Action Launcher: Pixel Edition

Action Launcher

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About this app

The secrets to Action Launcher's success:
1️⃣ Take the fast, smooth, stock Android launcher 📱
2️⃣ Add Material You-style color extraction from your wallpaper (or pick your own!) 🎨
3️⃣ Add all the customizations & time saving innovations you can think of! ⚙️

Standout features include:
• Quicktheme: Material You-style theming of your home screen to match your wallpaper, or pick the colors yourself!
• Fully customizable search box.
• Widget Stacks: Swipe through multiple widgets, without clutter.
• Action Search: Search the web and your device, directly from your home screen!
• All Apps Folders.
• Covers: Folders, reimagined! Tap to load an app, swipe to reveal the folder contents!
• Shutters: Swipe to reveal a widget - preview your inbox or Facebook feed without opening the app!
• Quickedit: Alternative icon suggestions instantly presented to you. No more digging through icon packs!
• Google Discover integration!
• Quickdrawer: An A to Z list of all your apps - designed for hyperfast scrolling!
• Customizable Gestures.
• Notification Dots & Unread Count.
• Smartsize Icons: Icons are resized to match Material Design's recommended icon size.
• At a Glance Widget: Quickly view the date and your next calendar appointment.
• Use icon packs, adaptive icons, scale icons, hide and rename apps & much more.
• Full phone, phablet and tablet support.

🏆 Included in 'Best Android launchers of 2022' lists from Android Central, Android Police & Android Authority! 👏

Action Launcher allows you to import from your existing layout from other launchers such as Apex, Nova, Google Now Launcher, HTC Sense, Samsung/Galaxy One UI/TouchWiz and the stock Android launcher, so you'll instantly feel right at home.

Action Launcher may request access to the Accessibility Service API for specific gesture functionality such as turning off the screen or opening the notification panel. Enabling access is optional, disabled by default, can be revoked at any time, and neither collects nor shares any data.

Ratings and reviews

From 5 stars to 3.5 - I loved this launcher years ago. I got the premium version and love my setup with covers and folders. At some point though my backed up settings got messed up and many things would change to "name_not_found" and I couldn't find a way to fix it other than starting from scratch. Now for the past year my home screen freezes and I have to fight to get to "restart app" and then the issue is resolved... but I'm ready to switch. Happens 1 to 10 times a day.

Paid for plus, assuming I could refund within 30 minutes as per Google play standards, I was wrong, only upgrade if you want to waste your money. There isn't any stand out features to make this your launcher. I would avoid it, there's many out there that do more, some of which are free. Personally I use Nova. Occasionally I try out some new ones but always end up back there. If these guys refund the money that's effectively been stolen from me (still no refund)

I thought the launcher was great but then i noticed that the apps don't have labels in the app drawer! I had "text labels" on and when I tried turning off and then turning back on "text labels" under the "app drawer" settings to see if doing that would fix the problem but unfortunately nothing changed. What makes it worse was that i not long installed the app and paid for the extra features and no ads only 10 minutes ago as i am writing my review! Be careful if you end up installing this app.

What’s new

• IMPROVEMENT: Compatibility with recent Android versions.
• IMPROVEMENT: Add default layout for larger phones.
• IMPROVEMENT: Remove suggested apps.
• FIX: Appearance and placement of UI items on onboarding.
• FIX: Minor stability fixes.