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Minimal Android Launcher

A minimal launcher displaying only core apps you really need, with a note widget to quickly add reminders on your home screen.

Date: April 2022

Heavily insprired by this minimalistic launcher, I wanted icons and a space to add notes as reminders on my home screen. Also wanted to practice and brush up on Kotlin.

Features of the Launcher

• Notes/Reminders on your home page
• Battery percentage indicator and Clock view
• App Drawer showing icons and app name
• Save apps to home screen to quickly access important apps

• Kotlin
• Android Studio
• SQLite
• Package Manager was used to get installed apps and more

• Clone and run the projec easily with Android Studio.

git clone https://github.com/jolenechong/androidLauncher.git

• Displaying App Drawer and adding search function
• Display time and date with TextClock view
• Display Battery Percentage with BroadcastReciever
• Added SQLite Database to store selected apps to be displayed on home page
• Add and Delete selected apps from database
• Added options to uninstall app and view app info
• Added a new table to store notes
• Improve UI
• Allow customisations for background, accent colors and fonts (currently hardcoded)

Jolene - [email protected]

Project Link: https://github.com/jolenechong/bookingApp