About this app

Solid Launcher brings a new kind of home screen, which differs of other regular android AOSP based launchers. It has been written from scratch to fill the lack of "different" launchers in android world.

Solid is designed to be fast, intuitive, efficient and beautyful. Originally, Solid's design was inspired by Google Now design with cards and cities headers, but now more from the native and original Material Design. Solid is highly customizable; you can make it fully transparent or with colors automatically inspired from your wallpaper !

Main functionalities:
• Fling widgets: open a floating widget by just swipping on an app's icon
• Header panel: an advanced dock which can contain apps, shortcuts and widgets
• Custom applications transitions: customize transitions when opening/closing applications
• Icon packs: thousands of icon packs available, fully compatible with Apex icon packs
• Dynamic theme color: Solid can adapts theme color to your wallpaper automatically
• Gestures: double tap, swipe in multiple directions ...
• Customizable page animations
• Multiple page indicators
• Wallpaper scroll (parallax or regular)
• Multiple folder icon layout type
• Customizable icon appearance: icon size, text color, text font
• Customizable row and column counts: available for header panel and grids
• Multiple drawer themes
• Customizable page count, customizable default page
• Hidden apps: select which apps you don't want in apps drawer
• Customizable margins: modify header panel and grids margins
• Multiple drawer layouts: choose between indexed grid or indexed list
• Quick search bar in app drawer
• Folder adapt their colors to their container (container's card ..)

This app is developed on my free time, you can support my work by getting Prime version. Thanks.

Permissions :
-INTERNET : Used for DashBoard weather feature.
-READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE : Used to restore backup files.
-WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE : Used to save backup files.
-CALL_PHONE : Used for phone application shortcuts.
-BILLING : Allow user to purchase Prime key.
-EXPAND_STATUS_BAR : All is in name !

This app uses the Device Administrator permission. (Needed only for "locking phone with a gesture" behavior)

Want to help to translate ? see:
https://www.getlocalization.com/SolidLauncher/

Developers, see:
https://github.com/MajeurAndroid/SolidLauncher-Api

New features

3.0
•Redesigned Solid's behavior and global design (Drawer is now "juxtaposed" to Grids and Panel)
•Added a lot of color variants
•Added search bar in drawer
•Re-organized Solid's settings
•New design for the drag&drop extras bar
•Removed Google card style feature
•Removed panel custom wallpaper feature
•Fixed bug causing grids to sometimes not loading
•Fixed issue when restoring a backup
•Fixed broken weather for DashBoard widget
•Big improvement in stability
•Lot of minor bug and design fixes

App Permissions

Allows applications to open network sockets.
Allows an application to read from external storage.
Allows an application to write to external storage.
Allows an application to initiate a phone call without going through the Dialer user interface for the user to confirm the call.
Allows an application to expand or collapse the status bar.
Allows applications to access information about networks.