feat(GmsCore): `Hide App Icon from Drawer/Launcher` about gmscore HOT 11 OPEN

Without the app icon, users will not be able to launch the microG utility app, nor change any of the microG settings or view diagnostic information, which will handicap usage.

I have no idea why someone would want that...

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Its just most of the users are coming from vanced microg and it had the option to hide from app list, and no one seemed to face any issue with that.

The microG project doesn't care about revanced and its workalikes, they are projects that took some microG code, completely changed it in a way that broke 90% of its normal functionality, but didn't remove the "microG" from the name.

It's OT here actually. All it does is confuse people about what microG actually is.

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poeple usually dont change microg settings much, so it ight be better to just set it up once and then hide away. If someone wants to change settings again they can just go to all apps list.

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Users can access settings from App Info > "Additional Settings in the app".

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poeple usually dont change microg settings much, so it ight be better to just set it up once and then hide away. If someone wants to change settings again they can just go to all apps list.

When I see the phrase "hide from the launcher" it usually means really hide it, not just on the desktop, but everywhere in the launcher including the app list.

So yeah, if it was just hidden from the desktop, that's no big deal.

You can just install a different launcher or some misc Magisk/Xposed hack to do stuff like that too.

https://www.wikihow.com/Hide-Apps-on-Android

https://www.androidauthority.com/how-to-hide-files-photos-apps-android-652711/

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poeple usually dont change microg settings much, so it ight be better to just set it up once and then hide away. If someone wants to change settings again they can just go to all apps list.

When I see the phrase "hide from the launcher" it usually means really hide it, not just on the desktop, but everywhere in the launcher including the app list.

So yeah, if it was just hidden from the desktop, that's no big deal.

You can just install a different launcher or some misc Magisk/Xposed hack to do stuff like that too.

https://www.wikihow.com/Hide-Apps-on-Android

https://www.androidauthority.com/how-to-hide-files-photos-apps-android-652711/

Its just most of the users are coming from vanced microg and it had the option to hide from app list, and no one seemed to face any issue with that.

Nevertheless I have hidden it in my mobile so it doesn't bother me. Its upto the devs if they want to implement the feature.

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I would very much like the feature. Once I have it setup, I don't need to tinker with it again. I would like it hidden from the app drawer.

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Please! Please! Add this feature, just an option to "Hide From Launcher". It would be a toggle button with default as off, so no one would be affected negatively as it is optional and voluntary selective feature which only hides the app icon from home when someone activates this setting.

Why it's needed?
Because this is just a onetime config app with no regular access required, if we want, we can go in settings>apps and access it. Even the regular android google account services is found only in settings not as a separate app. Some might say just let the app be there you don't have to open it why is it bothering you. But there are many of us who want a limited/minimalist experience with default launcher and vanced microg had this killer feature so we are habituated.

TeamVanced#76 Vanced MicroG after discussions , this feature was made available )

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Came here to request exactly this, thx ILoveOpenSourceApplications, here's hoping..

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Its just most of the users are coming from vanced microg and it had the option to hide from app list, and no one seemed to face any issue with that.

The microG project doesn't care about revanced and its workalikes, they are projects that took some microG code, completely changed it in a way that broke 90% of its normal functionality, but didn't remove the "microG" from the name.

It's OT here actually. All it does is confuse people about what microG actually is.

Oh okay alright. Got it.
BTW what is OT? I am not familiar with GitHub's abbreviations .

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BTW what is OT? I am not familiar with GitHub's abbreviations .

It's a common abbreviation in online fora for "Off Topic".

See this comment from the project founder:

#2091 (comment)

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