I wanted to share my personal passion project that I have been working on the last few weeks! I recently purchased the Vortex Flip V3 but I found the default launcher horrendous. So I decided I would learn app development and build my own (such a weird thing haha).
Anyways, after a bit of time and lots of debugging, I am finally ready to share my project and hopefully get some amazing individuals to test my app and provide feedback and bugs!
The app has three main screens/views. Home is the default page and will list the current time, media information (if media is playing), and show your “favorited” apps. Notifications shows the current notifications on the device and allows you to click to open the app that is posting the notification. Apps shows all the apps installed on the device. From this screen you can also view app details, uninstall, and favorite/unfavorite apps.
I would love for individuals to test out my launcher and provide feedback on features, bugs, or just general ideas!
First feedback is that you should rename your launcher, these’s already a launcher called Simple App Launcher, and its often used on flip phones, so it can make things confusing.
Can’t wait to try it out (,its in middle of downloading, I’m on very slow data).
One of the most important features to make it a true flip phone launcher is to allow assigning apps or functions to the soft keys and D-pad center keys, with it displaying on the bottom of the screen right above the soft keys and D-pad center keys what they’re assigned to.
On my Sonim Xp3900, the notifications page doesn’t seem to work, and the only thing that I can do on the apps page is scroll.
The music notification on the main page works great.
Thank you for that information! Can you explain in a little more detail by what you mean by “The only thing that I can do on the apps page is scroll”? Are you unable to click an app (and thus open it)?
Since the music notification is showing up, that would mean the notifications page should be working as well (since the notification and music system use the same notification listener). I think the issue you might be facing is that there is currently a limitation where the launcher can only see notifications that were created after the app was installed and opened. Any notifications before that won’t appear.
There are three binaries included in this version.
non-launcher installs the app as a regular app without the ability to be set as a device launcher. This is great to test to make sure the app will run properly without potentially getting your device stuck (great for phones that have a hard time accessing settings or if you are unsure the d-pad navigation features will work)
non-launcher-debug is the same as the non-launcher but will output the key presses in case the navigation feature does not work. If d-pad function does not work, please use this version and report what keys are being pressed and the key the app returns.
app.apk is the launcher version of the app. This is only tested on the Vortex V3.
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