Lean Launcher

hundeva

About this app

*** Please note the launcher is no longer maintained. It is left active so that existing users can still find it easily, and use it on their older devices. Thank you for your understanding! ***

An open source, lightweight, customisable, lean launcher. The source code can be found at the following GitHub repository: https://github.com/hundeva/Lean-Launcher

This app uses the Device Administrator permission. This is required for double tap to secure lock your device.

Search UI
- bottom search bar
- app search bar
- app suggestions
- voice search shortcut

Look & Feel
- light, dark, or automatic theme based on your wallpaper
- optional black colors for dark theme
- changeable grid counts
- changeable icon sizes
- optional swipe indicator

Edit apps
- hide apps from your drawer
- hide app name from the desktop or your drawer
- changeable icon shape on android 8.0 or later
- basic icon pack support
- adaptive icon support for legacy apps, with optional dynamic background color
-- optional two line app labels

Gestures & Actions
- one finger swipe down for notifications
- two finger swipe down for quick settings
- double tap to lock, with either timeout or secure lock
- customisable home button action on your home screen

Shortcuts
- optional static shortcuts
- dynamic shortcuts from android 7.1 or later

Other
- home screen rotation
- optional physical animations
- optional transparent navigation bar in your drawer
- lockable desktop

Ratings and reviews

my personal favorite launcher. useful features and minimalist. allows you to spend as little time as necessary to look up apps. hiding also non essential ones. definitely one of the faster and cleaner launchers available. I have yet to experience a bug or a glitch! also, the developer is an honest and upright individual. support him!

Dev please read: Setting custom wallpaper ihas been a real dent in my overall UX. I have this on a device running Marshmallow, and its great. But on this Oreo device, the wallpaper 1) has major image cropping issues, effectively making the customization process useless because 2) The image looks terrible when cropped due to no screen ratio- it's always zoomed in and pixelated even with high res images, 3) The wallpaper ALWAYS JUMPS AND MOVES upon switching to the home screen!

Love the launcher but there's gotta be a way to sever the connection to the Play Store updater. Installed the debug version from GitHub, then the launcher later updated on Play, so it used the non-home version and I lost the Google home page. I tried installing the GitHub version again, but it didn't fix it. Looks like I'm gonna have to uninstall, reinstall, then go through the process of setting it up again. Wish it had a layout import/export function to ease the process a bit.

What's new

1.1.9: for the full change log, please visit https://github.com/hundeva/Lean-Launcher/releases/tag/lean-1.1.9

- Removed Feed and native At A Glance related options from the release version. Please see the GitHub release for the reasoning behind this decision.