Font flickering in the settings' tabs

[toby-bro]

Describe the bug
In the Settings when changing menu a quick flickering and changing of the fonts happen

To Reproduce
Go to the settings and change tabs apps, launcher, meta, if you record your screen a slight flutter of the font happens

Expected behavior
No changing of the tabs fonts throughout the app navigation

Screenshots

Additional info
I tried debugging this issue, it does not seem to be a code issue as changing tabs does not call particular functions (if all the tabs are loaded in memory, (I tried caching all the tabs and putting breakpoints on all the functions).

I guess it's the system font that loads temporarily before hack is fully loaded but it is surprising.

The same behavior is seen when choosing an action.

Quite a lot of the code in settingsActivity.tk is deprecated but I'll try and update this in a future PR

Just upgrading did not solve the problem on my side

[toby-bro]

Screen_Recording_20240901_012130_Launcher.mp4

A video where the bug can be seen

[jrpie]

The font seems to reset to Roboto (when setting the font to system default globally, the flicker is gone).
Hardcoding Hack in the TabLayout directly doesn't seem to help.
It does not seem to be related to Hack as with other ttf fonts this happens as well.
Maybe this is a bug of the TabLayout?

[toby-bro]

Indeed it could be.
Some such bugs were already mentionned in the past...
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31828610/why-do-the-tablayouts-tabs-icons-texts-blink-when-swiping-between-pages#31937728
When will you be pushing a v0.0.10 ? And when for a v1.0.0 ? Soon, all the bugs are will be solved and the "final" match between app functionalities and app expectancies will be met.

[jrpie]

Some such bugs were already mentionned in the past...

Yes, I expect that this is something similar.

When will you be pushing a v0.0.10 ? And when for a v1.0.0 ? Soon, all the bugs are will be solved and the "final" match between app functionalities and app expectancies will be met.

Well, there are always more bugs than one would expect 😅 But maybe starting with 0.0.1 was a bit pessimistic.
I'm thinking about releasing 0.1.0 soon (basically after fixing the worst bugs that are currently open).
For 1.0 I'd also want to implement the favorite apps / hidden apps feature.