LauncherPro Beta (SUPER FAST & SMOOTH Launcher!)

[Profano]

To all of the people that are having issues with the latest update.. if you read the through post that Fede posted on his website. It will take care of most if not all of them.

 

[mitchb2]

To all of the people that are having issues with the latest update.. if you read the through post that Fede posted on his website. It will take care of most if not all of them.

Nothing helpful there.

 

[REMilk]

How to Eliminate/reduce the force closings

I, too, started to encounter force closings with this version. I went to the website and read the information on the website.

My FC's were most likely caused by using 7 screen with large number of icons and the large number of widgets. I am also set at 5 rows (portrait) and have apps in each of the dock areas.

This is how I eliminated the FCs.

Menu>Preferences>General Settings>Memory Usage

Select "Light"

The explanation is on Frederico's web site.

This worked for me, hopefully it will work for you.

Bob

 

[Beardface]

Fede,

Just wanted to update you on everything. Thanks for the help yesterday, I think I was able to clean up my usage enough and trim the fat enough that my phone is now usable again. I think I might have had one FC last night, but I'm not sure, and if I did it was most likely my fault.

I do have one suggestion. It might be a good idea to make all the defaults to the settings that would allow LauncherPro to use the least amount of memory possible. Then, as people change, they will know they are continuing to use up resources and if they start getting a lot of FCs, they know which settings to change back... Just a thought...

 

[Shadez]

phone has been extremely laggy lately. home screen lag, goes into screen viewer mode but stacks all screen in top left corner in a weird glitch

Yea it shows all your screens in screen mode with nothing on them.. then uninstalls some apps.. freezes.. reboots..)(&#(&&

 

[p1ngputts]

I turned my phone off last night and when I turned it on this morning, my LPB shortcuts and app drawer button are gone. Anyone else having this prob?

 

[mitchb2]

Yea it shows all your screens in screen mode with nothing on them.. then uninstalls some apps.. freezes.. reboots..)(&#(&&

Pressing the Apps Drawer button, it now takes 2-3 seconds to respond. Pressing Home button to get back does the same thing.

What a shame...this launcher was so awesome and fast. It's too bad that app devs can't move on to a different project once they've perfected something. Instead they feel compelled to keep tinkering until they break it. Same thing happened to xScope.

 

[markwebb]

I am now having problems with this app. Preferences in settings aren't "sticking" and I have been losing app drawers, widgets and icons etc. My enthusiasm has cooled for this app. However, I don't know if it could be something in Kangerade v1.1 (I don't recall having these issues in Kangerade v1.0, so am not sure if the 2 are related or coincidence).

 

[mitchb2]

Is there a way to roll back to the previous version?
I actually hesitated before clicking "update" last night because everything was working so great.

Kicking myself.

"If it ain't broke, don't fix it." I've heard this all my life, and yet I clicked.

 

[pc747]

i have to admit its smooth for me. I followed the devs comments and it works almost perfect. I prefer performance over looks. One think I do have for you Fede is every so often (its rare but happened enough for me to ask about it) when I open my app drawer all the apps are bunched up and takes a few to get back to normal. Is there a setting to correct that.


Those having issues are you following his suggestions:

auncherPro Beta 0.6.1 released

Jun 23rd

Posted by Federico in Updates
22 comments

Ok, this is going to be a longer post than usual. There’s some important new settings on LauncherPro and I feel like I should give you some background on it.
LauncherPro creates bitmap caches of everything on your homescreens to make scrolling smoother. These caches take up memory. Android limits the amount of memory any app can use to 24mb (16mb on devices with 320×480 resolution). Whenever an app exceeds that limit, it crashes and force closes.
The stock Android launcher rarely runs out of memory because of its 5-screen limit. With LauncherPro you get up to 7 screens, an option to have 5 rows of icons (more icons/widgets per screen), a shortcut dock and more. All that increases the memory usage, making it easier to exceed the memory limit and crash.
Ever since the first few releases of LauncherPro, I’ve been making tweaks to the code to try and reduce the memory usage to reduce the amount of crashes. Some of these tweaks came at the cost of little performance hits. Basically compromised a bit of performance for stability. Now, a lot of people didn’t need these tweaks since their memory usage was not excessive and in the result they lost some performance for nothing.
So I’ve decided to approach this a different way. Instead of trying to make a one-size-fits-all memory management solution, I’m going to let YOU take charge of it according to your needs.
Starting with version 0.6.1, there is a new option in the preferences called “Memory usage”. Right now there are three modes; light, medium, and high.

• Light mode is basically what 0.6.0 uses, and it’s made for users that have 5 or more screens, a lot of widgets/icons (or many full-screen widgets), 3D drawer, etc.
• Medium is the default, it should work best for most users with a moderate-to-high amount of widgets/icons.
• High mode doesn’t try to optimize memory usage. It’s very much like the early versions of LauncherPro, so it should give the best performance. If you don’t have a lot of widgets/icons on your screens, you should try this setting.

With that said, I should also give you some tips so that you can choose what to compromise or not:

• Using a dock background uses more memory than not using one
• 3D drawer uses considerably more memory than 2D drawer
• Using the additional shortcuts on the scrolling dock uses more memory than leaving them blank

More memory usage levels will be added over time, as I find new ways to optimize memory usage.
Ok, with that out of the way, let’s get on to the other changes in 0.6.1:

• The preferences screen was getting a bit crowded, so I’ve arranged it into different screens. There will be some more rearranging in the next releases to try and keep it as tidy as possible.
• The new “Keep in Memory” option was giving lots of trouble and force closes, so I’ve disabled it in 0.6.1. If you’d like to use that feature, please re-enable it manually in the preferences.
• New option to enable/disable dock scrolling
• New option to enable/disable loop scrolling on the dock. This means that when you reach the end, you can still scroll to go to the first set of shortcuts.
• The set of dock shortcuts on the far right has been moved to the far left, so now what was the leftmost dock is in the middle (and is still the default dock).

That’s it for now.

LauncherPro Beta v0.6.0 on the Android Market!

Jun 17th

Posted by Federico in Updates
178 comments

The new LauncherPro Beta v0.6.0 is here and it brings the goodies! It includes a few bugfixes and some exciting new features.
Here’s what’s new:

• Fixed the bug where the app drawer’s home button would show for a second after coming back from an application.
• Fixed screen previews when choosing to have 2 homescreens
• Fixed some folder-related bugs when 5-row option is selected.
• New screen indicator (optional). If you’re not using the homescreen dots in your dock, you can choose do display a small indicator at the bottom of the screen to know on which homescreen you are. You can enable it in the preferences
• New: The app drawer button is now a regular dock shortcut. That means you can change its position, change its icon, or remove it entirely.
• New: The dock has grown! Swipe the dock to the left (down in landscape) to reveal 5 additional shortcut spaces. Now swipe it again for 5 more! That makes a total of 15 shortctus. You can add the app drawer button on the new dock spaces by long-pressing on one and choosing “App Drawer”.
• New: Option to keep LauncherPro in memory. When you’re running low on memory, the system usually kills LauncherPro, so next time you open it, it has to reload all widgets and icons which takes a few seconds. This option should keep the system from killing LauncherPro. If you experience any troubles with it, please disable it on the settings.How about that? I hope you like these new features as much as I do.
  Please head over to our forum to post any comments, suggestions and bug reports. It’s much easier for me to keep track of stuff there than in the comments here.
  Click here or here to download the APK file.

 

[pc747]

for those wanting to go to a previous version he keep all the apks on his website


http://www.launcherpro.com/

 

[PhoenixGTR]

My apps drawer is fine as is scrolling, but this morning I turned on my Droid and my clock/weather widget had migrated to another screen...weird. No fc today, but has happened when I'm in a hurry to see something just after bootup.
Will try set memory to light.

Sent from my Droid using Tapatalk

 

[papy72]

The only real issue I have seen is that sometimes it takes as much as five seconds to go to my home screen when I press the home button.

 

[djkms]

I turned my phone off last night and when I turned it on this morning, my LPB shortcuts and app drawer button are gone. Anyone else having this prob?

There is a new feature in launcherpro that lets you add more than 5 icons in the shortcut tray. Swipe your tray left or right and it should take you back to your default tray.

 

[Shadez]

I turned my phone off last night and when I turned it on this morning, my LPB shortcuts and app drawer button are gone. Anyone else having this prob?

There is a new feature in launcherpro that lets you add more than 5 icons in the shortcut tray. Swipe your tray left or right and it should take you back to your default tray.

Yea and thats another thing, sometimes mine changes to a row of + signs..