Sidebar Edge Launcher- Floatoo

Paavu Technologies

Contains adsIn-app purchases

About this app

Floatoo SideBar, Add quick launch shortcuts of any App, Contact, Floating Widget, App in-built Shortcut, just like any other famous launcher, and access it all from anywhere with just a swipe. Material Design & Fuzzy search

IMPORTANT: Xiaomi/MIUI Devices has an additional restriction/Settings. Users have to allow the following permission.
Go to Device Settings -> Apps -> Floatoo SideBar -> Other Permissions -> find "Display pop-up windows while running in background" and enable it

★ Floatoo SideBar (Edge Screen, Circle Launcher) is the only app drawer / app launcher with fuzzy search support
★ Add Beautiful Floating Widgets & App Shortcuts
★ Add contact shortcuts with direct-dial, direct email, direct WhatsApp, direct message action
★ Create Folder/Group to manage quick launch shortcuts
★ Battery Indicator on top of the screen
★ Powerful fuzzy Search, even with misspell or missing characters
★ Material Design
★ Iconpack support
★ Dark Mode with Custom Color Themes
★ Backup and Restore Settings

Floatoo SideBar (Edge Screen, Circle Launcher) - A swiss knife for apps and contacts, an app drawer / app launcher / Edge Screen launcher / floating launcher / floating Widgets / gesture launcher / app finder / quick drawer / quick launcher/ contact drawer / contact dialer / contact finder

CIRCLE LAUNCHER
★ Circle Launcher has two levels of shortcuts
★ Each first level Circle Shortcut has it own second level of Circle shortcuts
★ Number of circle launcher shortcuts can be increased in settings
★ Second level of circle launcher shortcuts can be disabled in settings
★ Second level of circle launcher trigger area distance can be adjustable in settings

SIDEBAR GESTURES
★ Swipe from side to center on Sidebar - Opens Circle Menu with Shortcuts
★ Double-tap on Sidebar - hide Sidebar for 20 seconds
★ Long press on Sidebar and Drag - reposition SideBar or option to disabling Sidebar

CIRCLE LAUNCHER GESTURES
★ Long-press an item to change Circle Menu Shortcut

MY DRAWER GESTURES
★ Long press on Grid items - Drag and drop to sort/rearrange
★ Folder items also support long press, drag and drop
★ Long press shows context menu command for the group and single item
★ Swipe up on folder - Launch first item
★ Swipe down on folder- Launch the second item
★ Swipe right/left on the folder- Launch the third item

NEW BATTERY BAR [BONUS]
★ Position on StatusBar - Above, Below, Behind
★ Alignment - Left, Right, Center
★ Display Style - Flat, Segments, Gradient
★ Adjust Height and Background Transparency
★ Segments and Colors for different Battery percentage are adjustable

Quick Action Shortcuts
★ Floating Media Control
★ Take Photo
★ Take Video
★ Back
★ Home
★ Recent Apps
★ Frequent Apps
★ Call Logs
★ Notification Drawer
★ Quick Settings
★ Power Menu
★ Last App
★ Flash Light
★ ScreenShot
★ Dailer

It works with all famous launchers
Nova Launcher, Apex Launcher, Go Launcher, Touchwiz launcher, Google Now Launcher, Smart Launcher, KitKat Launcher, CM launcher, Solo Launcher, Lollipop Launcher, etc
NOTE: Floatoo SideBar is not a home launcher replacement

Have any feature request?
Report an Issue/Bug?
please share it on GitHub
https://github.com/paavu/floatoo/issues

Ratings and reviews

I like where this app is going. It's nice to have multi-level circles. And spacing them is a great idea, because it prevents accidental selections. The colored battery bar indicator keeps me with this app versus using other similar apps. If I could suggest... please optimize the response speed. It's almost slow enough that I wonder if a tap/touch registered or not.

Love the idea of this app. Two things I'd like to see added: (1) having shortcuts in the My Drawers just like apps. I depend on a number of shortcuts I set up in an old, no longer supported launcher app that I still use called Floating Toucher and I would miss them if I were to switch. (2) Having apps (and shortcuts) directly on the arc menu - I have no need for any of the actions offered for the arc menu so most of it will be empty for me since I have only a small number of My Drawers.

Android 11 worked at first, then after a system update (samsung note 10) and a restart, it started looping endlessly between the dev's suggestion to force stop and restart, without ever launching. On note 10, the s pen puts sidebars in actual use (the edges of my screen are full of slim triggers from sidebars for quick action). Also not visually fluent during transition between apps in the semi-circle (a note 10 is high end phone, it's chewing through apps. the app needs better visual feedback)

What's new

[FIX] Google account Backup/Restore functionality was Broken
[FIX] Circle Menu crop issue fixed when SideBar is placed near bottom
[FIX] Second Level Circle Trigger Area sensitivity improved
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[NEW] iOS 14's privacy feature like access Dot - shows an indicator whenever camera or microphone is accessed
[NEW] Quick Shortcut -> Floating Media Control added
[NEW] Icon-pack support added
[FIX] UX/Stability Optimizations and crash fixes for reported devices