Action Launcher é actualizado e chega com funcionalidades do Android P

O famoso Action Launcher acaba de ser atualizado e chega à versão 35 e que chega com alguns toques do Android P. E estamos a falar da já conhecida avançada gaveta de aplicações com pastas, e a classificação de pastas. E isto sem necessidade de instalar qualquer versão developer preview do Android P.

Aqui fica o Changelog completo da versão 35 do Action Launcher:

 NEW: When the Quickbar is white and uses a transparency of 35% of greater, icons on the Quickbar display in white ala Pixel Launcher.
• NEW: Support for P style rounded dock. The dock’s look can be changed via the new Dock tint effect setting.
• NEW: Add Pixel Launcher style search bar to All Apps drawer.
• NEW: When sliding the All Apps drawer open, smoothly transition to the new Pixel Launcher style search bar.
• NEW: Folders can be created in the All Apps drawer.
• NEW: “Show desktop shortcuts” setting added to All Apps options. If disabled, apps with shortcuts on the desktop are automatically hidden from the app drawers.
• NEW: “Select Apps” option added to folders.
• NEW: “Sort” option added to folders.
• NEW: Use Android P style rounded folders.
• NEW: Smartsize icon scaling, previously a Plus only feature, is now used automatically for all users.
• NEW: All Apps shortcut gestures no longer require Plus upgrade.
• NEW: Android P compatibility. Specifically, the compatibility warning notice no longer displays.
• NEW: Add “Customize” option to the Quickbar’s menu.
• IMPROVEMENT: During an initial import, the app imports layouts from other apps without forcing a restart of Action Launcher.
• IMPROVEMENT: General app optimizations.
• CHANGE: Changed default app gestures such that: swiping up on the desktop opens All Apps; settings is opened by double-tapping empty space on the desktop.
• CHANGE: Simplified dock swipes to open All Apps such that: Swiping up anywhere on the dock now always opens All Apps; to open Covers/Shutters on the dock, swipe downwards on the icon. This behavior can be changed via “Settings -> App drawers -> All Apps -> Swipe dock to open”.
• CHANGE: Width of items on All Apps drawer adjusts with the desktop margin setting.
• REMOVE: Support for the Lollipop and Marshmallow style All Apps drawers has been depreciated. We never like removing features, but in this case, we’ve made the decision to focus development on the Nougat style full screen All Apps drawer going forward. Doing so allows us to deliver new features such as folders and Pixel Launcher 2 search bar faster and more reliably.
• FIX: The Google App’s “At a glance” widget can be placed.
• FIX: Improved support for right-to-left languages.
• FIX: Navigation buttons are white on Galaxy S8/S9 style devices.
• FIX: Fix crash when running the app with Android’s “Work mode” disabled.
• FIX: Fix grabbing of the All Apps page slider.
• FIX: Fix appearance of Action Launcher’s icon on devices running Oreo or later.
• FIX: Fix dock caret Quicktheme support.
• FIX: Inform user that Quickbar settings can’t be accessed if “Don’t keep activities” developer setting is enabled.
• FIX: Fix appearance of status bar when opening All Apps on Android 5.x and 6.x.
• FIX: Fix app drawer displaying in broken visual state after upgrading to Plus on Android 5.x and 6.x.
• FIX: Disallow use of the Huawei Weather widget. Attempting to use this widget in all 3rd party launchers causes them to crash in an unpreventable manner.
• FIX: Fix shortcuts dragged from All Apps to the dock occasionally briefly displaying in the wrong position.
• FIX: Fix gestures sometimes failing to work after the Now feed is disconnected.
• FIX: Fix issue where status bar could display in the wrong color after changing the All Apps panel color.
• FIX: Stability fix importing from other launchers on Android 6.0 devices.
• FIX: Stability fix when editing Quickbar on Android 8.1 without Storage permission being granted.
• FIX: Fix appearance of folder after changing the icon of an app in the folder.
• FIX: Fix issue with dock sometimes displaying above the Quickpage.
• FIX: A great many miscellaneous stability fixes.

Conforme podemos ver acima é um changelog muito extenso, mas o mais essencial é que agora o launcher possui a opção de um dock bem ao estilo do Android P com a respetiva barra de pesquisa, mas pode reverter para outras versões da dock. A gaveta de aplicações agora tem suporte para pastas e todas as suas pastas têm uma função de classificação. Também pode optar por ocultar as aplicações na gaveta de aplicações, se eles já estiverem no ecrã inicial.

Download do Action Launcher

A versão 35 já está disponivel para download. Para os que possuem a versão anterior, receberão nos próximos dias a atualização. E para quem não tem a aplicação e gostava de ter, fique a saber que ele pode ser instalada gratuitamente a partir daqui:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.actionlauncher.playstore