r/keylauncher

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This version focuses on privacy, a more seamless music experience, and a wide array of refinements based directly on community feedback. We’ve added long-awaited features like Private Space support and polished every corner of the UI for a more fluid interaction.

✨ New Features & Customization

Private Space / Secure Folder (Beta): Key Launcher now officially supports Android’s Private Space and Samsung’s Secure Folder, ensuring your sensitive apps remain hidden and secure.

AM/PM Indicator: A highly requested addition for the 12-hour clock format, keeping your home screen exactly how you like it.

System-Based Localization: Date formats now automatically sync with your system's regional settings for a more native feel.

Search Filter Counts: View the exact number of results directly in the filter menus, making it easier to navigate.

Expanded Double Tap to Lock: Enlarged the detection area for the double-tap-to-sleep gesture, significantly improving one-handed usability.

🛠 Stability and Bug Fixes

Music Player Logic: Fixed a bug where the player would randomly switch to a different media app when music was paused.

Status Bar Visibility: Resolved an issue where the system status bar would persist even when the "Hide Status Bar" option was enabled.

Weather Units: Corrected the display logic to ensure Celsius (°C) and Fahrenheit (°F) units are always shown accurately.

Focus Mode on Legacy Devices: Patched the background blur effect for users on Android 11 and below to ensure visual consistency.

General Refinement: Addressed dozens of minor bugs and edge-case crashes reported by our community to ensure a rock-solid experience.

🚀 Performance & Optimizations

Instant Lyric Caching: Introduced a smart caching mechanism for lyrics. Once fetched, they now load lightning-fast for your favorite tracks on Spotify and YouTube Music.

Connectivity Panel Workflow: Streamlined the permission request process for the Connectivity Sheet, making the initial setup much more intuitive and seamless.

Fluid Music Animations: Refined the transition and motion logic within the Music Player component for a more premium, "fluid" aesthetic.

The update is now rolling out on the Google Play Store.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.loitran.minimalt9launcher.free

Note from Dev: Thank you for your incredible feedback. Let us know what you think, and if you're enjoying the journey, don't forget to drop a review on the Play Store!

Hey everyone, AgentJheyz here with some incredible news!

Key Launcher was just featured on HowToMen (Watch it here: https://youtu.be/09Wzav3Iw-Y) and we have officially surpassed the 2,000 installs milestone!

The dev is still currently unable to post directly to the sub, but he wanted me to share this win with all of you. To celebrate, I've secured 20 Promo Codes (Full Features Unlocked) to give away to our most creative users!

Don't forget, the Full-Feature Free Trial is currently active, so everyone has access to the complete customization toolkit to build their entry.

How to win:

1. Design your best home screen setup using Key Launcher.

2. Post your screenshot here on r/keylauncher.

3. I will personally review the entries and pick the 20 most impressive setups to receive a permanent full-feature Promo Code!

Let’s keep this momentum going! I can't wait to see your designs.

Winners will be selected and contacted via DM by me.

Good luck!

In case you don't know where to download Key Launcher: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.loitran.minimalt9launcher.free

PS. Don't forget to leave a review in the Playstore ☺️

Please review it! I used a live wallpaper instead of a static one, that's why it's a video. Thanks for making this awesome launcher!

This version focuses on deep personalization, aesthetic refinements, and core system stability. We’ve introduced more ways to make the launcher truly yours while ensuring the experience remains lightning-fast, even on budget devices.

✨ New Features & Customization

Polaroid Slideshow in Focus Mode: Bring your memories into your workspace with a beautiful new visual component for Focus Mode.

Status Info Row & Quick Settings: A new row in the Quick Settings panels for instant access to device and connectivity info.

Multi-Icon Pack Support: You can now change individual custom icons using different icon packs for ultimate flexibility.

Widget Center Grid Columns: Dynamically adjust columns to optimize layout across various screen sizes.

Hide Dynamic Items: A new option to show only pinned items, creating a distraction-free, minimalist Home screen.

App Grid Relative Position: Added an offset toggle to move icons closer to the bottom of the screen for better one-handed ergonomics.

Toggle Package Name Search: Basic users can now disable package name searching to keep search results clean and simple.

Custom Accent Colors: Full control over UI highlights, especially useful for personalized themes on Android 11 and below.

🛠 Stability and Bug Fixes

System Stability: Patched several critical crashes affecting specific device models.

Alarm Notifications: Fixed an issue where the next alarm failed to display on certain devices.

Event Indicator: Resolved a bug where "Tomorrow" all-day events were incorrectly flagged as "Today."

Agenda & Calendar: Fixed past events showing up in the Agenda sheet and corrected month label errors in alternative calendars.

Drag & Drop: Fixed a glitch preventing pinned items from being dragged smoothly between different pages.

Weather App: Resolved the "No Weather App Found" error during the selection process.

🚀 Performance & Optimizations

Low-End Device Optimization: Improved resource management to ensure smooth performance on devices with limited RAM.

T9 Keypad Polish: Significantly refined the look and feel of the T9 keyboard, including optimized spacing, key sizes, and colors for a professional finish.

Habit-Based Search: Now launcher will give your better results by remembering your searching history. You can also search using initials for multi-word apps (e.g., type "Y + M" to find YouTube Music).

Music Metadata: Enhanced metadata cleaning for Spotify and YouTube Music to provide much more accurate lyric fetching.

Safe Range Settings: Added safety bounds for custom keyboard height settings to prevent UI clipping.

The update is now rolling out on the Google Play Store.

Thank you for your incredible feedback and for being part of the Key Launcher journey!

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.loitran.minimalt9launcher.free

Congratulations Key Launcher, you're starting to get the attention you deserve!

Launcher: Key Launcher

Icons: iGlass OS 2026 Icon Pack by Pizzapp Design

Wallpaper: Custom-made

Crayons icon pack based Key Launcher setup. Love playing with the launcher. So far I found every setting for any customization I could think of.

Also, thanks for setting up the contest. It pushed me to explore the launcher and push the boundaries!

Also, added a setup variation (3rd image) with no labels for the icons. Which one do you like more?

• Launcher - Key Launcher

• Icon Pack - Colours Shapeless Icon Pack by Pizzapp Design

• Wallpaper - Tapet

I have some suggestions, feature requests and overall criticism of Key Launcher. I have heard the developer has been having some problems with his account and so he is unable to reach out. But I hope he will see it.

1. Wallpaper Overlay — After I turn off "Wallpaper Overlay" option in the settings, there's still a coloured overlay leaking at the bottom of the home screen. Ideally, there shouldn't be any colour after turning off the overlay. Moreover, the wallpaper overlay should have an option to choose custom colour from a colour palette, because I am struggling with my old device to match some wallpapers' colours with the overlay because my device can't fetch the colours itself. Please consider these.

2. Fonts — Currently, there are very few fonts available to choose from for the launcher. I hope you'll add some more common ones or add an option to use custom font.

3. App Drawer — There is no setting for the app drawer. Like, I would have appreciated if I could choose the background colour of the app drawer myself. Also, I would really like it if the search bar was placed at the top of the app drawer and not floating. And sometimes, the app drawer feels a little congested. I hope you'll look into it.

4. Irregular Gap — Also, in the home screen, there's a huge gap between the apps and the keyboard. I set it only to one page of apps and also tried to adjust the size of the keyboard and tried to bring it closer to the apps, but there's apparently an overlay behind the keyboard. And so, it hides the apps and I have no choice but to keep the gap. I think the keyboard should be truly transparent when I am using the surface theme as "Minimalism." So I think the layout needs to be fixed based on how many rows of apps I am using and center itself when there's gap between the two. I also toggled on the "additional space under the keyboard" but it still didn't do much.

5. Bulit-in Widgets (Suggestion) — And now, this one is purely up to the dev. I was thinking, if the right side panel bears third-party widgets, there can be a left side panel as well that will come with some default and optional widgets. Like, a calculator, a to-do list, a pomodoro clock, maybe a news feed? This one purely up to the developer, he can consider it, or if he thinks it's too much, he can ignore it.

If you need any image reference to what I have said, just tell me.

And overall, I really like the launcher. It just needs some work to be done, and it will really stand out. Thanks!

This is the counter setup to my previous black one.

This is my setup with Keylauncher for the contest.

I had first tried the Launcher with a lot of apprehension.. Especially the keypad but I am really blown away.. It's exceptional.. The speed, perfect notifications, customisation all on point 👍

Keep up the good work Dev.. Great job🙏🏼

Wallpaper : Lumina Walls by Sam Beckman

Icons : Crayon Adaptive by Justnewdesigns

Key Launcher 1.2.0 Update

Version 1.2.0 is available. It adds full Russian T9 keyboard layout support and under-the-hood optimizations for performance and stability.

New Features & Improvements

- Russian Keyboard Layout: Added the Russian T9 layout for faster, more accurate searching.

- Language Support: Completed missing Russian UI translations.

- Icon Performance: Optimized app icon loading on Android 14 for smoother experience on devices like Redmi 12C.

Bug Fixes & Stability

- Haptic Feedback: Fixed a critical crash related to haptic feedback on Android 9 and older devices.

- App Stability: Resolved an out-of-memory crash during bitmap creation.

- Calendar Integration: Fixed a crash when using the Calendar Chooser Dialog.

- Code Polish: Internal code cleanups and minor bug fixes.

The update is rolling out on the Play Store.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.loitran.minimalt9launcher.free