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HybridLauncher​

HybridLauncher is a completely new type of Android-Launcher!

It's designed to be highly configurable and innovative.

Screenshots:

As I am currently not allowed to insert images, please have a look at hybridlauncher.bricklore.de

In the past, the underlying principles of Launchers have significantly differed from those of desktop computers. In particular, the homescreen was only able to show Widgets and Apps, usually arranged on a grid, and usually only able to display a finite (small) number of icons at once.

We adapt the concept of desktops to smartphones by providing a homescreen whose capacity is limited only by your phone's memory and without constraints on the type of items it can show.

We improve the concept of desktops by providing not only completely free positions, but also arbitrary tilts, sizes, and aspect ratios of the items' icons. The homescreen's size is dynamically adapted, such that an infinite number of icons can be displayed.

Technically, the homescreen is simply a folder. Actually, every folder can be used as homescreen (and there's an effectively unlimited number of those). Other folders can be directly accessed (the HybridLauncher also doubles as a file manager) and individually designed, just like the homescreen.

This is solved in way robust against changes of your ROM:

The layout of every folder is stored in small file (".layout") directly within the folder. Thus, if you change your ROM, by reinstalling the Hybrid Launcher, you instantly recover your homescreen (desktop).

HybridLauncher is available in two different versions: "Lite" and "Full". While you can enjoy full functionality with the Lite version, it shows a permanent notification in the statusbar.

Unique features of the HybridLauncher include:

Unlimited homescreens with individual backgrounds

Real files on the homescreen just as on the pc-desktop

Freely positionable items with optional grid or magnetic axes

Items individually adjustable

Item size and rotation continuously adjustable

Dynamic layout-size

Direct execution of shell-scripts

Links to other folders and files

"Open with" dialog as known from PC

Highly adjustable

Available for Android version 2.1 up to 5.0+

Data privacy is our highest priority

(HybridLauncher does not require internet access, no data will be submitted)

For maximum transparency, let us explain why HybridLauncher requires the following permissions:

VIBRATE: When you long-press Items, your phone will vibrate.

WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE: HybridLauncher is a filemanager. Thus, it should have permission to write on sd-cards. In particular, if you want to use a folder on the sd-card as homescreen, then a .layout file needs to be created on the sd-card.

WRITE_MEDIA_STORAGE: This is generally the same as WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE, but on newer devices (5.0+) the access to the external sdcard is blocked by default and needs this extra permission.

READ_CONTACTS: Contacts can be placed on your homescreen (e.g. to open the SMS app quickly), so HybridLauncher has to access your contacts data. HybridLauncher will not submit any data (have a look at the source code).

SET_WALLPAPER: An app needs this permission to change the background image.

SET_WALLPAPER_HINTS: For background parallaxing the system has to be told the size of the wallpaper.

Information:

HybridLauncher is available in the Google PlayStore, or on my website (hybridlauncher.bricklore.de).

HybridLauncher Lite:

Play Store: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.fluxnetz.hybridlauncher_lite

Mirror: bricklore.de/android/hybridlauncher/release/hybridlauncher_lite.apk

HybridLauncher is OPEN SOURCE and licensed under GPL v3, you can view the source here: git.bricklore.de/hybridlauncher

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