ARK-launcher Files

The People widget and a page menu. Updating from 0.7.16 keeps your layout, widgets and settings.

New: People widget (Widgets ▸ ARK-launcher ▸ People)

• Messages, missed calls and mail grouped by person across apps, as tiles: grey when quiet, accent-colored while unread (fading over two hours), quiet again when dismissed. Pinned people keep a tile even when quiet.
• Tap opens the newest message in its app. Swipe sideways dismisses everything behind the tile. Long-press: open, reply from the tile, call, dismiss, contact, pin, link a differently spelled name to a person.
• Other apps' notifications (news, deliveries, system) show as tiles grouped by app after the people, with the app icon, title and text. Switch them off in Settings ▸ Home screen.
• Tiles pack into the widget's footprint; whatever doesn't fit folds into a "+N" tile. Stretch the widget to the whole grid for a tile-only page.

New: page menu (long-press an empty spot)

• Add a page to the left or right, set the home page (its dot wears a ring; HOME returns there and the launcher opens there), remove an empty page. Pages you add stay even while empty.

New settings (Settings ▸ Home screen)

• People widget privacy: sender and message / sender only / count only.
• Batch delivery (off by default): messages from people who aren't pinned wait in the launcher until set times (default 08:00, 12:00, 17:00). It affects only the launcher's tiles, dots and status bar; Android's shade, sounds and pop-ups work normally. Pinned people, missed calls and one-time codes come through at once; turning it off releases everything.

The widget needs notification access and asks for it; it uses the contacts permission only if contact search is already on. Everything stays on the device. No new permissions.

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SHA-256 ARK-launcher-0.8.0.apk: 338fdabb7fed17cb2a239fc8e874e7dffb0cbd324047b2e53cc85c9cdffa491d