Future Ideas

[basharast]

Future & Limitations

This was the most longest project I spent time on it

due to my limited capacity I reached I decided to boost the development for release and ignored some points

there are more things to do:

App

• Add version tag to About grid item at the corner [Done in 1.2.1]
• We should have startup protection against crash by large fonts
• We should have startup protection against crash by extension [Done in 1.3]
• FPS drop message shouldn't appear in gaming mode [Done in 1.3]
• UI loaders must not force vertex update, instead should skip some frames
• Tabs can be replaced with modern animated sections [Done in 1.3]
• For 8.1 we should add Bluetooth capability
• Force tooltips on mobile to be at top corner [Done in 1.3.4]
• Saved log should output ImMobile version + add log type [Done in 1.3]

JSRuntime

• We must provide more params for each API [Done in 1.1]
• Some APIs are missing comparing to Extensions [Done in 1.1]
• Advanced background download need to be extended [Done in 1.1]
• Add UI support for JSRuntime
• Scripts don't have way to unload them self [Done in 1.1]
• Import bjson like std and os [Done in 1.1]
• There should be Store tab in JSRun window [Done in 1.1]
• We should cache file date, then compare with online for updates
• Make bolt button green and stop as red color [Done in 1.3]
• Change Library to Installed as text [Done in 1.3]
• Expose API to enable startup & home grid by code

Extensions

• There is no way to draw window over UI while Extension GUI off [Done in 1.1]
• Override UI element don't help in this case (Related to above) [Done in 1.1]
• We should make C/C++ rich bridge to be used in .c, .cpp files [Done in 1.1]
• Extension should be able to unload it self [Done in 1.1]
• We should add more media library for UWP/ARM (ready + compiled)
• Add ability to reset saved configs by extension ID
• Package installer don't have overload to direct install [Done in 1.1]
• There should be Store tab in addons window [Done in 1.1]
• Add CharacterReceive event (currently solved using ImGui without API)
• Expose bool that determine if touch keyboard visible [Done in 1.1]
• We should cache file date, then compare with online for updates
• Make bolt button green and stop as red color [Done in 1.3]
• Change Library to Installed as text [Done in 1.3]
• Expose API to enable startup & home grid by code
• Report back pressed to the extension
• Add setvbuf to the legacy wrappers
• Expose current theme (light/dark) API
• API Imm::Dialogs::Notice should have custom draw overload
• Add API to get ItemInfoUWP
• We need engine to load extension on demand like custom file types
• Extensions should by default go to grid, then loaded upon click
• We should report remove/uninstall state to the extension

Files

• Copy can block files loading which shouldn't happen [Done in 1.3]
• Add "Select/Clear All" when multiple selection active [Done in 1.3]
• [x ] Custom actions (context), show appear below Open [Done in 1.3]
• Change Temp & Local state pinned folders to ImMobile Data/Temp [Done in 1.3.4]
• We should remember the last path based on types

ImMobile

• We should add navigation using GamePad
• Display extension setting while installing such as (startup)
• Make cloud browse window based instead of popup [Done in 1.1]
• Add extensions permissions engine
• Add support for 7z,rar..etc [Done in 1.1]
• We may need to remove HTML engine since it's not very useful [Done in 1.3]
• We should make engine to reduce CPU usage same as GPU on Idle
• With the new GPU cache we may attempt to add some blur

Archive.org

• Reduce padding in treeview buttons [Done in 1.2]
• Add fields like (size, type) near to the title for quick preview [Done in 1.2]
• Remove notice from collections tab for smaller space [Done in 1.2]
• Add toggle within collection files to switch between treeview/table
• Add bookmark button inside the collection files view
• For bookmark (above) & possibly more, better to make top toolbar
• Use JSON based bookmarks file with descriptions stored [Done in 1.2]
• Add options to hide collection meta/database/xml files [Done in 1.2]

GitHub

• Add Wiki button to browse that inside ImMobile

Queue

• Add percentage value to the progress & show it only with 1%+ [Done in 1.3]
• Add Ability to force download start out of queue order
• Add option to prevent global progress + top bar from being always top
• Add some extra info for the global progress

Compression

• Make some detection to determine if files already has root folder
• Don't create sub folder when extract if above condition is valid
• Allow user to choose if need to extract to sub folder [Done in 1.3]
• Make option to choose destination folder
• Add extension .xz as supported compressed files [Done in 1.2]
• Add ability to compress/extract multiple items at once

Tools

• Expand html markdown resolver to fix cases such as (details) as collapsed headers
• Also resolve html table to markdown (related to above)

Editor

• We should add *.conf to types support [Done in 1.1]