μLauncher aims to be minimal software. This necessitates to decline certain feature suggestions (which is of course always a hard decision). The following is a list of features suggested to me, which I ultimately decided not to implement. Please do not request these features again. If these are essential features for you, check out the plethora of other FOSS launchers available.

Daily Wallpapers #

This is possible using a live wallpaper.

Apps on the Home Screen #

This doesn’t fit μLauncher’s concept well. Moreover, it is possible to achieve this using widgets.

Fancy Clock Faces #

Use widgets instead.

Protect Apps With a Password #

While this might sound like a reasonable security feature at first, it is actually not something a launcher (or any non-system app for that matter) can do. For example, one can always go to System Settings > Apps and launch apps from there or just install a different home screen without any artificial restrictions. Thus such a feature would only give a false sense of security. If some of your apps need additional protection, use Android’s private space instead.

Termux Action #

Use Termux:Widget instead.

Search Contacts #

• Accessing contacts is a sensitive permission. I don’t want my home screen to access my contact book.
• It feels like reinventing the wheel. There already is a contacts app. I think the launcher acting as a second contact app is out of the scope of “do one thing and do it well”
• It would only work for the contacts of the profile where μLauncher is installed. μLauncher can list apps from all profiles through the LauncherApps API, but there is no way to access contacts from other profiles (for a very good reason).

See #119.