v0.3.8

🏠 Launch-R v0.3.8 - Colossal new search features & Improvements

Added

• “Swipe up again to go home” setting (Settings, under “Search”). When the app drawer is fully open, swiping up on it closes the drawer and returns you to the home screen. Off by default.

• “Swipe up again to search” setting (Settings, under “Search”). When the app drawer is fully open, swiping up on it opens the keyboard so you can search. Off by default. Only one of the two swipe-up options can be on at a time.

• Voice search button in the app drawer search bar. Tap the mic to speak a search, and the results update right away. If your device has no speech recognizer, you'll see a short message instead.

• Clear button in the app drawer search bar. Once you've typed something, the mic turns into an ✕ that empties the search, brings back the full app grid and keeps the keyboard open.

• Settings to turn the search bar's mic and ✕ buttons on or off (Settings, under “Search”). Both are on by default.

• Search hidden apps by starting your search with a "/" For example, "/bank" searches all apps including hidden ones, and a lone "/" lists every hidden app. Hidden apps still stay out of normal search results.

• Suggestions and recent searches in the app drawer. Tap the search bar and, before you type anything, you'll see your most-used apps and your recent searches. Start typing and they disappear, Tap a recent search to run it again, tap its ✕ to remove it, or tap Clear to remove them all. (NOTE: If you have no history yet, you'll see the normal app grid.)

• Launch-R now remembers which apps you open. A search is only saved when you open an app from its results. Everything stays on your device, hidden apps are never suggested, and searches starting with "/" are never saved.

• Setting to turn suggestions and recent searches on or off (Settings, under “Search”). It's on by default.

Changed

• See-through drawer folders is now on by default. If you've already changed this setting, your choice is kept.

• Tightened the spacing of the mic and three-dot menu buttons in the search bar so they sit closer together.

Fixed

• Voice search mic no longer stops responding after a speech app fails to return a result. A stale request is now cleared, so the next tap starts fresh instead of doing nothing until Launch-R restarts.

• Voice search now checks for a speech recognizer before opening, and shows the "isn't available" message right away when none is found. This also works on Android 11 and newer, where Launch-R previously couldn't see speech apps such as FUTO Voice Input.

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What's new?

Install

1. Download the latest app-release.apk.
2. Open the APK file on your Android device and follow the installation prompts.

Note: Android may ask you to allow installations from unknown sources. If you are prompted, enable permission for your browser or file manager, then continue with the installation.

Android only.

v0.3.6

🏠 Launch-R v0.3.6 - Intial Release!

Added

• See-through drawer folders (Settings). Gives app drawer folders the same translucent look as home screen folders. It’s off by default, and it’s greyed out while “Match folder popup color” is on, because that setting takes priority.

• Match folder popup color (Settings, under “Dark home text”). When on, folders on the home screen, dock and app drawer use the same color as the open folder popup. It’s off by default.

• The dock now shows on each page card in the home menu, so the preview looks like your real home screen.

• Fastlane metadata folder.

• App Banner.

• Froid release!

Changed

• AMOLED Black and White Minimal no longer force folders to be black or white; folders now use the theme’s default color options instead

• Material You now only changes the accent color (taken from your wallpaper) instead of replacing the whole theme, so Orange Factory, AMOLED Black and White Minimal keep their own surfaces and folder colors

• App drawer folders, including drawer search results, now use the open folder’s panel color by default instead of a separate drawer color. Custom folder colors are blended over the popup surface the same way the open panel does it.

• The open folder popup follows the closed folder’s style. In see-through mode the panel is translucent, and custom colors are used as-is. Its title and labels follow “Dark home text”.

• Refreshed app icon and uploaded app_icon_background

• Widgets on home menu page cards are now drawn at their real size, with their name, instead of a single small icon. Pages with a big widget no longer look empty.

• Home menu page cards are now announced with their position and default status (for example, "Home page 2 of 5, default") for screen readers.

Fixed

• Folders looked like a different color when opened, in every theme. The closed icon and the open panel were colored by two separate calculations, and they now share one.

• Blur for folder popup giving out too much glare from apps.

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What's new?

Install

1. Download the latest app-release.apk.
2. Open the APK file on your Android device and follow the installation prompts.

Note: Android may ask you to allow installations from unknown sources. If you are prompted, enable permission for your browser or file manager, then continue with the installation.

Android only.