Lawnchair Legacy

David Sn

About this app

Lawnchair Legacy is an older, feature-complete version of Lawnchair based on Launcher3 from Android 9.

This version is in maintenance mode only, so only critical updates relating to Play Store and security will be made.

Key Features
— Support for Adaptive Icons.
— Flexible Desktop, Dock, and Drawer.
— Drawer Categories (Tabs & Folders).
— Integration with Android Recents.¹
— Automatic Dark Mode.
— Contextual data in At a Glance.
— Notification Dots.
— Integration with Google Feed and Homefeeder.²

Get Support
— twitter.com/lawnchairapp.
— t.me/lccommunity.

1. Requires QuickSwitch (t.me/QuickstepSwitcherReleases). Works on Android 9.
2. Requires Lawnfeed (lawnchair.app/lawnfeed) and Homefeeder (t.me/homefeeder) respectively.

Note: this release doesn’t officially support Android 10.

Lawnchair uses the AccessibilityService permission for optional support of making certain system functions more accessible, such as with desktop gestures, like turning the screen off. Lawnchair will automatically prompt you to enable this if it is necessary for your configuration; for many cases it is not! No data is collected from the AccessibilityService; it is merely used to invoke system actions.

Lawnchair uses the Device Administrator permission to lock the screen when a selected gesture is detected. This is optional and disabled by default.

Ratings and reviews

Definitely a five-star application. It's light and easily customized. I really love that I don't have to have my icons splashed across my home screen. Just a touch of the home button opens the tray. At first, I was a bit apprehensive that it doesn't have a weather widget, but soon fell in love with its simplicity and ease of use. There are no unnecessary hard-to-configure bells and whistles, and even better, NO ADS. Would I pay for this app? SURE! It'd be worth it to keep it in development. As far as the weather widget, I simply installed YoWindow. Now I have a total package.

Clean and fast launcher. Allows for good customization options such as icon shapes, gestures, and many others. My only major gripe is that you can't set pages as the home page or rearrange them as far as I can tell. The "Rearrange pages" view only allows you to delete them, unless I'm missing something. I also can't find a way to change the color of notification dots, so if I have a dark background, and an app inside a folder has a notification it will be hard to notice.

This is phenomenal. After you get used to the drawer set-up, the customization abilities are much much higher than the One UI and other launchers that I have seen and tried. You have the control over any customization you'd like to make to the fonts, the desktop, and the drawer's nitty gritty details if you'd like, and etc. It rarely bugs out and is pretty much stable in terms of software, so no worries for that as well. This app brought out the thing that pixels are loved for and it's amazing.

What’s new

— Ability to place a Search Bar widget anywhere on the Desktop.
— Bug fixes and other improvements.