### Changes Fork

# Notable changes compared to Finn’s Launcher #

µLauncher is a fork of finnmglas’s app Launcher. Here is an incomplete list of changes:

- Additional gestures:

  - Back
  - V,Λ,<,>
  - Edge gestures: There is a setting to allow distinguishing swiping at the edges of the screen from swiping in the center.

- Compatible with work profile, so apps like Shelter can be used.

- Compatible with private space

- Support for app widgets

- Support for pinned shortcuts

- Option to rename apps

- Option to hide apps

- Favorite apps

- New actions:

  - Toggle Torch
  - Lock screen
  - Open a widget panel

- The home button now works as expected.

- Improved gesture detection.

## Visual #

- This app uses the system wallpaper instead of a custom solution.
- The font has been changed to [Hack][hack-font], other fonts can be selected.
- Font Awesome Icons were replaced by Material icons.
- The gear button on the home screen was removed. A smaller button is show at the top right when necessary.

## Search #

- The search algorithm was modified to prefer matches at the beginning of the app name, i.e. when searching for `"te"`, `"termux"` is sorted before `"notes"`.
- The search bar was moved to the bottom of the screen.

## Technical #

- Improved gesture detection.
- Different apps set as default.
- Package name was changed to `de.jrpie.android.launcher` to avoid clashing with the original app.
- Dropped support for API < 21 (i.e. pre Lollypop)
- Fixed some bugs
- Some refactoring

The complete list of changes can be viewed here.

[original-repo]: https://github.com/finnmglas/Launcher

[hack-font]: https://sourcefoundry.org/hack/