LauncherPro

LauncherPro is a launcher for android phones running 2.1+ that is made to give users more control over their launcher and add features.

Contents:

  1. General
  2. Description
  3. Download
  4. Old versions

General

Developer: Federico Carnales

Category: Productivity

Latest version: 0.8.1.1

Total versions: 28

Submitted: 24 Aug 2010

Updated: 24 Aug 2010

Description

LauncherPro is a launcher application for android powered devices with 2.1+ platform. The app gives users more control over their launcher and add features.

Features overview:
- Super-smooth scrolling
- Animated screen previews (like Exposé or HTC Sense)
- Up to 7 home screens
- App drawer (2D and 3D) with a fly-in effect and smooth scrolling
- Scrollable shortcut dock

www.launcherpro.com

Download

LauncherPro 0.8.1.1 seem to be the latest available version. Below you can find file(s) assigned to this version:

Description/changelog of LauncherPro 0.8.1.1:

Released: October 20, 2010.
- This version includes new key that LauncherPro uses to access the Facebook API (the old one became invalid by accident).

After you update app to this version, you have to re-authenticate your Facebook credentials by pressing Menu > Preferences > LauncherPro Widgets > Facebook Widget > Facebook Login.

However, in this version Facebook Widget is available only for users of LauncherPro Plus, a paid edition of app.

Old versions

Below are the earlier versions of LauncherPro.

LauncherPro 0.8.1.0

Description/changelog of LauncherPro 0.8.1.0:

Released: October 5, 2010.
- Fixed a bug where selecting Monday as the first day of the week on the Calendar Widget would result in wrong days being marked as busy in the widget.
- New: Bookmarks popup. This new dock popup gives you quick access to your bookmarks. Just like the Bookmarks widget, the popup only works with bookmarks stored on the standard bookmark database in your phone, so if your browser of choice doesn't use this database, you'll need to export them to the main database (if your browser has that option) or add them manually into the stock browser.

File(s):

LauncherPro 0.8.0.0

Description/changelog of LauncherPro 0.8.0.0:

Released: October 1, 2010.
- Fixed force close issues when setting the homescreen grid rows/columns to 1.
- Fixed the problem where increasing grid size with auto-fit would make it hard to move items to the bottom right area of the grid.
- Changed folders to always open full-screen regardless of the grid size.

File(s):

LauncherPro 0.7.9.0

Description/changelog of LauncherPro 0.7.9.0:

Released: September 21, 2010.
- Increased the sensitivity for swiping through homescreens. It should respond to shorter swipes now.
- New: Customizable homescreen grid size. You can now choose how many columns and rows of icons/widgets to have on your homescreens (Preferences > Homescreen Settings). There's also an "Auto-fit items" option which will resize the grid cell size to match the grid dimensions, so that widgets/icons don't overlap.

If you increase the grid size and move stuff around (or resize widgets), and then want to decrease the grid size again, make sure to revert your changes, otherwise some widgets will be unusable, and some icons might fall off the screen.

File(s):

LauncherPro 0.7.8.1

Description/changelog of LauncherPro 0.7.8.1:

Released: September 11, 2010.
- Fixed the bug introduced by feature "Ability to use custom icons and labels on homescreen shortcuts" in the version 0.7.8.0. The bug was appearing when adding "Applications" shortcuts: if you don't use a custom icon, next time LP is restarted, the icon for that shortcut will be missing.

Version 0.7.8.0:
- New: Ability to use custom icons and labels on homescreen shortcuts. Long-press on a homescreen and choose "Shortcuts". After selecting the shortcut, you'll get a popup with the icon and label for the shortcut. You can click on the icon to choose a custom icon from your gallery, and you can edit the label before adding the shortcut.

File(s):

LauncherPro 0.7.7.3

Description/changelog of LauncherPro 0.7.7.3:

Released: September 6, 2010.
- Replaced the old dialog for picking applications (when adding shortcuts to homescreens, dock, or dock swipe actions) with a custom one that loads much faster. Users with lots of applications installed should see a dramatic speed boost when bringing up this feature.

File(s):

LauncherPro 0.7.7.2

Description/changelog of LauncherPro 0.7.7.2:

Released: September 2, 2010.
- Fixed a force-close issue when clicking on contact shortcuts inside folders in Android 2.2.
- Fixed a memory issue with both Glow and Outline highlights.
- Fixed a problem with the 3D app drawer where scrolling very slowly would sometimes trigger a long-press.
- Added gradient shadows to the 3D app drawer’s top and bottom parts to enhance the 3D effect.

Version 0.7.7.1:
- Fixes a bug in 0.7.7.0 that made it impossible to change dock backgrounds or icon highlight colors. It should be back to normal now.

File(s):

LauncherPro 0.7.6.0

Description/changelog of LauncherPro 0.7.6.0:

Released: August 19, 2010.
- For Droid X/Droid 2 users added support for SMS notifications on the dock when using custom icons
- LauncherPro Shortcuts introduced
- New option: Display memory usage

File(s):

LauncherPro 0.7.5.1

Description/changelog of LauncherPro 0.7.5.1:

Released: August 13, 2010.
- Fixed a bug where changing the icon on the default dock shortcuts would revert back to the default icon after restarting LauncherPro
- Fixed the menu button not responding after using the trackball or a hardware arrow key
- Fixed a bug in the 3rd party scrollable widgets code that would cause the widget to be accidentally lifted while scrolling it
- Changed the loading mechanism for the new “Activities” shortcut feature, since it wasn’t loading on some phones due to the amount of data on the list
- Set dock shortcuts to ignore swipes when they have no swipe gesture action set

File(s):

LauncherPro 0.7.4.0

Description/changelog of LauncherPro 0.7.4.0:

Released: August 6, 2010.
- Activity shortcuts. This will let you create shortcuts to activities (screens within applications) that are not usually accessible directly

File(s):

LauncherPro 0.7.3.0

Description/changelog of LauncherPro 0.7.3.0:

Released: August 5, 2010.
- Improved screen rotation speed
- New “Launch shortcut…” action for dock icon swipe gestures

File(s):

LauncherPro 0.7.1.0

Description/changelog of LauncherPro 0.7.1.0:

Released: July 25, 2010.
- Option to hide apps that you don’t use from the app drawer

File(s):

LauncherPro 0.7.0.4

Description/changelog of LauncherPro 0.7.0.4:

Released: July 22, 2010.
- Fixes bug introduced by the highlights color options, where opening system folders (Starred, Bluetooth, etc.) caused the app to crash

Version 0.7.0.3 (Released: July 22)
- Fixes a nasty bug with the new highlights color options, where manually entering a color code with spaces or other invalid characters in it caused the app to crash at launch

Version 0.7.0.2 (Released: July 22)
- Improved code for 3rd party scrollable widgets
- Fixed force-close when opening the “Hidden Apps” screen on the preferences on some phones
- New Calendar icon on the LauncherPro Icons menu
- Option to change the icon only on dock shortcuts
- Dock shortcut gestures. Now each dock shortcut has an optional secondary action that you can trigger by swiping your finger upwards or downwards on it

File(s):

LauncherPro 0.6.7.3

Description/changelog of LauncherPro 0.6.7.3:

Released: July 19, 2010.
- Some stability improvements
- Version 0.6.7.2 fixed apps on the SD card not appearing in the app drawer, but apps on homescreens still showed the default Android icon. This should be fixed now
- Reduced the size of the top part of the 3D app drawer a bit

File(s):

LauncherPro 0.6.7.2

Description/changelog of LauncherPro 0.6.7.2:

Released: July 9, 2010.
- Fixes problems with Droids caused by version 0.6.7

File(s):

LauncherPro 0.6.6

Description/changelog of LauncherPro 0.6.6:

Released: July 7, 2010.
- The dock notifications have been disabled by default. They were causing delays when returning to LauncherPro from another app
- Improved code to reduce delays when returning to LauncherPro from other apps when dock notifications are on
- Enabled notifications when using custom icons for Handcent SMS, CompSMS, Stock HTC phone, and HTC Call History shortcuts
- Option to have only one homescreen
- Gmail dock notification
- Option to have only one homescreen (Preferences - Homescreen Settings)
- New option for Home key action
- Options to backup and restore your LauncherPro setup

File(s):

LauncherPro 0.6.5

Description/changelog of LauncherPro 0.6.5:

Released: July 2, 2010.
- Dock notifications to see quickly how many missed calls / unread SMS you have

File(s):

LauncherPro 0.6.4

Description/changelog of LauncherPro 0.6.4:

Released: July 1, 2010.
- Fixed some force-close issues when removing packages from the Market in Froyo
- Improved some code which should make screen rotations a little bit faster
- New “Memory Usage Settings” screen on the preferences
- New option to disable homescreen caches
- New option for normal, compressed, and light homescreen caches
- New option: outline highlights

File(s):

LauncherPro 0.6.3

Description/changelog of LauncherPro 0.6.3:

Released: June 28, 2010.
- Removed some useless memory usage in the dock to improve stability
- Fixed a bug when scrolling to a dock that had all its shortcuts set to Blank
- Force-close issue when installing/updating/uninstalling apps from the Market hopefully fixed
- Fixed force-close when choosing custom dock icons on certain phones (mainly HTC Sense phones)
- Fixed force-close when scrolling the app drawer before it had finished opening
- Added a “Motorola Droid hack” option under General Settings inside the preferences
- Fixed the dockbar sometimes randomly switching to a non-default dock, even if dock scrolling is disabled
- Fixed the dockbar switching to the default dock on orientation change
- New option to select the number of docks: 1, 2, or 3
- The “Enable dock scrolling” option has been removed
- New option to use your phone’s trackball to switch homescreens

File(s):

LauncherPro 0.6.2

Description/changelog of LauncherPro 0.6.2:

Released: June 23, 2010.
- Small bugfix

Version 0.6.1 (Released: June 23)
- New option in the preferences called “Memory usage” to choose between 3 modes; light, medium, and high
- The preferences screen arranged into different screens
- Disabling “Keep in Memory” option by default. If you’d like to use it, re-enable it manually in the preferences
- New option to enable/disable dock scrolling
- New option to enable/disable loop scrolling on the dock
- The set of dock shortcuts on the far right has been moved to the far left, so now what was the leftmost dock is in the middle (and is still the default dock)

File(s):

LauncherPro 0.6.0

Description/changelog of LauncherPro 0.6.0:

Released: June 17, 2010.
- Fixed the bug where the app drawer’s home button would show for a second after coming back from an application
- Fixed screen previews when choosing to have 2 homescreens
- Fixed some folder-related bugs when 5-row option is selected
- New screen indicator (optional)
- New: The app drawer button is now a regular dock shortcut. That means you can change its position, change its icon, or remove it entirely
- New: The dock has grown. Swipe the dock to the left (down in landscape) to reveal 5 additional shortcut spaces. Now swipe it again for 5 more. That makes a total of 15 shortctus. You can add the app drawer button on the new dock spaces by long-pressing on one and choosing “App Drawer”
- New: Option to keep LauncherPro in memory

File(s):

LauncherPro 0.5.4

Description/changelog of LauncherPro 0.5.4:

Released: Jun 15, 2010.
- Small bugfix

File(s):

LauncherPro 0.5.3

Description/changelog of LauncherPro 0.5.3:

Released: June 15, 2010.
- This should solve the drop in smoothness in version 0.5.2 reported by some users

File(s):

LauncherPro 0.5.2

Description/changelog of LauncherPro 0.5.2:

Released: June 15, 2010.
- Support for scrollable widgets like Pure Messenger
- Option to disable wallpaper scrolling. This will keep your wallpaper centered at all times
- New icon “glow” highlights. When you press/select an icon on a homescreen or the app drawer, they will show a glow around the icon instead of the usual yellow/orange box. You can disable this in the preferences
- Option for high quality scrolling. This will keep your icon and widget graphics in high quality while scrolling. Be warned this will reduce scrolling smoothness though
- Option to set minimum scrolling speed. The homescreen scrolling speed depends on how fast you swipe your finger. This will let you set a minimum speed, so that even if you swipe your finger slowly, LauncherPro will scroll at least as fast as your minimum scrolling speed
- Option to set screen previews opening speed. Lets you tweak the speed of the screen previews opening/closing animation effect
- Option to have 2 homescreens. You can now choose from 2 to 7
- Made the background of open folders translucent. Also fixed a small visual glitch in open folders’ header graphic
- New LauncherPro style icons for Maps, Navigation, Twitter and Facebook

File(s):

LauncherPro 0.5.1

Description/changelog of LauncherPro 0.5.1:

Released: June 11, 2010.
- Fix of bug from 0.5.0 that made scrolling to the right slower than to the left

File(s):

LauncherPro 0.5.0

Description/changelog of LauncherPro 0.5.0:

Released: June 11, 2010.
- Fixed description of “Opening Speed” preference
- Fixed (hopefully) problem when setting the drawer opening speed to 10
- New LauncherPro-style icons for Google Voice and Camera
- New 3D app drawer. This feature is experimental. It probably has some bugs and uses more memory than the 2D drawer, so it might cause some instability. Use at your own risk. To enable it, go to Preferences - Advanced settings - Use 3D drawer

File(s):

LauncherPro 0.4.4

Description/changelog of LauncherPro 0.4.4:

Released: June 6, 2010.
- In 0.4.3, the scrolling speed was a bit increased which caused a bit of lag for some users. Now it is set back to the way it was before
- Improved the code for the Nexus One dots. They should perform a bit better
- New Elastic scrolling option: this lets you enable or disable the elastic or “bounce back” effect when scrolling through homescreens (Advanced settings)
- New app drawer opening speed option: Here you can tweak the speed of the opening/closing effect for the app drawer. Zero is the slowest, 10 makes it appear/disappear instantly (Advanced settings)

File(s):

LauncherPro 0.4.3

Description/changelog of LauncherPro 0.4.3:

Released: June 5, 2010.
- New “Froyo wide” background for the dock. It’s the same as the Froyo background but it covers all five icons in the dock
- Next/Previous screen shortcuts with dot screen indicators (like on Nexus One/Froyo). Long-press on a dock icon and choose “Homescreens” to access this feature

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