on the home screen when the "Home" button of the remote control is pressed. Currently (with version 4.2.2) nothing happens when using the button;
• The size of the watch could be a little smaller (as in the first image).

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I've been able to restore the 1st icon selection on launch despite the bug in the framework.
Regards your 2 other requests, I added them on my todo list.

I have the WEMAX One rooted and cannot update any apps via the Play Store - when I click on update they just show Pending... and never progress to downloading or installing.

Can any advise on how to fix this issue.

Long version - WEMAX One rooted from the beginning, using Projectivy launcher since it was released. Up to version 4.02 I could not even launch the play store, it would just never work, no matter what I tried. I had version 4.21 installed for a couple of weeks and it was the same story, click play store and nothing happened or I got a login screen which did not work.
The other day I powered the WEMAX on and left the room for a couple of minutes, when I came back the screen was a set-up screen for android, this I thought was strange, anyway I followed the steps entered google username etc etc and the WEMAX started as normal. I thought I would try the play store and it worked, but nothing updates or installs.

Any advise please.

I believe you need to activate the accessibility service and use the Override Custom props (on old MiTv systems, Xiaomi added checks for prevent the google services from working).

Is there anyway to make a backup of the the settings for this launcher?

Not yet, but its planned for a future release.

 

[rustemcaushi]

Very impressive application, the native launcher is an ads hub, recommend buying premium! Good job to the team

I love the parental control feature, through the arrow combination especially with kids nowadays.

I have a few questions:
1. Is there any way to back up the configuration of the application I have multiple devices and I need the same settings.
2. is there any way to password-protect also "settings" of the application?
3. anyway to recover the forgotten password (arrow combination)?

 

[[email protected]]

Hey,
Just purchased premium! to support the development. only one thing missing for me, otherwise an excellent alternative to stock.

The ability to change the clock size / and 12/24hrs time format. - I did look to see if this was set on a global level before posting. but doesn't look like it is.

Thanks again for the continued work!

 

[spocky12]

Very impressive application, the native launcher is an ads hub, recommend buying premium! Good job to the team

I love the parental control feature, through the arrow combination especially with kids nowadays.

I have a few questions:
1. Is there any way to back up the configuration of the application I have multiple devices and I need the same settings.
2. is there any way to password-protect also "settings" of the application?
3. anyway to recover the forgotten password (arrow combination)?

1. Not yet
2. Every action available as a card can be protected by parental control ("Projectivy Launcher Settings" makes no exception). But there's a bug on the current version that bypasses the parental control check if you launch this action from the right handside menu. I've just fixed it. Despite not being the most practical (you need to protect each "setting" entry one by one), this should cover most of your needs (yet, card/category management wouldn't be protected). I'll think of a more global feature in a future version.
3. That's on my todo list. I still haven't found the best approach : a universal reset code would be easily found on internet and then protection wouldn't be so useful. Any idea ?

ey,
Just purchased premium! to support the development. only one thing missing for me, otherwise an excellent alternative to stock.

The ability to change the clock size / and 12/24hrs time format. - I did look to see if this was set on a global level before posting. but doesn't look like it is.

Thanks again for the continued work!

Thanks for your support!
Clock size is definitely planned soon.
Regarding the clock time format, Projectivy doesn't manage it at all : it requests the clock from the OS and globally listens to OS-wide changes. This means that changing the clock (time, format, timezone...) in stock Android settings should be immediately reflected in Projectivy (it seems to be working fine on all the devices I've tested so far).

 

[lvdoan]

@spocky12, thank you very much for the excellent work!

Undoubtedly the best home screen I've ever tested on my Xiaomi Mi Box and Mecool Kd3 Google TV Stick.

To be perfect just missing:

• Reduce the space between the first row and the top of the screen, so that more content (other rows) is visible (as in the first image);
• Go to the first shortcut on the first row on the home screen when the "Home" button of the remote control is pressed. Currently (with version 4.2.2) nothing happens when using the button;
• The size of the watch could be a little smaller (as in the first image).

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Share the same ideas/suggestions to perfect the app. Both "Back" and "Home" buttons should be used to go to the first shortcut on the first row on the home screen. Multirow of each Category is very useful, it woulbe even better if the number of apps/shortcuts can be set for each row or category.

 

[lvdoan]

Great on the Nvidia shield. Couple feature additions would be great.

1. Let us use more of the space at the top. 50 percent of the screen is just wallpaper, would be nice to move the rows up to fill the gap.

2. It would be great to use the shield's shortcuts like long pressing the back button to bring up the Android settings menu, and double pressing the home button to bring up the app switcher.

3. An option to wrap the rows instead of scrolling infinitely.

An issue I saw today, I was going to try and buy the premium version and the continue button wouldn't take me to the play store for some reason. Other than that great stuff all around, probably gonna be my default launcher on all my devices going forward.

Ya, it would be nice to move the rows up to fill the gap on upper part of the home screen.

 

[rustemcaushi]

I will get the pro version anyway love the app.

 

[rustemcaushi]

Ya, it would be nice to move the rows up to fill the gap on upper part of the home screen.

1. Not yet
2. Every action available as a card can be protected by parental control ("Projectivy Launcher Settings" makes no exception). But there's a bug on the current version that bypasses the parental control check if you launch this action from the right handside menu. I've just fixed it. Despite not being the most practical (you need to protect each "setting" entry one by one), this should cover most of your needs (yet, card/category management wouldn't be protected). I'll think of a more global feature in a future version.
3. That's on my todo list. I still haven't found the best approach : a universal reset code would be easily found on internet and then protection wouldn't be so useful. Any idea ?

Thanks for your support!
Clock size is definitely planned soon.
Regarding the clock time format, Projectivy doesn't manage it at all : it requests the clock from the OS and globally listens to OS-wide changes. This means that changing the clock (time, format, timezone...) in stock Android settings should be immediately reflected in Projectivy (it seems to be working fine on all the devices I've tested so far).

Thank you for your reply very much appreciated.

Regarding the recovery could be a screenshot of the arrow combination or something like "<^>v " to the account on the google play store (most the users will install through play store and the account is alredy configured )

 

[[email protected]]

1. Not yet
2. Every action available as a card can be protected by parental control ("Projectivy Launcher Settings" makes no exception). But there's a bug on the current version that bypasses the parental control check if you launch this action from the right handside menu. I've just fixed it. Despite not being the most practical (you need to protect each "setting" entry one by one), this should cover most of your needs (yet, card/category management wouldn't be protected). I'll think of a more global feature in a future version.
3. That's on my todo list. I still haven't found the best approach : a universal reset code would be easily found on internet and then protection wouldn't be so useful. Any idea ?

Thanks for your support!
Clock size is definitely planned soon.
Regarding the clock time format, Projectivy doesn't manage it at all : it requests the clock from the OS and globally listens to OS-wide changes. This means that changing the clock (time, format, timezone...) in stock Android settings should be immediately reflected in Projectivy (it seems to be working fine on all the devices I've tested so far).

Thanks! - you are of course right it's global ignore me! away to default the application rows to the default start position could be useful too! and please add STube support for Watch next! that could be awesome - if it's possible.

One thing bug maybe? I noted was on my Sony Bravia with Google TV - if I search for a custom wallpaper it will not do this says no application found or something, on Wolf/ATV launcher this worked and found the android / google TV file manager browser.

Thanks again! keep it up!

 

[Peat1980]

Thanks! - you are of course right it's global ignore me! away to default the application rows to the default start position could be useful too! and please add STube support for Watch next! that could be awesome - if it's possible.

One thing bug maybe? I noted was on my Sony Bravia with Google TV - if I search for a custom wallpaper it will not do this says no application found or something, on Wolf/ATV launcher this worked and found the android / google TV file manager browser.

Thanks again! keep it up!

Just install a file manager and it should work.
For example i'm using MixPlorer on my bravia tv and that works fine.