Hi folks,
After numerous feedback and hundreds of changes, I’m happy to share that my project, Octopi Launcher, is ready for open testing.
Below are some key features, with more to come:
- Foldables support - have totally different layouts on each screen
- (Auto scrolling) widget stacks
- Float/ pin a widget on top of home screens
- Display drawer icons as tiles
- App drawer folders and favorite apps
- Assign a nickname to an app (e.g. searching “ff” can instantly launch Firefox)
- Launch different apps using swipes on an icon
- Icon pack and shortcut support
- Resize individual home screen icons
- Index bar and reachability mode for drawer
- Option to hide status and navigation bars
- Notification badges
- Private space support
- Lock home screen layout
- Haptic effects
Shane has also done a video review on a slightly older version, which gives an idea what this launcher can do.
Have a great day!
There’s a standard way to describe search engines, including the correct URL to use to perform searches, in a machine readable way (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/XML/Guides/OpenSearch), so I’m surprised that I haven’t seen any launchers that use that metadata. It’s how web browsers detect search engines. A launcher could let you type the domain/URL for your search engine and pull the OpenSource XML to configure it.