Updates

So SoftGlow is "pretty much done" (unless I decide otherwise), and I'm looking to put in into final bugfix testing in a couple of days, but time is tight and my energy currently is limited.

Power Manager is undergoing a large change with its next version, expect to see Material features, animations, shading, quicker interaction, and an all around easier experience.

Home Button is looking to receive a small bugfix update as well in the near future.

A fourth project I have been thinking of expands on Home Button's idea of a software button replacement, only it changes a couple of things. For one, the scope of the project will be larger. Instead of just the Home Button, expect to see other functions, like volume control, brightness, lock screen actions, and of course, the home button all emulated in software. Also instead of being a static notification, the interface to the application will be floating, like the overlay currently in Power Manager.

Maybe, maybe.

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Supporting Old Versions

First off, Old versions (API 10 Gingerbread) will still be supported by newer applications. But with the changes that Material brings there are many features, most importantly animation, that cannot be supported below API 15. While this sounds like an issue, as there are 5 API levels that are unsupported, there is only an estimated 6 percent of all Android users still running on an API below 15, and that 6 percent primarily consists of users on Gingerbread API 10. If you are one of those users I am sorry that you will not be able to take full advantage of the newer improvements, but I digress that I must continue to push for the adoption of new and improved Android versions, and creating applications which tether towards those versions over older one is one way to accelerate the push for Android versioning standardization.

tl;dr No animations for 15 and below, sorry!

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i3-wm and Tiling Window Managers

So over the weekend I switched one of my systems from OpenBox to i3-wm and so far have been enjoying the experience. I have used tiling managers in the past, starting with DWM and then AwesomeWM, but went over to OpenBox because I wanted to try out a floating manager. But as it turns out, for most use cases in OpenBox I would simply maximize the windows or part them to both sides of the screen, kind of like what a Tiling manager does automatically.

So why continue to use OpenBox then if all I am doing is manually tiling windows myself in a stacking manager. So I made the switch, and right now its a very minimal system I've got going on. But I'm enjoying my time and especially enjoy the fact that i3-wm has operating "modes" ala Vim. More on that maybe later.

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Power Manager released!

An update to Power Manager has been released onto the store, and you should be receiving notifications on your device(s) soon. The update brings stability improvements, fixes a nasty crash with a bad vesion of Google Play Services, and introduces the first implementation of power triggers into the application. The fixes introduced are of large importance, and the update is recommended for all users to please download and install as soon as possible. With the release of 4.4.0, Power Manager will go into a stability period, where efforts will be focused on other projects, and Power Manager itself will shift it's focus to the next version, which looks to implement a cleaner UI, the themes and idea behind Material Design, and a smoother and more reliable operation all around.

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Home Button

Home Button bugfix finally dropped as it took me a while to figure out what the problem exactly was. Initially, it appeared that the crash was happening in Android native code, so there was nothing I could do to fix it. Turns out it was a tiny bug in the Google Play Services package that caused a NoClassDefFound error. A simple fix and now we're rolling.

Power Manager is planned for the next week or so, although schedules will serve to decide when exactly I get around to finalizing it.

SoftGlow is going through a very long update process which I apologize for. There was a lot of cruft in the original release and I feel like this update merits a lot of work hours that are being put into it. Seeing as the last version was released about five months ago, I want this next version to really shine with its polish.

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