Johnny Wishbone

Does anyone know if gestures with 3rd party Launchers is fixed.

Yeah that’s the one, I’ve seen it explained like this, these are not my words but copy pasta from a Reddit thread I seen a while back

The recents menu, the one where you swipe up, hold, and get a card view of all your recent apps, used to be in a file called systemUI.apk. The systemUI holds files for lots of things. The bottom 3 buttons, the top bar icons the pull down shade, and tons of other things, as well as the recents list. All of the things in systemUI are accessible from pretty much any app, like 3rd party launchers. It’s a safe place for Android to hold things that any dev can have access too. The launchers would just invoke the function to show the recents with no lag at all, just like the stock launcher did.

Google, being Google, moved the recents list into the stock launcher.apk. Now, when a 3rd party launcher has to call the function to show the recents, it now has to use an api to invoke it from the stock launcher. Call api function. Function asks the stock launcher to show the recents. Stock launcher returns call to 3rd party launcher. Recents are then shown. Now there is a slight lag, because now there is a middle man. This is also why sometimes you get a blank screen for a millisecond and also why you cannot click another app immediately after returning to the home screen when closing an app, or from the recents list using a 3rd party launcher.

Before this, you could actually delete the stock launcher and use any launcher you wanted. Now, the stock launcher HAS to be installed in order to show the recents list. If the launcher has been dormant for a bit, the launcher then has to reload into memory in order to call that api method.

I hope to god they fix the gestures with 3rd party launchers bug.

Thanks, I’ll check it out. I’ve installed lineage since it was Cyanogenmod on secondary devices for years. I dedicate them for audiobook playback and music playback. I’ll look in to it.

Lineage OS is highly insecure ?

Great idea, you could also use it to see how shit your signal is in certain buildings. In a world of apps with old ideas this is genuinely something interesting and different. Thanks dev.

A lot of companies require branded work wear to be returned or destroyed to stop people impersonating their employees. It may not seem like a big deal but a bad actor could use it in any number of ways.

Imagine some one used a branded work shirt to gain access to your granny’s house when she thought they were from a company or service they trusted etc.

Certainly the police and other emergency services won’t want their uniforms in the wrong hands.

In my view it might seem like wastage but there are good reasons to destroy these clothing items, I guess it depends what business you’re in.

I installed this recently to try and fix control of the gestures that have issues with returning home on Android 14 with a 3rd party launcher

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ss.edgegestures

This lets you program your own gestures and can discount your original ones if you set it up right, may be what your looking for.

I gave up on wandering inn half way through the titan of baleros, it was a bit of a chore

There are so many I really enjoy, these are all great stories with superb narration.

The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher are awesome Narrated by James Masters

The Mitch Rapp Series By Vince Flynn Narrated by George Guidall

The Walt Longmire Series By Craig Johnson also narrated by George Guidall

The Victor the Assassin Series By Tom Wood The Rob Shapiro ones are narrated the best there is another narrator depending on region

The Riyria Series By Michael J Sullivan Narrated by Tim Gerrard Reynolds

The Night lord Series By Garon Whited Narrated by Sean Runnette

The Witcher Series By Andrzej Sapkowski narrated by Peter Kenny

Bobbiverse as previously mentioned

Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinimon narrated by Jeff Hayes

I have listened to some of these series 3 or 4 times and would highly recommend them all.

Also

Skunk works by Ben R Rich Narrated by Pete Larkin

And project hail Mary as previously mentioned for stand alone titles.

Remove insoles, place in old pillow case, zip tie the pillow case shut, put on a daily short wash probably about an hour at 30 degrees, small amount of detergent and white vinegar in the fabric softener tray, dry in sun or on radiator. Never fails.