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In the README.md you write the launcher is "available to everyone" – but I couldn't find an .apk anywhere. It's neither on F-Droid nor on Play. Would you mind attaching it to the corresponding release (in releases/)?

When I click the 🔍 symbol, the search bar expands, but the launcher crashed immediately after that.

I'm using version 2.1 on Kitkat 4.4.2.

Can you reproduce this or do you need a log?

Steps to reproduce

1. Long press homescreen
2. Click on "Wallpaper" (the first of the 4 icons at the bottom)
3. Error message appears: "Fairphone 2 Launcher was stopped"

Here is a screenshot:

I have a FP1 with Android Kitkat.

Hello,

2.0 crashes when I launch it on my Android 4.2.1 tablet:

E/AndroidRuntime( 2401): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
E/AndroidRuntime( 2401): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{community.fairphone.fplauncher3/com.fairphone.fplauncher3.Launcher}: java.lang.NullPointerException
E/AndroidRuntime( 2401): 	at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2180)
E/AndroidRuntime( 2401): 	at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2230)
E/AndroidRuntime( 2401): 	at android.app.ActivityThread.access$600(ActivityThread.java:141)
E/AndroidRuntime( 2401): 	at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1234)
E/AndroidRuntime( 2401): 	at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
E/AndroidRuntime( 2401): 	at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)
E/AndroidRuntime( 2401): 	at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5039)
E/AndroidRuntime( 2401): 	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
E/AndroidRuntime( 2401): 	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)
E/AndroidRuntime( 2401): 	at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:793)
E/AndroidRuntime( 2401): 	at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:560)
E/AndroidRuntime( 2401): 	at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
E/AndroidRuntime( 2401): Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
E/AndroidRuntime( 2401): 	at com.fairphone.fplauncher3.edgeswipe.a.<init>(Unknown Source)
E/AndroidRuntime( 2401): 	at com.fairphone.fplauncher3.Launcher.onCreate(Unknown Source)
E/AndroidRuntime( 2401): 	at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:5104)
E/AndroidRuntime( 2401): 	at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1080)
E/AndroidRuntime( 2401): 	at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2144)
E/AndroidRuntime( 2401): 	... 11 more
W/ActivityManager(  495):   Force finishing activity community.fairphone.fplauncher3/com.fairphone.fplauncher3.Launcher

I have uncommented some lines that require the use of Androids hidden APIs in 8e356bb. We should look into this and find out what impact this has.

• My "home"/"desktop" is made of several pages of apps (currently 4)
• When I touch the home button it always displays the left (first) page

It should be better to display the central* page so with only a swipe one can access apps either to the left or to the right.

With the actual behavior, I have to swipe right several times until I hit the page I want.

If the home button would display the central page, you could start swiping left OR right so you would approximately need twice less moves.

*Let's say page number 1 or 2 out of 2, page number 2 out of 3, page number 2 or 3 out of 4, etc.

Inherited from #16.

Since Android 4.1, the BIND_APPWIDGET needs explicit permission to load a widget, as stated in the Android docs: https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/appwidgets/host#binding-41 ^{(which IMHO is a little inconsistent with how permissions are asked from Android 6 onwards, but whatever)}

The default workspace configuration includes widgets from our package (community.fairphone.fplauncher3) and from external packages (community.fairphone.mycontacts). Neither of them is added by default.

Seems like Workspace.java handles inflating shortcuts and widgets from XML files.

I honestly love how fast and responsive this launcher is. But for me customization is one of the most important aspects of Android. (Me personally so maybe I'm the only one that cares). But I would love to use icon packs with the launcher, change single icons and the icon size.

Hey everybody,

this is a screenshot of the widget selection screen of FP2-Launcher 2.1 on my FP1 with Kitkat 4.4.2:

As you can see, the "All apps"-button is cut off and the widgets in the lower row don't have titles.

Best, Stefan

Hello,

This app can't be installed on Fairphone OS:

Package community.fairphone.fplauncher3 attempting to redeclare permission com.android.launcher3.permission.RECEIVE_FIRST_LOAD_BROADCAST already owned by com.fairphone.fplauncher3

Or on LineageOS:

Package community.fairphone.fplauncher3 attempting to redeclare permission com.android.launcher3.permission.RECEIVE_FIRST_LOAD_BROADCAST already owned by com.cyanogenmod.trebuchet

(And probably on some other Android ROMs too.)

This is because the com.android.launcher3.permission.* permissions are already used by most default launchers (because most of them are forks of the AOSP launcher).

Would it be possible to rename the permissions to something else?

Your projects lacks about us section. If you do not mind, I can do that for you

Depends on #17 properly working.

Originally suggested in #16: Should we replace the default Google Search widget with the Fairphone Clock widget?

A poll is active in the Fairphone Community Forum, with three different options:

• Put the Fairphone Clock widget in the main screen and remove the Google Search widget
• Put the Fairphone Clock widget on top, followed by the Google Search below
• Keep just the Google Search widget (users without GApps will see an almost empty screen)

So far, 8/8 votes show support for the first option.
Update: First option has a 13/14 voters, second one has 1/14.

Hello,

Building 2.0 fails because of some linting errors so I had to add this to build.gradle before running gradle assembleRelease:

android { lintOptions { checkReleaseBuilds false } }

Would it be possible to make the build continue even when it gets lint errors (maybe with lintOptions { abortOnError false }?).

When I try to pin an app in the app drawer, it gets an orange dot, but it is not actually pinned to the top:

I use Firefox Klar by default, and as a work around for opening new tabs, I used to have a URL shortcut on my homescreen for about:blank.

I'm unable to view the URL shortcut on the home screen, and they all end up displayed in the home screen if Google launcher instead

Quite often people want to have a smaller grid (i.e grid cells are smaller, the number of cells per col/raw is bigger). You cannot calculate people's preference in this. Please enter an option. Thanks

Hi,

This is probably a pretty dumb question but I can not make EdgeSwipe works. I swipe from the left (or right) from the screen without much success. All it does is trying to go to the next/previous workspace (but I only have one, if I happen to have more than one it does not work either).

So if I want to launch an application I have to longpress on the screen then select 'Application' which is far from perfect :).

I installed the launcher from F-Droid on a lineageos phone.

darken or blacken app drawer, instead of the white background

Why does the app need internet and many other permissions?

If the launcher does not have the storage permission and the user tries to change the wallpaper, the launcher crashes:

05-09 17:30:44.333  7983  7994 E DatabaseUtils: java.lang.SecurityException: Permission Denial: reading com.android.providers.media.MediaProvider uri content://media/external/images/media from pid=20164, uid=10212 requires android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE, or grantUriPermission()
05-09 17:30:44.333  7983  7994 E DatabaseUtils: 	at android.content.ContentProvider.enforceReadPermissionInner(ContentProvider.java:605)
05-09 17:30:44.333  7983  7994 E DatabaseUtils: 	at android.content.ContentProvider$Transport.enforceReadPermission(ContentProvider.java:480)
05-09 17:30:44.333  7983  7994 E DatabaseUtils: 	at android.content.ContentProvider$Transport.query(ContentProvider.java:211)
05-09 17:30:44.333  7983  7994 E DatabaseUtils: 	at android.content.ContentProviderNative.onTransact(ContentProviderNative.java:112)
05-09 17:30:44.333  7983  7994 E DatabaseUtils: 	at android.os.Binder.execTransact(Binder.java:453)

It should probably be handled more gracefully.

As the title says: none of my unused Apps has been pushed to the inactive section, although I installed the launcher at 2.1.0 and upgraded to 2.2.0, so it has been in use for some time.
I am in a FP2 with LineageOS 14.1

The App Life Cycle feature doesn't feel complete: having just Idle Apps in the bottom which btw doesn't work from the beginning.
I suggest having the raw of "Hot Apps" on top of the list. Preferably customize size.

I.e. resizing to lower sizes then prescribed.