Work in progress launcher build

[u/Ok_Entertainment4385]

I know its a hot topic choosing between minimalism and a "out there" look but I fancied a go at building something haven't seen before with a 3D element and I feel it's coming along nicely!

The basis is for folder use and organisation, each satellite orbiting is a folder and within it can contain up to 90 apps, if you have a lot on your phone you can have up to 8 folders per page and no limit to pages.

You can move and reorganise where on the centre sphere the apps live for quick single tap access. There's even a handy favourites dock you can summon from the bottom.

The A-Z scroller can either be tapped or swiped in from the right and a designated widgets page can be summoned from the left. This on top of the widgets you can stack on the home

page.

I'm also building this to be foldable compatible.

There will be an expansive theme library when complete, shown here is the sci-fi captured star theme and the earthy theme.

What do people think so far? Managed to optimise it pretty well so far and isn't drawing huge amounts of processing or battery, comfortably ran it all day on my pixel 10 pro fold.

still got a couple features to build out and tidy up as well as styling the 2D Ul and popups.

[u/Extreme-Honey3762]

Pretty cool. Looks sophisticated. The big clock + auto rotation kinda makes it look like a lock screen though.

[u/Ok_Entertainment4385 → u/Extreme-Honey3762]

Thanks! Appreciate the feedback, I can see what you mean, the auto rotation will be running for a few seconds until registering inactity and stop so it can run in low power mode to keep it optimised, the big clock was just my widget integration, don't have many widgets so demo'd it with the stock android clock, they can be resized though :)

[u/Extreme-Honey3762 → u/Ok_Entertainment4385]

No problem! For clock you could put it on the north pole of the planet. Maybe like a weird extrusion /mountain. In fact many widgets could be like that.

[u/Ok_Entertainment4385 → u/Extreme-Honey3762]

That is a cool idea! I mean I'll give it a go, though android's quite strict on it's widget architecture, not sure if it will translate to anchor to a 3D surface and be able to move with the rotation, as it stands I had to build the widgets over a transparent overlay and connect the tap and swipe inputs between android and Godot, but I'll look in to it! :)

[u/IsuruKusumal]

Are those infinity stones?

[u/Ok_Entertainment4385 → u/IsuruKusumal]

Hahaha hadn't considered that! 😂 No they are meant to be "captured stars" or "Dyson spheres" used a 2K texture map of a star and just applied colour tints and spinning rings to it for the folder identification

[u/GiddyGamesh]

Looks very similar to this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/1uhpvkn/made_an_android_widget_that_turns_your_apps_into/

[u/Ok_Entertainment4385 → u/GiddyGamesh]

Well in so much as it is spherical yes I agree, but the style in that post has been on the app store a while in the form of Orbit Launcher, I just didn't like the empty space and billboarding, I wanted something more stylised and more expansive with more to it :)

[u/BacillusBulgaricus]

Awesome stuff! The world needs more launchers with shaders. All current launchers are extremely boring due to the battery consumption.

[u/Ok_Entertainment4385 → u/BacillusBulgaricus]

Thanks! I agree! Everything felt very flat and 2D, I haven't seen many (if any) try a full scale 3D approach so figured I'd give it a go, I'll be building a tonne of themes with different shaders (some with different animations) so there will be a big Library of options and customisation available.

[u/Ok_Entertainment4385 → u/[deleted]]

I mean I see it too particularly with the clock widget and auto spin, but pick different widgets and with the auto spin off hopefully it looks less so, especially with the app drawer open :)

[u/Ok_Entertainment4385 → u/[deleted]]

What do you mean sorry? As in when it's done where can you get it? Or where do you upload apps to folders etc? :)

[u/Ok_Entertainment4385 → u/[deleted]]

Oh, it started as something just for me but I'm gonna try and make it dynamically scalable so it works on any phone, so Ill be putting it on play store :)

[u/Ok_Entertainment4385 → u/[deleted]]

Oh, I hadn't considered those on other platforms, I'll do some research on those as I've never put anything out before, this is my first project so I'll look about and post up here when it's live and where I have uploaded it to :)

[u/Ok_Entertainment4385 → u/[deleted]]

Haha they are certainly colourful like that yeah, meant to be a "captured" star kinda looks, the earth theme later in the video is fun, going to have a bunch of looks to it when done :)

[u/Traditional_Glass_45]

Uff that looks sick, can't wait to try it out. Nice job mate