I have several fire 10 tablets and have been working great for over a year. But seems developer of wallpanel switch and about that same time is when I started having it quit out to main tablet screen…or I suppose it’s lost focus as it is still running in backround but shows main tablet screen. I really like the wallpanel program but with lack of updates to support it now what can a guy do? Anyone else having same issues using wallpanel?
To get updates you need to download apk files from the new repo.
But you are not alone in this.
Yeah I’ll need to do that but then I think I need to root the fire tablet?
Don’t you just need to enable developer options and turn on allow installations from unknown sources?
From Android Authority:
- Open the Settings app on your Amazon Fire device.
- Select Security & Privacy (some models may label it Security).
- Hit the Apps from Unknown Sources option. Some people see this as a toggle; flip it on.
- Select the browser you will be using to download and install your files. Alternatively, you can use the Files app or any other file manager app.
I’ll give it a try and hope it fixes the quitting out problems. Just wish the new dev would update on the google store. I had apps on Apple and google and still have license it’s easy to add to play store so I wonder why he hasn’t done it.
The chances are - that the app is actually being killed by Android for eating up all the memory, that’s the usual reason long running apps quit to the home screen. This is generally fixable by periodically refreshing the page.
Using HA with Fully Kiosk app in a browser and kiosk mode I do not experience any of those problems on my two Lenovo Android tablests.
Maybe it can work on the Fires too?
Yes I have tested that program and it does work but honestly I prefer wallpanel
So i had to uninstall wallpanel befor i could install .apk (im an idiot) so will test newest version and hope it works better. Thanks to all for the tips!
I think it is worse! quit out after 10 min! haha So…
what is screensaver url i set in fully kiosk to match wallpanel screensaver? or what is people using?
ok so looking at wallpanel it uses unsplash.com to get wallpaper? i dont see a way to add that to fully kiosk without manually picking wallpaper but that wont show random new images which is actually nice to see as i walk into a room. must be a way to have fully kiosk do random wallpaper from a site like that?