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*** Please note the launcher is no longer maintained.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

I've been using this for a few months on my Android 8 Oreo phones and it's hands-down the best launcher I've tried. Memory usage seems to be on par with the stock launcher. For some reason when I first installed it would not recognize touch-and-hold, so I couldn't drag any icons around. I spent half an hour trying options and searching on the Internet. Rebooted phone and now it works. Maybe one more time it's done this. It's been very reliable.

Amazing and simple launcher, yet it comes with heaps of features. This should be the stock launcher on every rom - it just works as expected. If you have an app that isn't supported by the icon pack, and you then find a close-enough icon for it, it won't change back to default after that app gets updated, and it updates it on the home and list pages!! Such a simple feature almost no launcher does. Keep up the amazing work!!

From trying this out seems to work great. Lots of nice customization options. One thing I couldn't find is how to set one page as default, such that pressing home button again would snap to it. Another issue that seems to affect all 3rd party launchers on galaxy A50 is that widgets have a larger font size than on the default launcher which makes them hard to read.

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.