About video and MP3 for Sailfish EA3 on Nexus 4 :
- see "Sailfish General > Q&A / Index sailfish on n4 thread (and other devices)" or follow the steps below;
- video (but it sometimes lags) : using Warehouse, go to "Categories" (swipe to left), navigate/search to install "Libraries-gst-plugins-bad-extra" (enable "sailfish_lib" repo then install it) and "Applications->System->Ultimate Codec Support" (enable "xerxes2" repo then install it);
- MP3 : download "gst-fluendo-mp3-0.10.23-1.armv7hl.rpm" from xerxes2 repository, copy it to Sailfish, install using "pkcon install-local gst-fluendo-mp3-0.10.23-1.armv7hl.rpm" in Terminal.

Well, I got ahold of the Jolla Launcher for android on XDA and installed it on my Galaxy Note 3. First thing I found is that it was really glitchy on the custom rom I normally use. But I changed to a stock deodexed version I had and it worked pretty well. The HD wall paper looks good. When you close an app it generally shows the app icon in the running apps grid. I prefer the Jolla grid over the column you get when you check recent tasks on android. Wish I could simply replace the android recent apps with the Jolla grid. When I start to close an app it nicely makes the transition to the grid of "running" apps. You can go back and forth over a small distance so that transition looks good. One thing is that it did not quite work exactly like on the Jolla phone because I had to lay my finger on the edge to make it work instead of just using the the point of my finger. But it still worked effectively. The maximum number of recent apps tiles seemed to be limited to 6. Not sure how to change that at this point. The pull down menu worked but there was no option for system. The swipe down on my phone still worked so I could get to android related settings and system stuff the usual way. Scrolling was a little laggy as I'm sure there is a bit of overhead to get this to work on andriod. One thing is that if you scroll up to get to your apps, there is no Jolla gesture to get you immediatley back to home page. This may be a little annoying for someone with a lot of apps. For daily drive I currently use the tweaked rom, ss launcher with gmd for swipe gestures. Overally this combination is still better for me than using Jolla Launcher. Regardless, once the performance is improved, some more features are added making it more customizable I think this launcher will be a real winner.


EDIT: Just a brief update. I was able to make 9 tiles on the home screen. And it seems that when you repeatedly use an app a snapshot of your more recent screen is eventually used as the tile. It still seems awkward when you start up an app there is a transition to the home screen with the tiles and then the app opens.

@riyono

Looks like you just made it to the front page at xda, congrats!

http://www.xda-developers.com/androi...g-android-4-2/

Its very unuserfreindly now glitches, boot loops and lag but WHO cares? I still beleive in a real port rather than lancher...still intressting move by jolla. Me likes.

Looks like Jolla is about to get a whole lot busier...
Or at least a whole lot more whining from a user-base they hadn't intended (or are ready) to support.

What are you talking about, the launder doesn't cause boot-loops, that occurs -sometimes- with Sailfish itself (& the port too possibly).

Well, you have to hard reset over and over again in a manual Reboot loop if that makes It clear to you. But that is probobly related to Roms and android versions.

Yeah it is a bit buggy (crashes randomly every once in a while, side swipes sometimes stop working, notifications stop showing up, no notification screen) but it (kind of) works! I was pleasantly surprised with it (not bad for Alpha version) and I'm using it purely as an email-checking-on-wifi device. My N9 is unusable for email now.

I got the apk from the XDA thread I'm using it on a galaxy nexus with a freshly flashed Paranoid Android 4.4 ROM.

Jolla releasing the launcher is a good thing IMO because it got me excited about Sailfish when I was just about beginning to get tired of it. I can't wait for the HADK to be released now.

OT: Anyone manage to get Ubuntu Touch (trusty) running on a Galaxy Nexus? I've tried and failed multiple times.

I just installed it in cyanogenmod11 on galaxy s3(gt-i9300) and it seems pretty smooth until now(5mins )!

There are some things that I don't really like, because it is a launcher... Some of them are the status bar of android... When you swipe from the top it is visible even in the jolla launcher and it is a little ugly...

I also thought that the whole "swipe" thing that it gets you from the app to the opened apps would work with the launcher but it doesn't...

I know it is not ready yet but I would love to see this in the launcher, and even more I would love to install real jolla on my phone
Come on, it is summer

Edit: I found one more "bug". Whenever I lock my phone it usually does a small sound with every other launcher, but with jolla launcher it does the same sound and then it does 4 more times faster again the same sound... Does anyone noticed that?

Same thing reported in the xda forum in riyonos topic, though only double sound (like when plugging jolla for just charging to a pc)