DynamicG Popup Launcher

DynamicG

About this app

«DynamicG Popup Launcher» (previously called «Home Button Launcher») lets you bookmark your favorite apps, app shortcuts and web pages.

How to launch:
• On Pixel phones with gesture navigation, the app can be configured as “Digital assistant” and launched with “diagonal swipe from bottom corner”, more details see here: https://dynamicg.ch/help/098
• Alternatively, you can use the “Quick Settings” tile to open the app from your phone's notification bar.
• Or you just open the app from your home screen.
• Since One UI 7.0, Samsung uses “Power button long press” to launch the “Digital assistant”, which we think is a bad idea and makes that feature useless. Our app cannot override this behavior.

Features:
★ No advertisement
★ Optional tabs
★ Theme pack and custom icons support
★ Partial “App shortcut” support (many apps don't allow other apps to open their shortcuts, so the list of shortcuts is limited)
★ Minimal set of permissions:
- “QUERY_ALL_PACKAGES” to access the list of installed apps.
- “INTERNET” so the app can download its icons zip file.
- on-demand “CALL_PHONE” for those users who create a "Direct dial" contact shortcut.

Also note: as of August 2025, this app has been renamed in Google Play from «Home Button Launcher» to «DynamicG Popup Launcher», and on your phone from «Home Launcher» to «Popup Launcher»; long gone are the days where this app could be started with “long press on Home button”, so the original name does not apply anymore.

Ratings and reviews

10-star app I've thoroughly enjoyed. Past tense. Unfortunately, Samsung's early surprise update to ui8 yesterday (original Galaxy Watch), plus a companion update to the phone (s23u) completely borked this gem. Works if you launch it directly, but AWOL re Side Button

I've been using this app for a long time and it's always worked great until Samsung released OnUI7 and now I can't find a way to get it to work anymore!? It seems swipe action is no longer supported? Am I missing something?

I miss the old days when andoid was an open platform and you could launch this app by home button long press. To me, this was an indispensable app! I had it configured to only one item and a instant launch of it, the Nova-action: lock screen. The rocket anim/popup when doing the home long press is also my favorite.

What’s new

V9.07 and V9.08:
• "Create icon" can now use material design icons; INTERNET permission has been added to download the icons zip file.
• "Add apps" menu and dialog cleanup.
• The app has been renamed to «DynamicG Popup Launcher» in Google Play and «Popup Launcher» on your phone.
• Changelog see here: https://dynamicg.ch/help/098#changelog