launcher/README.md

Launcher

This is a fork of finnmglas's app Launcher.

Notable changes:

• 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.

Visual

• This app uses the system wallpaper instead of a custom solution.
• The font has been changed to Hack.
• Font Awesome Icons were replaced by Material icons.
• The gear button on the home screen was removed. Instead pressing back opens the list of applications and the app settings are accessible from there.

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

• Small improvements to the 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)
• Some refactoring

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