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Add a blurb about the ‘launch’ launcher for Android

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Tom Willemse 2022-11-06 01:49:15 -07:00
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@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ There seems to be two different types of launchers for Android. Homescreen repla
- F-Droid page :: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/posidon.launcher/
- Version tried :: 1.17
Posidon is quite different from all the other launchers that I've seen. Instead of a normal desktop with some icons or other means of launching applications it features a list of your notifications and optionally a number of rss feeds.
It does have the usual Dock and App Drawer that many other launchers also have, so you can of course still start any application you want. It seems to be able to handle large folders in the dock well enough, at least for my purposes.
@ -25,8 +26,21 @@ It does have the usual Dock and App Drawer that many other launchers also have,
- F-Droid page :: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/ch.deletescape.lawnchair.plah/
- Version tried :: 1.2.1.2001
Lawnchair is a boring launcher, in the sense that it looks like most of the other basic launchers out there. It has plenty of features and customization options. It's got a very usual set-up of desktop and app drawer. It seems to be able to handle folders on the desktop of large-enough sizes (at least for my purposes). It allows you to add multiple widgets to a desktop. You can have multiple desktops. With the right settings you can set up quite interesting combinations of widgets on the desktops.
** launch
- F-Droid page :: https://f-droid.org/packages/org.biotstoiq.launch/
- Version tried :: 0.908
A simple and fast launcher that just shows a simple list of all of your apps. It allows you to find them by typing in their name. This can be done either with the letters shown on the home screen, or using the keyboard. Apps names are matched with substring matching, but not fuzzy, so “Droid” will match “DroidRec”, “F-Droid”, and “Light Android Launcher”, but “fd” will not match “F-Droid”.
Once you've filtered enough out you press the title and it launches. If your search has only a single result launch will run it automatically.
It doesn't show any icons, so apps with the same name are impossible to tell apart (Like “Gallery”, and “Calculator”).
* Launchers
** PaperLaunch
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- F-Droid page :: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.devmil.paperlaunch/
- Version tried :: 1.0.10
PaperLaunch is a side-launcher. It creates an overlay over any app running and lets you configure which applications are shown in which categories. It handles large folders by adding a "More..." option at the end of the bar and showing more options there like any other folder.
It's a little hard to use it sometimes, because most applications assume they have the entire screen to work, and PaperLaunch does take up /some/ space on the edge of the screen for you to summon it. You can change the width of this area, and whether it shows on the left or right side. I have noticed that it occasionally interferes with the operation of other applications for me because the applications require me to do something too close to the edge and I end up opening PaperLaunch instead.