I currently use Swiftly Switch. It is an app that adds a small bar to the side of the device and by swiping that part, I am shown a list of apps of my choosing. This allows me to open apps much faster.

Sadly, it is not open source. Is there something similar but open source?

  • QuazarOmegaA
    4·
    1 year ago

    I’ve had something similar on MIUI for a while, but you had me curious because I remembered I used to use this Taskbar app in the past and it turns out it’s actually open source and on F-droid! It seems to fit your description more or less

    • beSyl@slrpnk.netOP
      2·
      1 year ago

      Thank you for the recommendation!

      I just tested it and, sadly, it is not quite what I want… Its UI/UX is not quite there yet… Maybe I will do some feature requests in their repo… But as it is it doesn’t replace Swiftly Switch.

      May I ask what you are using on MIUI? I am also on MIUI!

      • QuazarOmegaA
        1·
        1 year ago

        You mean you need more than being able to launch apps?

        If so, then what I use, MIUI's sidebar, is probably not good enough either

        MIUI sidebar setting Found under Additional settings > Floating windows > Sidebar

    • beSyl@slrpnk.netOP
      21·
      1 year ago

      No. I don’t think I do.

      I am using the Kiss launcher, that is probably a launcher specific bar?

      I am looking for something like swiftly Switch, but open source.

      • guy@lemmy.world
        4·
        1 year ago

        That’s just the bar for gesture navigation, instead of those three buttons at the bottom. It’s available in settings of Android 10 and above

        • Pantherina@feddit.de
          1·
          1 year ago

          This is not related. This is the stock Android “currently open/recently opened apps” display.

          • This bar, with gesture navigation, swiping up slightly and letting go
          • or swiping up normally with 2-button navigation (which sadly got dropped)
          • or pressing the ||| (Samsung) or ◻️ (Stock Android) using the still available legacy 3-button navigation

          This does not replace a custom set list of apps you would like to quickly access. Maybe something like this could also be integrated as a notification.

          I use a patched version of Nova Launcher Prime, working without a Google Account. GrapheneOS, has no internet access. I tried all FOSS launchers and still nothing comes close.

          But the recent apps thing is not a launcher part, even though it is broken when removing Trebuchet on LinageOS (trust me, tried it)