Lawnchair 2

David Sn

About this app

Lawnchair 2 introduces powerful new features—from Drawer Categories to integration with Android Recents and contextual data in At a Glance.

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.
— reddit.com/r/lawnchairlauncher.

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 2 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

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.

One bug so far...like it better than One UI 2.0. Favorite feature is that I can have an icon for a folder and then gently swipe up to access the contents of that folder. The bug? For some reason, the lock function is constantly engaging. I'll be able to move icons around but then after a while, I'm unable to do so. To fix it, I go into the settings, turn on lock, turn off lock, and all works as expected. Very strange.

Love the fact that I have the real Google feed on this. It was one of the issues experienced when switching from the pixel phones. Would request the for the following : (1) when an alarm is set, have it display on the "quick glance" widget (2) have the option to automatically go back to the default home screen when the screen turns off at, say the 2nd or 3rd page. Ie if I scroll to the second page on the phone's desktop and turn off the screen and then turn it back on, it would stay there

What's new

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