Release 0.4.0

Requests from the owner on 12 November 2026, after using 0.3.1 on the Pixel 9a, with a
photo of Niagara Launcher's alphabet as the reference.

Drawer list
- Rows are 50dp with 34dp icons and 15sp names (were 64dp, 46dp, 17sp); letter headers are
  34dp. A row grows with a large system font so a notification preview still fits.

Alphabet
- Letters sit 20dp apart at most (was 30dp). The strip keeps a stretch of edge as tall as
  26 letters, low on the edge with its end 40dp above the navigation bar, and centres the
  letters that exist in it. It used to spread over the whole edge, which put "A" out of a
  thumb's reach.
- The wave follows Niagara's: letters keep their size, the wave is wide (104dp) so about
  five letters on each side of the finger curve around the thumb, and the selected letter
  is shown large in a light bubble just beyond the wave's peak. This replaces the enlarged
  letter on a dark spot from 0.3.1, which collided with its neighbours at this spacing.
- The list dims a little during any scrub, more where the wave lies over it.

Backdrop
- The drawer's scrim is black at 78% in every theme (AllAppsState). Lawnchair's grey at 40%
  left a light grey behind white names over a light wallpaper. LawnchairScrimView judges the
  status bar icons by the scrim's own colour again, since that colour is now always dark.

Scrub from the home screen (PRD AD-10)
- On by default, the owner's decision; this closes the PRD's open question.
- It opens the drawer in 120 ms instead of the state manager's 600 ms, like swipe up and hold.
- A touch that lifts within 200 ms was a flick and opens the plain list.

Fix: undoing a scrub that was not meant
- 0.3.1 put the list back to "where it was", read from the list's rows. A closed drawer has
  been told to return to the top but lays its rows out only when it opens, so the rows
  still reported the place the drawer was last left at, and a quick swipe reopened it
  there. The list now goes where a plainly opened drawer stands.

About
- A QR code for the release page, generated on the phone with ZXing core (new dependency),
  black on white in every theme, with the address under it.

Checked on the Android 17 emulator with timed touches, a thumb-sized shape over the
screenshots, a 1.6 font scale, and by decoding the QR code from a screenshot.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.2 <noreply@anthropic.com>

build.gradle

@@ -494,6 +494,8 @@ dependencies {
     implementation libs.kdrag0n.colorkt
     implementation libs.coil.compose
     implementation libs.xdrop.fuzzywuzzy
+    // Flexera Launcher: encodes the QR code on the About screen. Nothing else of it is used.
+    implementation libs.zxing.core
 
     implementation libs.bundles.opto
     implementation libs.androidx.datastore.preferences

flexera/release.ps1

@@ -170,7 +170,10 @@ if ($SkipBuild) {
     Get-ChildItem (Join-Path $Root 'build\kotlin') -Directory -Filter "compile${Variant}Kotlin*" -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue |
         Remove-Item -Recurse -Force
     $env:JAVA_HOME = $JavaHome
-    cmd /c ".\gradlew.bat assemble$Variant --no-build-cache --console=plain"
+    # "2>&1" inside cmd: Gradle prints compiler warnings on its error stream. If this script's
+    # output is piped or sent to a file, PowerShell would otherwise take the first such line
+    # for an error and stop the build. Only the exit code says whether the build failed.
+    cmd /c ".\gradlew.bat assemble$Variant --no-build-cache --console=plain 2>&1"
     if ($LASTEXITCODE -ne 0) { throw "The build failed." }
 }
 if (-not (Test-Path $apk)) { throw "Expected the APK at $apk, but it is not there." }

flexera/res/values/flexera_dimens.xml

@@ -1,11 +1,13 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
 <resources>
-    <!-- Drawer list (PRD AD-2, AD-3). Rows are sized for thumb taps; 48dp is Android's minimum target. -->
-    <dimen name="flexera_drawer_row_height">64dp</dimen>
-    <!-- Smaller than a home-screen icon, so rows have air between them. -->
-    <dimen name="flexera_drawer_row_icon_size">46dp</dimen>
-    <dimen name="flexera_drawer_row_icon_gap">20dp</dimen>
-    <dimen name="flexera_drawer_row_text_size">17sp</dimen>
+    <!-- Drawer list (PRD AD-2, AD-3). A compact list, at the owner's request: more apps within a
+         thumb's reach. The row stays just above 48dp, Android's minimum for a tap target.
+         (First version: 64dp rows, 46dp icons, 17sp names.) -->
+    <dimen name="flexera_drawer_row_height">50dp</dimen>
+    <!-- Well under a home-screen icon, so rows have air between them. -->
+    <dimen name="flexera_drawer_row_icon_size">34dp</dimen>
+    <dimen name="flexera_drawer_row_icon_gap">16dp</dimen>
+    <dimen name="flexera_drawer_row_text_size">15sp</dimen>
     <!-- Row padding on the edge without the wave alphabet. The search bar lines up with it. -->
     <dimen name="flexera_drawer_row_padding_start">24dp</dimen>
     <!-- Row padding on the wave alphabet's edge, which is the end edge unless the owner moves it
@@ -18,24 +20,47 @@
     <!-- Where the letters rest, measured from the edge. -->
     <dimen name="flexera_wave_edge_inset">16dp</dimen>
     <dimen name="flexera_wave_letter_size">12sp</dimen>
-    <!-- Letters never sit further apart than this, however few there are. -->
-    <dimen name="flexera_wave_max_spacing">30dp</dimen>
+    <!-- Letters never sit further apart than this, however few there are. Close together, a
+         little closer than Niagara Launcher's, so a whole alphabet is about 83 mm tall and fits
+         the stretch of edge a thumb covers without shifting the grip. (First version: 30dp,
+         which spread the alphabet over the whole edge.) -->
+    <dimen name="flexera_wave_max_spacing">20dp</dimen>
+    <!-- The stretch of edge kept for the alphabet is as tall as 26 letters and sits low: its end
+         this far above the navigation bar (on top of the vertical margin). The letters that
+         exist are centred in it. -->
+    <dimen name="flexera_wave_bottom_offset">40dp</dimen>
     <dimen name="flexera_wave_vertical_margin">16dp</dimen>
-    <!-- How far before the finger the wave's peak sits, so the thumb never covers the letter. -->
-    <dimen name="flexera_wave_finger_gap">52dp</dimen>
+    <!-- How far beyond the finger the wave's peak sits, so the thumb never covers the selected
+         letter. A thumb hides about 11 mm (70dp) to each side of the point it touches; the
+         letter's centre has to clear that by its own half width and a margin. At 52dp, the
+         first value, the letter sat under the thumb. -->
+    <dimen name="flexera_wave_finger_gap">104dp</dimen>
     <!-- The smallest bulge, used when the finger is right on the edge. -->
-    <dimen name="flexera_wave_min_reach">60dp</dimen>
-    <!-- How far up and down the edge the bulge spreads. -->
-    <dimen name="flexera_wave_width">56dp</dimen>
+    <dimen name="flexera_wave_min_reach">96dp</dimen>
+    <!-- How far up and down the edge the bulge spreads, at the least: wide, so that about five
+         letters on each side of the finger ride the wave and curve around the thumb, as in
+         Niagara Launcher. A taller wave is wider (WaveAlphabetView.WAVE_WIDTH_SHARE_OF_REACH). -->
+    <dimen name="flexera_wave_width">104dp</dimen>
+    <!-- The wave's peak never comes closer than this to the opposite edge of the screen. It
+         leaves room for the bubble beyond the peak. -->
+    <dimen name="flexera_wave_far_margin">66dp</dimen>
+    <!-- The bubble with the selected letter: its size, how far beyond the wave's peak its
+         centre sits, and how close it may come to a screen edge. -->
+    <dimen name="flexera_wave_bubble_radius">20dp</dimen>
+    <dimen name="flexera_wave_bubble_gap">38dp</dimen>
+    <dimen name="flexera_wave_bubble_text_size">22sp</dimen>
+    <dimen name="flexera_wave_bubble_edge_margin">6dp</dimen>
+    <dimen name="flexera_wave_bubble_shadow_radius">6dp</dimen>
 
-    <!-- Swipe up and hold (PRD AD-17): a pause only counts once the swipe has travelled this far. -->
-    <dimen name="flexera_hold_min_swipe">72dp</dimen>
+    <!-- Swipe up and hold (PRD AD-17): a pause only counts once the swipe has travelled this far.
+         Enough to tell a hold from a hesitant start, short enough that a small swipe counts. -->
+    <dimen name="flexera_hold_min_swipe">32dp</dimen>
 
     <!-- Soft shadow behind white drawer text, for readability over light wallpaper. -->
     <dimen name="flexera_drawer_text_shadow_radius">3dp</dimen>
     <dimen name="flexera_drawer_text_shadow_dy">1dp</dimen>
 
-    <dimen name="flexera_drawer_header_height">44dp</dimen>
-    <dimen name="flexera_drawer_header_padding_bottom">6dp</dimen>
-    <dimen name="flexera_drawer_header_text_size">14sp</dimen>
+    <dimen name="flexera_drawer_header_height">34dp</dimen>
+    <dimen name="flexera_drawer_header_padding_bottom">4dp</dimen>
+    <dimen name="flexera_drawer_header_text_size">12sp</dimen>
 </resources>

flexera/res/values/flexera_strings.xml

@@ -27,6 +27,9 @@
     <string name="flexera_about_built_on_title">Lawnchair</string>
     <string name="flexera_about_built_on_body">Flexera Launcher is a modified version of Lawnchair, the open-source launcher made by the Lawnchair team. Lawnchair is itself based on Launcher3 from the Android Open Source Project.</string>
     <string name="flexera_about_lawnchair_source">Lawnchair source code</string>
+    <string name="flexera_about_share">Share</string>
+    <string name="flexera_about_share_title">Scan to get Flexera Launcher</string>
+    <string name="flexera_about_share_qr_description">QR code that opens the download page</string>
     <string name="flexera_about_privacy">Privacy</string>
     <string name="flexera_about_privacy_title">Nothing about you leaves your phone</string>
     <string name="flexera_about_privacy_body">Flexera Launcher goes online for one thing: asking its release page whether a newer version exists, about once a day, and downloading that version when you ask. It sends nothing about you, your apps or your phone.</string>

flexera/src/app/flexera/drawer/FlexeraDrawer.kt

@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ import com.android.launcher3.R
 import com.android.launcher3.allapps.ActivityAllAppsContainerView
 import com.android.launcher3.allapps.BaseAllAppsAdapter.AdapterItem
 import com.android.launcher3.views.BaseDragLayer
+import kotlin.math.max
 
 /**
  * Flexera Launcher's app drawer: a single-column alphabetical list with letter headers
@@ -90,9 +91,15 @@ object FlexeraDrawer {
         // Other icons share the "all apps" display type (search results, for one); this tag
         // tells list rows apart from them.
         icon.setTag(R.id.flexera_drawer_row, true)
-        icon.layoutParams.height = res.getDimensionPixelSize(R.dimen.flexera_drawer_row_height)
+        val textSize = res.getDimension(R.dimen.flexera_drawer_row_text_size)
+        // The row has to hold the name with a notification preview under it (PRD AD-11). At the
+        // usual font size the set height does; with a large system font the row grows instead.
+        icon.layoutParams.height = max(
+            res.getDimensionPixelSize(R.dimen.flexera_drawer_row_height),
+            (textSize * ROW_HEIGHT_IN_TEXT_SIZES).toInt(),
+        )
         icon.compoundDrawablePadding = res.getDimensionPixelSize(R.dimen.flexera_drawer_row_icon_gap)
-        icon.setTextSize(TypedValue.COMPLEX_UNIT_PX, res.getDimension(R.dimen.flexera_drawer_row_text_size))
+        icon.setTextSize(TypedValue.COMPLEX_UNIT_PX, textSize)
         applySidePadding(icon)
         // The drawer has no background, so names sit directly on the dimmed wallpaper: white,
         // with a soft shadow to stay readable over light areas.
@@ -108,6 +115,16 @@ object FlexeraDrawer {
     /** Shadow behind white drawer text. */
     const val TEXT_SHADOW_COLOR = 0x73000000
 
+    /** The least a row's height may be, in name text sizes: two lines of text and some air. */
+    private const val ROW_HEIGHT_IN_TEXT_SIZES = 2.4f
+
+    /**
+     * What lies between the open drawer and the blurred wallpaper: black at 78%, whatever the
+     * theme and the wallpaper. Lawnchair's backdrop is a grey at 40%, which over a light
+     * wallpaper leaves a light grey behind the drawer's white names.
+     */
+    const val BACKDROP_COLOR = 0xC7000000.toInt()
+
     /**
      * Lawnchair fades the search field's pill out while the owner types, leaving the text on the
      * drawer's panel. This drawer has no panel, so the pill stays.
@@ -200,12 +217,19 @@ object FlexeraDrawer {
         appsView: ActivityAllAppsContainerView<*>,
         dragLayer: BaseDragLayer<*>,
         ev: MotionEvent,
+    ) = scrubFromSwipe(appsView, dragLayer, ev.x, ev.y)
+
+    /** The same, for a finger position ([x], [y]) in the drag layer's coordinates. */
+    @JvmStatic
+    fun scrubFromSwipe(
+        appsView: ActivityAllAppsContainerView<*>,
+        dragLayer: BaseDragLayer<*>,
+        x: Float,
+        y: Float,
     ) {
         val wave = waveAlphabet(appsView) ?: return
         val offset = layoutOffset(wave, dragLayer)
-        val x = ev.x - offset.x
-        val y = ev.y - offset.y
-        if (wave.isScrubbing) wave.moveScrub(x, y) else wave.beginScrub(x, y)
+        if (wave.isScrubbing) wave.moveScrub(x - offset.x, y - offset.y) else wave.beginScrub(x - offset.x, y - offset.y)
     }
 
     /**
@@ -239,12 +263,27 @@ object FlexeraDrawer {
         return offset
     }
 
+    /**
+     * A scrub that started from a swipe and ends sooner than this was not meant as one: nobody
+     * reads a letter and means it in a fifth of a second. The swipe opens the plain list.
+     */
+    const val MIN_SCRUB_MS = 200L
+
     /** Ends a scrub started by [scrubFromSwipe]; the drawer stays open at the chosen letter. */
     @JvmStatic
     fun endScrubFromSwipe(appsView: ActivityAllAppsContainerView<*>) {
         waveAlphabet(appsView)?.endScrub()
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Ends a scrub started by [scrubFromSwipe] and undoes it, so the drawer opens the way an
+     * ordinary swipe up leaves it.
+     */
+    @JvmStatic
+    fun cancelScrubFromSwipe(appsView: ActivityAllAppsContainerView<*>) {
+        waveAlphabet(appsView)?.cancelScrub()
+    }
+
     /**
      * A letter header. It carries its letter so that the adapter's diffing notices when the
      * header at a position changes, for example after an app is installed or removed.

flexera/src/app/flexera/drawer/FlexeraEdgeScrubController.kt

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 package app.flexera.drawer
 
+import android.os.SystemClock
 import android.view.MotionEvent
 import android.view.ViewConfiguration
 import app.lawnchair.preferences.PreferenceManager
@@ -16,7 +17,9 @@ import kotlin.math.abs
  * touch. Nothing is drawn on the home screen; the letters appear with the drawer.
  *
  * The edge is shared with page swipes, taps and item drags, so this claims a touch only once it
- * has clearly moved up or down, and never while an item is being dragged. It is off by default.
+ * has clearly moved up or down, and never while an item is being dragged. A touch that lifts
+ * again within [FlexeraDrawer.MIN_SCRUB_MS] was a flick, not a scrub, and opens the plain list.
+ * The setting is on unless the owner switches it off.
  */
 class FlexeraEdgeScrubController(private val launcher: Launcher) : TouchController {
 
@@ -26,6 +29,7 @@ class FlexeraEdgeScrubController(private val launcher: Launcher) : TouchControll
     /** The current touch started on the edge and may still turn into a scrub. */
     private var candidate = false
     private var scrubbing = false
+    private var scrubStartTime = 0L
     private var downX = 0f
     private var downY = 0f
 
@@ -48,7 +52,11 @@ class FlexeraEdgeScrubController(private val launcher: Launcher) : TouchControll
                     dy > touchSlop && dy > dx * VERTICAL_BIAS -> {
                         candidate = false
                         scrubbing = true
-                        launcher.stateManager.goToState(LauncherState.ALL_APPS)
+                        scrubStartTime = SystemClock.uptimeMillis()
+                        // The drawer starts opening and the alphabet takes the finger in the same
+                        // moment. Opening comes first, because its start is when the drawer
+                        // puts its list in place, which must not undo the scrub's first jump.
+                        openDrawer()
                         FlexeraDrawer.scrubFromSwipe(launcher.appsView, launcher.dragLayer, ev)
                         return true
                     }
@@ -68,12 +76,28 @@ class FlexeraEdgeScrubController(private val launcher: Launcher) : TouchControll
 
             MotionEvent.ACTION_UP, MotionEvent.ACTION_CANCEL -> {
                 scrubbing = false
-                FlexeraDrawer.endScrubFromSwipe(launcher.appsView)
+                if (SystemClock.uptimeMillis() - scrubStartTime < FlexeraDrawer.MIN_SCRUB_MS) {
+                    // A flick up that happened to start on the edge: open the plain list.
+                    FlexeraDrawer.cancelScrubFromSwipe(launcher.appsView)
+                } else {
+                    FlexeraDrawer.endScrubFromSwipe(launcher.appsView)
+                }
             }
         }
         return true
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Opens the drawer in [OPEN_MS]. Asking the state manager to go there would take the
+     * drawer's own 600 ms, far too slow for a list that the finger is already scrubbing.
+     */
+    private fun openDrawer() {
+        launcher.stateManager.createAnimationToNewWorkspace(LauncherState.ALL_APPS, OPEN_MS).apply {
+            dispatchOnStart()
+            start()
+        }
+    }
+
     private fun canStart(ev: MotionEvent): Boolean =
         prefs.flexeraScrubFromHome.get() &&
             (ev.edgeFlags and Utilities.EDGE_NAV_BAR) == 0 &&
@@ -86,5 +110,8 @@ class FlexeraEdgeScrubController(private val launcher: Launcher) : TouchControll
     private companion object {
         /** A slide counts as vertical when it has moved this many times further up or down than sideways. */
         const val VERTICAL_BIAS = 2f
+
+        /** How long the drawer takes to open under a scrub; the same as after swipe up and hold. */
+        const val OPEN_MS = 120L
     }
 }

flexera/src/app/flexera/drawer/WaveAlphabetView.kt

@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@ import androidx.core.view.doOnNextLayout
 import androidx.customview.widget.ExploreByTouchHelper
 import androidx.recyclerview.widget.LinearLayoutManager
 import androidx.recyclerview.widget.RecyclerView
+import app.lawnchair.preferences2.PreferenceManager2
+import app.lawnchair.preferences2.firstCached
 import com.android.launcher3.R
 import com.android.launcher3.allapps.ActivityAllAppsContainerView
 import kotlin.math.abs
@@ -37,11 +39,14 @@ import kotlin.math.roundToInt
  *
  * Only letters that have apps are shown. Touching the strip and sliding along it jumps the list
  * to the letter under the finger, with a haptic tick on every change. While the finger is down,
- * the letters near it bulge away from the edge in a wave, and the wave reaches further the
- * further the finger moves in from the edge, so the current letter always sits beside the thumb
- * instead of under it.
+ * the letters near it bulge away from the edge in a wide wave that curves around the thumb.
+ * The wave's peak, where the current letter is, stays a thumb's width beyond the finger however
+ * far in from the edge the finger is, and just beyond the peak a bubble shows that letter
+ * large. The look follows Niagara Launcher's alphabet, the owner's reference.
  *
- * The strip sits on the right edge unless the owner moves it to the left (PRD AD-15).
+ * The strip sits on the right edge unless the owner moves it to the left (PRD AD-15), and low
+ * on that edge, with its letters close together, so that the first letter is as easy to reach
+ * as the last.
  *
  * The view covers the whole drawer so it has room to draw the wave, but it only takes touches
  * that start on the strip; every other touch falls through to the list underneath.
@@ -66,9 +71,11 @@ class WaveAlphabetView(
     private val edgeInset = res.getDimension(R.dimen.flexera_wave_edge_inset)
     private val maxSpacing = res.getDimension(R.dimen.flexera_wave_max_spacing)
     private val verticalMargin = res.getDimension(R.dimen.flexera_wave_vertical_margin)
+    private val bottomOffset = res.getDimension(R.dimen.flexera_wave_bottom_offset)
     private val fingerGap = res.getDimension(R.dimen.flexera_wave_finger_gap)
     private val minReach = res.getDimension(R.dimen.flexera_wave_min_reach)
     private val waveWidth = res.getDimension(R.dimen.flexera_wave_width)
+    private val farMargin = res.getDimension(R.dimen.flexera_wave_far_margin)
     private val letterSize = res.getDimension(R.dimen.flexera_wave_letter_size)
 
     /** The section name Launcher3 gives the work profile's info card, an "i" in a circle. */
@@ -91,6 +98,27 @@ class WaveAlphabetView(
     }
     private val boldTypeface = Typeface.create(Typeface.DEFAULT, Typeface.BOLD)
 
+    // The bubble that shows the selected letter large, beyond the wave's peak: a light disc
+    // with a dark letter, the one thing on the dark drawer that is not white on dark.
+    private val bubbleRadius = res.getDimension(R.dimen.flexera_wave_bubble_radius)
+    private val bubbleGap = res.getDimension(R.dimen.flexera_wave_bubble_gap)
+    private val bubbleTextSize = res.getDimension(R.dimen.flexera_wave_bubble_text_size)
+    private val bubbleEdgeMargin = res.getDimension(R.dimen.flexera_wave_bubble_edge_margin)
+    private val bubblePaint = Paint(Paint.ANTI_ALIAS_FLAG).apply {
+        color = BUBBLE_COLOR
+        setShadowLayer(
+            res.getDimension(R.dimen.flexera_wave_bubble_shadow_radius),
+            0f,
+            res.getDimension(R.dimen.flexera_drawer_text_shadow_dy),
+            BUBBLE_SHADOW_COLOR,
+        )
+    }
+    private val bubbleTextPaint = Paint(Paint.ANTI_ALIAS_FLAG).apply {
+        color = BUBBLE_TEXT_COLOR
+        textAlign = Paint.Align.CENTER
+        typeface = boldTypeface
+    }
+
     private var letters: List<Letter> = emptyList()
     private var letterYs = FloatArray(0)
     private var stripTop = 0f
@@ -176,8 +204,14 @@ class WaveAlphabetView(
         } else {
             val spacing = min(maxSpacing, (availableBottom - availableTop) / count)
             val blockHeight = spacing * count
-            // Few letters: keep the block in the middle of the edge, where a thumb rests.
-            stripTop = availableTop + (availableBottom - availableTop - blockHeight) / 2f
+            // The stretch of edge a whole alphabet would take sits low, where a thumb reaches
+            // without stretching: its end a little above the navigation bar, its start
+            // wherever that puts it. The letters there are sit in the middle of that stretch,
+            // so that a short alphabet is in the middle of the thumb's reach and not at its
+            // lower end. Only letters that need the whole edge reach up to where the list starts.
+            val zoneHeight = max(blockHeight, min(availableBottom - availableTop, spacing * FULL_ALPHABET))
+            val zoneBottom = availableBottom - min(bottomOffset, availableBottom - availableTop - zoneHeight)
+            stripTop = zoneBottom - zoneHeight + (zoneHeight - blockHeight) / 2f
             stripBottom = stripTop + blockHeight
             for (i in 0 until count) {
                 letterYs[i] = stripTop + spacing * (i + 0.5f)
@@ -225,29 +259,36 @@ class WaveAlphabetView(
         // Where the letters rest, and which way "away from the edge" points.
         val baseX = if (onLeft) edgeInset else width - edgeInset
         val inward = if (onLeft) 1f else -1f
-        // The wave's peak sits a fixed gap before the finger, so it reaches further out the
-        // further the finger is from the edge.
+        // The wave's peak sits a fixed gap beyond the finger, on the side away from the edge,
+        // which is the side the thumb leaves uncovered. So the wave reaches further out the
+        // further the finger is from the edge, up to nearly the whole width of the screen.
         val fingerDistance = (fingerX - baseX) * inward
-        val maxReach = width * 0.7f
+        val maxReach = max(minReach + 1f, width - edgeInset - farMargin)
         val fullReach = (fingerDistance + fingerGap).coerceIn(minReach, maxReach)
         val reach = fullReach * press
+        // The wave is wide: several letters on each side of the finger ride it, so they curve
+        // around the whole thumb and stay readable above and below it. A wave that reaches
+        // far out is wider still, which keeps its shape.
+        val spread = max(waveWidth, fullReach * WAVE_WIDTH_SHARE_OF_REACH)
 
-        // Darken the list under the wave where its letters cross icons and names. From the
-        // right edge that only happens once the wave reaches well into the screen, as it does
-        // after swipe up and hold; from the left edge the icons sit right beside the strip.
+        // Darken the list a little while scrubbing, so the eye goes to the letters, and more
+        // where the wave lies over icons and names: from the right edge that is once it reaches
+        // well into the screen, as after swipe up and hold; from the left edge it is at once.
         if (press > 0f) {
-            val overList = if (onLeft) 1f else ((fullReach - minReach) / (maxReach - minReach)).coerceIn(0f, 1f)
+            val reachShare = ((fullReach - minReach) / (maxReach - minReach)).coerceIn(0f, 1f)
+            val overList = if (onLeft) 1f else SCRUB_DIM_AT_EDGE + (1f - SCRUB_DIM_AT_EDGE) * reachShare
             val dim = (SCRUB_DIM * press * overList * 255).toInt()
             if (dim > 0) canvas.drawColor(Color.argb(dim, 0, 0, 0))
         }
 
         for (i in letters.indices) {
             val y = letterYs[i]
-            val nearness = if (press > 0f) bell((y - fingerY) / waveWidth) else 0f
+            val nearness = if (press > 0f) bell((y - fingerY) / spread) else 0f
             val isSelected = i == selected && press > 0f
 
-            val scale = 1f + (if (isSelected) SELECTED_GROWTH else NEAR_GROWTH) * nearness * press
-            paint.textSize = restingLetterSize * scale
+            // Letters keep their size in the wave, so close neighbours never collide; the
+            // selected one is bold and a touch larger. Its large copy is in the bubble.
+            paint.textSize = restingLetterSize * (1f + (if (isSelected) SELECTED_GROWTH * press else 0f))
             paint.typeface = if (isSelected) boldTypeface else Typeface.DEFAULT
             paint.color = if (isSelected) {
                 activeColor
@@ -260,6 +301,20 @@ class WaveAlphabetView(
             val baseline = y - (paint.descent() + paint.ascent()) / 2f
             canvas.drawText(letters[i].label, x, baseline, paint)
         }
+
+        // The selected letter, large, in a bubble just beyond the wave's peak and level with
+        // the finger: the furthest thing from the thumb, so the thumb cannot hide it.
+        if (press > 0f && selected in letters.indices) {
+            val edgeRoom = bubbleRadius + bubbleEdgeMargin
+            val cx = (baseX + inward * (reach + bubbleGap * press)).coerceIn(edgeRoom, max(edgeRoom, width - edgeRoom))
+            val alpha = (press * 255).toInt()
+            bubblePaint.alpha = alpha
+            canvas.drawCircle(cx, fingerY, bubbleRadius * press, bubblePaint)
+            bubbleTextPaint.alpha = alpha
+            bubbleTextPaint.textSize = bubbleTextSize * press
+            val baseline = fingerY - (bubbleTextPaint.descent() + bubbleTextPaint.ascent()) / 2f
+            canvas.drawText(letters[selected].label, cx, baseline, bubbleTextPaint)
+        }
     }
 
     private fun bell(distance: Float): Float = exp(-distance * distance)
@@ -316,6 +371,27 @@ class WaveAlphabetView(
         moveScrub(x, y)
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Ends a scrub that began with the drawer closed and undoes it: the list goes to where a
+     * drawer opened by a plain swipe stands, which is the top unless the owner has the drawer
+     * remember its place. For a scrub that turns out to have been started by mistake.
+     *
+     * The list is not asked where it stood before the scrub. A closed drawer has been told to
+     * go back to the top but lays its rows out again only when it opens, so until then the
+     * rows still report the place the drawer was left at.
+     */
+    fun cancelScrub() {
+        if (!scrubbing) return
+        endScrub()
+        val rv = appsView.activeRecyclerView ?: return
+        rv.stopScroll()
+        if (PreferenceManager2.getInstance(context).rememberPosition.firstCached()) {
+            rv.restoreScrollPosition()
+        } else {
+            rv.scrollToTop()
+        }
+    }
+
     /** Moves the finger of a scrub started with [beginScrub]. */
     fun moveScrub(x: Float, y: Float) {
         if (!scrubbing || letters.isEmpty()) return
@@ -459,15 +535,26 @@ class WaveAlphabetView(
     }
 
     private companion object {
-        /** How much larger than its resting size the selected letter grows. */
-        const val SELECTED_GROWTH = 1.5f
+        /** How many letters a whole alphabet has; the stretch of edge kept for the strip is sized for it. */
+        const val FULL_ALPHABET = 26
 
-        /** How much its neighbours grow, tapering with distance from the finger. */
-        const val NEAR_GROWTH = 0.5f
+        /** How much larger than its resting size the selected letter is in the wave itself. */
+        const val SELECTED_GROWTH = 0.25f
+
+        /** The bubble: a near-white disc, its letter near-black, a soft shadow under it. */
+        const val BUBBLE_COLOR = 0xFFF1F1F4.toInt()
+        const val BUBBLE_TEXT_COLOR = 0xFF17181C.toInt()
+        const val BUBBLE_SHADOW_COLOR = 0x66000000
+
+        /** The wave's spread up and down the edge, as a share of how far it reaches out. */
+        const val WAVE_WIDTH_SHARE_OF_REACH = 0.36f
 
         /** How dark the list gets under a wave that lies fully over it (0 = unchanged, 1 = black). */
         const val SCRUB_DIM = 0.55f
 
+        /** The share of [SCRUB_DIM] applied when the wave stays at the right edge, clear of the list. */
+        const val SCRUB_DIM_AT_EDGE = 0.35f
+
         /** The tallest a resting letter may be, as a share of the vertical room it has. */
         const val MAX_LETTER_SHARE_OF_SLOT = 0.85f
 

flexera/src/app/flexera/ui/FlexeraAbout.kt

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import android.content.Context
 import android.content.Intent
 import android.provider.Settings
 import android.text.format.Formatter
+import androidx.compose.foundation.Canvas
 import androidx.compose.foundation.Image
 import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.Arrangement
 import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.Box
@@ -17,6 +18,7 @@ import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.requiredSize
 import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.size
 import androidx.compose.foundation.lazy.LazyListScope
 import androidx.compose.foundation.shape.CircleShape
+import androidx.compose.foundation.shape.RoundedCornerShape
 import androidx.compose.material3.LinearProgressIndicator
 import androidx.compose.material3.MaterialTheme
 import androidx.compose.material3.Text
@@ -30,9 +32,14 @@ import androidx.compose.runtime.setValue
 import androidx.compose.ui.Alignment
 import androidx.compose.ui.Modifier
 import androidx.compose.ui.draw.clip
+import androidx.compose.ui.geometry.Offset
+import androidx.compose.ui.geometry.Size
+import androidx.compose.ui.graphics.Color
 import androidx.compose.ui.platform.LocalContext
 import androidx.compose.ui.res.painterResource
 import androidx.compose.ui.res.stringResource
+import androidx.compose.ui.semantics.contentDescription
+import androidx.compose.ui.semantics.semantics
 import androidx.compose.ui.text.style.TextAlign
 import androidx.compose.ui.unit.dp
 import androidx.core.net.toUri
@@ -54,6 +61,9 @@ import app.lawnchair.ui.preferences.components.layout.PreferenceTemplate
 import app.lawnchair.ui.preferences.navigation.AboutLicenses
 import com.android.launcher3.BuildConfig
 import com.android.launcher3.R
+import com.google.zxing.qrcode.decoder.ErrorCorrectionLevel
+import com.google.zxing.qrcode.encoder.Encoder
+import kotlin.math.floor
 import kotlinx.coroutines.Dispatchers
 import kotlinx.coroutines.withContext
 
@@ -62,6 +72,12 @@ private const val LAWNCHAIR_SOURCE_URL = "https://github.com/LawnchairLauncher/l
 /** Release notes longer than this are cut off; the full text is on the release page. */
 private const val MAX_NOTES_LENGTH = 600
 
+/** Large enough to scan from another phone held at arm's length. */
+private val QR_CODE_SIZE = 220.dp
+
+/** The blank border around a QR code, in modules; the standard asks for four. */
+private const val QR_QUIET_ZONE_MODULES = 4
+
 /**
  * Flexera Launcher's About screen.
  *
@@ -178,6 +194,9 @@ fun FlexeraAbout(modifier: Modifier = Modifier) {
         item { PreferenceGroupHeading(stringResource(id = R.string.flexera_update_heading)) }
         groupRows(updateRows)
 
+        item { PreferenceGroupHeading(stringResource(id = R.string.flexera_about_share)) }
+        item { PreferenceGroupItem { ShareCard(FlexeraUpdater.RELEASES_PAGE_URL) } }
+
         item { PreferenceGroupHeading(stringResource(id = R.string.flexera_about_built_on)) }
         groupRows(
             listOf<@Composable () -> Unit>(
@@ -295,6 +314,71 @@ private fun UpdateStatusRow(state: UpdateState) {
     }
 }
 
+/**
+ * What the owner holds up for someone who wants the app: a QR code that opens the release page,
+ * with the address under it for anyone who would rather type it.
+ */
+@Composable
+private fun ShareCard(url: String) {
+    Column(
+        modifier = Modifier
+            .fillMaxWidth()
+            .padding(horizontal = 16.dp, vertical = 20.dp),
+        horizontalAlignment = Alignment.CenterHorizontally,
+    ) {
+        QrCode(
+            text = url,
+            description = stringResource(id = R.string.flexera_about_share_qr_description),
+            modifier = Modifier.size(QR_CODE_SIZE),
+        )
+        Spacer(Modifier.height(16.dp))
+        Text(
+            text = stringResource(id = R.string.flexera_about_share_title),
+            style = MaterialTheme.typography.titleMedium,
+            textAlign = TextAlign.Center,
+        )
+        Spacer(Modifier.height(4.dp))
+        Text(
+            text = url.removePrefix("https://"),
+            style = MaterialTheme.typography.bodySmall,
+            color = MaterialTheme.colorScheme.onSurfaceVariant,
+            textAlign = TextAlign.Center,
+        )
+    }
+}
+
+/**
+ * A QR code for [text], made on the phone. It is black on white in every theme, with the blank
+ * border the standard asks for, because that is what scanners read most reliably.
+ */
+@Composable
+private fun QrCode(text: String, description: String, modifier: Modifier = Modifier) {
+    val modules = remember(text) { Encoder.encode(text, ErrorCorrectionLevel.M).matrix }
+    Canvas(
+        modifier = modifier
+            .clip(RoundedCornerShape(12.dp))
+            .semantics { contentDescription = description },
+    ) {
+        drawRect(Color.White)
+        // Whole pixels per module, so neighbouring modules join without a seam.
+        val count = modules.width + 2 * QR_QUIET_ZONE_MODULES
+        val module = floor(size.minDimension / count)
+        val left = floor((size.width - module * count) / 2f) + module * QR_QUIET_ZONE_MODULES
+        val top = floor((size.height - module * count) / 2f) + module * QR_QUIET_ZONE_MODULES
+        for (y in 0 until modules.height) {
+            for (x in 0 until modules.width) {
+                if (modules.get(x, y).toInt() == 1) {
+                    drawRect(
+                        color = Color.Black,
+                        topLeft = Offset(left + x * module, top + y * module),
+                        size = Size(module, module),
+                    )
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
+
 @Composable
 private fun downloadSizeText(context: Context, release: FlexeraRelease): String =
     if (release.apkSize > 0) {

flexera/version.properties

@@ -2,4 +2,4 @@
 # build.gradle reads this and derives the Android version code from it
 # (major * 10000 + minor * 100 + patch), so the name and the code can never disagree.
 # flexera/release.ps1 raises it for every release.
-versionName=0.3.0
+versionName=0.4.0

gradle/libs.versions.toml

@@ -128,6 +128,8 @@ coil-compose = "io.coil-kt:coil-compose:2.7.0"
 google-material = "com.google.android.material:material:1.14.0"
 hoko-blur = "io.github.hokofly:hoko-blur:1.5.5"
 javax-inject = "javax.inject:javax.inject:1"
+# Flexera Launcher: QR code on the About screen (app.flexera.ui.FlexeraAbout).
+zxing-core = "com.google.zxing:core:3.5.3"
 kdrag0n-colorkt = "dev.kdrag0n:colorkt:1.0.5"
 leakcanary-android = "com.squareup.leakcanary:leakcanary-android:2.14"
 leakcanary-androidstudio = "com.android.tools.studio.leakcanary:leakcanary:1.0.0"

lawnchair/src/app/lawnchair/preferences/PreferenceManager.kt

@@ -218,7 +218,8 @@ class PreferenceManager @Inject constructor(
     val flexeraAlphabetOnLeft = BoolPref("pref_flexeraAlphabetOnLeft", false, recreate)
 
     // Flexera Launcher: whether a slide along the home screen's edge opens the drawer at a letter (PRD AD-10).
-    val flexeraScrubFromHome = BoolPref("pref_flexeraScrubFromHome", false)
+    // On unless switched off, by the owner's decision of 12 November 2026.
+    val flexeraScrubFromHome = BoolPref("pref_flexeraScrubFromHome", true)
 
     // Flexera Launcher: whether drawer rows show the app's latest notification under its name (PRD AD-11).
     val flexeraNotificationPreviews = BoolPref("pref_flexeraNotificationPreviews", true, recreate)

lawnchair/src/app/lawnchair/views/LawnchairScrimView.kt

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ package app.lawnchair.views
 import android.content.Context
 import android.graphics.Color
 import android.util.AttributeSet
+import app.flexera.drawer.FlexeraDrawer
 import app.lawnchair.preferences.PreferenceManager
 import com.android.launcher3.R
 import com.android.launcher3.util.SystemUiController
@@ -24,7 +25,10 @@ class LawnchairScrimView(context: Context, attrs: AttributeSet?) : ScrimView(con
         val threshold = STATUS_BAR_COLOR_FORCE_UPDATE_THRESHOLD
         val forceChange = visibility == VISIBLE &&
             alpha > threshold &&
-            Color.alpha(mBackgroundColor) / (255f * drawerOpacity) > threshold
+            // Flexera Launcher: the scrim is at full strength when it reaches the alpha of the
+            // drawer's backdrop. Lawnchair measured against its drawer opacity setting, which
+            // is 0 here.
+            Color.alpha(mBackgroundColor) / Color.alpha(FlexeraDrawer.BACKDROP_COLOR).toFloat() > threshold
         with(systemUiController) {
             if (forceChange) {
                 updateUiState(SystemUiController.UI_STATE_SCRIM_VIEW, !isScrimDark)
@@ -34,9 +38,8 @@ class LawnchairScrimView(context: Context, attrs: AttributeSet?) : ScrimView(con
         }
     }
 
-    override fun isScrimDark() = if (drawerOpacity <= 0.3f) {
-        !Themes.getAttrBoolean(context, R.attr.isWorkspaceDarkText)
-    } else {
-        super.isScrimDark()
-    }
+    // Flexera Launcher: judged by the scrim's own colour, as Launcher3 does. Lawnchair went by
+    // the wallpaper here because its drawer scrim could be see-through; this drawer's backdrop
+    // is always dark, and the status bar icons over it have to be light.
+    override fun isScrimDark() = super.isScrimDark()
 }

quickstep/src/com/android/launcher3/uioverrides/states/AllAppsState.java

@@ -219,6 +219,9 @@ public class AllAppsState extends LauncherState {
         } else {
             backgroundColor = ColorTokens.AllAppsScrimColor.resolveColor(launcher);
         }
+        // Flexera Launcher: the drawer's backdrop is dark whatever the theme and the wallpaper,
+        // so that the white names on it stay readable.
+        backgroundColor = app.flexera.drawer.FlexeraDrawer.BACKDROP_COLOR;
         return new ScrimColors(backgroundColor, /* foregroundColor */ Color.TRANSPARENT);
     }
 }

quickstep/src/com/android/launcher3/uioverrides/touchcontrollers/NoButtonNavbarToOverviewTouchController.java

@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 package com.android.launcher3.uioverrides.touchcontrollers;
 
 import static com.android.app.animation.Interpolators.ACCELERATE_DECELERATE;
+import static com.android.app.animation.Interpolators.DECELERATE;
 import static com.android.launcher3.LauncherAnimUtils.SCRIM_COLORS;
 import static com.android.launcher3.LauncherAnimUtils.newSingleUseCancelListener;
 import static com.android.launcher3.LauncherState.ALL_APPS;
@@ -35,6 +36,7 @@ import android.animation.AnimatorSet;
 import android.animation.ObjectAnimator;
 import android.animation.ValueAnimator;
 import android.graphics.PointF;
+import android.os.SystemClock;
 import android.view.MotionEvent;
 import android.view.ViewConfiguration;
 
@@ -81,10 +83,23 @@ public class NoButtonNavbarToOverviewTouchController extends PortraitStatesTouch
     private boolean mDidTouchStartInNavBar;
 
     // Flexera Launcher: swipe up and hold hands the same touch to the wave alphabet (PRD AD-17).
-    // "Started" is set when the pause is detected and the drawer begins to finish opening;
-    // "ready" is set once it is fully open and the alphabet can take the finger's position.
+    // "Started" is set when the pause is detected: the alphabet takes the finger at once, while
+    // the drawer finishes opening under it. "Drawer open" is set when that has finished.
     private boolean mFlexeraScrubStarted;
-    private boolean mFlexeraScrubReady;
+    private boolean mFlexeraDrawerOpen;
+    // Where the finger was at the last drag event, in the drag layer's coordinates.
+    private float mFlexeraLastX;
+    private float mFlexeraLastY;
+    // How long the drawer takes to finish opening once a hold is detected. Short, because the
+    // alphabet is already following the finger and the list has to be readable behind it.
+    private static final long FLEXERA_HOLD_OPEN_MS = 120;
+    // A finger that has not moved for this long is holding. Swipe to recents waits twice as
+    // long; here a false alarm only opens the drawer the swipe was opening anyway.
+    private static final long FLEXERA_HOLD_STILL_MS = 150;
+    // A finger that lifts sooner than this after the hold was noticed was not holding; see
+    // onDragEnd. Too short a time to have read the letter and meant it.
+    private static final long FLEXERA_MIN_HOLD_MS = app.flexera.drawer.FlexeraDrawer.MIN_SCRUB_MS;
+    private long mFlexeraScrubStartTime;
     private boolean mStartedOverview;
     private boolean mReachedOverview;
     // The last recorded displacement before we reached overview.
@@ -177,9 +192,10 @@ public class NoButtonNavbarToOverviewTouchController extends PortraitStatesTouch
 
         // Flexera Launcher: a pause during an ordinary swipe up to the drawer starts a scrub.
         mFlexeraScrubStarted = false;
-        mFlexeraScrubReady = false;
+        mFlexeraDrawerOpen = false;
         if (flexeraHoldToScrub()) {
             mMotionPauseDetector.setOnMotionPauseListener(this::onFlexeraHoldDetected);
+            mMotionPauseDetector.setForcePauseTimeout(FLEXERA_HOLD_STILL_MS);
         }
 
         if (mFromState == NORMAL && mToState == HINT_STATE) {
@@ -219,8 +235,15 @@ public class NoButtonNavbarToOverviewTouchController extends PortraitStatesTouch
         if (mFlexeraScrubStarted) {
             // Flexera Launcher: lifting the finger ends the scrub and leaves the drawer open at
             // the chosen letter. If the drawer is still opening, its end callback finishes up.
-            app.flexera.drawer.FlexeraDrawer.endScrubFromSwipe(mLauncher.getAppsView());
-            if (mFlexeraScrubReady) {
+            if (SystemClock.uptimeMillis() - mFlexeraScrubStartTime < FLEXERA_MIN_HOLD_MS) {
+                // The finger left almost as soon as the hold was noticed, so it was not
+                // holding: an ordinary swipe slowed down at its end. Open the drawer the way
+                // that swipe would have, with the list where it was.
+                app.flexera.drawer.FlexeraDrawer.cancelScrubFromSwipe(mLauncher.getAppsView());
+            } else {
+                app.flexera.drawer.FlexeraDrawer.endScrubFromSwipe(mLauncher.getAppsView());
+            }
+            if (mFlexeraDrawerOpen) {
                 onSwipeInteractionCompleted(ALL_APPS);
             }
         } else if (mStartedOverview) {
@@ -288,26 +311,34 @@ public class NoButtonNavbarToOverviewTouchController extends PortraitStatesTouch
     }
 
     /**
-     * Flexera Launcher: the finger paused part-way through a swipe up. Finish opening the drawer
-     * and, once it is open, let the same touch scrub the wave alphabet. This mirrors
-     * {@link #onMotionPauseDetected()}, which does the same hand-over to Overview.
+     * Flexera Launcher: the finger paused part-way through a swipe up. From this moment the same
+     * touch scrubs the wave alphabet, with no wait: the alphabet takes the finger where it is,
+     * and the drawer finishes opening under it.
      */
     private void onFlexeraHoldDetected() {
         if (mCurrentAnimation == null || mFlexeraScrubStarted || !flexeraHoldToScrub()) {
             return;
         }
-        mCurrentAnimation.getTarget().addListener(newSingleUseCancelListener(() ->
-                mLauncher.getStateManager().goToState(ALL_APPS, true, forSuccessCallback(() -> {
-                    mFlexeraScrubReady = true;
-                    if (!mDetector.isDraggingState()) {
-                        // The finger lifted while the drawer was still opening.
-                        onSwipeInteractionCompleted(ALL_APPS);
-                    }
-                }))));
-
-        mCurrentAnimation.getTarget().removeListener(mClearStateOnCancelListener);
-        mCurrentAnimation.dispatchOnCancel();
         mFlexeraScrubStarted = true;
+        mFlexeraScrubStartTime = SystemClock.uptimeMillis();
+        app.flexera.drawer.FlexeraDrawer.scrubFromSwipe(
+                mLauncher.getAppsView(), mLauncher.getDragLayer(), mFlexeraLastX, mFlexeraLastY);
+
+        // Play the swipe's own animation to its end, as lifting the finger would, only faster.
+        // Going through the state manager instead would take its full 600 ms opening time.
+        mCurrentAnimation.setEndAction(() -> {
+            mFlexeraDrawerOpen = true;
+            if (!mDetector.isDraggingState()) {
+                // The finger lifted while the drawer was still opening.
+                onSwipeInteractionCompleted(ALL_APPS);
+            }
+        });
+        ValueAnimator anim = mCurrentAnimation.getAnimationPlayer();
+        anim.setFloatValues(
+                Utilities.boundToRange(mCurrentAnimation.getProgressFraction(), 0f, 1f), 1f);
+        anim.setDuration(FLEXERA_HOLD_OPEN_MS).setInterpolator(DECELERATE);
+        mCurrentAnimation.dispatchOnStart();
+        anim.start();
         VibratorWrapper.INSTANCE.get(mLauncher).vibrate(OVERVIEW_HAPTIC);
     }
 
@@ -326,13 +357,15 @@ public class NoButtonNavbarToOverviewTouchController extends PortraitStatesTouch
 
     @Override
     public boolean onDrag(float yDisplacement, float xDisplacement, MotionEvent event) {
+        // Flexera Launcher: remembered so that a hold, which can be noticed between two touch
+        // events, knows where the finger is.
+        mFlexeraLastX = event.getX();
+        mFlexeraLastY = event.getY();
         if (mFlexeraScrubStarted) {
             // Flexera Launcher: the swipe has become a scrub; the finger now moves the alphabet,
-            // not the drawer. Until the drawer has finished opening there is nothing to move yet.
-            if (mFlexeraScrubReady) {
-                app.flexera.drawer.FlexeraDrawer.scrubFromSwipe(
-                        mLauncher.getAppsView(), mLauncher.getDragLayer(), event);
-            }
+            // not the drawer.
+            app.flexera.drawer.FlexeraDrawer.scrubFromSwipe(
+                    mLauncher.getAppsView(), mLauncher.getDragLayer(), mFlexeraLastX, mFlexeraLastY);
             return true;
         }
         if (mStartedOverview) {

quickstep/src/com/android/quickstep/util/MotionPauseDetector.java

@@ -76,6 +76,9 @@ public class MotionPauseDetector {
     private boolean mDisallowPause;
     // Time at which speed became < mSpeedSlow (only used if mMakePauseHarderToTrigger == true).
     private long mSlowStartTime;
+    // Flexera Launcher: how long without motion counts as a pause. A gesture may shorten it
+    // (see setForcePauseTimeout); clear() puts the stock value back.
+    private long mForcePauseTimeoutMs = FORCE_PAUSE_TIMEOUT;
 
     public MotionPauseDetector(Context context) {
         this(context, false);
@@ -122,6 +125,15 @@ public class MotionPauseDetector {
         mIsTrackpadGesture = isTrackpadGesture;
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Flexera Launcher: sets how long the finger must stay still before that alone counts as a
+     * pause, for the gesture in progress. Swipe up and hold (PRD AD-17) uses a shorter time
+     * than the stock 300 ms, so the alphabet answers a hold without a noticeable wait.
+     */
+    public void setForcePauseTimeout(long timeoutMs) {
+        mForcePauseTimeoutMs = timeoutMs;
+    }
+
     /**
      * @param disallowPause If true, we will not detect any pauses until this is set to false again.
      */
@@ -153,7 +165,7 @@ public class MotionPauseDetector {
                 ? TEST_HARNESS_TRIGGER_TIMEOUT
                 : mMakePauseHarderToTrigger
                         ? HARDER_TRIGGER_TIMEOUT
-                        : FORCE_PAUSE_TIMEOUT;
+                        : mForcePauseTimeoutMs;
         mForcePauseTimeout.setAlarm(timeoutMs);
         float newVelocity = mVelocityProvider.addMotionEvent(ev, ev.getPointerId(pointerIndex));
         if (mPreviousVelocity != null) {
@@ -262,6 +274,7 @@ public class MotionPauseDetector {
         mIsTrackpadGesture = false;
         mIsPaused = mHasEverBeenPaused = false;
         mSlowStartTime = 0;
+        mForcePauseTimeoutMs = FORCE_PAUSE_TIMEOUT;
         mForcePauseTimeout.cancelAlarm();
     }