How to run multiple instances of Total Commander on Android?

[maxxx]

Hello,

I started using Total Commander on my Phone and Tablet quite intensively. Quite often I do some long time file copying to WEBDAV or USB stick. During this time it is not possible to use the Total Commander for all the other tasks while working with the device. If I would have a second instance of Total Commander running on Android that would be really helpful.

The major problem is, that Android does not allow two same app IDs to run. Therefore my first approach was, to modify the APK in order to change the App ID. Somehow I broke the package and the App was not working anymore but at least I could install it. Maybe it would be possible to provide a special Version with a different app ID, kind of a Total Commander (2. Instance) or similar.

Thank you,
Max

[ghisler(Author)]

Hmm, I don't kow whether this will work well or not. What exactly did you have to change? Is it sufficient to change the package name in the manifest from "com.ghisler.android.TotalCommander" to something else, or did you have to change other things like class names?

[maxxx]

I changed only the package name in the beginning, so I could install the commander twice but the second instance was not starting, I only got a white screen.

There is more information on this topic here for example http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9218641/renaming-the-package-name-inside-an-apk but I was not able to do it with the information's I get from the apk.

[ghisler(Author)]

I see - I will probably have to change the class names too, which may break a lot of things. Unfortunately Android doesn't support conditional compilation, so I would have to create two separate projects.