W Launcher

Releases

• Sep 22, 2026 3.5.0
  This release brings an authentic Palm webOS 2.2.4 heritage visual refresh (recreated directly from Palm Pre 2 system assets) combined with modern Android 15 & Material You dynamic system theming. ### Palm webOS 2.2.4 Heritage Visual Refresh - **Open-Source Lato Typography**: Bundled the complete Google Fonts Lato family (under SIL OFL) across all screens, headers, app labels, tabs, cards, and notification panels. - **Quick Launch Frosted Glass Dock**: Recreated the authentic webOS frosted glass shelf with a 1.5dp specular highlight line along the top edge, ambient edge stroke, and unconstrained 54dp adaptive floating icons with tactile spring press feedback. - **"Just Type" Real-Time Search**: Added a webOS-style 42dp pill search container with instant real-time app filtering across all tabs as you type, and a dedicated tap-to-clear button. - **Material 3 Tonal Pill Tabs**: Replaced plain text tabs with title-case Lato Bold labels and an active elastic pill indicator with generous touch padding. - **Clean App Drawer Grid**: Removed nested layout overhead, eliminated forced artificial squircle boxes, and styled floating 56dp icons with soft text legibility shadows. ### 3-Way Theming System

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  - **Material You (Dynamic System)**: Dynamically samples wallpaper palette using Android 12+ Monet (system_accent1_* and system_neutral1_*) across the Quick Launch dock, header gradient, search container, active tab pill, and frosted drawer backdrop tint. - **Classic (Light)**: Authentic Palm webOS blue header, frosted glass shelf, and high-contrast dark search text. - **Obsidian (Dark)**: Deep onyx glass, gunmetal chrome header, and obsidian dock. - Live real-time preview and switching in the About & Settings page. ### Notification Dashboard Overhaul - **3D Card Stacking**: Visual stacked deck effect for multiple notifications from the same app with layered shadows. - **Gesture Cycling**: Swipe up/down to cycle through stacked notifications without dismissing them. - **Action Intent Pills**: Slide left to reveal interactive action pills directly on the notification card; slide right to dismiss. ### Bug Fixes & Resolved Issues - **Fixed System Insets & Screen Scaling on Large Devices (Fixes #24)**: Improved window insets and layout scaling across modern displays (such as Pixel 9 Pro XL), ensuring the Quick Launch dock and notification panel respect gesture navigation pills and status bar cutouts without overlapping. - **Persistent "Just Type" Search (Fixes #15)**: Replaced ephemeral widget logic with a native, persistent "Just Type" search container in the App Drawer header that never disappears across screen locks or app pauses. - **Notification Edge Clipping**: Fixed horizontal clipping glitch affecting stacked notifications during cycle and dismiss transitions. ### F-Droid & IzzyOnDroid Reproducible Builds - Implemented compileSdk { version = release(37) { minorApiLevel = 0 } } for compatibility with build environments (#21). - Disabled dependenciesInfo.includeInApk to eliminate proprietary binary blobs and ensure 100% reproducible builds (#13).
• Jul 4, 2026 3.0.0
  # Release Notes ## Version 3.0.0 — July 4, 2026 This is the biggest visual and functional update W Launcher has had since the original webOS-inspired look was introduced. It's a full pass at making the whole launcher — home screen, dock, and app drawer — actually feel like a classic Palm/HP webOS Mojo & Enyo device again, instead of just wearing a few webOS-flavored icons on top of a generic layout. Bumping to a major version because of how much of the UI changed and because it's now a real Home app for the first time. ### Light & Dark themes, done properly - Replaced the old five-way theme picker (Classic/Classic3/Mochi/Modern/System) with a single Light/Dark choice. Old installs on "Classic3" quietly migrate to Dark so nobody gets bumped back to Light without asking. - Light is no longer just Dark with different text colors — it's got its own blue identity across the whole app (headers, buttons, dock, icons), matching the classic webOS blue rather than reusing Dark's gunmetal gray in the wrong places.

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  - Fixed a bug where the About page's header and status bar ignored the theme entirely and always rendered in Dark's colors. - Fixed Light theme text legibility — app-drawer labels get a subtle shadow, and the About & Settings page sits on a translucent scrim, so text stays readable against the wallpaper no matter how bright it is underneath. ### Apps Drawer redesign - New tabbed header (System / Downloads / Settings) and squircle icon tiles, matching Mojo/Enyo's app-launcher chrome instead of the old flat list look. - Added a genuine frosted-glass background in Light theme. It used to just lay a translucent wallpaper over whatever was still on screen behind it, which let the home screen's recent-app cards and dock visibly ghost through — jarring, not translucent. Now it blurs and tints that content instead, so it reads as intentional glass. - Rounded the bottom corners of the drawer so it reads as a card sitting just above the dock, and made the status bar go transparent while it's open instead of tinting to the header color. - Fixed a real bug where the drawer button could spawn an unlimited number of stacked drawer instances — it now properly toggles open and closed. Root cause was a leftover safety check that was silently auto-closing the drawer moments after it opened, essentially at random; that's gone now and the button just does what it looks like it should. ### Dock redesign - Replaced the flat, theme-blind dock bar with a frosted-glass tray that matches the drawer — blue in Light, gunmetal in Dark — with rounded top corners and a soft shadow so it reads as a floating tray rather than a bar glued to the bottom of the screen. - Dock icons now use the same frosted squircle tiles as the app drawer instead of a plain circular halo, so the two finally look like they belong to the same app. - The dock now stays visible and fully usable while the app drawer is open on top of it, instead of sliding away — you can tap a dock app without closing the drawer first. ### New: long-press app actions - Long-pressing an app icon in the drawer now brings up the same kind of "app actions" popup stock Android launchers show: the app's own shortcuts (e.g. an email app's "Compose"), Add to Dock, App Info, and Uninstall. - Long-pressing a dock icon (without dragging it) shows the same popup, but with Remove from Dock in place of Add to Dock/Uninstall, since that's the action that actually makes sense there. - Shortcuts only show up once W Launcher is actually set as your Home app — see below. ### About & Settings, combined - About and Settings used to be two separate screens (About had a gear icon that drilled into Settings). They're now one page — About & Settings — themed to match, with the outdated About blurb rewritten to reflect what the launcher actually does today. ### Home screen polish - Rounded the corners on the home screen / drawer / settings container for a more card-like feel, consistent with the rounded dock and drawer. - Fixed the notification panel's dock-jumping and animation glitches. - Long-press shortcuts menu on apps.
• Jun 13, 2025 2.3.6 Release page →
  This is a big one! Added new *experimental* notifications handler. It is pretty basic right now, just shows up and has some details. It does include a swipe to dismiss, but no tap to launch intents yet. Also added some flag for dependenciesInfo that was suggested.