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markusfisch / PieLauncher

Android home screen launcher that uses a dynamic pie menu instead of tables of icons.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.markusfisch.android.pielauncher
MIT License
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Allow PWA shortcuts and alt-profile apps to show up #31

Open juliloving opened 2 years ago

juliloving commented 2 years ago

This launcher is by far my favourite, so I'd like to request the ability to allow PWA shortcuts to show up in the search menu. When I install PWA's from Fennec (Firefox) or WebApps (F-Droid app) it does not appear. Another is my apps in the work profile. (Certain apps require a Google login for work, so I only use those apps in another profile while my main can remain logged out for privacy.) Other launchers I've used were able to implement such features, so I was wondering if this could now? These are my only issues, otherwise, it is an amazing launcher and I couldn't recommend it more. If Markus doesn't want to add these for simplicity, a fork is highly appreciated

markusfisch commented 2 years ago

Sorry for not supporting PWAs yet 🙈 I know PWA support is important for many people and indeed, this was requested two times before (https://github.com/markusfisch/PieLauncher/issues/26 and https://github.com/markusfisch/PieLauncher/issues/2). Unfortunately, it's not easy to add this feature because this works with widgets behind the scenes. And the concept of widgets doesn't go too well with the concept of this launcher 😬 But of course, it can be done.

Support for work profiles will come with the next release and is already in the master branch 😉

SunPodder commented 1 year ago

@markusfisch I was about to open an issue for widget support. Can we expect this feature in priority list?

foxjaw commented 4 months ago

@markusfisch Is it possible to implement PWA app shortcuts such that they appear in the main app menu list ?
PWAs of course aren't apps. They're only the shortcuts of chromium browser. But, as they take the form of an app on the desktop (with a manifest, name & an icon extracted from website favicon), can they be clubbed within apps list ?

If not, at least possible to provide a separate section named PWAs in app drawer ?

If so, then I also think it's possible to include it into the pie too.

7heMech commented 1 week ago

@markusfisch I'd definitely be interested in PWAs, what's the difficulty in implementing them (as icons just like other apps) or are those icons widgets as well?

foxjaw commented 1 week ago

PWAs aren't widgets at all. They're just a website shortcut of a chrome browser that has it's own manifest, weblink portal and an icon. The problem here is, they're only generated in the desktop because an app drawer can't detect it as an app.