[Question] Quick Settings/Notification shade requires Accessibility?

[awwRoar]

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App version 1.4.6 (source: f-droid) mandates allowing accessibility permission to show notification shade (or quick settings) on swipe down. App version 1.4.4 did not need it. So I just felt like asking. Why?

(I have come across a related issue, where in it was said that the notification shade should be shown even without the accessibility permission, so that didn't answer my question :/ )

Additional information

Context: My device occasionally cleans up the accessibility permissions or constantly reminds me to do so in the long run. And swipe down was working without it, now does not work like it was after updating to 1.4.6 unless I granted accessibility permission.

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[github-tty]

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[awwRoar]

I see v1.4.8 here on Github. Will check this one out.

Also 5x app size increase. What happened :)

[awwRoar]

v1.4.8 - swipe up for All apps - animation broken. It just appears suddenly. Worked fine in v1.4.6
(Still requires Accessibility permission for notification access.)

Should I open a separate issue for this? I felt like not opening too many issues at once.😅 If you allow me, I shall.

[HeCodes2Much]

Also 5x app size increase. What happened :)

Apps are font size 18 by default always have been unless you change them.

[awwRoar]

No app size I mean size of the mLauncher app: ~4mb previously to ~20mb in the latest version. (Not a problem, was just curious 🙂).

[HeCodes2Much]

ok so the issue with size is todo with this code below but that also breaks the backup system if set to true so need to fix that asap

isMinifyEnabled = true
isShrinkResources = true

[HeCodes2Much]

For now on i'm gonna disable them as they break my backup and restore system which ill find a fix for at a later date

[awwRoar]

Okay. Got it.

[HeCodes2Much]

The API for not using accessibility is out of date and deprecated but if it's a must all add it back and if it later breaks then I'll remove it.

[awwRoar]

... if it's a must all add it back ...

Please add it back. Thank you 😀

[HeCodes2Much]

@awwRoar im gonna move this here and close the other 2 issues as they are also covered by your questions here

[awwRoar]

Okay cool

[awwRoar]

Another small suggestion: f-droid page still shows the old app icon in the header.

App versions on f-droid: It has v1.4.4 (with old app icon) and v1.4.6 (with the new app icon).

Did not find v1.4.5 on f-droid (so, the 'App icon changed' changelog is missing there) and for a moment I thought I got phished after looking at the brand new icon on v1.4.6. Had to recheck with GitHub and Telegram group icon.

Changing the f-droid header icon will probably avoid this confusion for someone else paranoid like me.

(New icon looks professional, old icon looks funky 💯. Both are cool)

f-droid screenshot:

[HeCodes2Much]

so you said the animation has changed... i have gone back as far as 1.4.4 and its still the same as 1.4.8 please can you clarify what you mean?

I even went as far back as 1.3.0

[awwRoar]

I'll attach screen recordings of v1.4.6 and v1.4.8 below.

v1.4.6:

v1.4.6.mp4

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v1.4.8

Screenrecorder.v1.4.8.mp4

[awwRoar]

Tried on two devices (Phone & Tablet). Same. In v1.4.6 it was a smooth fly-in and in v1.4.8, just appears.