It’s a bit more complicated as it involves managing screens of different resolution and sizes. Currently I’m focusing on core features that everyone will be able to use, such as dock folder and more gestures. Coming back to foldables improvements after that

You can actually float/ pin a widget to make it behave like a dock.

As for the actual dock, that can be achieved too by creating a folder, changing it to grid mode, and resizing it to the size you want. You can then float/pin it too.

Google Now slide left won’t be planned soon as it requires Google not to change and break things in future, which is something I can’t control. As a work-around, you can assign the Google app to the gesture when you swipe right

Not currently, though an open source rewrite in the future is something that I’ll be keen to explore

Thank you. Welcome your feedback here

I can’t advise on this, but I suspect not, especially if the task bar is part of Samsung’s launcher :(

Thanks for link, bookmarked for future implementation

Currently not, but a major update will be dedicated to enhancing the current search capabilities

Thank you for the detailed feedback - really appreciate your suggestions. Quite a number of these will be polished up along the way, and new features added (app tags, more gestures and options)

Not for now, I’ve not ruled out an alternative open source version, but that will happen with a future rewrite

Currently multi touch gestures aren’t supported ;)

Thank you so much! A video speaks a million words and yours helped me to instantly identify what’s causing this.

What happens is that when you remove apps from a folder until one is left, that app remains as a folder, and currently this launcher doesn’t allow you to drag one folder over another.

A workaround is to tap that “folder” and drag that last app out from its “folder”, into the other folder you want it to be in.

A fix for this is planned, thanks for highlighting this confusing behaviour ;)

It’s not a known bug, could you provide more details? I just tried creating a home screen folder with 4 apps, and am able to.

Do you mean the A-Z bar on the right of the drawer in Microsoft Launcher?

I’ve been working on a launcher for a while now, do help me test it out!

Features include:

• Widget stacks (with auto scroll)
• Swipe up and swipe down to launch different apps
• Display app drawer icons as tiles or a list
• Individually resize home screen icons, for mixed-size icon layouts
• Freely position and resize a widget or icon
• Frosted glass background for widgets (experimental)
• App drawer folders
• Fade a widget
• Separate layouts for different screens for foldables
• Tap a folder to launch its first app (swipe to open folder)
• Assign a nickname to an app for instant app search and launch (e.g. searching “ff” launches Firefox instantly)
• Lots of custom animations and haptics

Planned features include:

• Profile switching with Tasker support
• Square tiles for app drawer
• Swipe to open a widget pop up

https://lemmy.world/post/14530643

Do give my work on progress launcher a try

https://lemmy.world/post/14530643

Thanks for the report. Right here is actually fine to share feedback.

In terms of status bar and label colors, I’ll have to add in manual controls. Currently, things are handled by the system, which means different ways of displaying on old and new Android versions.

By bumping screen size, you adjusted the scale/ density of your screen items right? That’s one scenario I have not thought of. What you encountered is partly by design - the launcher detects a different screen and allows you to configure a new screen from scratch. I have plans to add a prompt to let users confirm if this is what they want, or if they want to copy over an existing layout.

I do have a long to-do list, mainly to bring this up to speed in terms of features. There are occasional reports of crashes which I’m also investigating

Thank you. That’s my test device as well, so it could be due to the app list retrieval process. I’ll look into it further

Thanks for the screenshots. I may add an option to display a frequently launched/ pinned set of apps. As for finding recently installed/ updated apps, the sort modes above should be helpful.

Folders wise, currently only 2 apps are shown as previews. It should be an easy task for me to code more preview styles.

Coincidentally I was working on this a few days back. Mapping actions (including search) is definitely on my to-do.

I may group the widget list for faster loading, my initial thought was to have something different from the standard, and that was why I went for a search-based approach. Good suggestion.

Which aspects do you feel the speed can be improved? Also to share that there’s an animation speed setting where you can make animations much faster or slower

As for settings, things like preview are planned ;)

Thanks for the overall feedback!