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tanujnotes
Main view displaying after search
This is a bit of a weird and specific bug, I am not sure this will be consistent across devices.
When I open certain applications with a search, instead of the application launching directly, the main view of the launcher is shown and then the application is launched.
This is happening for me with google calendar and twitch for example, calendar is the longest to launch.
What I expect:
- Swipe up
- type "calendar"
- Google calendar opens
What actually happens:
- Swipe up
- type "calendar"
- search view switches to main view
- Then google calendar opens
This happens because the launcher aggressively switches to home screen whenever there's a hint of user switching to anything else. (I can't remember now but I had good reasons to make it like this) So whenever the app takes some time to launch, user can see the home screen for a moment.
I have added a fix for this. It looks fine for now but if I see any unintended side effects, I'll switch it back.
Some users complained that app drawer is not closing automatically when they switch to other apps. Switching back to older implementation until I figure out a better solution for this.
One solution would be to move the call to backToHomeScreen() to override onResume instead of the uesr-leave and onStop functions.
In This case there could be a short moment where you sitll see the app drawer (the app list) after going back to olauncher. I am thinkin about implementing it that way in my forked version
That showing of app drawer for a split second is highly undesirable. Besides, on newer devices, apps launch quick enough that you don't get to see the home screen before app launch so this is not a big problem. But of course it can be improved.