ARK-launcher Files

Other apps can now add shortcuts and widgets to the home screen, the long-press menu matches Pixel Launcher (shortcuts and a Widgets row), a long-press inside a folder opens the app's menu, and dropping an app from the drawer onto a home icon makes a folder. Updating keeps your layout, widgets and settings.

Added

• Other apps can add to the home screen. A browser's "Add to Home screen" or "Install app", a conversation shortcut from a chat app, an app's own "Add widget" button: ARK-launcher now shows its own confirmation over the app, with the app's name, a preview and the size, and puts the item on the first free spot (a new page at the end if every page is full). Nothing on the home screen is moved for it, and the next time home shows it turns to the new item. A widget gets the size the widget picker would give it; the system asks first when it needs permission to add one. A locked desktop, a work-profile widget, a widget too big for the grid or a full home screen is explained instead of added.
• App menu inside folders. Long-pressing an app inside an open folder opens the same menu as on the home screen: app info, rename, remove from folder, uninstall and the app's shortcuts. The app stays in the folder; taking it out is one of the menu's actions. (Reported on Telegram.)
• Widgets in the app menu. An app that has home-screen widgets gets a Widgets row in its long-press menu, on the home screen, in the dock, inside a folder and in the app drawer, like Pixel Launcher. It opens the widget picker on that app's widgets only.
• Folders from the drawer and the dock. Dropping an app from the app drawer or the dock onto a home-screen icon makes a folder of the two, and dropping it onto a folder adds it there — what a drop between two home icons already did. An app already on the home screen leaves its old cell for the folder.
• A word after another app's add. When a shortcut or widget another app asked for has been added, a toast names it, so you see the outcome while still in that app.

Changed

• Shortcuts in the long-press menu are picked the way Pixel Launcher does: only the ones the app offers for that icon, the app's fixed ones first and up to two dynamic ones, each with its own icon. A shortcut that cannot start says "Shortcut isn't available".
• Pinned shortcuts follow the app. A new name or icon shows at once; one the app disables turns grey and a tap shows the app's reason; one the system no longer has is removed from home instead of leaving an occupied but empty cell.
• Back on the bare home screen does nothing instead of restarting the launcher.

Fixed

• Adding an item when every home page is full no longer stores it where it could never be seen; the home screen says it is full instead. (The home screen has at most 50 pages.)
• Package changes that arrive in a burst, or while the home screen is not open, are no longer lost; an uninstalled app's rows are cleaned up reliably.

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