StreakyCobra wrote: ↑Sun Feb 23, 2020 12:27 pm
For the issue about downloading from Github, I'm not sure how it is implemented on the app side so I don't know what is causing problems. If I can do something to improve this please let met know Thomas, otherwise I may eventually see if I can quickly generate a "Github pages" with the skin links, somehow.
The skin loader in Free42 for Android, iOS, and MacOS looks for URLs ending in
.gif or
.layout, and only enables the Load button when such a URL is loaded. When you click Load, it loads that URL (again), and the matching one with
.gif replaced by
.layout or vice versa.
The process is a bit fragile. One thing that trips it up is links that cause redirects, where the actual link that ends up being loaded after the redirect doesn't match the desired pattern. That's what causes it to be unable to load StreakyCobra's links. But there can be other issues as well: when I tried loading a skin from
Fossies, it seemed to load successfully, but when I tried to use it, I ended up with a black screen and had to uninstall and reinstall Free42. I think that's because Fossies pretty-layouts text-like formats, so the layout file gets turned into something Free42 can't handle.
As long as you have skins at simple links, which can be loaded without HTTP redirects or text reformatting, they should work in the Free42 skin loader.