Momentum-Apps

Momentum-Apps

Bundle of external apps tweaked for Momentum Firmware.

[!IMPORTANT] These apps are already included with all Momentum Firmware releases. This repository serves only as a way to keep them updated and maintained easier.

Why?

Many apps included in Momentum are modified (some lots more than others). This includes:

• Removing/tweaking icons and/or their usages to support our Asset Packs system
• Removing duplicate keyboard implementations to use our extended system keyboard
• With our system keyboard also support our CLI command input keyboard to type with PC keyboard
• Moving location of save files to a more appropriate location or changing how they are saved
• Changing application display names to fit our naming scheme
• Changing how some menus work/look or adding new exclusive menus and features
• Improving or extending functionality and better integrating with the firmware
• Updating and fixing apps that were abandoned by the original developers

How?

Apps made by our team are developed right here, the latest versions will always originate from this repository.

For all other apps we use git subtrees to pull updates from the creator's repository / other sources such as @xMasterX's pack, while also keeping our own tweaks and additions.

We didn't want to have fork repos for each single app since it would get out of hand very quick. Instead, we opted for subtrees.

Subtrees work in a very peculiar way: they pull and compare commit history from a remote repo and apply it to a subdirectory of this repo. That's why the commit history for this repo is so huge, it contains all the commits for all the apps, plus our edits.

To make updating more manageable, we have added some scripts on top of subtrees:

• add a new app with .utils/add-subtree.sh <path> <repo url> <branch> [subdir], this will pull the history and create path/.gitsubtree to remember the url, branch and subdir
• run .utils/update-subtree.sh <path> to pull updates for a subtree
• or run .utils/bulk-update-subtrees.sh to do it for all subtrees

Most apps have a remote subtree URL for both the original repository, and for any forks / other sources such as @xMasterX's pack. Unfortunately, this process is currently manual as our helper scripts don't cover it. We instead:

• add from one remote
• delete the directory in a commit
• add from another remote
• replace the new directory with the previous one
• compare the changes between forks and keep the best of both
• add any eventual edits we have on our end If you're an app developer wanting to add your app, or a third party who wants to include something they find useful, you don't need to bother with this cumbersome process. We will do it for you, just add from a single remote URL, or simply make an issue requesting an app to be added!