Fly Pie Launcher ·

An Android launcher that lets you navigate within a pie menu, allowing you to use categories of apps organised within the layers of the pie.

🏗️ Built with React Native and Kotlin

ℹ️ This project is inspired by @markusfisch's PieLauncher

Screenshots

Roadmap

• Show a pie containing list of apps
• Add layer navigation links within the pie to allow grouping/categorization of apps
• Persist layer configuration
• Add basic layer editing via JSON
• Browsers should have dedicated search action using the search engine
• Make layers properly customizable via UI
• Add sweet animations
• Build alpha release APK for public use -- v0.1
• A one-tap gesture displays a grid of all your apps. The app below the location you tap will open.
• add themed app icons
• Widgets support

Developing

Pre-Requisites

1. Node >= 18 is installed
2. A working installation of Android Studio.
   1. Android build tools 35.0.0
   2. minimum android 7.0 device or emulator (API level 24, target API level 35)
   3. OpenJDK v20
   4. Kotlin >=2
3. Preferably have an Android device connected via USB. Enable USB debugging beforehand.

Steps

1. Clone the repository & install dependencies:

git clone https://github.com/jgoedde/Fly-Pie-Launcher.git
cd Fly-Pie-Launcher
npm i

Optional: make sure all required environmental variables are set by running

npx react-native doctor

3. Start the app for development

npm run android

Building an apk

Use the build script to output an apk. From the repository root, run

./scripts/create-release-apk.sh