About Ox Shell

Ox Shell is a launcher for android. It is an attempt to recreate the feel of a classic video game system.

Features

• Controller support
• Live wallpaper service
• Built in file explorer
• Launch roms directly into emulators that support it
• Create custom associations for roms and other files
• Install and uninstall apps
• Customizable home menu
• Customizable controls
• Use home/recent apps/etc through controller from anywhere
• Add compression/extraction options to file explorer
• Show prompt before deleting files in file explorer
• Show which files are in the copy/cut clipboard
• Show any file operation errors
• Show progress of file operations
• Add ftp support to file explorer
• Add start menu to file explorer that lists locations and is customizable
• Add more default associations
• Make default generic associations (image/video/audio)
• Make a chooser in the create association menu to pick a template from the defaults
• Add more default shaders
• Add UI scale option
• Add text scale option
• Add setting to choose typeface
• Optimize home menu performance
• Remember where user was in the home menu when coming back
• Make it possible to choose a default association for an extension if more than one exists
• Make it possible to pick which association to launch a file with when multiple exist for it
• Add gyro/accelerometer support to shaders
• Support ability to have multiple shader files
• Make it possible to set values of variables when setting shader as background if the shader has any to be set
• Add ability to write a shader directly in app with the ability to preview
• Add a video player
• Add a music player
• Add a photo viewer
• Make it possible to set the rect of the background image chosen when user setting wallpaper to image
• Add a web browser

It'll likely take time for these features to reach, as I am just one developer. Please consider supporting this project by purchasing it on the store.

Build for Yourself

• Clone the project or download the zip using the green code button above.
• Open Android Studio and browse to the directory you cloned/downloaded to and select it.

Creating a debug variant

• Make sure the build variant selected is debug
• Run it!

Creating a release variant

• Add your keystore file in the app/keystores folder
• Create a keystore.properties file in the app/keystores folder with the following contents:

storeFile keystores/[keystore-filename]
storePassword [store-password]
keyAlias [key-alias]
keyPassword [key-password]

• Set your build variant to release
• Run it!