MinkLauncher OpenSource

com.katoaapps.openminilaunch
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A minimal, keyboard-first Android home-screen launcher

MinkLauncher OpenSource is a keyboard-first Android launcher built for fast input and low visual noise. HOME THAT FITS YOUR PHONE MinkSpace Mini-Apps and the eight-position App Grid share one responsive Home panel. Seven slots can hold an app, app shortcut, or folder. The eighth opens Quick Drawer for MinkPad Lite, All Apps, Private Space, and Work Space. Its saved Quick Apps appear when Mink Assistant opens. Swipe through enabled To-dos, Calculator, Memories, Music, Quick Widget, and your Virtual Contact Card. The Widgets page supports up to 64 Android widgets with responsive sizing, drag reordering, and portable restore placeholders. TYPE TO ACT On a physical-keyboard phone, start typing from Home. Magic Box opens with the first character preserved. Touch-only phones can use MinkLauncher’s native Home keyboard with eight layouts, six visual styles, adjustable height, optional haptics, and split mode on wide screens. Magic Box hot keys: • @: message a contact • #: call a contact • -: add a to-do • /: create a note • +: create a calendar event • ?: find and launch an app • *: send a prompt to your selected AI app • Plain text: search files, search the web, or use a compatible AI app PEOPLE AND CONVERSATIONS Conversations groups active Android message and email notifications into compact threads. Inline reply appears only when the originating app supplies Android’s reply action. Favorites combines starred Android Contacts with Mink-created integrated contacts. Reorder your people and choose a messaging or calling route for each one. If a provider is unavailable, MinkLauncher offers a clear reinstall or reconnect path. MORE BUILT IN • To-dos support editing, confirmation before deletion, and drag reordering. • File search groups photos, videos, documents, and audio from folders you explicitly select through Android’s system picker. • Mink’s Day measures foreground time for selected apps and can add a launcher-level pause after a collective daily limit. • Memories displays files selected through Android’s picker without copying or uploading them. • Music reads Android’s active media session through optional Notification access and sends only the controls supplied by the provider. • Work Apps use a separate badged drawer. Android 15 Private Space apps remain in Android’s locked container. • Add to Home requests use a full-page picker that can create or extend an App Grid folder or add the item to Quick Drawer. MAKE IT YOURS Choose a Mink theme or customize your wallpaper, colors, icons, font, and layout. Use Mink icons, original app icons, or an installed Nova/ADW-compatible icon pack. BACKUP AND RESTORE Export a versioned local JSON backup with launcher settings, folders, app choices, appearance, keyboard preferences, MinkSpace, Mink’s Day, to-dos, your Virtual Contact Card, Mink-created Favorites, and widget restore recipes. Readable exports may contain names, phone numbers, usernames, provider routes, and vCard details. Android Contacts, photos, live widget data, selected media, permissions, roles, and document-folder grants stay device-bound. Importing a backup preserves widgets already configured on the receiving device. PRIVACY BY DEFAULT • No accounts, ads, analytics, trackers, or application server • Android cloud backup is disabled • Queries, to-dos, settings, calculator history, media references, conversations, usage analysis, and filename indexing stay on the device • Portable backups are created only when requested and remain in the location you select • Optional Notification, Usage, Accessibility, and Assistant access is explained before Android Settings opens • The lock Accessibility Service performs only Android’s Lock screen action and cannot inspect window content • An optional GitHub version check sends no launcher content and never downloads or installs APKs MinkLauncher OpenSource is released under the Apache License 2.0.

First release: Nov 8, 2026, 3 total releases.

Most recent release: Nov 11, 2026.

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  • Nov 11, 2026 3.2.2
    Open 3.2.2 refines Home discovery, Magic Box input, Quick Apps, Favorites, and demo capture without changing the backup format or permission model. - **Choose the keyboard that fits:** Magic Box uses Mink Keyboard by default. A new top-level Keyboard setting can switch to the current Android system keyboard and hides Mink-only customization while keeping `@`, `#`, `-`, `/`, `+`, and `?` actions intact. The choice is portable, and older backups continue to default to Mink Keyboard. - **Hot keys start actions instead of becoming text:** Magic Box now treats a hot key as the catalyst for its route, keeps drafts focused through each step, and preserves physical-keyboard input corrections without leaving the trigger character in the message or query. - **A guided tour of Home:** Existing and new users receive a focused spotlight walkthrough for folders, MinkSpace, Magic Box, keyboard controls, header actions, and the gestures that move between Home, Widgets, Mink's Day, See All, and notifications. - **Quick Apps behaves like a folder:** Tapping Quick Apps inside Quick Drawer now opens its contents directly in the shared folder surface. The plus button opens its eight-item picker, while regular Home folders support up to 12 items and use the same count language. - **Smoother Home and keyboard layout:** Home's top controls no longer shift the Magic Box while paging, the launcher keyboard animates into place, and portrait height uses clear 30%, 40%, and 50% stops with 40% as the default. - **Favorites follow their source:** Integrated Favorites can retain provider shortcut artwork and updated provider names. A deliberately custom Favorite name remains under the user's control. - **Less repetitive Adrift sessions:** Each Adrift launch starts from a shuffled media sequence instead of replaying the same opening order. - **Demo Studio:** Demo Mode now has one capture-focused settings surface for repeatable Home, Conversations, Favorite-attention, Quick Apps, and search scenarios.
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    The permanent **Join Google Play beta** button remains in Quick Drawer. No new permissions, analytics, accounts, or network services are introduced. Portable backup schema version 3 remains unchanged, older schema-3 backups continue to import, and device-bound data remains device-bound.
  • Nov 10, 2026 3.2.1
    Open 3.2.1 is a focused Home, Conversations, and ambient-display update built on the 3.2.0 feature release. - **Adrift ambient mode:** Long-press the keyboard button on the Home Magic Box to enter a full-screen, orientation-aware collage made from Memories photos and animated GIFs. Independently fading frames fill the display around a centered clock, while videos remain excluded. A Favorite-conversation indicator appears only when attention is pending, and Back returns to Adrift after opening Conversations. - **A real Mink Theme:** The default theme now uses Mink's brown-and-green palette across Home, Settings, and the launcher keyboard. Bundled themes still pair wallpaper, background, and pill colors; Device wallpaper preserves the user's chosen photo so it can be restored after trying a theme. - **Readable colors on the actual background:** Home labels, secondary captions, controls, status/navigation bars, and launcher-keyboard colors adapt to the visible wallpaper or theme instead of assuming the selected source is still on screen. Semantic action colors and Favorite notification counts keep their intended high-contrast colors. - **Home uses the space around camera cutouts:** The date, time, battery, Conversations, and Settings controls can occupy usable space beside centered or side cutouts instead of pushing the entire launcher downward. Individual header items move and align as a group only when the reported cutout requires it. - **Fewer ghost Favorite alerts:** Conversations now reconciles acknowledged and removed notifications against Android's active notification set so old or superseded messages do not randomly return as unread attention. - **Portable Favorite attention colors:** Android Favorite colors can be matched best-effort after restore with export-scoped opaque tokens. Names, phone numbers, email addresses, contact IDs, photos, message contents, and relationship data are not copied into that metadata; ambiguous or missing matches are left unresolved. The permanent **Join Google Play beta** button remains in Quick Drawer and is not replaced by What's New. No new permissions, analytics, accounts, or network services are introduced. Portable backup schema version 3 remains unchanged, older schema-3 backups continue to import, and selected Memories media remains device-bound.
  • Nov 8, 2026 3.2.0
    Open 3.2.0 expands MinkLauncher from a keyboard-first launcher into a more complete home, contacts, widgets, and touch-keyboard experience. - **Favorites for the people you reach most:** Conversations now includes reorderable Favorites from Android Contacts and Mink-created integrated contacts. Each person can use a preferred messaging or calling route, while unavailable providers offer a clear reinstall or reconnect path. - **App Grid folders:** Any configurable Home slot can hold one app or become a folder. Folders support names, colors, stacked or grid indicators, animation choices, drag reordering, and safe handling when an app is uninstalled. - **Quick Drawer and Quick Apps:** The fixed eighth Home slot now opens a focused navigation surface for MinkPad Lite, All Apps, Private Space, and Work Space. Its saved Quick Apps are managed from one row and appear in Magic Box when Mink Assistant opens. - **A larger, portable widget space:** The Widgets page now supports up to 64 widgets, drag reordering, and portable restore recipes. A backup can reserve each widget's place and guide Android through rebinding it without replacing widgets already configured on the receiving device. - **Native launcher keyboard:** Touch-only phones can use MinkLauncher’s own Home keyboard with QWERTY, AZERTY, QWERTZ, Dvorak, Pinyin, Cangjie, Hangul, and Abugida layouts; six visual styles; split layouts on larger displays; hot keys; haptics; and adjustable height. - **Faster app finding:** Fuzzy search tolerates partial and imperfect app-name queries in the Magic Box and app pickers. - **Refined onboarding, settings, and themes:** Setup focuses on Home, contacts, messaging, and an optional Mink Assistant step that explains direct SMS and keeping a personal assistant in Quick Apps. Replayable tours explain Home and Conversations; complete themes pair wallpaper, background, and pill colors; secondary captions adapt to the selected background; and settings navigation has been reorganized. Quick Apps can be edited directly from Mink Assistant settings. - **Google Play beta handoff:** Existing OpenSource users get a one-time invitation with backup guidance, plus permanent beta links in About and Quick Drawer when they are ready to test the Google Play edition.
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    - **Shared MinkPad foundation:** Embedded MinkPad now uses the same extracted controller core intended for standalone development while retaining OpenSource behavior and permissions. No new permissions, analytics, accounts, or network services are introduced. Portable backup schema version 3 remains unchanged and older schema-3 backups continue to import. Android widget IDs, live widget contents, provider-specific widget configuration, Android Contacts, and contact photos remain device-bound and are not copied into backup files.