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quaap / LaunchTime

An alternative launcher/home for Android
http://quaap.com/D/LaunchTime
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Improvements: overall #94

Open androidacy-user opened 5 years ago

androidacy-user commented 5 years ago

I'd just like to give a few suggestions for improvement. A)For such a simple launcher, it does seem to eat a bit of RAM. It maxed out at ~119mb, normal seems to be ~90mb. Not the worst usage, but I've seen better (less RAM & ~same features) Old, useless code? May be time for an app cleanup B)The transitions are very clunky. They are slow/erratically moving C)The UI seriously needs updating. Nothing fancy, and certainly not material white. Stick to material, but maybe more rounded corners and such. So many square and rectangle is hard on the eyes D) Gesture support. Again, nothing fancy. Double tap to lock(would either use screen timeout or device admin, swipe up all apps, swipe down notifications. E) Activity launcher. Long select an icon, then an option for activities. Select that, and voila. F)Some sort of Google app integration. Easiest to do Discover, but Google Now would be better (though it seems to be dying in popularity). Other than that, keep up the good work and put my donation in F-Droid to good use! 🙂 And remember, keep it FOSS

androidacy-user commented 5 years ago

Glad to see that work seems to have resumed on this 😊

SolAZDev commented 5 years ago

I have a few opinions regarding this. Though I've yet to read the source code, I'll be doing this soon.

C) I agree with material design, but I figuree maybe some sort of css support could help too. This could allow for (sharable) themes. One Issue I was going to open was for the ability to have category icons instead of text. And maybe a General widget on all pages (as an option) as opposed to the use case of the same widget on every page. (Again I don't know if it's done like that)

D) could be something like a gesture engine (record and execute kind of thing).

E) I second this! Maybe a small 'Add Icon' menu with apps, shortcuts, and maybe contacts?

F) I'd actually go against google specifically. If you ask me, I think a custom widget for search would do nicely. As for news, maybe a panel/category altogether? If so, I'd also suggest to add sources, maybe rss urls or similar?