How to quickly launch apps for Android

Launcher Widget

Hello! I want to offer you widget (today totally free — read the article), which saves our time.


the Problem is simple — in order to run the app it first you need to find! There are different solutions — frequently used applications as icons, folders to sort the apps by category and something a little more exotic, like search applications by name.


Launcher Widget — offers a different approach — it shows all installed applications in the form of small icons and when you touch increases the area of contact (to start a particular application).


Widget saves the position of icons.

the First time will have to look for an app, but the second time run will be much easier and faster.


Widget updates the icons for installing, removing and updating applications

you don't have to decide which folder to put a particular app is not necessary to maintain order or thinking where to put the app doesn't fit any folder. In this regard, a widget for the lazy — set and forget.



And we have:


the
    the
  • Editor — you can move icons, if you really want.
    • the
  • Sorting — you can sort by install time.
    • the
  • set the number of columns, to icons was more or less.
    • the
  • Arbitrary size of the widget — place the widget as you prefer and where you prefer.
    • the
  • Scrolling in the widget — if the icons became too much.
    • the
  • And Vice versa, you can disable Zoom and run apps with one touch — if the application is not enough.

the

one Free.


In the beginning, I promised that app is only today, only now just for you — absolutely free. In order to the dream came true — you need in the widget settings (the screenshot below) click on the inscription "Redeem promo code..."/"Enter promo code..." and in the appeared window enter promo code habrahabr. Promo code is valid for 24 hours from the moment publication of the article.



the

feedback.


the article aims not only to show themselves, but also to get valuable feedback. So we give out widget free: hoping for your ideas and comments (welcome to the comments and the PM!). A year ago, when it was released the very first version of the widget, the feedback from 4pda helped to decide where to go.


the

the Dirty details.


Though a hub "I PR" allows you to advertise yourself without any reservations, I think many of you interested in the details. Let me begin, and you continue to ask me questions in the comments.


Motivation. Very complicated, because the project spent not so little time — the question is, where to take it and how to do it? Initially spent one day off a week, it's hard, it's difficult, especially if the weather is beautiful — but after a while you get used to. To develop the habit — that's the goal! When the feeling that you can do it, regardless of the circumstances: either Saturday or Sunday to devote to the development — it's in the bag. As I wrote in another article — one day a week — that's almost 2.5 work-months per year!


Accelerated. I'm not the one who's on his knees to write the prototype for a couple of evenings. I need more time. So you have to figure out how to speed up the process by other means.


Plan. We need a plan! It helps to see the approaching to some final. The plan of course live. Definitely need to beat the task on smaller — to a trifle to do at home in the evenings, and large Tusk — when you have the whole day.


Choice. the Project into two working months into a calendar year. Therefore, the main question — do not burn. How long can you write something of their own without feedback? I think that more than a year it is almost impossible to do. So if you do something in the evenings, choose the minimum! The simplest prototype! The minimum of the functional. Here's my advice.


And let the force be with you!

Article based on information from habrahabr.ru

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