FREE42 SKINS ANDROID SKIN
FREE42 SKINS ANDROID FOR ANDROID

I haven't added a built-in landscape skin yet, because the ones I have don't look very good at 480x320, but depending on screen size, the 42ct, HP42CY, or Voyager42 skins from the Free42Skins.zip package may be usable. While this works fine, it means that the orientation switch can be slow, particularly if you are working with large matrices. Landscape support is a bit primitive: apart from allowing the orientation change, Free42 doesn't do anything to support it actively, which means the OS has to shut down the app and then relaunch it with the new orientation. I added landscape mode support, and an 'enable key clicks' Preferences setting (so you can control key clicks independently of TONE/BEEP). This new implementation is not perfect, but I think it will meet the needs of most users, without adding a lot of complexity to the code or the user interface. Free42 does not help with the process of copying skins, but it can use them once they are copied. If you want to have a set of custom skins permanently available, regardless if what's in the SD card slot, you may have to root your phone and/or use a file manager to copy the skins to a directory in the built-in storage. In that case, Free42 will revert to the built-in skin, but it will remember the external skin's path, and when it is relaunched with the SD card once again present, it will load the external skin again. Note that if a skin is selected from an SD card, Free42 will not be able to load that skin if it is relaunched later when that SD card has been removed. I had originally planned to make the skins directory location configurable, but then it occurred to me that making the user select the directory in one place and then choose the skin in another made no sense I might as well combine the two.

FREE42 SKINS ANDROID FOR ANDROID

This new version of Free42 for Android is meant to avoid these problems, by letting the user select skins from anywhere, using a file selection dialog. Originally, the app would look for the *.gif and *.layout files in /sdcard/Free42, but that causes problems on some devices, because of an incorrect /sdcard symlink, or because of case-smashing in the FAT32 filesystem. There have been a couple of minor bug fixes, but the important change is skin handling. I posted four updates in quick succession, but only the release notes for the most recent one (1.4.67.4) appear on the Market page, and to make things even more confusing, the 'updated' date still shows April 10th. Yesterday I updated Free42 in the Android Market and on my web site.

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