All editions - each notification appears only in the editions that have its feature
Notifications, the Startup Splash and Colors - How the App Shows Itself
The startup splash, the notifications, the colors of content types and programs, private password screens and one language everywhere - the ways FastMediaSorter shows itself around the phone.
Why You'll Love This
An app does not live only on its own screens. It greets you when it starts, it tells you about a long copy in the notification shade, and it colors a photo differently from a song so you can tell them apart at a glance.
This page walks through all of these small meeting points, so you know what each one means and how to change it when you want it quieter.
- FastMediaSorter in any edition.
Meet the startup splash
For the moment the app takes to start, the startup splash shows the FastMediaSorter logo and the name Fast Media Sorter fading in at the center, with a small author logo at the bottom center and a clock ticking below the logo - in the 24-hour or 12-hour style you chose for units. It disappears by itself as soon as the app is ready; tapping it does nothing, so a stray tap does not press anything behind it.
Phone, cold start of the app, the startup splash with the logo, the name, the ticking clock and the author logo.
Read the notifications - and silence the ones you do not need
Every FastMediaSorter notification carries the app logo in the status bar, so you always know where it came from - a file copy or a duplicate search no longer shows the music note of the audio player. Android groups the notifications into categories, and you can switch each category off separately. The categories are:
- Audio Playback - what is playing, with play, pause and skip buttons.
- Scheduled operations - progress of a scheduled operation.
- Network Sync Settings - background sync of a network resource.
- Duplicate scanner - progress of a duplicate search.
- Link downloads - files downloaded from a shared or pasted link; these pop up at the top of the screen.
- Browse file transfers - a copy or a move running in the background.
- Element Downloads - downloadable parts of the app, such as an extension.
- Files from the watch - a file received from the paired watch being saved.
- Voice recording - the quick voice recorder at work.
- Save fallback - a file could not be saved in the usual place and was saved elsewhere.
- Flashlight shortcut - a notification that turns the flashlight on and off.
- SOS signal - the SOS program is running.
- SFTP server - the app's own SFTP server is running.
To switch a category off, long-press any FastMediaSorter notification and tap the settings icon, or open the phone's Settings, Apps, FastMediaSorter, Notifications. Google's notification help shows the same on your phone model.
Android Settings, Apps, FastMediaSorter, Notifications, the list of categories with switches.
If you switch off the file transfer or scheduled operation categories, the work still runs - you just do not see its progress. Keep them on if you like to know when a big copy is done.
Recognize content by its color
Each type of content has one color, and it is the same everywhere: in the statistics chart, on the small badges of each row of the resource list and on the resource icons. Before, a screen could pick its own shade, so one type looked three different ways; now one color always means one type, and every color has a matching shade for the dark theme.
The same goes for programs: each has its own color and keeps it in the programs menu, the programs panel and its overflow, the quick-launch grid, the launcher desktop, the widget picker and the pinned widget on the home screen.
Main screen, resource list with several resources, each row showing its colored media-type badges.
Hide password screens from the recent-apps list
Screens where a password may be visible - adding or editing a network or server resource, the stored-credentials editor in Settings, the sign-in page in the browser and the credentials barcode - show up blank in the recent-apps list and cannot be captured in a screenshot. The switch is Secure sensitive screens in Settings, General, Authorization and accounts, and it is on from the start. All other screens stay free to capture. More privacy settings: Privacy, passcodes and network security.
One language on every screen
The app speaks thirteen languages, and the one you choose is used on every screen - also on the few that used to follow the phone's language instead: the watch companion window, the screens that open from a widget, the barcode import from the Windows companion, the permission screens for camera and screen capture, the launcher's own screens and both VR screens. After a change, every cell and section title of the launcher desktop switches too, and the choice sticks - it does not slip back to the old language. Text that is not translated yet appears in English. In the same settings group, the Unit system row shows its value right next to its name, like every other row. How to pick the language and the units: Choosing the app language and units.
What You Get
You know what the startup splash, the notifications and the colors are telling you, how to quiet any notification category, and how password screens stay private.
Tips and Troubleshooting
- Too many notifications? Switch off just the categories you do not need - the work behind them keeps running.
- Using the app on a TV? See Keyboard, D-pad and TV control.
- Backing up everything before a new phone? See Backing up and restoring settings.