Release 0.12.0

Blur behind open folders; hide the icons of a switched-off dock
Folder blur: while a folder is open on the home screen, what is behind it is blurred, icons and widgets through a RenderEffect and the wallpaper through the launcher surface's background blur. It is a new input of the depth controller (folderBlur, 0 to 1), because that controller already owns both kinds of blur and cleared anything set past it on every frame of the folder's wallpaper zoom. The folder's spring animation drives it in step with the dimming, and the places that reset the dimming reset it too. It works with the wallpaper depth effect switched off, without bringing the folder's wallpaper zoom along. Setting: Folders > Blur behind open folders, on by default (flexera_folder_blur). Folders in the app list are left as they were. Dock: with the dock switched off the hotseat has no height, but its icons were still drawn just below the screen edge, and the 97.5% zoom-out behind an open folder brought their tops into view. One more alpha channel on the icons hides them. Checked on the emulator (Android 17 image, window blur available): open, close by tap outside, Back and Home, an app started from the folder, sleep and wake, the setting off, and the depth effect off. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.2 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-11-12 18:05:19 +01:00 · 2026-11-12 18:01:33 +01:00 · 2026-11-12 16:34:02 +01:00 · 2026-11-12 16:33:49 +01:00 · 2026-11-12 15:58:08 +01:00 · 2026-11-12 15:57:55 +01:00
42 changed files with 3124 additions and 69 deletions
@@ -12,4 +12,58 @@
    <!-- Lets the app hand a downloaded update to Android's installer. The owner still confirms each install. -->
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.REQUEST_INSTALL_PACKAGES" />

+    <!--
+      Since Android 17 an app needs this to reach a device on the network the phone itself is on.
+      The update server can be such a device: at the owner's home its name leads to its address
+      on the home network. Asked for only when a check for updates is stopped by it (About screen).
+    -->
+    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_LOCAL_NETWORK" />
+
+    <application>
+
+        <!--
+          The picture widget that comes with the launcher. Not exported: only this launcher can
+          place it, and only this launcher knows how to draw it.
+        -->
+        <receiver
+            android:name="app.flexera.widget.PictureWidgetProvider"
+            android:exported="false"
+            android:label="@string/flexera_picture_widget">
+            <intent-filter>
+                <action android:name="android.appwidget.action.APPWIDGET_UPDATE" />
+            </intent-filter>
+            <meta-data
+                android:name="android.appwidget.provider"
+                android:resource="@xml/flexera_picture_widget_info" />
+        </receiver>
+
+        <!-- The clock widget that comes with the launcher: the time and the date. -->
+        <receiver
+            android:name="app.flexera.widget.ClockWidgetProvider"
+            android:exported="false"
+            android:label="@string/flexera_clock_widget">
+            <intent-filter>
+                <action android:name="android.appwidget.action.APPWIDGET_UPDATE" />
+            </intent-filter>
+            <meta-data
+                android:name="android.appwidget.provider"
+                android:resource="@xml/flexera_clock_widget_info" />
+        </receiver>
+
+        <!-- The clock widget's options, a sheet over the home screen. -->
+        <activity
+            android:name="app.flexera.widget.ClockWidgetConfigActivity"
+            android:excludeFromRecents="true"
+            android:exported="false"
+            android:theme="@style/Theme.Transparent" />
+
+        <!-- Opens Android's photo picker for the picture widget; it has no screen of its own. -->
+        <activity
+            android:name="app.flexera.widget.PictureWidgetConfigActivity"
+            android:excludeFromRecents="true"
+            android:exported="false"
+            android:theme="@style/Theme.Transparent" />
+
+    </application>
+
 </manifest>
@@ -211,6 +211,13 @@ if ($NoSmokeTest) {
    if ($LASTEXITCODE -ne 0 -or -not ($install -match 'Success')) {
        throw "Could not install the APK on $emulator. If an older build signed with another key is installed there, uninstall it first: adb uninstall $AppId"
    }
+    # When this app is the emulator's home app, Android restarts it the moment the old copy is
+    # gone, and that first start can die inside Android itself while the files are still being
+    # swapped (a NullPointerException in ActivityThread.handleBindApplication, with no line of
+    # this app in it). That is not the new build crashing: let the swap settle, then start
+    # from a clean slate and judge what happens from there.
+    Start-Sleep -Seconds 6
+    & $Adb -s $emulator shell am force-stop $AppId
    & $Adb -s $emulator logcat -b crash -c
    & $Adb -s $emulator shell am start -n $HomeActivity | Out-Null
    Write-Host "Installed on $emulator and started; watching for $SmokeTestSeconds seconds..."
@@ -244,23 +251,33 @@ $release = Read-Response ($client.PostAsync("$Api/releases", $content).Result) '

 Step "6/7  Uploading the APK"

-$assetName = "FlexeraLauncher-$Version.apk"
-$stream = [IO.File]::OpenRead($apk)
+# The APK goes up twice. Once under a name with its version, which is what a person looking at
+# the release sees and what the app's updater downloads. And once under a name that never
+# changes, so that <server>/<repo>/releases/download/latest/FlexeraLauncher.apk always leads to
+# the newest APK: the address in the QR code on the app's About screen (FlexeraUpdater.LATEST_APK_URL).
+# The versioned one goes first, because the updater takes the first .apk it finds.
+$assetNames = @("FlexeraLauncher-$Version.apk", 'FlexeraLauncher.apk')
+$uploaded = @()
 try {
-    $file = New-Object System.Net.Http.StreamContent($stream)
-    $file.Headers.ContentType = [System.Net.Http.Headers.MediaTypeHeaderValue]::Parse('application/vnd.android.package-archive')
-    $form = New-Object System.Net.Http.MultipartFormDataContent
-    $form.Add($file, 'attachment', $assetName)
-    $asset = Read-Response ($client.PostAsync("$Api/releases/$($release.id)/assets?name=$assetName", $form).Result) 'Uploading the APK'
+    foreach ($assetName in $assetNames) {
+        $stream = [IO.File]::OpenRead($apk)
+        try {
+            $file = New-Object System.Net.Http.StreamContent($stream)
+            $file.Headers.ContentType = [System.Net.Http.Headers.MediaTypeHeaderValue]::Parse('application/vnd.android.package-archive')
+            $form = New-Object System.Net.Http.MultipartFormDataContent
+            $form.Add($file, 'attachment', $assetName)
+            $uploaded += Read-Response ($client.PostAsync("$Api/releases/$($release.id)/assets?name=$assetName", $form).Result) "Uploading $assetName"
+        } finally {
+            $stream.Dispose()
+        }
+    }
 } catch {
    # A release without its APK would make every installed copy report a failed check.
    $client.DeleteAsync("$Api/releases/$($release.id)").Result | Out-Null
    $client.DeleteAsync("$Api/tags/v$Version").Result | Out-Null
    throw
-} finally {
-    $stream.Dispose()
 }
-Write-Host "Uploaded: $($asset.browser_download_url)"
+$uploaded | ForEach-Object { Write-Host "Uploaded: $($_.browser_download_url)" }

 # --- 7. Source tag -------------------------------------------------------------------------------

@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<!-- A sun over a hill on a rounded plate: the stand-in for the picture widget's content. -->
+<vector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
+    android:width="120dp"
+    android:height="120dp"
+    android:viewportWidth="120"
+    android:viewportHeight="120">
+    <path
+        android:fillColor="#FF3D4A70"
+        android:pathData="M28,0h64a28,28 0,0 1,28 28v64a28,28 0,0 1,-28 28h-64a28,28 0,0 1,-28 -28v-64a28,28 0,0 1,28 -28z" />
+    <path
+        android:fillColor="#99FFFFFF"
+        android:pathData="M84,36m-12,0a12,12 0,1 1,24 0a12,12 0,1 1,-24 0" />
+    <path
+        android:fillColor="#40FFFFFF"
+        android:pathData="M0,120L0,104Q40,52 92,120Z" />
+</vector>
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<!--
+  What Android is told the clock widget looks like before it has anything to show: a plain
+  clock that keeps time by itself. Flexera Launcher never shows it; it draws the widget itself
+  (app.flexera.widget.ClockWidgetView).
+-->
+<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
+    android:layout_width="match_parent"
+    android:layout_height="match_parent"
+    android:gravity="center_vertical"
+    android:orientation="vertical"
+    android:paddingStart="12dp"
+    android:paddingEnd="12dp">
+
+    <TextClock
+        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
+        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
+        android:fontFamily="sans-serif-light"
+        android:format12Hour="h:mm"
+        android:format24Hour="H:mm"
+        android:textColor="@android:color/white"
+        android:textSize="48sp" />
+
+    <TextClock
+        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
+        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
+        android:format12Hour="EEEE, d MMMM"
+        android:format24Hour="EEEE, d MMMM"
+        android:textColor="@android:color/white"
+        android:textSize="14sp" />
+</LinearLayout>
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<!--
+  What Android is told the picture widget looks like before it has anything to show. Flexera
+  Launcher never shows it: it draws the widget itself (app.flexera.widget.PictureWidgetView).
+-->
+<FrameLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
+    android:layout_width="match_parent"
+    android:layout_height="match_parent">
+
+    <ImageView
+        android:layout_width="match_parent"
+        android:layout_height="match_parent"
+        android:importantForAccessibility="no"
+        android:scaleType="fitCenter"
+        android:src="@drawable/flexera_picture_widget_sample" />
+</FrameLayout>
@@ -71,6 +71,10 @@
    <dimen name="flexera_drawer_text_shadow_radius">3dp</dimen>
    <dimen name="flexera_drawer_text_shadow_dy">1dp</dimen>

+    <!-- Picture widget: the words on a widget that has no pictures, and the room beside them. -->
+    <dimen name="flexera_picture_widget_hint_text_size">13sp</dimen>
+    <dimen name="flexera_picture_widget_hint_margin">10dp</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>
@@ -41,8 +41,13 @@
    </plurals>
    <string name="flexera_import_widgets">Widgets</string>
    <string name="flexera_import_widgets_value">%1$d. Each arrives in its place as “tap to set up”: Android asks you to allow it again, and its own settings start fresh.</string>
+    <string name="flexera_import_photo_widgets">Photo widgets</string>
+    <plurals name="flexera_import_photo_widgets_value">
+        <item quantity="one">%1$d. It becomes Flexera Launcher\'s picture widget and keeps its photo. Tap it once after the import.</item>
+        <item quantity="other">%1$d. They become Flexera Launcher\'s picture widgets and keep their photos. Tap each once after the import.</item>
+    </plurals>
    <string name="flexera_import_left_out">Left out</string>
-    <string name="flexera_import_own_widgets">Widgets of Smart Launcher itself</string>
+    <string name="flexera_import_own_widgets">Other widgets of Smart Launcher itself</string>
    <plurals name="flexera_import_own_widgets_value">
        <item quantity="one">%1$d. It exists only inside Smart Launcher, so its place stays empty.</item>
        <item quantity="other">%1$d. They exist only inside Smart Launcher, so their places stay empty.</item>
@@ -61,10 +66,10 @@
    <string name="flexera_import_unreadable">This is not a Smart Launcher backup that can be read</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_share_qr_description">QR code that downloads the latest version</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>
+    <string name="flexera_about_privacy_title">What goes online</string>
+    <string name="flexera_about_privacy_body">Flexera Launcher goes online for two things. It asks its release page whether a newer version exists, about once a day, and downloads that version when you ask. And if you pick a place for the weather on a clock widget, it asks Open-Meteo, a weather service, for the weather there; that place is all it sends. Nothing else about you, your apps or your phone leaves it.</string>

    <!-- Lawnchair's wording promised web results and grid settings that this app does not have -->
    <string name="all_apps_device_search_hint">Search apps and more</string>
@@ -87,6 +92,67 @@
    <string name="flexera_scrub_from_home">Scrub from the home screen</string>
    <string name="flexera_scrub_from_home_description">Slide up or down along the alphabet\'s edge of the home screen to open the app list at a letter. Swipe up and hold does the same from anywhere.</string>

+    <!-- Quick launch: a swipe on past the first or the last home screen page (app.flexera.home.QuickLaunch) -->
+    <string name="flexera_folder_blur">Blur behind open folders</string>
+    <string name="flexera_folder_blur_description">Blurs the home screen while a folder is open</string>
+    <string name="flexera_quick_launch">Quick launch</string>
+    <string name="flexera_quick_launch_description">Swipe on from the first or the last home screen page, as if there were one more, to open an app or do something else. Has no effect while Infinite scrolling is on.</string>
+    <string name="flexera_quick_launch_first_page">Swipe past the first page</string>
+    <string name="flexera_quick_launch_last_page">Swipe past the last page</string>
+
+    <!-- The clock widget that comes with the launcher (app.flexera.widget) -->
+    <!-- Its name in the list of widgets -->
+    <string name="flexera_clock_widget">Clock</string>
+    <string name="flexera_clock_widget_description">The time and the date, lined up with your icons</string>
+    <!-- The clock widget's options, reached from its edit button -->
+    <string name="flexera_clock_widget_alignment">Alignment</string>
+    <string name="flexera_clock_widget_left">Left</string>
+    <string name="flexera_clock_widget_center">Center</string>
+    <string name="flexera_clock_widget_right">Right</string>
+    <string name="flexera_clock_widget_size">Size</string>
+    <string name="flexera_clock_widget_small">Small</string>
+    <string name="flexera_clock_widget_medium">Medium</string>
+    <string name="flexera_clock_widget_large">Large</string>
+    <string name="flexera_clock_widget_weight">Weight</string>
+    <string name="flexera_clock_widget_thin">Thin</string>
+    <string name="flexera_clock_widget_light">Light</string>
+    <string name="flexera_clock_widget_regular">Regular</string>
+    <string name="flexera_clock_widget_bold">Bold</string>
+    <string name="flexera_clock_widget_weather">Weather</string>
+    <string name="flexera_clock_widget_weather_off">Off. Look a place up to show its weather under the date.</string>
+    <!-- %1$s is a place, such as "Berlin, State of Berlin, Germany" -->
+    <string name="flexera_clock_widget_weather_on">Showing the weather in %1$s</string>
+    <string name="flexera_clock_widget_weather_place">Town or city</string>
+    <string name="flexera_clock_widget_weather_search">Search</string>
+    <string name="flexera_clock_widget_weather_nothing">No place of that name was found</string>
+    <string name="flexera_clock_widget_weather_failed">The weather service could not be reached. Check the connection and try again.</string>
+    <string name="flexera_clock_widget_weather_remove">Turn weather off</string>
+    <string name="flexera_clock_widget_weather_source">Weather data by Open-Meteo.com. The launcher asks it about the place you pick, about once an hour while the clock is in view, and sends nothing else.</string>
+    <!-- The clock widget's weather line. %1$d is the temperature, %2$s a word for the sky, such as "Overcast" -->
+    <string name="flexera_weather_line">%1$d° · %2$s</string>
+    <string name="flexera_weather_clear">Clear</string>
+    <string name="flexera_weather_mostly_clear">Mostly clear</string>
+    <string name="flexera_weather_partly_cloudy">Partly cloudy</string>
+    <string name="flexera_weather_overcast">Overcast</string>
+    <string name="flexera_weather_fog">Fog</string>
+    <string name="flexera_weather_drizzle">Drizzle</string>
+    <string name="flexera_weather_rain">Rain</string>
+    <string name="flexera_weather_freezing_rain">Freezing rain</string>
+    <string name="flexera_weather_snow">Snow</string>
+    <string name="flexera_weather_showers">Showers</string>
+    <string name="flexera_weather_snow_showers">Snow showers</string>
+    <string name="flexera_weather_thunderstorm">Thunderstorm</string>
+
+    <!-- The picture widget that comes with the launcher (app.flexera.widget) -->
+    <!-- Its name in the list of widgets -->
+    <string name="flexera_picture_widget">Pictures</string>
+    <string name="flexera_picture_widget_description">One picture, or several that take turns every 10 seconds</string>
+    <!-- Shown on a picture widget that has no pictures -->
+    <string name="flexera_picture_widget_empty">Tap to choose pictures</string>
+    <!-- Read by screen readers. %1$d is the picture being shown, %2$d is how many there are -->
+    <string name="flexera_picture_widget_position">Picture %1$d of %2$d</string>
+    <string name="flexera_picture_widget_unreadable">None of the chosen pictures could be read</string>
+
    <!-- Updates section of the About screen (app.flexera.update.FlexeraUpdater) -->
    <string name="flexera_update_heading">Updates</string>
    <string name="flexera_update_check">Check for updates</string>
@@ -96,6 +162,7 @@
    <!-- Why a check for updates failed. %1$s is the update server's name, such as git.example.org -->
    <string name="flexera_update_failed_no_permission">Android does not let Flexera Launcher use the network on this phone. Allow it in the phone\'s settings for this app, under Permissions, Network, then tap to try again.</string>
    <string name="flexera_update_failed_not_found">This phone could not find %1$s. Check the connection and any VPN or private DNS, then tap to try again.</string>
+    <string name="flexera_update_failed_local_network">%1$s is on the same network as this phone, and Android lets an app reach devices there only with your permission, which it calls Nearby devices. Tap to allow it. The check then runs again.</string>
    <string name="flexera_update_failed_no_answer">%1$s did not answer. Check the connection and any VPN, then tap to try again.</string>
    <string name="flexera_update_failed_not_secure">A secure connection to %1$s could not be made. Check the phone\'s date and time and any VPN, then tap to try again.</string>
    <string name="flexera_update_failed_server_error">%1$s answered with an error. Tap to try again later.</string>
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<!--
+  Flexera Launcher's clock widget (app.flexera.widget.ClockWidgetProvider). Four cells by two
+  when first placed, resizable from two by one upwards. The launcher draws it itself, so the
+  layouts named here are never shown on the home screen; previewLayout is what makes the widget
+  list ask for a live preview, which the launcher also draws. Nothing has to be set up when it
+  is added (configuration_optional); its edit button opens the options for alignment and size.
+-->
+<appwidget-provider xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
+    android:minWidth="250dp"
+    android:minHeight="110dp"
+    android:minResizeWidth="110dp"
+    android:minResizeHeight="40dp"
+    android:targetCellWidth="4"
+    android:targetCellHeight="2"
+    android:updatePeriodMillis="0"
+    android:description="@string/flexera_clock_widget_description"
+    android:configure="app.flexera.widget.ClockWidgetConfigActivity"
+    android:initialLayout="@layout/flexera_clock_widget_placeholder"
+    android:previewLayout="@layout/flexera_clock_widget_placeholder"
+    android:resizeMode="horizontal|vertical"
+    android:widgetCategory="home_screen"
+    android:widgetFeatures="reconfigurable|configuration_optional" />
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<!--
+  Flexera Launcher's picture widget (app.flexera.widget.PictureWidgetProvider). Two cells by two
+  when first placed, resizable down to one cell and up to the whole screen. The launcher draws it
+  itself, so the layouts named here are never shown on the home screen; previewLayout is what
+  makes the widget list ask for a live preview, which the launcher also draws.
+-->
+<appwidget-provider xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
+    android:minWidth="110dp"
+    android:minHeight="110dp"
+    android:minResizeWidth="40dp"
+    android:minResizeHeight="40dp"
+    android:targetCellWidth="2"
+    android:targetCellHeight="2"
+    android:updatePeriodMillis="0"
+    android:description="@string/flexera_picture_widget_description"
+    android:configure="app.flexera.widget.PictureWidgetConfigActivity"
+    android:initialLayout="@layout/flexera_picture_widget_placeholder"
+    android:previewLayout="@layout/flexera_picture_widget_placeholder"
+    android:resizeMode="horizontal|vertical"
+    android:widgetCategory="home_screen"
+    android:widgetFeatures="reconfigurable" />
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ import android.database.sqlite.SQLiteDatabase
 import android.net.Uri
 import android.os.Process
 import android.util.Log
+import app.flexera.widget.PictureWidgetProvider
+import app.flexera.widget.PictureWidgetStore
 import app.lawnchair.DeviceProfileOverrides
 import app.lawnchair.backup.LawnchairBackup
 import app.lawnchair.preferences.PreferenceManager
@@ -73,7 +75,9 @@ class SmartLauncherBackupConverter(
        val folders: Int,
        val appsInFolders: Int,
        val widgets: Int,
-        /** Smart Launcher's own widgets, which stay behind. */
+        /** Smart Launcher's photo widgets, which become the launcher's own picture widget. */
+        val photoWidgets: Int,
+        /** Smart Launcher's other widgets of its own, which stay behind. */
        val ownWidgets: Int,
        /** Other things that stay behind: no usable target, another profile, or no free cells. */
        val skipped: Int,
@@ -98,6 +102,9 @@ class SmartLauncherBackupConverter(
    private data class HomeFolder(override val place: Place, val title: String?, val icons: List<Icon>) : HomeThing
    private data class HomeWidget(override val place: Place, val provider: String) : HomeThing

+    /** One of Smart Launcher's photo widgets, with the unpacked files of its pictures. */
+    private data class HomePicture(override val place: Place, val photos: List<File>) : HomeThing
+
    private data class Layout(
        val columns: Int,
        val rows: Int,
@@ -115,6 +122,7 @@ class SmartLauncherBackupConverter(
                folders = things.count { it is HomeFolder },
                appsInFolders = things.sumOf { (it as? HomeFolder)?.icons?.size ?: 0 },
                widgets = things.count { it is HomeWidget },
+                photoWidgets = things.count { it is HomePicture },
                ownWidgets = ownWidgets,
                skipped = skipped,
            )
@@ -130,28 +138,9 @@ class SmartLauncherBackupConverter(
     * to show them.
     */
    suspend fun convertAndRestore() {
-        val layout = withContext(Dispatchers.IO) { withUnpackedBackup { dir -> readLayout(dir) } }
-
-        withContext(Dispatchers.IO) {
-            val tempDir = newTempDir()
-            try {
-                val staged = File(tempDir, STAGED_DB)
-                val shortcuts = writeLauncherDb(layout, staged)
-                applyGrid(layout)
-
-                val restored = context.getDatabasePath(LawnchairBackup.RESTORED_DB_FILE_NAME)
-                restored.parentFile?.mkdirs()
-                staged.copyTo(restored, overwrite = true)
-                // Opening the controller moves the restored file into place; the restore task
-                // then marks every item as freshly restored, which is what makes Launcher3 ask
-                // for the widgets anew and drop icons of apps that are not installed.
-                check(RestoreDbTask.performRestore(context, ModelDbController(context))) {
-                    "Launcher3 did not accept the converted layout"
-                }
-                pinShortcuts(shortcuts)
-            } finally {
-                tempDir.deleteRecursively()
-            }
+        val layout = withContext(Dispatchers.IO) {
+            // The backup stays unpacked to the end: the photo widgets' pictures are read from it.
+            withUnpackedBackup { dir -> readLayout(dir).also(::restore) }
        }

        // Settings that make the result match the source: no dock, because Smart Launcher has
@@ -161,6 +150,50 @@ class SmartLauncherBackupConverter(
        layout.showLabels?.let { prefs2.showIconLabelsOnHomeScreen.set(it) }
    }

+    /** Puts the layout into the launcher's database and keeps the photo widgets' pictures. */
+    private fun restore(layout: Layout) {
+        val tempDir = newTempDir()
+        try {
+            val staged = File(tempDir, STAGED_DB)
+            val shortcuts = writeLauncherDb(layout, staged)
+            applyGrid(layout)
+
+            val restored = context.getDatabasePath(LawnchairBackup.RESTORED_DB_FILE_NAME)
+            restored.parentFile?.mkdirs()
+            staged.copyTo(restored, overwrite = true)
+            // Opening the controller moves the restored file into place; the restore task
+            // then marks every item as freshly restored, which is what makes Launcher3 ask
+            // for the widgets anew and drop icons of apps that are not installed.
+            check(RestoreDbTask.performRestore(context, ModelDbController(context))) {
+                "Launcher3 did not accept the converted layout"
+            }
+            pinShortcuts(shortcuts)
+        } finally {
+            tempDir.deleteRecursively()
+        }
+        keepPictures(layout)
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Puts the pictures of the imported photo widgets where the picture widget finds them. Each
+     * widget arrives as "tap to set up" like every imported widget; the tap then gives it these
+     * pictures in place of asking for some (PictureWidgetConfigActivity).
+     */
+    private fun keepPictures(layout: Layout) {
+        PictureWidgetStore.clearImports(context)
+        for (thing in layout.things) {
+            if (thing is HomePicture && thing.photos.isNotEmpty()) {
+                PictureWidgetStore.stageImport(
+                    context,
+                    thing.place.screen,
+                    thing.place.x,
+                    thing.place.y,
+                    thing.photos.map(Uri::fromFile),
+                )
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
    // ---- Reading the backup ------------------------------------------------------------------

    private fun <T> withUnpackedBackup(block: (File) -> T): T {
@@ -177,23 +210,29 @@ class SmartLauncherBackupConverter(
        File(context.cacheDir, "$TEMP_DIR_PREFIX${UUID.randomUUID()}").apply { mkdirs() }

    /**
-     * Unpacks the database and the preference files, and nothing else, into [dir]. Entry names
-     * come from the file and are not trusted: only the two known places are accepted, each file
-     * lands under its bare name, and a file of unreasonable size ends the import.
+     * Unpacks the database, the preference files and the pictures of the photo widgets, and
+     * nothing else, into [dir]. Entry names come from the file and are not trusted: only the
+     * known places are accepted, each file lands under a name made here, and a file of
+     * unreasonable size ends the import.
     */
    private fun unpack(dir: File) {
        val descriptor = context.contentResolver.openFileDescriptor(uri, "r")
            ?: error("Cannot open the backup file")
        descriptor.use {
            ZipInputStream(FileInputStream(it.fileDescriptor)).use { zip ->
+                var photos = 0
                var entry = zip.nextEntry
                while (entry != null) {
                    val name = entry.name
+                    val photo = SL_PHOTO_ENTRY.matchEntire(name)
                    val target = when {
                        entry.isDirectory -> null
                        name == SL_DB_ENTRY -> File(dir, SL_DB)
                        name.startsWith(SL_PREFS_DIR) && name.endsWith(".xml") ->
                            File(dir, PREFS_PREFIX + File(name).name)
+                        // A photo widget's picture, kept under the number of its widget.
+                        photo != null && photos < MAX_PHOTOS ->
+                            File(dir, photoName(photo.groupValues[1], photos++))
                        else -> null
                    }
                    if (target != null) {
@@ -227,7 +266,7 @@ class SmartLauncherBackupConverter(
            for (table in listOf(T_HOME, T_LAUNCHABLE, T_ACTION, T_WIDGET)) {
                require(tableExists(db, table)) { "Smart Launcher database without table $table" }
            }
-            return readHomeScreens(db, grid)
+            return readHomeScreens(db, grid, dir)
        }
    }

@@ -259,7 +298,7 @@ class SmartLauncherBackupConverter(
        return null
    }

-    private fun readHomeScreens(db: SQLiteDatabase, grid: Grid?): Layout {
+    private fun readHomeScreens(db: SQLiteDatabase, grid: Grid?, dir: File): Layout {
        data class Row(
            val launchable: Long?,
            val widget: Long?,
@@ -311,12 +350,12 @@ class SmartLauncherBackupConverter(
                row.y + row.height <= gridRows && cells.none { it in taken }

            val read: HomeThing? = when {
-                row.widget != null -> readWidgetProvider(db, row.widget)?.let { HomeWidget(place, it) }
+                row.widget != null -> readWidget(db, row.widget, place, dir)
                row.launchable != null -> readLaunchable(db, row.launchable, place)
                else -> null
            }
            when {
-                // The only widgets without a provider this can use are Smart Launcher's own.
+                // The only widgets with no counterpart here are Smart Launcher's own.
                read == null && row.widget != null -> ownWidgets++
                read == null || !fits -> skipped++
                else -> {
@@ -336,8 +375,12 @@ class SmartLauncherBackupConverter(
        }
    }

-    /** The provider of an ordinary app widget, or null for one of Smart Launcher's own. */
-    private fun readWidgetProvider(db: SQLiteDatabase, id: Long): String? =
+    /**
+     * What a widget of the backup becomes. An ordinary app widget keeps its provider. Smart
+     * Launcher's photo widget becomes the launcher's own picture widget, with the pictures the
+     * backup holds for it. Smart Launcher's other widgets have no counterpart: null.
+     */
+    private fun readWidget(db: SQLiteDatabase, id: Long, place: Place, dir: File): HomeThing? =
        db.rawQuery("SELECT type, provider, userId FROM $T_WIDGET WHERE id = ?", arrayOf(id.toString())).use { c ->
            if (!c.moveToFirst()) {
                null
@@ -346,10 +389,17 @@ class SmartLauncherBackupConverter(
                val provider = if (c.isNull(1)) null else c.getString(1)
                val user = if (c.isNull(2)) OWNER_USER else c.getInt(2)
                val component = provider?.let(ComponentName::unflattenFromString)
-                if (type != SL_WIDGET_TYPE_APP || component == null || user != OWNER_USER) {
-                    null
-                } else {
-                    component.flattenToString()
+                when {
+                    type == SL_WIDGET_TYPE_APP && component != null && user == OWNER_USER ->
+                        HomeWidget(place, component.flattenToString())
+
+                    type != SL_WIDGET_TYPE_APP && provider?.endsWith(SL_PHOTO_WIDGET_CLASS) == true -> {
+                        val prefix = photoName(id.toString(), null)
+                        val photos = dir.listFiles { file -> file.name.startsWith(prefix) }
+                        HomePicture(place, photos?.sortedBy { it.name }.orEmpty())
+                    }
+
+                    else -> null
                }
            }
        }
@@ -519,6 +569,14 @@ class SmartLauncherBackupConverter(
                            itemType = Favorites.ITEM_TYPE_APPWIDGET,
                            provider = thing.provider,
                        )
+
+                        is HomePicture -> insert(
+                            container = Favorites.CONTAINER_DESKTOP,
+                            place = thing.place,
+                            rank = 0,
+                            itemType = Favorites.ITEM_TYPE_APPWIDGET,
+                            provider = PictureWidgetProvider.componentName.flattenToString(),
+                        )
                    }
                }
                db.setTransactionSuccessful()
@@ -594,6 +652,21 @@ class SmartLauncherBackupConverter(
        /** `Widget.type` of an ordinary app widget; the other types are Smart Launcher's own. */
        const val SL_WIDGET_TYPE_APP = 1

+        /** How `Widget.provider` ends for Smart Launcher's photo widget, in every edition of it. */
+        const val SL_PHOTO_WIDGET_CLASS = ".PhotoWidget"
+
+        /** Where a backup keeps the pictures of a photo widget: a folder named by `Widget.id`. */
+        val SL_PHOTO_ENTRY = Regex("files/widgetPhoto/(\\d{1,18})/[^/]+")
+
+        /** More pictures than this in one backup are not taken along. */
+        const val MAX_PHOTOS = 100
+
+        /**
+         * The name an unpacked picture gets: its widget's number, then its turn. Without a turn,
+         * the start of the names of all pictures of that widget.
+         */
+        fun photoName(widget: String, turn: Int?): String = "photo_${widget}_" + (turn?.toString() ?: "")
+
        /** Smart Launcher's user ids: the phone's owner, and "no user" on folders. */
        const val OWNER_USER = 0
        const val NO_USER = -1
@@ -140,6 +140,16 @@ private fun BackupContents(info: SmartLauncherBackupConverter.Info) {
        if (info.widgets > 0) {
            InfoRow(R.string.flexera_import_widgets, stringResource(id = R.string.flexera_import_widgets_value, info.widgets))
        }
+        if (info.photoWidgets > 0) {
+            InfoRow(
+                R.string.flexera_import_photo_widgets,
+                pluralStringResource(
+                    id = R.plurals.flexera_import_photo_widgets_value,
+                    count = info.photoWidgets,
+                    info.photoWidgets,
+                ),
+            )
+        }
    }
    if (info.ownWidgets > 0 || info.skipped > 0) {
        PreferenceGroup(heading = stringResource(id = R.string.flexera_import_left_out)) {
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+package app.flexera.home
+
+import android.content.Context
+import app.lawnchair.preferences2.PreferenceManager2
+import app.lawnchair.preferences2.firstCached
+import com.android.launcher3.Utilities
+
+/**
+ * The blur of the home screen behind an open folder: whether the owner wants it, and how strong
+ * it is. The blur itself is the depth controller's work
+ * ([com.android.quickstep.util.BaseDepthControllerImpl.folderBlur]), because that already blurs
+ * the same views and the wallpaper for other reasons and would undo anything done past it. The
+ * folder's opening and closing animation moves it
+ * ([com.android.launcher3.folder.FolderSpringAnimatorSet]).
+ */
+object FolderBlur {
+
+    /**
+     * The blur's radius behind a fully open folder, as a share of the largest radius the
+     * launcher blurs with (30dp). Strong enough that the icons behind the folder are no longer
+     * read, which is the point: the folder is what is in focus.
+     */
+    const val STRENGTH = 0.8f
+
+    /** Blurring a view needs Android 12. */
+    @JvmStatic
+    fun isOn(context: Context): Boolean =
+        Utilities.ATLEAST_S && PreferenceManager2.getInstance(context).folderBlur.firstCached()
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,167 @@
+package app.flexera.home
+
+import android.app.ActivityOptions
+import android.content.Context
+import android.content.pm.LauncherApps
+import android.os.Build
+import android.util.Log
+import android.view.HapticFeedbackConstants
+import android.view.MotionEvent
+import android.view.View
+import app.lawnchair.LawnchairLauncher
+import app.lawnchair.gestures.config.GestureHandlerConfig
+import app.lawnchair.gestures.handlers.OpenAppTarget
+import app.lawnchair.preferences2.PreferenceManager2
+import app.lawnchair.preferences2.firstCached
+import com.android.launcher3.Launcher
+import com.android.launcher3.LauncherState
+import com.android.launcher3.util.EdgeEffectCompat
+
+/**
+ * Quick launch: a swipe on from the first home screen page, towards the page that is not there,
+ * opens an app the owner has chosen (or does another of the launcher's gesture actions); the
+ * same past the last page.
+ *
+ * The home screen already answers such a swipe by stretching and springing back. That stretch is
+ * an edge effect, one per side, and quick launch is an edge effect that also keeps count of how
+ * far the finger has pulled: far enough, or a flick, and lifting the finger does the action.
+ * Launcher3 uses the same place for the Google feed on other phones (OverlayEdgeEffect).
+ */
+object QuickLaunch {
+
+    private const val TAG = "QuickLaunch"
+
+    /** How far the finger has to pull past the page, as a share of the screen's width. */
+    private const val ARM_DISTANCE = 0.14f
+
+    /** A flick counts from this much pull, at [FLICK_DP_PER_SECOND] or faster. */
+    private const val FLICK_DISTANCE = 0.02f
+    private const val FLICK_DP_PER_SECOND = 600f
+
+    /**
+     * The edge effect for one side of the home screen pages. [atLeftEdge] says which side of
+     * the screen; which page that is the end of depends on the reading direction ([rtl]).
+     */
+    @JvmStatic
+    fun edgeEffect(workspace: View, launcher: Launcher, atLeftEdge: Boolean, rtl: Boolean): EdgeEffectCompat =
+        Effect(workspace, launcher, firstPage = atLeftEdge != rtl, atLeftEdge = atLeftEdge)
+
+    /** What the owner has chosen for a swipe past the first or the last page. */
+    private fun choice(context: Context, firstPage: Boolean): GestureHandlerConfig {
+        val prefs = PreferenceManager2.getInstance(context)
+        return if (firstPage) {
+            prefs.firstPageSwipeGestureHandler.firstCached()
+        } else {
+            prefs.lastPageSwipeGestureHandler.firstCached()
+        }
+    }
+
+    private fun launch(launcher: Launcher, firstPage: Boolean, fromLeft: Boolean) {
+        val choice = choice(launcher, firstPage)
+        if (choice is GestureHandlerConfig.NoOp) return
+        val target = (choice as? GestureHandlerConfig.OpenApp)?.target
+        if (target is OpenAppTarget.App) {
+            // The app opens out of the screen edge the finger pulled from, as near to a page
+            // sliding in as Android lets an ordinary app come: it plays a sideways slide of
+            // the launcher's own making only for the phone's built-in launcher.
+            val root = launcher.rootView
+            val options = ActivityOptions.makeClipRevealAnimation(
+                root,
+                if (fromLeft) 0 else root.width - 1,
+                0,
+                1,
+                root.height,
+            )
+            try {
+                launcher.getSystemService(LauncherApps::class.java)
+                    ?.startMainActivity(target.key.componentName, target.key.user, null, options.toBundle())
+            } catch (e: RuntimeException) {
+                // The chosen app is gone or cannot be started; nothing to open.
+                Log.w(TAG, "The quick launch app could not be opened", e)
+            }
+            return
+        }
+        (launcher as? LawnchairLauncher)?.gestureController?.handle(choice)
+    }
+
+    private class Effect(
+        private val workspace: View,
+        private val launcher: Launcher,
+        private val firstPage: Boolean,
+        private val atLeftEdge: Boolean,
+    ) : EdgeEffectCompat(workspace.context) {
+
+        /** How far the finger has pulled in this touch, as a share of the screen's width. */
+        private var pulled = 0f
+
+        /** Whether there is anything to do on this side; looked up when a pull begins. */
+        private var active = false
+        private var armed = false
+        private var flicked = false
+
+        private val flickVelocity = FLICK_DP_PER_SECOND * workspace.resources.displayMetrics.density
+
+        override fun onPullDistance(deltaDistance: Float, displacement: Float, ev: MotionEvent): Float {
+            val consumed = super.onPullDistance(deltaDistance, displacement, ev)
+            if (pulled == 0f && deltaDistance > 0f) {
+                active = choice(workspace.context, firstPage) !is GestureHandlerConfig.NoOp &&
+                    launcher.isInState(LauncherState.NORMAL) &&
+                    !launcher.dragController.isDragging
+            }
+            pulled = (pulled + deltaDistance).coerceAtLeast(0f)
+            val nowArmed = active && pulled >= ARM_DISTANCE
+            if (nowArmed != armed) {
+                armed = nowArmed
+                // A tick when the pull is far enough, and again when it is taken back.
+                tick()
+            }
+            return consumed
+        }
+
+        override fun onFlingVelocity(velocity: Int) {
+            // A pull at the left side is a finger moving right, which is a positive speed.
+            val outward = if (atLeftEdge) velocity else -velocity
+            flicked = active && pulled >= FLICK_DISTANCE && outward >= flickVelocity
+        }
+
+        override fun onRelease(ev: MotionEvent) {
+            val lifted = ev.actionMasked == MotionEvent.ACTION_UP
+            val fire = lifted && active && (armed || flicked)
+            val tickNow = fire && !armed
+            reset()
+            super.onRelease(ev)
+            if (fire) {
+                if (tickNow) tick()
+                // After the page has finished handling this touch.
+                workspace.post { launch(launcher, firstPage, fromLeft = atLeftEdge) }
+            }
+        }
+
+        override fun onRelease() {
+            reset()
+            super.onRelease()
+        }
+
+        override fun finish() {
+            reset()
+            super.finish()
+        }
+
+        private fun reset() {
+            pulled = 0f
+            active = false
+            armed = false
+            flicked = false
+        }
+
+        private fun tick() {
+            val feedback = if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.UPSIDE_DOWN_CAKE) {
+                HapticFeedbackConstants.GESTURE_THRESHOLD_ACTIVATE
+            } else {
+                HapticFeedbackConstants.CLOCK_TICK
+            }
+            // The pages themselves have haptics switched off; the window's root has not.
+            launcher.rootView.performHapticFeedback(feedback)
+        }
+    }
+}
@@ -1,9 +1,13 @@
 package app.flexera.ui

+import android.app.Activity
 import android.content.Context
+import android.content.ContextWrapper
 import android.content.Intent
 import android.provider.Settings
 import android.text.format.Formatter
+import androidx.activity.compose.rememberLauncherForActivityResult
+import androidx.activity.result.contract.ActivityResultContracts
 import androidx.compose.foundation.Canvas
 import androidx.compose.foundation.Image
 import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.Arrangement
@@ -196,7 +200,11 @@ fun FlexeraAbout(modifier: Modifier = Modifier) {
        groupRows(updateRows)

        item { PreferenceGroupHeading(stringResource(id = R.string.flexera_about_share)) }
-        item { PreferenceGroupItem { ShareCard(FlexeraUpdater.RELEASES_PAGE_URL) } }
+        item {
+            PreferenceGroupItem {
+                ShareCard(scanUrl = FlexeraUpdater.LATEST_APK_URL, pageUrl = FlexeraUpdater.RELEASES_PAGE_URL)
+            }
+        }

        item { PreferenceGroupHeading(stringResource(id = R.string.flexera_about_built_on)) }
        groupRows(
@@ -246,6 +254,21 @@ fun FlexeraAbout(modifier: Modifier = Modifier) {
@Composable
 private fun UpdateStatusRow(state: UpdateState) {
    val context = LocalContext.current
+    // Android 17 asks the owner before an app may reach devices on the local network, and an
+    // update server at home is one. The answer starts the check again; a "no" that Android no
+    // longer asks about leads to the app's page in the phone's settings instead.
+    val askForLocalNetwork = rememberLauncherForActivityResult(
+        ActivityResultContracts.RequestPermission(),
+    ) { granted ->
+        val activity = context.findActivity()
+        if (granted || activity == null ||
+            activity.shouldShowRequestPermissionRationale(FlexeraUpdater.LOCAL_NETWORK_PERMISSION)
+        ) {
+            FlexeraUpdater.check(context)
+        } else {
+            openAppSettings(context)
+        }
+    }
    when (state) {
        UpdateState.Idle -> ClickablePreference(
            label = stringResource(id = R.string.flexera_update_check),
@@ -296,7 +319,13 @@ private fun UpdateStatusRow(state: UpdateState) {
                ClickablePreference(
                    label = stringResource(id = R.string.flexera_update_check),
                    subtitle = checkFailureText(state),
-                    onClick = { FlexeraUpdater.check(context) },
+                    onClick = {
+                        if (state.problem == CheckProblem.LOCAL_NETWORK) {
+                            askForLocalNetwork.launch(FlexeraUpdater.LOCAL_NETWORK_PERMISSION)
+                        } else {
+                            FlexeraUpdater.check(context)
+                        }
+                    },
                )
            } else {
                ClickablePreference(
@@ -316,11 +345,12 @@ 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.
+ * What the owner holds up for someone who wants the app: a QR code that downloads the newest
+ * APK ([scanUrl]), with the address of the release page under it for anyone who would rather
+ * type one ([pageUrl]); that one is shorter and shows all versions.
 */
@Composable
-private fun ShareCard(url: String) {
+private fun ShareCard(scanUrl: String, pageUrl: String) {
    Column(
        modifier = Modifier
            .fillMaxWidth()
@@ -328,7 +358,7 @@ private fun ShareCard(url: String) {
        horizontalAlignment = Alignment.CenterHorizontally,
    ) {
        QrCode(
-            text = url,
+            text = scanUrl,
            description = stringResource(id = R.string.flexera_about_share_qr_description),
            modifier = Modifier.size(QR_CODE_SIZE),
        )
@@ -340,7 +370,7 @@ private fun ShareCard(url: String) {
        )
        Spacer(Modifier.height(4.dp))
        Text(
-            text = url.removePrefix("https://"),
+            text = pageUrl.removePrefix("https://"),
            style = MaterialTheme.typography.bodySmall,
            color = MaterialTheme.colorScheme.onSurfaceVariant,
            textAlign = TextAlign.Center,
@@ -393,6 +423,7 @@ private fun checkFailureText(state: UpdateState.Failed): String {
        CheckProblem.NOT_SECURE -> stringResource(id = R.string.flexera_update_failed_not_secure, host)
        CheckProblem.SERVER_ERROR -> stringResource(id = R.string.flexera_update_failed_server_error, host)
        CheckProblem.BAD_ANSWER -> stringResource(id = R.string.flexera_update_failed_bad_answer, host)
+        CheckProblem.LOCAL_NETWORK -> stringResource(id = R.string.flexera_update_failed_local_network, host)
        CheckProblem.NO_ANSWER, null -> stringResource(id = R.string.flexera_update_failed_no_answer, host)
    }
    val detail = state.detail ?: return reason
@@ -445,3 +476,21 @@ private fun openNotificationSettings(context: Context) {
        context.startActivity(intent)
    }
 }
+
+/** Opens this app's page in the phone's settings, where its permissions are. */
+private fun openAppSettings(context: Context) {
+    val intent = Intent(Settings.ACTION_APPLICATION_DETAILS_SETTINGS, "package:${context.packageName}".toUri())
+    if (intent.resolveActivity(context.packageManager) != null) {
+        context.startActivity(intent)
+    }
+}
+
+/** The activity this context belongs to, if it belongs to one. */
+private fun Context.findActivity(): Activity? {
+    var current: Context? = this
+    while (current != null) {
+        if (current is Activity) return current
+        current = (current as? ContextWrapper)?.baseContext
+    }
+    return null
+}
@@ -9,7 +9,9 @@ import android.app.PendingIntent
 import android.content.Context
 import android.content.Intent
 import android.content.SharedPreferences
+import android.content.pm.PackageManager
 import android.net.Uri
+import android.os.Build
 import android.os.Bundle
 import android.provider.Settings
 import android.util.Log
@@ -23,6 +25,8 @@ import com.android.launcher3.R
 import java.io.File
 import java.io.IOException
 import java.net.HttpURLConnection
+import java.net.InetAddress
+import java.net.NetworkInterface
 import java.net.URL
 import java.net.UnknownHostException
 import javax.net.ssl.SSLException
@@ -74,6 +78,14 @@ enum class CheckProblem {
    /** The server was found but did not answer in time, or refused the connection. */
    NO_ANSWER,

+    /**
+     * The server's address is on the network the phone itself is on (a server at home, reached
+     * over the home Wi-Fi), and Android has not been told to let this app reach devices there.
+     * Since Android 17 that takes a permission of its own; without it the connection is
+     * dropped without a word and looks like a server that does not answer.
+     */
+    LOCAL_NETWORK,
+
    /** The encrypted connection could not be set up. */
    NOT_SECURE,

@@ -137,6 +149,13 @@ object FlexeraUpdater {
    /** The page listing every release, for the About screen's "All versions" link. */
    const val RELEASES_PAGE_URL = "$SERVER/$RELEASE_REPOSITORY/releases"

+    /**
+     * Always the APK of the newest release: the server sends "latest" on to the newest release,
+     * and every release carries its APK under this one name as well (flexera/release.ps1). What
+     * the QR code on the About screen holds, so that scanning it starts the download.
+     */
+    const val LATEST_APK_URL = "$SERVER/$RELEASE_REPOSITORY/releases/download/latest/FlexeraLauncher.apk"
+
    private const val CONNECT_TIMEOUT_MS = 15_000
    private const val READ_TIMEOUT_MS = 30_000

@@ -216,7 +235,12 @@ object FlexeraUpdater {
        nextAutomaticCheckAt = System.currentTimeMillis() + RETRY_INTERVAL_MS

        scope.launch {
-            val result = runCatching { fetchLatestRelease(app) }
+            val result = runCatching {
+                // Android drops a connection it does not allow without a word, and the check
+                // would wait out its time limit. Say at once what is needed instead.
+                if (blockedFromLocalNetwork(app)) throw LocalNetworkBlockedException()
+                fetchLatestRelease(app)
+            }
            prefs(app).edit()
                .putLong(KEY_LAST_ATTEMPT, System.currentTimeMillis())
                .putBoolean(KEY_LAST_ATTEMPT_OK, result.isSuccess)
@@ -227,7 +251,7 @@ object FlexeraUpdater {
                Log.w(TAG, "Update check failed", error)
                // A background check that fails stays quiet: the About screen keeps what it showed
                // before, including an update that is already waiting. It tries again in an hour.
-                mutableState.value = if (automatic) before else failedCheck(error)
+                mutableState.value = if (automatic) before else failedCheck(app, error)
                return@launch
            }

@@ -346,17 +370,87 @@ object FlexeraUpdater {
    private class NoNetworkPermissionException : IOException("This app has no network permission")
    private class ServerErrorException(status: Int) : IOException("The server answered HTTP $status")
    private class BadAnswerException(message: String) : IOException(message)
+    private class LocalNetworkBlockedException : IOException("Android does not let this app reach the local network")
+
+    /**
+     * The permission Android 17 asks of an app before it may reach devices on the local
+     * network. Named by its text, because older Android versions, which the app also runs on,
+     * do not know it.
+     */
+    const val LOCAL_NETWORK_PERMISSION = "android.permission.ACCESS_LOCAL_NETWORK"
+
+    /** The first Android version that keeps apps from the local network: Android 17. */
+    private const val LOCAL_NETWORK_SDK = 37
+
+    /**
+     * True when Android is keeping this app from the update server because the server is on
+     * the phone's own network and the owner has not allowed local network access. Looks the
+     * server's name up, so not for the main thread.
+     */
+    private fun blockedFromLocalNetwork(context: Context): Boolean {
+        if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT < LOCAL_NETWORK_SDK) return false
+        if (context.checkSelfPermission(LOCAL_NETWORK_PERMISSION) == PackageManager.PERMISSION_GRANTED) return false
+        return try {
+            // Looking a name up is allowed without the permission, also at a resolver at home.
+            InetAddress.getAllByName(URL(SERVER).host).any(::isOnOwnNetwork)
+        } catch (e: IOException) {
+            false
+        } catch (e: SecurityException) {
+            false
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * True for an address that this phone reaches directly, without a router in between: one
+     * inside the range of one of its own network connections. That is what Android counts as
+     * the local network.
+     */
+    private fun isOnOwnNetwork(address: InetAddress): Boolean {
+        if (address.isLoopbackAddress) return false
+        if (address.isLinkLocalAddress) return true
+        val target = address.address
+        val interfaces = NetworkInterface.getNetworkInterfaces() ?: return false
+        for (network in interfaces) {
+            if (network.isLoopback || !network.isUp) continue
+            for (own in network.interfaceAddresses) {
+                val base = own.address?.address ?: continue
+                if (base.size != target.size) continue
+                var bits = own.networkPrefixLength.toInt()
+                if (bits <= 0) continue
+                var same = true
+                for (i in base.indices) {
+                    if (bits <= 0) break
+                    val mask = if (bits >= 8) 0xFF else (0xFF shl (8 - bits)) and 0xFF
+                    if ((base[i].toInt() and mask) != (target[i].toInt() and mask)) {
+                        same = false
+                        break
+                    }
+                    bits -= 8
+                }
+                if (same) return true
+            }
+        }
+        return false
+    }

    /** Turns the error of a failed check into a state that says what kind of failure it was. */
-    private fun failedCheck(error: Throwable): UpdateState.Failed {
-        val problem = when (error) {
+    private fun failedCheck(context: Context, error: Throwable): UpdateState.Failed {
+        val kind = when (error) {
            is NoNetworkPermissionException, is SecurityException -> CheckProblem.NO_PERMISSION
+            is LocalNetworkBlockedException -> CheckProblem.LOCAL_NETWORK
            is UnknownHostException -> CheckProblem.SERVER_NOT_FOUND
            is SSLException -> CheckProblem.NOT_SECURE
            is ServerErrorException -> CheckProblem.SERVER_ERROR
            is BadAnswerException, is JSONException -> CheckProblem.BAD_ANSWER
            else -> CheckProblem.NO_ANSWER
        }
+        // A server that did not answer may still be one that Android kept this app from, where
+        // the look before the check could not tell (the network changed in between, say).
+        val problem = if (kind == CheckProblem.NO_ANSWER && blockedFromLocalNetwork(context)) {
+            CheckProblem.LOCAL_NETWORK
+        } else {
+            kind
+        }
        // Android's own error classes keep their names in a release build; this file's are
        // renamed by the shrinker, and their messages say everything anyway.
        val name = error.javaClass.name.takeIf { it.startsWith("java") || it.startsWith("android") || it.startsWith("org.json") }
@@ -0,0 +1,177 @@
+package app.flexera.widget
+
+import android.content.Context
+import android.os.Handler
+import android.os.Looper
+import android.util.Log
+import androidx.annotation.WorkerThread
+import com.android.launcher3.R
+import com.android.launcher3.util.Executors
+import java.io.IOException
+import java.net.HttpURLConnection
+import java.net.URL
+import java.net.URLEncoder
+import java.util.Locale
+import java.util.concurrent.CopyOnWriteArraySet
+import kotlin.math.roundToInt
+import org.json.JSONObject
+
+/**
+ * The weather line of the clock widget: the temperature and a word for the sky at a place the
+ * owner has chosen.
+ *
+ * The data comes from Open-Meteo, a weather service that needs no account. It is asked only for
+ * a place the owner picked by name in the clock's options, never for where the phone is, so the
+ * launcher needs no location permission; and only while a clock with weather is in view, at most
+ * every [FRESH_MS]. The place's coordinates, rounded to about a kilometre, are all that is sent.
+ * The last answer is kept, so that the line is there at once and survives a spell offline.
+ */
+object ClockWeather {
+
+    /** A place found by name. [detail] tells places of one name apart: region and country. */
+    data class Place(val name: String, val detail: String, val latitude: Double, val longitude: Double)
+
+    /** What the service said: degrees in the unit of the phone's country, and a WMO weather code. */
+    data class Reading(val degrees: Int, val code: Int, val fahrenheit: Boolean, val readAt: Long)
+
+    /** Told on the main thread that a new reading has come in. */
+    fun interface Listener {
+        fun onWeatherChanged()
+    }
+
+    private const val TAG = "ClockWeather"
+    private const val FILE = "flexera_clock_weather"
+    private const val FORECAST = "https://api.open-meteo.com/v1/forecast"
+    private const val SEARCH = "https://geocoding-api.open-meteo.com/v1/search"
+    private const val TIMEOUT_MS = 10_000
+
+    /** A reading younger than this is not asked for again. */
+    private const val FRESH_MS = 45 * 60 * 1000L
+
+    /** A reading older than this is no longer shown: stale weather is worse than none. */
+    private const val SHOWN_MS = 3 * 60 * 60 * 1000L
+
+    /** The countries that count degrees in Fahrenheit. */
+    private val fahrenheitCountries = setOf("US", "BS", "BZ", "KY", "PW", "FM", "MH", "LR")
+
+    private val listeners = CopyOnWriteArraySet<Listener>()
+    private val asking = HashSet<String>()
+    private val main = Handler(Looper.getMainLooper())
+
+    fun addListener(listener: Listener) {
+        listeners.add(listener)
+    }
+
+    fun removeListener(listener: Listener) {
+        listeners.remove(listener)
+    }
+
+    /** The places of this name, the likeliest first. Asks the service; throws when it cannot. */
+    @WorkerThread
+    @Throws(IOException::class)
+    fun search(name: String): List<Place> {
+        val language = Locale.getDefault().language.ifEmpty { "en" }
+        val answer = get("$SEARCH?name=${URLEncoder.encode(name, "UTF-8")}&count=6&language=$language&format=json")
+        val results = JSONObject(answer).optJSONArray("results") ?: return emptyList()
+        return (0 until results.length()).map { index ->
+            val place = results.getJSONObject(index)
+            val detail = listOf(place.optString("admin1"), place.optString("country"))
+                .filter { it.isNotEmpty() }
+                .joinToString(", ")
+            Place(place.getString("name"), detail, place.getDouble("latitude"), place.getDouble("longitude"))
+        }
+    }
+
+    /** The last reading for a place, if there is one that is still worth showing. */
+    fun reading(context: Context, place: Place): Reading? {
+        val stored = prefs(context).getString(key(place), null)?.split('|') ?: return null
+        if (stored.size != 4) return null
+        val reading = Reading(
+            degrees = stored[0].toIntOrNull() ?: return null,
+            code = stored[1].toIntOrNull() ?: return null,
+            fahrenheit = stored[2] == "F",
+            readAt = stored[3].toLongOrNull() ?: return null,
+        )
+        val age = System.currentTimeMillis() - reading.readAt
+        return if (age in 0..SHOWN_MS && reading.fahrenheit == usesFahrenheit()) reading else null
+    }
+
+    /** Asks for a new reading in the background, unless the last one is fresh or one is on its way. */
+    fun refreshIfStale(context: Context, place: Place) {
+        val app = context.applicationContext
+        val key = key(place)
+        val last = reading(app, place)
+        if (last != null && System.currentTimeMillis() - last.readAt < FRESH_MS) return
+        synchronized(asking) {
+            if (!asking.add(key)) return
+        }
+        Executors.THREAD_POOL_EXECUTOR.execute {
+            try {
+                val fahrenheit = usesFahrenheit()
+                val answer = get(
+                    "$FORECAST?latitude=${coordinate(place.latitude)}&longitude=${coordinate(place.longitude)}" +
+                        "&current=temperature_2m,weather_code" +
+                        "&temperature_unit=${if (fahrenheit) "fahrenheit" else "celsius"}",
+                )
+                val current = JSONObject(answer).getJSONObject("current")
+                val degrees = current.getDouble("temperature_2m").roundToInt()
+                val code = current.getInt("weather_code")
+                prefs(app).edit()
+                    .putString(key, "$degrees|$code|${if (fahrenheit) "F" else "C"}|${System.currentTimeMillis()}")
+                    .apply()
+                main.post { listeners.forEach { it.onWeatherChanged() } }
+            } catch (e: Exception) {
+                // Offline, or the service is down: the last reading stays until it is too old.
+                Log.w(TAG, "No weather this time", e)
+            } finally {
+                synchronized(asking) { asking.remove(key) }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    /** The line as the widget shows it, such as "6° · Overcast". */
+    fun line(context: Context, reading: Reading): String =
+        context.getString(R.string.flexera_weather_line, reading.degrees, context.getString(word(reading.code)))
+
+    /** A word for a WMO weather code (the codes Open-Meteo uses). */
+    private fun word(code: Int): Int = when (code) {
+        0 -> R.string.flexera_weather_clear
+        1 -> R.string.flexera_weather_mostly_clear
+        2 -> R.string.flexera_weather_partly_cloudy
+        3 -> R.string.flexera_weather_overcast
+        45, 48 -> R.string.flexera_weather_fog
+        51, 53, 55 -> R.string.flexera_weather_drizzle
+        56, 57, 66, 67 -> R.string.flexera_weather_freezing_rain
+        61, 63, 65 -> R.string.flexera_weather_rain
+        71, 73, 75, 77 -> R.string.flexera_weather_snow
+        80, 81, 82 -> R.string.flexera_weather_showers
+        85, 86 -> R.string.flexera_weather_snow_showers
+        95, 96, 99 -> R.string.flexera_weather_thunderstorm
+        else -> R.string.flexera_weather_overcast
+    }
+
+    private fun usesFahrenheit(): Boolean = Locale.getDefault().country in fahrenheitCountries
+
+    /** Two decimals, about a kilometre: all a forecast needs, and no more exact than that. */
+    private fun coordinate(value: Double): String = String.format(Locale.ROOT, "%.2f", value)
+
+    private fun key(place: Place): String = "${coordinate(place.latitude)},${coordinate(place.longitude)}"
+
+    private fun prefs(context: Context) =
+        context.applicationContext.getSharedPreferences(FILE, Context.MODE_PRIVATE)
+
+    private fun get(address: String): String {
+        val connection = URL(address).openConnection() as HttpURLConnection
+        try {
+            connection.connectTimeout = TIMEOUT_MS
+            connection.readTimeout = TIMEOUT_MS
+            connection.setRequestProperty("Accept", "application/json")
+            if (connection.responseCode != HttpURLConnection.HTTP_OK) {
+                throw IOException("The weather service answered HTTP ${connection.responseCode}")
+            }
+            return connection.inputStream.bufferedReader().use { it.readText() }
+        } finally {
+            connection.disconnect()
+        }
+    }
+}
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+package app.flexera.widget
+
+import android.appwidget.AppWidgetManager
+import android.content.Intent
+import android.os.Bundle
+import androidx.activity.ComponentActivity
+import androidx.activity.compose.setContent
+import androidx.activity.enableEdgeToEdge
+import androidx.annotation.StringRes
+import androidx.compose.foundation.clickable
+import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.Column
+import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.Row
+import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.Spacer
+import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.fillMaxWidth
+import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.height
+import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.imePadding
+import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.padding
+import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.width
+import androidx.compose.foundation.rememberScrollState
+import androidx.compose.foundation.text.KeyboardActions
+import androidx.compose.foundation.text.KeyboardOptions
+import androidx.compose.foundation.verticalScroll
+import androidx.compose.material3.Button
+import androidx.compose.material3.ExperimentalMaterial3Api
+import androidx.compose.material3.LinearProgressIndicator
+import androidx.compose.material3.MaterialTheme
+import androidx.compose.material3.ModalBottomSheet
+import androidx.compose.material3.OutlinedTextField
+import androidx.compose.material3.SegmentedButton
+import androidx.compose.material3.SegmentedButtonDefaults
+import androidx.compose.material3.SingleChoiceSegmentedButtonRow
+import androidx.compose.material3.Text
+import androidx.compose.material3.TextButton
+import androidx.compose.material3.rememberModalBottomSheetState
+import androidx.compose.runtime.Composable
+import androidx.compose.runtime.getValue
+import androidx.compose.runtime.mutableStateOf
+import androidx.compose.runtime.remember
+import androidx.compose.runtime.rememberCoroutineScope
+import androidx.compose.runtime.saveable.rememberSaveable
+import androidx.compose.runtime.setValue
+import androidx.compose.ui.Alignment
+import androidx.compose.ui.Modifier
+import androidx.compose.ui.graphics.Color
+import androidx.compose.ui.platform.LocalFocusManager
+import androidx.compose.ui.platform.LocalSoftwareKeyboardController
+import androidx.compose.ui.res.stringResource
+import androidx.compose.ui.text.input.ImeAction
+import androidx.compose.ui.unit.dp
+import app.flexera.widget.ClockWidgetStore.Align
+import app.flexera.widget.ClockWidgetStore.Size
+import app.flexera.widget.ClockWidgetStore.Weight
+import app.lawnchair.ui.theme.EdgeToEdge
+import app.lawnchair.ui.theme.LawnchairTheme
+import com.android.launcher3.R
+import java.util.TimeZone
+import kotlinx.coroutines.Dispatchers
+import kotlinx.coroutines.launch
+import kotlinx.coroutines.withContext
+
+/**
+ * The clock widget's options: where its text stands, how large and how heavy its figures are,
+ * and the place its weather line is for. Reached from the widget's edit button. It is a sheet
+ * over the home screen, which stays in view, and every choice shows on the widget at once;
+ * closing the sheet is all there is to finishing.
+ */
+class ClockWidgetConfigActivity : ComponentActivity() {
+
+    @OptIn(ExperimentalMaterial3Api::class)
+    override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
+        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)
+        enableEdgeToEdge()
+
+        val widget = intent?.getIntExtra(
+            AppWidgetManager.EXTRA_APPWIDGET_ID,
+            AppWidgetManager.INVALID_APPWIDGET_ID,
+        ) ?: AppWidgetManager.INVALID_APPWIDGET_ID
+        if (widget == AppWidgetManager.INVALID_APPWIDGET_ID) {
+            setResult(RESULT_CANCELED)
+            finish()
+            return
+        }
+        // The widget is fine with or without a visit here.
+        setResult(RESULT_OK, Intent().putExtra(AppWidgetManager.EXTRA_APPWIDGET_ID, widget))
+
+        setContent {
+            LawnchairTheme {
+                EdgeToEdge()
+                var options by remember { mutableStateOf(ClockWidgetStore.options(this, widget)) }
+                val change = { changed: ClockWidgetStore.Options ->
+                    options = changed
+                    ClockWidgetStore.set(this, widget, changed)
+                }
+                ModalBottomSheet(
+                    onDismissRequest = { finish() },
+                    sheetState = rememberModalBottomSheetState(skipPartiallyExpanded = true),
+                    containerColor = MaterialTheme.colorScheme.surface,
+                    // No dimming: the clock behind the sheet is what the choices are judged by.
+                    scrimColor = Color.Transparent,
+                ) {
+                    Column(
+                        modifier = Modifier
+                            .fillMaxWidth()
+                            .verticalScroll(rememberScrollState())
+                            .imePadding()
+                            .padding(start = 24.dp, end = 24.dp, bottom = 32.dp),
+                    ) {
+                        Text(
+                            text = stringResource(id = R.string.flexera_clock_widget),
+                            style = MaterialTheme.typography.titleLarge,
+                        )
+                        Spacer(modifier = Modifier.height(20.dp))
+                        Choice(
+                            heading = R.string.flexera_clock_widget_alignment,
+                            choices = listOf(
+                                Align.LEFT to R.string.flexera_clock_widget_left,
+                                Align.CENTER to R.string.flexera_clock_widget_center,
+                                Align.RIGHT to R.string.flexera_clock_widget_right,
+                            ),
+                            chosen = options.align,
+                            onChoose = { change(options.copy(align = it)) },
+                        )
+                        Spacer(modifier = Modifier.height(20.dp))
+                        Choice(
+                            heading = R.string.flexera_clock_widget_size,
+                            choices = listOf(
+                                Size.SMALL to R.string.flexera_clock_widget_small,
+                                Size.MEDIUM to R.string.flexera_clock_widget_medium,
+                                Size.LARGE to R.string.flexera_clock_widget_large,
+                            ),
+                            chosen = options.size,
+                            onChoose = { change(options.copy(size = it)) },
+                        )
+                        Spacer(modifier = Modifier.height(20.dp))
+                        Choice(
+                            heading = R.string.flexera_clock_widget_weight,
+                            choices = listOf(
+                                Weight.THIN to R.string.flexera_clock_widget_thin,
+                                Weight.LIGHT to R.string.flexera_clock_widget_light,
+                                Weight.REGULAR to R.string.flexera_clock_widget_regular,
+                                Weight.BOLD to R.string.flexera_clock_widget_bold,
+                            ),
+                            chosen = options.weight,
+                            onChoose = { change(options.copy(weight = it)) },
+                        )
+                        Spacer(modifier = Modifier.height(20.dp))
+                        WeatherChoice(
+                            place = options.weather,
+                            onChoose = { change(options.copy(weather = it)) },
+                        )
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+@Composable
+private fun Heading(@StringRes text: Int) {
+    Text(
+        text = stringResource(id = text),
+        style = MaterialTheme.typography.labelLarge,
+        color = MaterialTheme.colorScheme.onSurfaceVariant,
+    )
+    Spacer(modifier = Modifier.height(8.dp))
+}
+
+/** A heading with one row of choices under it, of which one is taken. */
+@OptIn(ExperimentalMaterial3Api::class)
+@Composable
+private fun <T> Choice(
+    @StringRes heading: Int,
+    choices: List<Pair<T, Int>>,
+    chosen: T,
+    onChoose: (T) -> Unit,
+) {
+    Heading(heading)
+    SingleChoiceSegmentedButtonRow(modifier = Modifier.fillMaxWidth()) {
+        choices.forEachIndexed { index, (value, label) ->
+            SegmentedButton(
+                selected = value == chosen,
+                onClick = { onChoose(value) },
+                shape = SegmentedButtonDefaults.itemShape(index = index, count = choices.size),
+            ) {
+                Text(text = stringResource(id = label), maxLines = 1)
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+private enum class Search { IDLE, RUNNING, NOTHING, FAILED }
+
+/**
+ * The weather line: off until the owner looks a place up by name and picks it from what the
+ * weather service finds. The field starts with the city of the phone's time zone as a guess.
+ */
+@Composable
+private fun WeatherChoice(place: ClockWeather.Place?, onChoose: (ClockWeather.Place?) -> Unit) {
+    val scope = rememberCoroutineScope()
+    var name by rememberSaveable { mutableStateOf(place?.name ?: timeZoneCity()) }
+    var found by remember { mutableStateOf(emptyList<ClockWeather.Place>()) }
+    var search by remember { mutableStateOf(Search.IDLE) }
+    val keyboard = LocalSoftwareKeyboardController.current
+    val focus = LocalFocusManager.current
+    val look = {
+        val wanted = name.trim()
+        if (wanted.isNotEmpty() && search != Search.RUNNING) {
+            // The places found are listed under the field, where the keyboard would cover them.
+            keyboard?.hide()
+            focus.clearFocus()
+            search = Search.RUNNING
+            scope.launch {
+                val result = withContext(Dispatchers.IO) { runCatching { ClockWeather.search(wanted) } }
+                found = result.getOrDefault(emptyList())
+                search = when {
+                    result.isFailure -> Search.FAILED
+                    found.isEmpty() -> Search.NOTHING
+                    else -> Search.IDLE
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    Heading(R.string.flexera_clock_widget_weather)
+    Text(
+        text = if (place == null) {
+            stringResource(id = R.string.flexera_clock_widget_weather_off)
+        } else {
+            stringResource(id = R.string.flexera_clock_widget_weather_on, placeLabel(place))
+        },
+        style = MaterialTheme.typography.bodyMedium,
+    )
+    Spacer(modifier = Modifier.height(12.dp))
+    Row(verticalAlignment = Alignment.CenterVertically) {
+        OutlinedTextField(
+            value = name,
+            onValueChange = { name = it },
+            label = { Text(text = stringResource(id = R.string.flexera_clock_widget_weather_place)) },
+            singleLine = true,
+            keyboardOptions = KeyboardOptions(imeAction = ImeAction.Search),
+            keyboardActions = KeyboardActions(onSearch = { look() }),
+            modifier = Modifier.weight(1f),
+        )
+        Spacer(modifier = Modifier.width(12.dp))
+        Button(onClick = { look() }) {
+            Text(text = stringResource(id = R.string.flexera_clock_widget_weather_search))
+        }
+    }
+    when (search) {
+        Search.RUNNING -> LinearProgressIndicator(
+            modifier = Modifier
+                .fillMaxWidth()
+                .padding(top = 12.dp),
+        )
+
+        Search.NOTHING -> Note(R.string.flexera_clock_widget_weather_nothing)
+
+        Search.FAILED -> Note(R.string.flexera_clock_widget_weather_failed)
+
+        Search.IDLE -> Unit
+    }
+    found.forEach { candidate ->
+        Text(
+            text = placeLabel(candidate),
+            style = MaterialTheme.typography.bodyLarge,
+            modifier = Modifier
+                .fillMaxWidth()
+                .clickable {
+                    onChoose(candidate)
+                    name = candidate.name
+                    found = emptyList()
+                }
+                .padding(vertical = 14.dp),
+        )
+    }
+    if (place != null) {
+        TextButton(onClick = { onChoose(null) }) {
+            Text(text = stringResource(id = R.string.flexera_clock_widget_weather_remove))
+        }
+    }
+    Spacer(modifier = Modifier.height(8.dp))
+    Text(
+        text = stringResource(id = R.string.flexera_clock_widget_weather_source),
+        style = MaterialTheme.typography.bodySmall,
+        color = MaterialTheme.colorScheme.onSurfaceVariant,
+    )
+}
+
+@Composable
+private fun Note(@StringRes text: Int) {
+    Text(
+        text = stringResource(id = text),
+        style = MaterialTheme.typography.bodyMedium,
+        color = MaterialTheme.colorScheme.onSurfaceVariant,
+        modifier = Modifier.padding(top = 12.dp),
+    )
+}
+
+private fun placeLabel(place: ClockWeather.Place): String =
+    if (place.detail.isEmpty()) place.name else "${place.name}, ${place.detail}"
+
+/** The city a time zone is named after ("Europe/Zagreb" gives "Zagreb"); empty for zones without one. */
+private fun timeZoneCity(): String {
+    val id = TimeZone.getDefault().id
+    return if ('/' in id) id.substringAfterLast('/').replace('_', ' ') else ""
+}
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+package app.flexera.widget
+
+import android.appwidget.AppWidgetProvider
+import android.content.ComponentName
+import android.content.Context
+import com.android.launcher3.BuildConfig
+
+/**
+ * The launcher's own clock widget: the time, large, with the date under it. Android knows it as
+ * an ordinary app widget; the launcher draws it itself with a [ClockWidgetView]. It needs no
+ * setting up; what the owner may choose for it is kept in [ClockWidgetStore]. See [FlexeraWidgets].
+ */
+class ClockWidgetProvider : AppWidgetProvider() {
+
+    override fun onDeleted(context: Context, appWidgetIds: IntArray) {
+        appWidgetIds.forEach { ClockWidgetStore.delete(context, it) }
+    }
+
+    companion object {
+        @JvmField
+        val componentName = ComponentName(BuildConfig.APPLICATION_ID, ClockWidgetProvider::class.java.name)
+    }
+}
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+package app.flexera.widget
+
+import android.content.Context
+import android.content.SharedPreferences
+import java.util.concurrent.CopyOnWriteArraySet
+
+/**
+ * What the owner has chosen for each clock widget on the home screen: where its text stands, how
+ * large and how heavy its figures are, and the place its weather line is for, if it has one.
+ * Kept per widget, so that two clocks can differ.
+ */
+object ClockWidgetStore {
+
+    /** Which side of the widget the time and the date stand on. */
+    enum class Align(val key: String) { LEFT("left"), CENTER("center"), RIGHT("right") }
+
+    /** How large the figures are, measured against the icons (see ClockWidgetView). */
+    enum class Size(val key: String) { SMALL("small"), MEDIUM("medium"), LARGE("large") }
+
+    /** How heavy the figures are drawn; [value] is the font weight, from 100 to 900. */
+    enum class Weight(val key: String, val value: Int) {
+        THIN("thin", 100),
+        LIGHT("light", 300),
+        REGULAR("regular", 400),
+        BOLD("bold", 700),
+    }
+
+    data class Options(
+        val align: Align = Align.LEFT,
+        val size: Size = Size.MEDIUM,
+        val weight: Weight = Weight.LIGHT,
+        /** The place of the weather line; null for a clock without weather, which is how it starts. */
+        val weather: ClockWeather.Place? = null,
+    )
+
+    /** Told, on the thread that made the change, that a widget's options are different now. */
+    fun interface Listener {
+        fun onClockOptionsChanged(appWidgetId: Int)
+    }
+
+    private val listeners = CopyOnWriteArraySet<Listener>()
+
+    fun addListener(listener: Listener) {
+        listeners.add(listener)
+    }
+
+    fun removeListener(listener: Listener) {
+        listeners.remove(listener)
+    }
+
+    fun options(context: Context, appWidgetId: Int): Options {
+        val prefs = prefs(context)
+        val align = prefs.getString(ALIGN + appWidgetId, null)
+        val size = prefs.getString(SIZE + appWidgetId, null)
+        val weight = prefs.getString(WEIGHT + appWidgetId, null)
+        val place = prefs.getString(PLACE + appWidgetId, null)
+        return Options(
+            align = Align.entries.firstOrNull { it.key == align } ?: Align.LEFT,
+            size = Size.entries.firstOrNull { it.key == size } ?: Size.MEDIUM,
+            weight = Weight.entries.firstOrNull { it.key == weight } ?: Weight.LIGHT,
+            weather = place?.let {
+                ClockWeather.Place(
+                    name = it,
+                    detail = prefs.getString(PLACE_DETAIL + appWidgetId, "").orEmpty(),
+                    latitude = prefs.getFloat(LATITUDE + appWidgetId, 0f).toDouble(),
+                    longitude = prefs.getFloat(LONGITUDE + appWidgetId, 0f).toDouble(),
+                )
+            },
+        )
+    }
+
+    fun set(context: Context, appWidgetId: Int, options: Options) {
+        val edit = prefs(context).edit()
+            .putString(ALIGN + appWidgetId, options.align.key)
+            .putString(SIZE + appWidgetId, options.size.key)
+            .putString(WEIGHT + appWidgetId, options.weight.key)
+        val place = options.weather
+        if (place == null) {
+            edit.remove(PLACE + appWidgetId).remove(PLACE_DETAIL + appWidgetId)
+                .remove(LATITUDE + appWidgetId).remove(LONGITUDE + appWidgetId)
+        } else {
+            edit.putString(PLACE + appWidgetId, place.name)
+                .putString(PLACE_DETAIL + appWidgetId, place.detail)
+                .putFloat(LATITUDE + appWidgetId, place.latitude.toFloat())
+                .putFloat(LONGITUDE + appWidgetId, place.longitude.toFloat())
+        }
+        edit.apply()
+        listeners.forEach { it.onClockOptionsChanged(appWidgetId) }
+    }
+
+    /** Forgets the options of a widget that left the home screen. */
+    fun delete(context: Context, appWidgetId: Int) {
+        val edit = prefs(context).edit()
+        for (key in listOf(ALIGN, SIZE, WEIGHT, PLACE, PLACE_DETAIL, LATITUDE, LONGITUDE)) {
+            edit.remove(key + appWidgetId)
+        }
+        edit.apply()
+    }
+
+    private fun prefs(context: Context): SharedPreferences =
+        context.applicationContext.getSharedPreferences(FILE, Context.MODE_PRIVATE)
+
+    private const val FILE = "flexera_clock_widget"
+    private const val ALIGN = "align_"
+    private const val SIZE = "size_"
+    private const val WEIGHT = "weight_"
+    private const val PLACE = "place_"
+    private const val PLACE_DETAIL = "place_detail_"
+    private const val LATITUDE = "latitude_"
+    private const val LONGITUDE = "longitude_"
+}
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+package app.flexera.widget
+
+import android.appwidget.AppWidgetManager
+import android.content.BroadcastReceiver
+import android.content.Context
+import android.content.Intent
+import android.content.IntentFilter
+import android.graphics.Canvas
+import android.graphics.Color
+import android.graphics.Paint
+import android.graphics.Rect
+import android.graphics.RectF
+import android.graphics.Typeface
+import android.os.Build
+import android.provider.AlarmClock
+import android.text.TextPaint
+import android.text.format.DateFormat
+import android.util.AttributeSet
+import android.util.Log
+import android.widget.FrameLayout
+import androidx.core.content.ContextCompat
+import app.flexera.widget.ClockWidgetStore.Align
+import app.flexera.widget.ClockWidgetStore.Size
+import com.android.launcher3.R
+import com.android.launcher3.util.Themes
+import java.util.Calendar
+import java.util.Locale
+import java.util.TimeZone
+import kotlin.math.max
+import kotlin.math.min
+
+/**
+ * What the clock widget ([ClockWidgetProvider]) looks like: the time in light figures and the
+ * date under it, written straight onto the wallpaper in the colour of the icon labels.
+ *
+ * Like the picture widget it keeps to the box of the icons in its cells ([IconFrame]). The
+ * owner chooses which side of that box the text stands on, or its middle, and how large the
+ * figures are ([ClockWidgetStore], set from the widget's edit button). The sizes are measured
+ * against the icons, so that the clock keeps its proportion to them on any grid: small figures
+ * are about half an icon tall, medium ones most of an icon, large ones taller than an icon. The
+ * widget's own height and width are the limit in every case. Up and down the text stands in the
+ * middle of the widget's own cells, which is what the outline shows while the widget is edited.
+ *
+ * A clock for which the owner has picked a place has a third line, the weather there
+ * ([ClockWeather]).
+ *
+ * A tap opens the phone's clock app.
+ */
+class ClockWidgetView @JvmOverloads constructor(
+    context: Context,
+    attrs: AttributeSet? = null,
+) : FrameLayout(context, attrs),
+    ClockWidgetStore.Listener,
+    ClockWeather.Listener {
+
+    private var appWidgetId = AppWidgetManager.INVALID_APPWIDGET_ID
+
+    /** True while this is only a sample of the widget, in the list of widgets. */
+    private var sample = true
+    private var options = ClockWidgetStore.Options()
+
+    private val frame = RectF()
+
+    /** What the figures are measured against: the height of what is seen of an icon. */
+    private var iconHeight = 0f
+    private val ink = Rect()
+    private val now = Calendar.getInstance()
+    private var time = ""
+    private var date = ""
+
+    /** The weather line; empty for a clock without weather or while none is known. */
+    private var weather = ""
+
+    private val timePaint = TextPaint(Paint.ANTI_ALIAS_FLAG).apply {
+        // Figures of one width, so that the time does not shift sideways from minute to minute.
+        fontFeatureSettings = "tnum"
+    }
+    private val datePaint = TextPaint(Paint.ANTI_ALIAS_FLAG).apply {
+        typeface = weight(DATE_WEIGHT)
+    }
+    private val weatherPaint = TextPaint(Paint.ANTI_ALIAS_FLAG).apply {
+        typeface = weight(WEATHER_WEIGHT)
+    }
+
+    // Where the lines go; worked out in arrange().
+    private var timeX = 0f
+    private var timeBaseline = 0f
+    private var dateX = 0f
+    private var dateBaseline = 0f
+    private var weatherX = 0f
+    private var weatherBaseline = 0f
+
+    private var listening = false
+    private val clock = object : BroadcastReceiver() {
+        override fun onReceive(context: Context, intent: Intent) {
+            if (intent.action == Intent.ACTION_TIMEZONE_CHANGED) now.timeZone = TimeZone.getDefault()
+            tell()
+        }
+    }
+
+    init {
+        setWillNotDraw(false)
+        // Says to Launcher3 that this widget shapes itself (see RoundedCornerEnforcement).
+        id = android.R.id.background
+        clipToOutline = true
+        colour()
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * On the home screen the text has the colour of the icon labels, which follows the
+     * wallpaper. The list of widgets is a sheet of its own, so a sample there takes the sheet's
+     * text colour.
+     */
+    private fun colour() {
+        val color = if (sample) {
+            Themes.getAttrColor(context, android.R.attr.textColorPrimary)
+        } else {
+            Themes.getAttrColor(context, R.attr.workspaceTextColor)
+        }
+        val paints = listOf(timePaint, datePaint, weatherPaint)
+        paints.forEach { it.color = color }
+        // Light text on a wallpaper gets the soft shadow the icon labels have.
+        if (!sample && Color.luminance(color) > 0.5f) {
+            val density = resources.displayMetrics.density
+            paints.forEach {
+                it.setShadowLayer(SHADOW_RADIUS_DP * density, 0f, SHADOW_DROP_DP * density, SHADOW_COLOR)
+            }
+        } else {
+            paints.forEach { it.clearShadowLayer() }
+        }
+    }
+
+    /** Takes the owner's choices for this widget: how the figures are drawn, and the weather. */
+    private fun takeOptions() {
+        options = if (sample) ClockWidgetStore.Options() else ClockWidgetStore.options(context, appWidgetId)
+        timePaint.typeface = weight(options.weight.value)
+        readWeather()
+    }
+
+    /** Shows the last known weather for the chosen place and asks for newer if it is due. */
+    private fun readWeather() {
+        val place = options.weather
+        weather = if (place == null) {
+            ""
+        } else {
+            if (isAttachedToWindow && !sample) ClockWeather.refreshIfStale(context, place)
+            ClockWeather.reading(context, place)?.let { ClockWeather.line(context, it) }.orEmpty()
+        }
+        describe()
+    }
+
+    override fun onWeatherChanged() {
+        val before = weather
+        readWeather()
+        if (weather != before) {
+            arrange()
+            invalidate()
+        }
+    }
+
+    /** Tells the view which widget it shows. Ids that Android never hands out mean a sample. */
+    fun bind(appWidgetId: Int) {
+        this.appWidgetId = appWidgetId
+        sample = appWidgetId <= 0
+        takeOptions()
+        colour()
+        if (sample) {
+            // In the list of widgets a tap belongs to the list.
+            setOnClickListener(null)
+            isClickable = false
+        } else {
+            setOnClickListener { openClock() }
+        }
+        arrange()
+        invalidate()
+    }
+
+    override fun onClockOptionsChanged(appWidgetId: Int) {
+        if (sample || appWidgetId != this.appWidgetId) return
+        takeOptions()
+        arrange()
+        invalidate()
+    }
+
+    override fun onAttachedToWindow() {
+        super.onAttachedToWindow()
+        ClockWidgetStore.addListener(this)
+        ClockWeather.addListener(this)
+        if (!listening) {
+            val changes = IntentFilter().apply {
+                addAction(Intent.ACTION_TIME_TICK)
+                addAction(Intent.ACTION_TIME_CHANGED)
+                addAction(Intent.ACTION_TIMEZONE_CHANGED)
+                addAction(Intent.ACTION_LOCALE_CHANGED)
+            }
+            ContextCompat.registerReceiver(context, clock, changes, ContextCompat.RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED)
+            listening = true
+        }
+        now.timeZone = TimeZone.getDefault()
+        takeOptions()
+        tell()
+        arrange()
+    }
+
+    override fun onDetachedFromWindow() {
+        ClockWidgetStore.removeListener(this)
+        ClockWeather.removeListener(this)
+        if (listening) {
+            context.unregisterReceiver(clock)
+            listening = false
+        }
+        super.onDetachedFromWindow()
+    }
+
+    override fun onVisibilityAggregated(isVisible: Boolean) {
+        super.onVisibilityAggregated(isVisible)
+        // Android does not announce the minutes to an app in the background; catch up, with the
+        // time and with the weather.
+        if (isVisible) {
+            tell()
+            onWeatherChanged()
+        }
+    }
+
+    override fun onLayout(changed: Boolean, left: Int, top: Int, right: Int, bottom: Int) {
+        super.onLayout(changed, left, top, right, bottom)
+        val aligned = IconFrame.of(this)
+        if (aligned != null) {
+            frame.set(aligned.left, aligned.top, aligned.right, aligned.bottom)
+            iconHeight = aligned.visibleIconSize
+        } else {
+            // In the list of widgets: the whole view with a little air, and a made-up icon.
+            val margin = min(width, height) * LOOSE_MARGIN_SHARE
+            frame.set(margin, margin, width - margin, height - margin)
+            iconHeight = frame.height() * LOOSE_ICON_SHARE
+        }
+        arrange()
+    }
+
+    /** Reads the clock and shows what it says. */
+    private fun tell() {
+        now.timeInMillis = System.currentTimeMillis()
+        val locale = Locale.getDefault()
+        // The phone's own choice of 12 or 24 hours, without "AM" and "PM": the date line and
+        // the daylight say which half of the day it is.
+        val hours = if (DateFormat.is24HourFormat(context)) "Hm" else "hm"
+        val timePattern = DateFormat.getBestDateTimePattern(locale, hours).replace("a", "").trim()
+        val datePattern = DateFormat.getBestDateTimePattern(locale, "EEEEdMMMM")
+        val newTime = DateFormat.format(timePattern, now).toString()
+        val newDate = DateFormat.format(datePattern, now).toString()
+        if (newTime == time && newDate == date) return
+        time = newTime
+        date = newDate
+        describe()
+        arrange()
+        invalidate()
+    }
+
+    /** What a screen reader says for the widget: everything it shows. */
+    private fun describe() {
+        contentDescription = listOf(time, date, weather).filter { it.isNotEmpty() }.joinToString(", ")
+    }
+
+    /** Sizes the two lines for the frame and the owner's choices, and works out where they go. */
+    private fun arrange() {
+        val width = frame.width()
+        if (width <= 0f || frame.height() <= 0f || time.isEmpty()) return
+        val scaled = resources.displayMetrics.scaledDensity
+        // Up and down, the room is the widget's own cells; in the list of widgets, the frame.
+        val roomTop = if (sample) frame.top else 0f
+        val roomHeight = if (sample) frame.height() else height.toFloat()
+
+        // How tall the figures would like to be.
+        val wanted = iconHeight * when (options.size) {
+            Size.SMALL -> SMALL_IN_ICONS
+            Size.MEDIUM -> MEDIUM_IN_ICONS
+            Size.LARGE -> LARGE_IN_ICONS
+        }
+
+        // The lines under the figures go with them in size, within the sizes that read well, and
+        // are never wider than the frame.
+        var smallSize = (wanted * DATE_IN_FIGURES).coerceIn(DATE_MIN_SP * scaled, DATE_MAX_SP * scaled)
+        datePaint.textSize = smallSize
+        weatherPaint.textSize = smallSize
+        val widest = max(datePaint.measureText(date), weatherPaint.measureText(weather))
+        if (widest > width) {
+            smallSize *= width / widest
+            datePaint.textSize = smallSize
+            weatherPaint.textSize = smallSize
+        }
+        // What is seen of a line of words is its capitals' height; the room a font keeps above
+        // and below them would push the text off the middle.
+        val smallHeight = smallSize * CAPITALS_IN_TEXT_SIZE
+        val gap = smallSize * GAP_IN_DATE_SIZES
+        val lineGap = smallSize * LINE_GAP_IN_DATE_SIZES
+        val under = gap + smallHeight + if (weather.isEmpty()) 0f else lineGap + smallHeight
+
+        // The figures: as tall as wanted, unless the room above the other lines or the frame's
+        // width is less. Measured on the figures themselves, not on the line they stand in.
+        timePaint.textSize = MEASURE_SIZE
+        timePaint.getTextBounds(time, 0, time.length, ink)
+        val inkHeightAtMeasure = max(1, ink.height()).toFloat()
+        val inkWidthAtMeasure = max(1, ink.width()).toFloat()
+        val figures = min(wanted, min(roomHeight - under, width * inkHeightAtMeasure / inkWidthAtMeasure))
+        timePaint.textSize = max(1f, MEASURE_SIZE * figures / inkHeightAtMeasure)
+        timePaint.getTextBounds(time, 0, time.length, ink)
+
+        // All lines together, in the middle of the room.
+        val block = ink.height() + under
+        val top = roomTop + (roomHeight - block) / 2f
+        timeBaseline = top - ink.top
+        dateBaseline = top + ink.height() + gap + smallHeight
+        weatherBaseline = dateBaseline + lineGap + smallHeight
+
+        // Sideways it is the figures' own edges that meet the frame's, not the space the font
+        // leaves beside them.
+        val dateLength = datePaint.measureText(date)
+        val weatherLength = weatherPaint.measureText(weather)
+        when (options.align) {
+            Align.LEFT -> {
+                timeX = frame.left - ink.left
+                dateX = frame.left
+                weatherX = frame.left
+            }
+
+            Align.CENTER -> {
+                timeX = frame.centerX() - ink.exactCenterX()
+                dateX = frame.centerX() - dateLength / 2f
+                weatherX = frame.centerX() - weatherLength / 2f
+            }
+
+            Align.RIGHT -> {
+                timeX = frame.right - ink.right
+                dateX = frame.right - dateLength
+                weatherX = frame.right - weatherLength
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    override fun onDraw(canvas: Canvas) {
+        super.onDraw(canvas)
+        if (frame.isEmpty || time.isEmpty()) return
+        canvas.drawText(time, timeX, timeBaseline, timePaint)
+        canvas.drawText(date, dateX, dateBaseline, datePaint)
+        if (weather.isNotEmpty()) canvas.drawText(weather, weatherX, weatherBaseline, weatherPaint)
+    }
+
+    private fun openClock() {
+        val alarms = Intent(AlarmClock.ACTION_SHOW_ALARMS)
+        try {
+            // The clock app's own front door; its alarm list needs a permission of its own.
+            val clockApp = context.packageManager.resolveActivity(alarms, 0)?.activityInfo?.packageName
+            val intent = clockApp?.let(context.packageManager::getLaunchIntentForPackage) ?: return
+            context.startActivity(intent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK))
+        } catch (e: RuntimeException) {
+            Log.w(TAG, "The clock app could not be opened", e)
+        }
+    }
+
+    /** The phone's own font at a weight from 100 (thin) to 900. Android 8 only knows a few. */
+    private fun weight(weight: Int): Typeface =
+        if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.P) {
+            Typeface.create(Typeface.DEFAULT, weight, false)
+        } else {
+            val family = when {
+                weight <= 100 -> "sans-serif-thin"
+                weight <= 300 -> "sans-serif-light"
+                weight <= 400 -> "sans-serif"
+                weight <= 500 -> "sans-serif-medium"
+                else -> "sans-serif-black"
+            }
+            Typeface.create(family, Typeface.NORMAL)
+        }
+
+    private companion object {
+        const val TAG = "ClockWidgetView"
+
+        const val DATE_WEIGHT = 500
+        const val WEATHER_WEIGHT = 400
+
+        /**
+         * How tall the figures are for each size, in icon heights. (The first version filled
+         * the widget, about 1.7 icons on a widget two rows high, which the owner found huge.)
+         */
+        const val SMALL_IN_ICONS = 0.5f
+        const val MEDIUM_IN_ICONS = 0.8f
+        const val LARGE_IN_ICONS = 1.25f
+
+        /** The date's text size as a share of the figures' height, and its limits. */
+        const val DATE_IN_FIGURES = 0.26f
+        const val DATE_MIN_SP = 12f
+        const val DATE_MAX_SP = 18f
+
+        /** How tall a font's capitals are, as a share of its text size. */
+        const val CAPITALS_IN_TEXT_SIZE = 0.72f
+
+        /** The space between the figures and the date, and between the lines under them, in date text sizes. */
+        const val GAP_IN_DATE_SIZES = 0.8f
+        const val LINE_GAP_IN_DATE_SIZES = 0.65f
+
+        const val MEASURE_SIZE = 200f
+        const val LOOSE_MARGIN_SHARE = 0.12f
+        const val LOOSE_ICON_SHARE = 0.45f
+
+        const val SHADOW_RADIUS_DP = 3f
+        const val SHADOW_DROP_DP = 1f
+        const val SHADOW_COLOR = 0x59000000
+    }
+}
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+package app.flexera.widget
+
+import android.appwidget.AppWidgetProviderInfo
+import android.content.ComponentName
+import android.graphics.Rect
+import android.view.View
+import android.widget.FrameLayout
+import com.android.launcher3.model.data.LauncherAppWidgetInfo
+import com.android.launcher3.widget.LauncherAppWidgetHostView
+import com.android.launcher3.widget.PendingAppWidgetHostView
+
+/**
+ * The widgets that come with the launcher: Pictures ([PictureWidgetProvider]) and Clock
+ * ([ClockWidgetProvider]).
+ *
+ * Android knows each as an ordinary app widget, so they are added, moved, resized and removed
+ * like any other. What they show is not sent through Android, though: the launcher draws them
+ * itself with a view of its own, which is what lets them line up with the icons ([IconFrame]).
+ * This is where Launcher3's widget code asks about them.
+ */
+object FlexeraWidgets {
+
+    private val noInset = Rect()
+
+    private fun isOwn(provider: ComponentName?): Boolean =
+        provider == PictureWidgetProvider.componentName || provider == ClockWidgetProvider.componentName
+
+    /**
+     * The room a home screen cell keeps free around a widget. Launcher3 gives every widget the
+     * same ([standard]); the launcher's own take none, because they place what they draw
+     * against the icons of their cells by themselves.
+     */
+    @JvmStatic
+    fun cellInset(child: View, standard: Rect): Rect {
+        val info = child.tag as? LauncherAppWidgetInfo ?: return standard
+        return if (isOwn(info.providerName)) noInset else standard
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Puts the launcher's own view into a widget host view when the widget is one of the
+     * launcher's, and returns it; returns null for every other widget. Launcher3's host view
+     * calls this in place of asking Android for the widget's views.
+     */
+    @JvmStatic
+    fun attachIfOwn(host: LauncherAppWidgetHostView, appWidgetId: Int, info: AppWidgetProviderInfo?): View? {
+        val provider = info?.provider
+        if (!isOwn(provider)) return null
+        // A widget that still waits to be set up draws its own "tap to set up".
+        if (host is PendingAppWidgetHostView) return null
+        val pictures = provider == PictureWidgetProvider.componentName
+
+        var view: View? = null
+        for (i in host.childCount - 1 downTo 0) {
+            val child = host.getChildAt(i)
+            val wanted = if (pictures) child is PictureWidgetView else child is ClockWidgetView
+            if (wanted && view == null) view = child else host.removeViewAt(i)
+        }
+        if (view == null) {
+            view = if (pictures) PictureWidgetView(host.context) else ClockWidgetView(host.context)
+            host.addView(
+                view,
+                FrameLayout.LayoutParams(
+                    FrameLayout.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT,
+                    FrameLayout.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT,
+                ),
+            )
+        }
+        when (view) {
+            is PictureWidgetView -> view.bind(appWidgetId)
+            is ClockWidgetView -> view.bind(appWidgetId)
+        }
+        return view
+    }
+}
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+package app.flexera.widget
+
+import android.content.Context
+import android.content.ContextWrapper
+import android.view.View
+import com.android.launcher3.ShortcutAndWidgetContainer
+import com.android.launcher3.celllayout.CellLayoutLayoutParams
+import com.android.launcher3.icons.IconNormalizer.ICON_VISIBLE_AREA_FACTOR
+import com.android.launcher3.views.ActivityContext
+import kotlin.math.max
+import kotlin.math.min
+
+/**
+ * The box around the icons that would sit in the cells a widget covers: from the left edge of
+ * the first column's icon to the right edge of the last column's, and from the top of the first
+ * row's icon to the bottom of the last row's. A widget of the launcher's own that keeps what it
+ * draws inside this box lines up with the icons beside, above and below it.
+ */
+internal class IconFrame private constructor(
+    val left: Float,
+    val top: Float,
+    val right: Float,
+    val bottom: Float,
+    /** The size of the square an icon is drawn in. */
+    val iconSize: Float,
+    /** The size of what is seen of an icon; the rest of the square is room for its shadow. */
+    val visibleIconSize: Float,
+) {
+    companion object {
+
+        /**
+         * The box for the widget that [view] fills, in [view]'s own coordinates. Null when
+         * [view] is not inside a widget on the home screen (in the list of widgets, say).
+         */
+        fun of(view: View): IconFrame? {
+            val host = view.parent as? View ?: return null
+            val lp = host.layoutParams as? CellLayoutLayoutParams ?: return null
+            val container = host.parent as? ShortcutAndWidgetContainer ?: return null
+            val profile = activityContext(view.context)?.deviceProfile ?: return null
+            if (lp.cellHSpan <= 0 || lp.cellVSpan <= 0) return null
+
+            // The cells the widget covers, measured from the corner of the host view. Undoes
+            // what CellLayoutLayoutParams.setup took off them.
+            val inset = FlexeraWidgets.cellInset(host, profile.widgetPadding)
+            val spanLeft = -(lp.leftMargin + inset.left).toFloat()
+            val spanTop = -(lp.topMargin + inset.top).toFloat()
+            val spanWidth = (lp.width + lp.leftMargin + lp.rightMargin + inset.left + inset.right).toFloat()
+            val spanHeight = (lp.height + lp.topMargin + lp.bottomMargin + inset.top + inset.bottom).toFloat()
+            val gap = profile.cellLayoutBorderSpacePx
+            val cellWidth = (spanWidth - (lp.cellHSpan - 1) * gap.x) / lp.cellHSpan
+            val cellHeight = (spanHeight - (lp.cellVSpan - 1) * gap.y) / lp.cellVSpan
+
+            // Where an icon sits in its cell: centred sideways and a set distance below the
+            // cell's top (ShortcutAndWidgetContainer.measureChild, BubbleTextView.getIconBounds).
+            val icon = profile.iconSizePx.toFloat()
+            val iconLeft = (cellWidth - icon) / 2f
+            val iconTop = if (profile.cellYPaddingPx >= 0) {
+                profile.cellYPaddingPx.toFloat()
+            } else {
+                max(0f, (cellHeight - min(container.measuredHeight, profile.cellHeightPx)) / 2f)
+            }
+            val visible = icon * ICON_VISIBLE_AREA_FACTOR
+            val air = (icon - visible) / 2f
+
+            val l = spanLeft + iconLeft + air - view.left
+            val r = spanLeft + spanWidth - iconLeft - air - view.left
+            val t = spanTop + iconTop + air - view.top
+            val b = spanTop + spanHeight - cellHeight + iconTop + icon - air - view.top
+            if (r - l < 1f || b - t < 1f) return null
+            return IconFrame(l, t, r, b, icon, visible)
+        }
+
+        private fun activityContext(context: Context): ActivityContext? {
+            var current: Context? = context
+            while (current != null) {
+                if (current is ActivityContext) return current
+                current = (current as? ContextWrapper)?.baseContext
+            }
+            return null
+        }
+    }
+}
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+package app.flexera.widget
+
+import android.appwidget.AppWidgetManager
+import android.content.Intent
+import android.net.Uri
+import android.os.Build
+import android.os.Bundle
+import android.provider.MediaStore
+import android.util.Log
+import android.view.Gravity
+import android.widget.FrameLayout
+import android.widget.ProgressBar
+import android.widget.Toast
+import androidx.activity.ComponentActivity
+import androidx.activity.result.PickVisualMediaRequest
+import androidx.activity.result.contract.ActivityResultContracts
+import androidx.lifecycle.lifecycleScope
+import com.android.launcher3.LauncherAppState
+import com.android.launcher3.LauncherSettings.Favorites
+import com.android.launcher3.R
+import kotlin.math.min
+import kotlinx.coroutines.Dispatchers
+import kotlinx.coroutines.launch
+import kotlinx.coroutines.withContext
+
+/**
+ * Lets the owner choose the pictures of a picture widget. It has no screen of its own: it opens
+ * Android's photo picker, copies what was chosen into the widget's storage and closes.
+ *
+ * Android starts it when the widget is put on the home screen and from the widget's edit
+ * button; the widget starts it itself when it has no pictures. The photo picker hands over
+ * only the pictures the owner picks, so the launcher needs no access to the gallery.
+ */
+class PictureWidgetConfigActivity : ComponentActivity() {
+
+    private var appWidgetId = AppWidgetManager.INVALID_APPWIDGET_ID
+
+    private val picker = registerForActivityResult(
+        ActivityResultContracts.PickMultipleVisualMedia(mostPictures()),
+    ) { chosen -> onChosen(chosen) }
+
+    override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
+        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)
+        appWidgetId = intent?.getIntExtra(
+            AppWidgetManager.EXTRA_APPWIDGET_ID,
+            AppWidgetManager.INVALID_APPWIDGET_ID,
+        ) ?: AppWidgetManager.INVALID_APPWIDGET_ID
+        // Leaving without pictures means "no": a widget that was just being added is dropped.
+        setResult(RESULT_CANCELED, result())
+        if (appWidgetId == AppWidgetManager.INVALID_APPWIDGET_ID) {
+            finish()
+            return
+        }
+        // After Android has restarted this screen, the picker is already open and answers here.
+        if (savedInstanceState != null) return
+        val widget = appWidgetId
+        lifecycleScope.launch {
+            // A widget that came with an import already has its pictures waiting.
+            val adopted = withContext(Dispatchers.IO) { adoptImported(widget) }
+            if (adopted) {
+                setResult(RESULT_OK, result())
+                finish()
+            } else {
+                picker.launch(PickVisualMediaRequest(ActivityResultContracts.PickVisualMedia.ImageOnly))
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Hands the widget the pictures an import kept for its place on the home screen, if this is
+     * such a widget and it has none yet. The launcher's database knows where the widget sits,
+     * and an import keeps its pictures under that place.
+     */
+    private fun adoptImported(widget: Int): Boolean {
+        val context = applicationContext
+        if (!PictureWidgetStore.hasImports(context)) return false
+        if (PictureWidgetStore.pictures(context, widget).isNotEmpty()) return false
+        return try {
+            LauncherAppState.getInstance(context).model.modelDbController.query(
+                arrayOf(Favorites.SCREEN, Favorites.CELLX, Favorites.CELLY),
+                "${Favorites.APPWIDGET_ID} = ? AND ${Favorites.ITEM_TYPE} = ${Favorites.ITEM_TYPE_APPWIDGET} " +
+                    "AND ${Favorites.CONTAINER} = ${Favorites.CONTAINER_DESKTOP}",
+                arrayOf(widget.toString()),
+                null,
+            ).use { row ->
+                row.moveToFirst() &&
+                    PictureWidgetStore.adoptImport(context, widget, row.getInt(0), row.getInt(1), row.getInt(2))
+            }
+        } catch (e: RuntimeException) {
+            Log.w(TAG, "Could not look for imported pictures", e)
+            false
+        }
+    }
+
+    private fun onChosen(chosen: List<Uri>) {
+        if (chosen.isEmpty()) {
+            finish()
+            return
+        }
+        // Copying a few large photos takes a moment.
+        setContentView(
+            FrameLayout(this).apply {
+                addView(
+                    ProgressBar(context),
+                    FrameLayout.LayoutParams(
+                        FrameLayout.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT,
+                        FrameLayout.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT,
+                        Gravity.CENTER,
+                    ),
+                )
+            },
+        )
+        val widget = appWidgetId
+        lifecycleScope.launch {
+            val saved = withContext(Dispatchers.IO) {
+                PictureWidgetStore.replace(applicationContext, widget, chosen)
+            }
+            if (saved > 0) {
+                setResult(RESULT_OK, result())
+            } else {
+                Toast.makeText(
+                    this@PictureWidgetConfigActivity,
+                    R.string.flexera_picture_widget_unreadable,
+                    Toast.LENGTH_LONG,
+                ).show()
+            }
+            finish()
+        }
+    }
+
+    private fun result() = Intent().putExtra(AppWidgetManager.EXTRA_APPWIDGET_ID, appWidgetId)
+
+    private companion object {
+        const val TAG = "PictureWidgetConfig"
+
+        /** How many pictures the photo picker lets the owner tick. */
+        fun mostPictures(): Int = if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.TIRAMISU) {
+            min(PictureWidgetStore.MAX_PICTURES, MediaStore.getPickImagesMaxLimit())
+        } else {
+            PictureWidgetStore.MAX_PICTURES
+        }
+    }
+}
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+package app.flexera.widget
+
+import android.appwidget.AppWidgetProvider
+import android.content.ComponentName
+import android.content.Context
+import com.android.launcher3.BuildConfig
+
+/**
+ * The launcher's own picture widget: one picture, or several that take turns.
+ *
+ * Android knows it as an ordinary app widget, so it is added, moved, resized and removed like
+ * any other. What it shows is not sent through Android, though: the launcher draws it itself
+ * with a [PictureWidgetView], which is what lets it line up with the icons around it. Its
+ * pictures live in [PictureWidgetStore]. See [FlexeraWidgets].
+ */
+class PictureWidgetProvider : AppWidgetProvider() {
+
+    override fun onDeleted(context: Context, appWidgetIds: IntArray) {
+        appWidgetIds.forEach { PictureWidgetStore.delete(context, it) }
+    }
+
+    override fun onRestored(context: Context, oldWidgetIds: IntArray, newWidgetIds: IntArray) {
+        for (i in oldWidgetIds.indices) {
+            val newId = newWidgetIds.getOrNull(i) ?: continue
+            PictureWidgetStore.move(context, oldWidgetIds[i], newId)
+        }
+    }
+
+    companion object {
+        @JvmField
+        val componentName = ComponentName(BuildConfig.APPLICATION_ID, PictureWidgetProvider::class.java.name)
+    }
+}
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+package app.flexera.widget
+
+import android.content.Context
+import android.graphics.Bitmap
+import android.graphics.BitmapFactory
+import android.graphics.ImageDecoder
+import android.net.Uri
+import android.os.Build
+import android.os.Handler
+import android.os.Looper
+import android.util.Log
+import androidx.annotation.WorkerThread
+import java.io.File
+import java.util.Locale
+import java.util.concurrent.CopyOnWriteArraySet
+import kotlin.math.max
+import kotlin.math.roundToInt
+
+/**
+ * Where the picture widget keeps its pictures: copies in the app's own storage, one folder per
+ * widget on the home screen.
+ *
+ * Copies, because Android's photo picker lends a picture only for a while, and because a copy
+ * needs no permission to read the gallery later. Each copy is scaled down to what a widget can
+ * show, so a slideshow of large photos stays small.
+ */
+object PictureWidgetStore {
+
+    /** Told, on the main thread, that the pictures of a widget were replaced or removed. */
+    fun interface Listener {
+        fun onPicturesChanged(appWidgetId: Int)
+    }
+
+    private val listeners = CopyOnWriteArraySet<Listener>()
+    private val mainHandler = Handler(Looper.getMainLooper())
+
+    fun addListener(listener: Listener) {
+        listeners.add(listener)
+    }
+
+    fun removeListener(listener: Listener) {
+        listeners.remove(listener)
+    }
+
+    /** The pictures of one widget, in the order they were chosen. Empty when it has none. */
+    fun pictures(context: Context, appWidgetId: Int): List<File> =
+        folder(context, appWidgetId).listFiles { file -> file.isFile }?.sortedBy { it.name }.orEmpty()
+
+    /**
+     * Gives a widget copies of [sources] in place of the pictures it had, and returns how many
+     * were saved. A source that cannot be read is left out; when none can be read the widget
+     * keeps what it had and the result is 0.
+     */
+    @WorkerThread
+    fun replace(context: Context, appWidgetId: Int, sources: List<Uri>): Int {
+        val incoming = File(root(context), "$appWidgetId$INCOMING_SUFFIX")
+        var saved = saveCopies(context, incoming, sources)
+        if (saved == 0) return 0
+        val folder = folder(context, appWidgetId)
+        folder.deleteRecursively()
+        if (!incoming.renameTo(folder)) {
+            incoming.deleteRecursively()
+            saved = 0
+        }
+        notifyChanged(appWidgetId)
+        return saved
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Keeps copies of [sources] for a picture widget that an import has put at a place on a
+     * home screen. Such a widget has no id yet: Android gives it one when the owner taps it to
+     * set it up, and [adoptImport] then hands it these pictures. Returns how many were saved.
+     */
+    @WorkerThread
+    fun stageImport(context: Context, screen: Int, cellX: Int, cellY: Int, sources: List<Uri>): Int =
+        saveCopies(context, importFolder(context, screen, cellX, cellY), sources)
+
+    /** True while pictures of an import wait for their widgets. */
+    fun hasImports(context: Context): Boolean =
+        root(context).listFiles { file -> file.isDirectory && file.name.startsWith(IMPORT_PREFIX) }
+            ?.isNotEmpty() == true
+
+    /** Forgets the pictures of an earlier import that were never claimed. */
+    fun clearImports(context: Context) {
+        root(context).listFiles { file -> file.isDirectory && file.name.startsWith(IMPORT_PREFIX) }
+            ?.forEach { it.deleteRecursively() }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Gives a widget the pictures an import kept for the place it sits at. True if there were
+     * any; the widget then needs no pictures chosen for it.
+     */
+    @WorkerThread
+    fun adoptImport(context: Context, appWidgetId: Int, screen: Int, cellX: Int, cellY: Int): Boolean {
+        val staged = importFolder(context, screen, cellX, cellY)
+        if (staged.listFiles { file -> file.isFile }.isNullOrEmpty()) return false
+        val folder = folder(context, appWidgetId)
+        folder.deleteRecursively()
+        if (!staged.renameTo(folder)) return false
+        notifyChanged(appWidgetId)
+        return true
+    }
+
+    /** Fills [into] with copies of [sources], replacing what it held. Returns how many were saved. */
+    private fun saveCopies(context: Context, into: File, sources: List<Uri>): Int {
+        into.deleteRecursively()
+        if (!into.mkdirs()) return 0
+
+        var saved = 0
+        for (source in sources.take(MAX_PICTURES)) {
+            val bitmap = try {
+                decode(context, source)
+            } catch (e: Exception) {
+                Log.w(TAG, "A chosen picture could not be read", e)
+                null
+            } ?: continue
+            // A picture with see-through parts keeps them; everything else is a photo.
+            val keepsAlpha = isSeeThrough(bitmap)
+            val name = String.format(Locale.ROOT, "%03d.%s", saved, if (keepsAlpha) "png" else "jpg")
+            val file = File(into, name)
+            val written = try {
+                file.outputStream().use { out ->
+                    bitmap.compress(
+                        if (keepsAlpha) Bitmap.CompressFormat.PNG else Bitmap.CompressFormat.JPEG,
+                        JPEG_QUALITY,
+                        out,
+                    )
+                }
+            } catch (e: Exception) {
+                Log.w(TAG, "A chosen picture could not be saved", e)
+                false
+            }
+            bitmap.recycle()
+            if (written) saved++ else file.delete()
+        }
+
+        if (saved == 0) into.deleteRecursively()
+        return saved
+    }
+
+    /** Removes the pictures of a widget that left the home screen. */
+    fun delete(context: Context, appWidgetId: Int) {
+        folder(context, appWidgetId).deleteRecursively()
+        File(root(context), "$appWidgetId$INCOMING_SUFFIX").deleteRecursively()
+        notifyChanged(appWidgetId)
+    }
+
+    /** Hands the pictures of a widget to the id Android gave it after a restore. */
+    fun move(context: Context, fromAppWidgetId: Int, toAppWidgetId: Int) {
+        val from = folder(context, fromAppWidgetId)
+        if (!from.isDirectory || fromAppWidgetId == toAppWidgetId) return
+        val to = folder(context, toAppWidgetId)
+        to.deleteRecursively()
+        from.renameTo(to)
+        notifyChanged(toAppWidgetId)
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Reads a stored picture for a frame of [width] by [height] pixels: at the smallest size
+     * that still covers the frame, so that no more memory is used than the screen can show.
+     */
+    @WorkerThread
+    fun load(file: File, width: Int, height: Int): Bitmap? {
+        val bounds = BitmapFactory.Options().apply { inJustDecodeBounds = true }
+        BitmapFactory.decodeFile(file.path, bounds)
+        if (bounds.outWidth <= 0 || bounds.outHeight <= 0) return null
+        var sample = 1
+        while (bounds.outWidth / (sample * 2) >= width && bounds.outHeight / (sample * 2) >= height) {
+            sample *= 2
+        }
+        return BitmapFactory.decodeFile(file.path, BitmapFactory.Options().apply { inSampleSize = sample })
+    }
+
+    /** Reads a chosen picture, upright and no larger than [MAX_EDGE] on its long side. */
+    private fun decode(context: Context, source: Uri): Bitmap? {
+        val resolver = context.contentResolver
+        if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.P) {
+            // ImageDecoder turns the picture the way the camera held it and knows the newer
+            // formats (HEIC, AVIF).
+            return ImageDecoder.decodeBitmap(ImageDecoder.createSource(resolver, source)) { decoder, info, _ ->
+                // The copy is compressed right after, which needs the pixels in ordinary memory.
+                decoder.allocator = ImageDecoder.ALLOCATOR_SOFTWARE
+                val longEdge = max(info.size.width, info.size.height)
+                if (longEdge > MAX_EDGE) {
+                    val scale = MAX_EDGE.toFloat() / longEdge
+                    decoder.setTargetSize(
+                        max(1, (info.size.width * scale).roundToInt()),
+                        max(1, (info.size.height * scale).roundToInt()),
+                    )
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        // Android 8: no ImageDecoder. Photos taken sideways stay sideways there.
+        val bounds = BitmapFactory.Options().apply { inJustDecodeBounds = true }
+        resolver.openInputStream(source)?.use { BitmapFactory.decodeStream(it, null, bounds) }
+        var sample = 1
+        while (max(bounds.outWidth, bounds.outHeight) / sample > MAX_EDGE) sample *= 2
+        val options = BitmapFactory.Options().apply { inSampleSize = sample }
+        return resolver.openInputStream(source)?.use { BitmapFactory.decodeStream(it, null, options) }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * True if some of the picture lets the background through. Many pictures can hold such
+     * parts without having any (every screenshot, for one), so the pixels are looked at.
+     */
+    private fun isSeeThrough(bitmap: Bitmap): Boolean {
+        if (!bitmap.hasAlpha()) return false
+        val row = IntArray(bitmap.width)
+        for (y in 0 until bitmap.height) {
+            bitmap.getPixels(row, 0, bitmap.width, 0, y, bitmap.width, 1)
+            if (row.any { it ushr 24 != 0xFF }) return true
+        }
+        return false
+    }
+
+    private fun notifyChanged(appWidgetId: Int) {
+        mainHandler.post { listeners.forEach { it.onPicturesChanged(appWidgetId) } }
+    }
+
+    private fun root(context: Context) = File(context.filesDir, FOLDER)
+
+    private fun folder(context: Context, appWidgetId: Int) = File(root(context), appWidgetId.toString())
+
+    private fun importFolder(context: Context, screen: Int, cellX: Int, cellY: Int) =
+        File(root(context), "$IMPORT_PREFIX$screen-$cellX-$cellY")
+
+    private const val TAG = "PictureWidgetStore"
+    private const val FOLDER = "flexera_picture_widget"
+    private const val INCOMING_SUFFIX = ".incoming"
+    private const val IMPORT_PREFIX = "import-"
+
+    /** The most pictures one widget holds. */
+    const val MAX_PICTURES = 50
+
+    /**
+     * The long side of a stored picture, in pixels. A widget is never wider than the screen,
+     * and a picture is cropped to fill it, so this leaves room to crop on any phone.
+     */
+    private const val MAX_EDGE = 2048
+
+    private const val JPEG_QUALITY = 90
+}
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+package app.flexera.widget
+
+import android.animation.Animator
+import android.animation.AnimatorListenerAdapter
+import android.animation.ValueAnimator
+import android.app.Activity
+import android.appwidget.AppWidgetManager
+import android.content.Context
+import android.content.ContextWrapper
+import android.content.Intent
+import android.graphics.Bitmap
+import android.graphics.BitmapShader
+import android.graphics.Canvas
+import android.graphics.LinearGradient
+import android.graphics.Matrix
+import android.graphics.Paint
+import android.graphics.Path
+import android.graphics.RectF
+import android.graphics.Shader
+import android.text.Layout
+import android.text.StaticLayout
+import android.text.TextPaint
+import android.util.AttributeSet
+import android.util.Log
+import android.view.animation.LinearInterpolator
+import android.widget.FrameLayout
+import app.lawnchair.icons.shape.CornerShapeCompat
+import app.lawnchair.icons.shape.IconShape
+import app.lawnchair.preferences2.PreferenceManager2
+import app.lawnchair.preferences2.firstCached
+import com.android.launcher3.R
+import com.android.launcher3.util.Executors
+import java.io.File
+import kotlin.math.max
+import kotlin.math.min
+import kotlin.math.roundToInt
+
+/**
+ * What the picture widget ([PictureWidgetProvider]) looks like on the home screen: one picture
+ * cropped to fill a frame, or several that take turns every [INTERVAL_MS].
+ *
+ * The frame is made to look like a large icon. Its edges are the outer edges of the icons that
+ * would sit in the cells the widget covers, and its corners are the corners of the icon shape
+ * in use, so the picture lines up with the icons beside, above and below it. The view itself is
+ * larger than the frame: it fills the widget's cells and draws nothing outside the frame.
+ *
+ * In the list of widgets and while it is dragged from there, the same view shows a sample.
+ */
+class PictureWidgetView @JvmOverloads constructor(
+    context: Context,
+    attrs: AttributeSet? = null,
+) : FrameLayout(context, attrs),
+    PictureWidgetStore.Listener {
+
+    /** A picture ready to draw. */
+    private class Slide(val bitmap: Bitmap) {
+        val shader = BitmapShader(bitmap, Shader.TileMode.CLAMP, Shader.TileMode.CLAMP)
+    }
+
+    private var appWidgetId = AppWidgetManager.INVALID_APPWIDGET_ID
+
+    /** True while this is only a sample of the widget, with no pictures of its own. */
+    private var sample = true
+
+    private var pictures: List<File> = emptyList()
+    private var index = 0
+    private var shown: Slide? = null
+
+    // The picture that is fading in over the shown one, and its place among the pictures.
+    private var incoming: Slide? = null
+    private var incomingIndex = 0
+    private var fade = 0f
+    private var fadeAnimator: ValueAnimator? = null
+
+    // Pictures are read off the main thread. A result is used only if no newer read was started.
+    private var loadGeneration = 0
+    private var loading = false
+
+    /** The frame size the shown picture was read for; 0 before the first read. */
+    private var loadedWidth = 0
+    private var loadedHeight = 0
+
+    private var onScreen = false
+
+    private val frame = RectF()
+    private val shape = Path()
+    private val farHill = Path()
+    private val nearHill = Path()
+    private val sun = Path()
+    private val scratch = Path()
+    private val cropMatrix = Matrix()
+    private var hint: StaticLayout? = null
+    private var sampleShader: Shader? = null
+
+    private val picturePaint = Paint(Paint.ANTI_ALIAS_FLAG or Paint.FILTER_BITMAP_FLAG)
+    private val platePaint = Paint(Paint.ANTI_ALIAS_FLAG).apply { color = PLATE_COLOR }
+    private val sceneryPaint = Paint(Paint.ANTI_ALIAS_FLAG).apply { color = SCENERY_COLOR }
+    private val hintPaint = TextPaint(Paint.ANTI_ALIAS_FLAG).apply {
+        color = HINT_COLOR
+        textSize = resources.getDimension(R.dimen.flexera_picture_widget_hint_text_size)
+    }
+
+    private val advance = Runnable { showNext() }
+    private val reloadForSize = Runnable { reload() }
+
+    // The icon shape, as corners that can be put on a rectangle of any size. Null for the few
+    // shapes that are one fixed outline; those get plain round corners.
+    private val cornerShape: IconShape.CornerBased? by lazy(LazyThreadSafetyMode.NONE) {
+        when (val iconShape = currentIconShape()) {
+            is IconShape.SystemBased -> iconShape.findNearestShape()
+            is IconShape.CornerBased -> iconShape
+            else -> null
+        }
+    }
+
+    init {
+        setWillNotDraw(false)
+        // Launcher3 rounds the corners of every widget that does not round its own. This id
+        // together with clipToOutline is how a widget says that it does (see
+        // RoundedCornerEnforcement); without it the picture's corners would be cut twice.
+        id = android.R.id.background
+        clipToOutline = true
+    }
+
+    /** Tells the view which widget it shows. Ids that Android never hands out mean a sample. */
+    fun bind(appWidgetId: Int) {
+        this.appWidgetId = appWidgetId
+        sample = appWidgetId <= 0
+        if (sample) {
+            // In the list of widgets a tap belongs to the list.
+            setOnClickListener(null)
+            isClickable = false
+        } else {
+            setOnClickListener { onTap() }
+        }
+        index = 0
+        // What the frame holds depends on whether this is a sample.
+        frame.setEmpty()
+        if (isLaidOut) updateFrame()
+        if (isAttachedToWindow) reload()
+    }
+
+    override fun onAttachedToWindow() {
+        super.onAttachedToWindow()
+        PictureWidgetStore.addListener(this)
+        reload()
+    }
+
+    override fun onDetachedFromWindow() {
+        PictureWidgetStore.removeListener(this)
+        fadeAnimator?.cancel()
+        removeCallbacks(advance)
+        removeCallbacks(reloadForSize)
+        // Whatever is still being read is no longer wanted.
+        loadGeneration++
+        loading = false
+        super.onDetachedFromWindow()
+    }
+
+    override fun onVisibilityAggregated(isVisible: Boolean) {
+        super.onVisibilityAggregated(isVisible)
+        // The pictures only take turns while the home screen can be seen.
+        onScreen = isVisible
+        if (isVisible) scheduleNext() else removeCallbacks(advance)
+    }
+
+    override fun onPicturesChanged(appWidgetId: Int) {
+        if (appWidgetId != this.appWidgetId || sample) return
+        index = 0
+        reload()
+    }
+
+    override fun onLayout(changed: Boolean, left: Int, top: Int, right: Int, bottom: Int) {
+        super.onLayout(changed, left, top, right, bottom)
+        updateFrame()
+        if (!isAttachedToWindow || frame.isEmpty || pictures.isEmpty()) return
+        val width = frame.width().roundToInt()
+        val height = frame.height().roundToInt()
+        if (width == loadedWidth && height == loadedHeight) return
+        removeCallbacks(reloadForSize)
+        if (loadedWidth == 0) {
+            // The first time the size is known.
+            post(reloadForSize)
+        } else {
+            // The widget is being resized: read the picture anew once the size has settled.
+            postDelayed(reloadForSize, RESIZE_SETTLE_MS)
+        }
+    }
+
+    /** Reads the widget's pictures anew and shows the one whose turn it is. */
+    private fun reload() {
+        fadeAnimator?.cancel()
+        removeCallbacks(advance)
+        removeCallbacks(reloadForSize)
+        incoming = null
+        pictures = if (sample) emptyList() else PictureWidgetStore.pictures(context, appWidgetId)
+        updateDescription()
+        if (pictures.isEmpty()) {
+            loadGeneration++
+            loading = false
+            shown = null
+            loadedWidth = 0
+            loadedHeight = 0
+            invalidate()
+            return
+        }
+        if (frame.isEmpty) {
+            // Not laid out yet; onLayout comes back here.
+            loadedWidth = 0
+            loadedHeight = 0
+            return
+        }
+        index = index.coerceIn(0, pictures.lastIndex)
+        loadedWidth = frame.width().roundToInt()
+        loadedHeight = frame.height().roundToInt()
+        load(index) { slide ->
+            shown = slide
+            invalidate()
+            scheduleNext()
+        }
+    }
+
+    private fun load(position: Int, then: (Slide?) -> Unit) {
+        val file = pictures.getOrNull(position)
+        if (file == null) {
+            then(null)
+            return
+        }
+        val width = max(1, frame.width().roundToInt())
+        val height = max(1, frame.height().roundToInt())
+        val generation = ++loadGeneration
+        loading = true
+        Executors.THREAD_POOL_EXECUTOR.execute {
+            val bitmap = try {
+                PictureWidgetStore.load(file, width, height)
+            } catch (e: Exception) {
+                Log.w(TAG, "A picture could not be read", e)
+                null
+            } catch (e: OutOfMemoryError) {
+                Log.w(TAG, "A picture was too large to read", e)
+                null
+            }
+            Executors.MAIN_EXECUTOR.execute {
+                if (generation == loadGeneration) {
+                    loading = false
+                    then(bitmap?.let(::Slide))
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    private fun scheduleNext() {
+        removeCallbacks(advance)
+        if (onScreen && !sample && pictures.size > 1) postDelayed(advance, INTERVAL_MS)
+    }
+
+    private fun showNext() {
+        if (pictures.size < 2 || loading || incoming != null) return
+        val next = (index + 1) % pictures.size
+        load(next) { slide ->
+            if (slide == null) {
+                // A picture that cannot be read is passed over.
+                index = next
+                scheduleNext()
+            } else {
+                incoming = slide
+                incomingIndex = next
+                startFade()
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    private fun startFade() {
+        if (!ValueAnimator.areAnimatorsEnabled() || !isShown || shown == null) {
+            finishFade()
+            return
+        }
+        fade = 0f
+        fadeAnimator = ValueAnimator.ofFloat(0f, 1f).apply {
+            duration = FADE_MS
+            interpolator = LinearInterpolator()
+            addUpdateListener {
+                fade = it.animatedValue as Float
+                invalidate()
+            }
+            addListener(object : AnimatorListenerAdapter() {
+                override fun onAnimationEnd(animation: Animator) = finishFade()
+            })
+            start()
+        }
+    }
+
+    private fun finishFade() {
+        fadeAnimator = null
+        val slide = incoming ?: return
+        shown = slide
+        index = incomingIndex
+        incoming = null
+        fade = 0f
+        updateDescription()
+        invalidate()
+        scheduleNext()
+    }
+
+    private fun onTap() {
+        when {
+            // Nothing to show yet, as after a restore on a new phone: ask for pictures.
+            pictures.isEmpty() -> choosePictures()
+            // A tap does not wait for the picture's turn to end.
+            pictures.size > 1 -> {
+                removeCallbacks(advance)
+                showNext()
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    private fun choosePictures() {
+        val intent = Intent(context, PictureWidgetConfigActivity::class.java)
+            .putExtra(AppWidgetManager.EXTRA_APPWIDGET_ID, appWidgetId)
+        var activity: Context? = context
+        while (activity != null && activity !is Activity) {
+            activity = (activity as? ContextWrapper)?.baseContext
+        }
+        try {
+            if (activity != null) {
+                activity.startActivity(intent)
+            } else {
+                context.startActivity(intent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK))
+            }
+        } catch (e: RuntimeException) {
+            Log.w(TAG, "The picture chooser could not be opened", e)
+        }
+    }
+
+    private fun updateDescription() {
+        contentDescription = when {
+            sample -> resources.getString(R.string.flexera_picture_widget)
+            pictures.isEmpty() -> resources.getString(R.string.flexera_picture_widget_empty)
+            pictures.size == 1 -> resources.getString(R.string.flexera_picture_widget)
+            else -> resources.getString(
+                R.string.flexera_picture_widget_position,
+                index + 1,
+                pictures.size,
+            )
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Works out where the picture goes inside this view. On the home screen that is the box
+     * around the icons of the cells the widget covers; anywhere else it is the whole view.
+     */
+    private fun updateFrame() {
+        var left = 0f
+        var top = 0f
+        var right = width.toFloat()
+        var bottom = height.toFloat()
+        var corner = min(width, height) * LOOSE_CORNER_SHARE
+        var iconSize = min(width, height).toFloat()
+
+        val aligned = IconFrame.of(this)
+        if (aligned != null) {
+            left = aligned.left
+            top = aligned.top
+            right = aligned.right
+            bottom = aligned.bottom
+            corner = aligned.visibleIconSize / 2f
+            iconSize = aligned.iconSize
+        }
+        corner = min(corner, min(right - left, bottom - top) / 2f)
+
+        if (left == frame.left && top == frame.top && right == frame.right && bottom == frame.bottom) return
+        frame.set(left, top, right, bottom)
+
+        shape.reset()
+        val corners = cornerShape
+        if (corners != null) {
+            CornerShapeCompat.addToPath(corners, shape, left, top, right, bottom, size = corner)
+        } else {
+            val radius = corner * currentIconShape().windowTransitionRadius
+            shape.addRoundRect(frame, radius, radius, Path.Direction.CW)
+        }
+        shape.close()
+
+        // The same soft shadow an icon has (ShadowGenerator), so the picture sits on the
+        // wallpaper the way the icons do.
+        platePaint.setShadowLayer(
+            iconSize * SHADOW_BLUR_SHARE,
+            0f,
+            iconSize * SHADOW_DROP_SHARE,
+            SHADOW_COLOR,
+        )
+        buildSample()
+        invalidate()
+    }
+
+    /** The drawing shown in place of a picture: a sun over two hills, and a hint when empty. */
+    private fun buildSample() {
+        val width = frame.width()
+        val height = frame.height()
+        val unit = min(width, height)
+
+        scratch.reset()
+        scratch.moveTo(frame.left + width * 0.28f, frame.bottom)
+        scratch.quadTo(frame.left + width * 0.66f, frame.bottom - unit * 0.80f, frame.right + width * 0.10f, frame.bottom)
+        scratch.close()
+        farHill.op(scratch, shape, Path.Op.INTERSECT)
+
+        scratch.reset()
+        scratch.moveTo(frame.left - width * 0.10f, frame.bottom)
+        scratch.quadTo(frame.left + width * 0.30f, frame.bottom - unit * 0.62f, frame.left + width * 0.74f, frame.bottom)
+        scratch.close()
+        nearHill.op(scratch, shape, Path.Op.INTERSECT)
+
+        scratch.reset()
+        scratch.addCircle(frame.right - unit * 0.30f, frame.top + unit * 0.30f, unit * 0.10f, Path.Direction.CW)
+        sun.op(scratch, shape, Path.Op.INTERSECT)
+
+        sampleShader = LinearGradient(
+            frame.left,
+            frame.top,
+            frame.right,
+            frame.bottom,
+            SAMPLE_COLOR_START,
+            SAMPLE_COLOR_END,
+            Shader.TileMode.CLAMP,
+        )
+
+        hint = null
+        val hintWidth = (width - 2 * resources.getDimension(R.dimen.flexera_picture_widget_hint_margin)).toInt()
+        if (!sample && hintWidth > 0) {
+            val text = resources.getString(R.string.flexera_picture_widget_empty)
+            val layout = StaticLayout.Builder.obtain(text, 0, text.length, hintPaint, hintWidth)
+                .setAlignment(Layout.Alignment.ALIGN_CENTER)
+                .build()
+            // Too small a widget for the words gets the drawing alone.
+            val fits = layout.lineCount <= HINT_MAX_LINES && layout.height <= height * HINT_MAX_HEIGHT_SHARE
+            if (fits) hint = layout
+        }
+    }
+
+    override fun onDraw(canvas: Canvas) {
+        super.onDraw(canvas)
+        if (frame.isEmpty) return
+        val current = shown
+        if (current == null) {
+            drawSample(canvas)
+            return
+        }
+        // The plate carries the shadow. A picture with see-through parts goes without, so
+        // that the wallpaper shows through it.
+        if (!current.bitmap.hasAlpha()) canvas.drawPath(shape, platePaint)
+        drawSlide(canvas, current, 255)
+        incoming?.let { drawSlide(canvas, it, (fade * 255).roundToInt()) }
+    }
+
+    private fun drawSlide(canvas: Canvas, slide: Slide, alpha: Int) {
+        val bitmap = slide.bitmap
+        // Fill the frame and crop what does not fit, keeping the middle of the picture.
+        val scale = max(frame.width() / bitmap.width, frame.height() / bitmap.height)
+        cropMatrix.setScale(scale, scale)
+        cropMatrix.postTranslate(
+            frame.left + (frame.width() - bitmap.width * scale) / 2f,
+            frame.top + (frame.height() - bitmap.height * scale) / 2f,
+        )
+        slide.shader.setLocalMatrix(cropMatrix)
+        picturePaint.shader = slide.shader
+        picturePaint.alpha = alpha
+        canvas.drawPath(shape, picturePaint)
+        picturePaint.shader = null
+    }
+
+    private fun drawSample(canvas: Canvas) {
+        platePaint.shader = sampleShader
+        canvas.drawPath(shape, platePaint)
+        platePaint.shader = null
+
+        sceneryPaint.alpha = SUN_ALPHA
+        canvas.drawPath(sun, sceneryPaint)
+        sceneryPaint.alpha = FAR_HILL_ALPHA
+        canvas.drawPath(farHill, sceneryPaint)
+        sceneryPaint.alpha = NEAR_HILL_ALPHA
+        canvas.drawPath(nearHill, sceneryPaint)
+
+        val layout = hint ?: return
+        canvas.save()
+        canvas.translate(
+            frame.left + (frame.width() - layout.width) / 2f,
+            frame.top + frame.height() * HINT_CENTRE_SHARE - layout.height / 2f,
+        )
+        layout.draw(canvas)
+        canvas.restore()
+    }
+
+    private fun currentIconShape(): IconShape = PreferenceManager2.getInstance(context).iconShape.firstCached()
+
+    companion object {
+        private const val TAG = "PictureWidgetView"
+
+        /** How long each picture of several is shown. */
+        const val INTERVAL_MS = 10_000L
+
+        /** How long one picture takes to fade into the next. */
+        const val FADE_MS = 600L
+
+        /** How long the size has to stay put during a resize before the picture is read anew. */
+        const val RESIZE_SETTLE_MS = 200L
+
+        /** Corner radius, as a share of the shorter side, where there are no icons to match. */
+        const val LOOSE_CORNER_SHARE = 0.18f
+
+        // An icon's shadow as Launcher3 draws it (ShadowGenerator.BLUR_FACTOR and
+        // KEY_SHADOW_DISTANCE), as shares of the icon size.
+        const val SHADOW_BLUR_SHARE = 1.68f / 48f
+        const val SHADOW_DROP_SHARE = 1f / 48f
+        const val SHADOW_COLOR = 0x26000000
+
+        /** Under a picture, where it shows only while the next one fades in. */
+        const val PLATE_COLOR = 0xFF17181C.toInt()
+
+        const val SAMPLE_COLOR_START = 0xFF5B6B95.toInt()
+        const val SAMPLE_COLOR_END = 0xFF2B3350.toInt()
+        const val SCENERY_COLOR = 0xFFFFFFFF.toInt()
+        const val SUN_ALPHA = 150
+        const val FAR_HILL_ALPHA = 40
+        const val NEAR_HILL_ALPHA = 64
+        const val HINT_COLOR = 0xF2FFFFFF.toInt()
+        const val HINT_MAX_LINES = 2
+        const val HINT_MAX_HEIGHT_SHARE = 0.4f
+        const val HINT_CENTRE_SHARE = 0.36f
+    }
+}
@@ -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=0.7.0
+versionName=0.12.0
@@ -214,6 +214,10 @@ class LawnchairApp : LauncherApplication() {
        val launcher: LawnchairLauncher?
            get() = activities.filterIsInstance<LawnchairLauncher>().firstOrNull()

+        // Flexera Launcher: see LawnchairApp.launchers.
+        val launchers: List<LawnchairLauncher>
+            get() = activities.filterIsInstance<LawnchairLauncher>()
+
        fun finishAll() {
            HashSet(activities).forEach { it.finish() }
        }
@@ -292,6 +296,14 @@ class LawnchairApp : LauncherApplication() {
        @JvmStatic
        val launcher: LawnchairLauncher? get() = instance.activityHandler.launcher

+        /**
+         * Flexera Launcher: every copy of the launcher that is open. There are two when it was
+         * opened like an app (from the installer's "Open", say) and then made the home app: one
+         * in the app's own task and one as the home screen. [launcher] picks either of them.
+         */
+        @JvmStatic
+        val launchers: List<LawnchairLauncher> get() = instance.activityHandler.launchers
+
        @OptIn(ExperimentalMaterial3ExpressiveApi::class, ExperimentalMaterial3Api::class)
        fun Launcher.showQuickstepWarningIfNecessary() {
            val launcher = this
@@ -517,7 +517,10 @@ class LawnchairLauncher : QuickstepLauncher() {

    fun recreateIfNotScheduled() {
        if (sRestartFlags == 0) {
-            recreate()
+            // Flexera Launcher: every open copy, not only this one. A changed setting used to
+            // rebuild whichever copy LawnchairApp.launcher happened to return, which could be
+            // the one in the background, and the home screen kept its old look until restart.
+            (LawnchairApp.launchers + this).distinct().forEach { it.recreate() }
        }
    }

@@ -874,6 +874,25 @@ class PreferenceManager2 @Inject constructor(
        defaultValue = GestureHandlerConfig.NoOp,
    )

+    // Flexera Launcher: quick launch. What a swipe on from the first home screen page, towards
+    // the page that is not there, does; and the same past the last page (app.flexera.home.QuickLaunch).
+    val firstPageSwipeGestureHandler = serializablePreference<GestureHandlerConfig>(
+        key = stringPreferencesKey("flexera_first_page_swipe_gesture_handler"),
+        defaultValue = GestureHandlerConfig.NoOp,
+    )
+
+    val lastPageSwipeGestureHandler = serializablePreference<GestureHandlerConfig>(
+        key = stringPreferencesKey("flexera_last_page_swipe_gesture_handler"),
+        defaultValue = GestureHandlerConfig.NoOp,
+    )
+
+    // Flexera Launcher: whether the home screen behind an open folder is blurred
+    // (app.flexera.home.FolderBlur). Read when a folder opens, so nothing has to be reloaded.
+    val folderBlur = preference(
+        key = booleanPreferencesKey(name = "flexera_folder_blur"),
+        defaultValue = true,
+    )
+
    val autoUpdaterNightly = preference(
        key = booleanPreferencesKey(name = "enable_nightly_auto_updater"),
        defaultValue = if (BuildConfig.APPLICATION_ID.contains("nightly")) {
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ import app.lawnchair.ui.preferences.components.layout.PreferenceGroup
 import app.lawnchair.ui.preferences.components.layout.PreferenceLayout
 import app.lawnchair.ui.preferences.navigation.GeneralIconShape
 import com.android.launcher3.R
+import com.android.launcher3.Utilities

@Composable
 fun FolderPreferences(
@@ -75,6 +76,14 @@ fun FolderPreferences(
                valueRange = 0F..1F,
                showAsPercentage = true,
            )
+            // Flexera Launcher: blurring a view needs Android 12.
+            if (Utilities.ATLEAST_S) {
+                SwitchPreference(
+                    adapter = prefs2.folderBlur.getAdapter(),
+                    label = stringResource(id = R.string.flexera_folder_blur),
+                    description = stringResource(id = R.string.flexera_folder_blur_description),
+                )
+            }
        }
        PreferenceGroup(heading = stringResource(id = R.string.grid)) {
            SliderPreference(
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 package app.lawnchair.ui.preferences.destinations

+import android.os.Build
 import androidx.compose.runtime.Composable
 import androidx.compose.ui.Modifier
 import androidx.compose.ui.res.stringResource
@@ -53,6 +54,23 @@ fun GesturePreferences(
                label = stringResource(id = R.string.gesture_back_tap),
            )
        }
+        // Flexera Launcher: quick launch, a swipe on past the first or the last home screen page
+        // (app.flexera.home.QuickLaunch). It rides on Android's own page stretch, new in Android 12.
+        if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.S) {
+            PreferenceGroup(
+                heading = stringResource(id = R.string.flexera_quick_launch),
+                description = stringResource(id = R.string.flexera_quick_launch_description),
+            ) {
+                GestureHandlerPreference(
+                    adapter = prefs.firstPageSwipeGestureHandler.getAdapter(),
+                    label = stringResource(id = R.string.flexera_quick_launch_first_page),
+                )
+                GestureHandlerPreference(
+                    adapter = prefs.lastPageSwipeGestureHandler.getAdapter(),
+                    label = stringResource(id = R.string.flexera_quick_launch_last_page),
+                )
+            }
+        }
        PreferenceGroup(heading = stringResource(id = R.string.sleep_mode_label)) {
            ListPreference(
                adapter = prefs.sleepMode.getAdapter(),
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ import android.view.ViewTreeObserver;

 import androidx.annotation.VisibleForTesting;

+import com.android.launcher3.AbstractFloatingView;
 import com.android.launcher3.BaseActivity;
 import com.android.launcher3.LauncherState;
 import com.android.launcher3.Utilities;
@@ -220,6 +221,12 @@ public class DepthController extends BaseDepthControllerImpl implements StateHan
     * Clears a stuck workspace icon blur after resume when settled on home.
     */
    public void clearStuckBlurOnResumeIfHome() {
+        // Flexera Launcher: a folder blur with no folder on the screen, open or still closing,
+        // is a stuck one too. It should not come about; this makes sure it could not stay.
+        if (folderBlur.getValue() > 0f && AbstractFloatingView.getAnyView(
+                mLauncher, AbstractFloatingView.TYPE_FOLDER) == null) {
+            folderBlur.setValue(0f);
+        }
        if (mLauncher.getStateManager().getState() == LauncherState.NORMAL
                && !mLauncher.getStateManager().isInTransition()) {
            clearWorkspaceRenderEffects();
@@ -227,10 +234,18 @@ public class DepthController extends BaseDepthControllerImpl implements StateHan
        }
    }

+    @Override
+    protected boolean isDepthEffectEnabled() {
+        return mEnableDepth;
+    }
+
    @Override
    protected void applyDepthAndBlur() {
        try {
-            if (LawnchairQuickstepCompat.ATLEAST_R && mEnableDepth) {
+            // Flexera Launcher: the blur behind an open folder is a setting of its own, and
+            // also comes where the wallpaper's zoom is switched off.
+            if (LawnchairQuickstepCompat.ATLEAST_R
+                    && (mEnableDepth || folderBlurNeedsApplying())) {
                ensureDependencies();
                super.applyDepthAndBlur();
            } else if (mLauncher.getStateManager().getState() == LauncherState.NORMAL
@@ -90,6 +90,11 @@ public class BaseDepthControllerImpl implements BaseDepthController {
    public final MultiProperty widgetDepth;
    /** Property to set just the wallpaper zoom for folder expansion. */
    public final MultiProperty folderZoom;
+    /**
+     * Flexera Launcher: property to set the blur behind an open folder, from 0 to 1. Unlike the
+     * depth it comes with no zoom, and it reaches the icons as well as the wallpaper.
+     */
+    public final MultiProperty folderBlur;

    /**
     * Blur radius when completely zoomed out, in pixels.
@@ -106,6 +111,10 @@ public class BaseDepthControllerImpl implements BaseDepthController {
    private float mDepth;
    // Used just for animating wallpaper zoom without affecting blur.
    private final AnimatedFloat mWallpaperZoomOnly = new AnimatedFloat(this::applyDepthAndBlur);
+    // Flexera Launcher: the blur behind an open folder, see folderBlur.
+    private final AnimatedFloat mFolderBlur = new AnimatedFloat(this::applyDepthAndBlur);
+    // Whether a folder blur is on the launcher's surface, and so has to come off again.
+    private boolean mFolderBlurApplied;

    protected SurfaceControl mBaseSurface;

@@ -164,6 +173,9 @@ public class BaseDepthControllerImpl implements BaseDepthController {
        } else {
            folderZoom = null;
        }
+        // Flexera Launcher
+        folderBlur = new MultiPropertyFactory<>(mFolderBlur, AnimatedFloat.VALUE, 1, Float::max)
+                .get(0);

 //        mEarlyWakeupInfo.token = new Binder();
 //        mEarlyWakeupInfo.trace = BaseDepthControllerImpl.class.getName();
@@ -184,6 +196,53 @@ public class BaseDepthControllerImpl implements BaseDepthController {
        return folderZoom;
    }

+    @Override
+    public MultiProperty getFolderBlur() {
+        return folderBlur;
+    }
+
+    /** Flexera Launcher: the blur behind an open folder as it is now, from 0 to 1. */
+    private float folderBlurAmount() {
+        return Utilities.boundToRange(mFolderBlur.value, 0f, 1f);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Flexera Launcher: true while a folder blur is wanted, and after that until it has been
+     * taken off the launcher's surface again.
+     */
+    protected boolean folderBlurNeedsApplying() {
+        return folderBlurAmount() > 0f || mFolderBlurApplied;
+    }
+
+    /** Flexera Launcher: false where the owner switched the wallpaper's zoom off. */
+    protected boolean isDepthEffectEnabled() {
+        return true;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Flexera Launcher: blurs the icons and widgets behind an open folder. That works without
+     * blur across windows as well, so also where the wallpaper has to stay sharp.
+     *
+     * @return {@code false} when no folder blur is wanted, and nothing was done
+     */
+    private boolean blurFolderBackdrop() {
+        float amount = folderBlurAmount();
+        if (!Utilities.ATLEAST_S || amount <= 0f) {
+            return false;
+        }
+        float radius = Math.max(mCurrentBlur,
+                amount * app.flexera.home.FolderBlur.STRENGTH * mMaxBlurRadius);
+        if (radius < 1f) {
+            // Too little to see, and a blur of no radius is not one the system accepts.
+            mLauncher.getDepthBlurTargets().forEach(target -> target.setRenderEffect(null));
+            return true;
+        }
+        RenderEffect blurEffect = RenderEffect.createBlurEffect(
+                radius, radius, Shader.TileMode.DECAL);
+        mLauncher.getDepthBlurTargets().forEach(target -> target.setRenderEffect(blurEffect));
+        return true;
+    }
+
    /**
     * Returns if cross window blurs are enabled. In other words, whether launcher should use blurs
     * style UI or fallback style UI.
@@ -236,7 +295,9 @@ public class BaseDepthControllerImpl implements BaseDepthController {
            boolean applyImmediately, boolean skipSimilarBlur) {
        float depth = mDepth;
        float wallpaperZoom = depth;
-        if (Flags.enableExpressiveFolderExpansion()) {
+        // Flexera Launcher: with the zoom switched off this used to be reached by accident
+        // only; the folder blur now brings it here on purpose, and must not bring the zoom along.
+        if (Flags.enableExpressiveFolderExpansion() && isDepthEffectEnabled()) {
            wallpaperZoom = Math.max(wallpaperZoom, mWallpaperZoomOnly.value);
        }
        IBinder windowToken = mLauncher.getRootView().getWindowToken();
@@ -261,6 +322,10 @@ public class BaseDepthControllerImpl implements BaseDepthController {
        } else {
            blurAmount = depth;
        }
+        // Flexera Launcher: an open folder blurs what is behind it, whatever the depth is.
+        float behindFolder = folderBlurAmount() * app.flexera.home.FolderBlur.STRENGTH;
+        blurAmount = Math.max(blurAmount, behindFolder);
+        mFolderBlurApplied = behindFolder > 0f;

        int previousBlur = mCurrentBlur;
        int newBlur = BlurUtils.supportsBlursOnWindows() && mCrossWindowBlursEnabled
@@ -378,6 +443,11 @@ public class BaseDepthControllerImpl implements BaseDepthController {
        if (!Utilities.ATLEAST_S) {
            return false;
        }
+        // Flexera Launcher: an open folder blurs these views in every state, the home screen
+        // at rest included, which the rules below would leave sharp.
+        if (blurFolderBackdrop()) {
+            return true;
+        }
        StateManager<LauncherState, Launcher> stateManager = mLauncher.getStateManager();
        LauncherState settledState = stateManager.getState();

@@ -414,6 +484,10 @@ public class BaseDepthControllerImpl implements BaseDepthController {
        if (!Utilities.ATLEAST_S) {
            return;
        }
+        // Flexera Launcher: the blur behind an open folder is not a stuck one, and stays.
+        if (blurFolderBackdrop()) {
+            return;
+        }
        mLauncher.getDepthBlurTargets().forEach(target -> {
            target.setRenderEffect(null);
            target.invalidate();
@@ -185,8 +185,16 @@ public class Hotseat extends FrameLayout implements Insettable {
        // Create an initial page so alpha/translation channels have a target during construction.
        mPagedView.resetPages(false, null, mActivity.getDeviceProfile());

-        mIconsAlphaChannels = new MultiValueAlpha(mIconsContainer, ALPHA_CHANNEL_CHANNELS_COUNT);
+        // Flexera Launcher: one more channel than upstream, which hides the icons of a dock
+        // that is switched off. Such a dock has no height, but its icons were still drawn,
+        // just below the screen edge, and the zoom-out behind an open folder brought their
+        // tops into view.
+        mIconsAlphaChannels = new MultiValueAlpha(mIconsContainer,
+                ALPHA_CHANNEL_CHANNELS_COUNT + 1);
        mIconsAlphaChannels.setUpdateVisibility(true);
+        if (!hotseatEnabled) {
+            mIconsAlphaChannels.get(ALPHA_CHANNEL_CHANNELS_COUNT).setValue(0f);
+        }
        if (mQsb instanceof Reorderable qsbReorderable) {
            mQsbTranslationX = qsbReorderable.getTranslateDelegate()
                    .getTranslationX(MultiTranslateDelegate.INDEX_NAV_BAR_ANIM);
@@ -150,7 +150,10 @@ public class ShortcutAndWidgetContainer extends ViewGroup implements FolderIcon.
            DeviceProfile profile = mActivity.getDeviceProfile();
            final PointF appWidgetScale = profile.getAppWidgetScale((ItemInfo) child.getTag());
            lp.setup(mCellWidth, mCellHeight, invertLayoutHorizontally(), mCountX, mCountY,
-                    appWidgetScale.x, appWidgetScale.y, mBorderSpace, profile.widgetPadding);
+                    appWidgetScale.x, appWidgetScale.y, mBorderSpace,
+                    // Flexera Launcher: the launcher's own widgets take their cells whole.
+                    app.flexera.widget.FlexeraWidgets.cellInset(child,
+                            profile.widgetPadding));
        } else {
            lp.setup(mCellWidth, mCellHeight, invertLayoutHorizontally(), mCountX, mCountY,
                    mBorderSpace);
@@ -175,7 +178,9 @@ public class ShortcutAndWidgetContainer extends ViewGroup implements FolderIcon.
        if (child instanceof NavigableAppWidgetHostView) {
            final PointF appWidgetScale = dp.getAppWidgetScale((ItemInfo) child.getTag());
            lp.setup(mCellWidth, mCellHeight, invertLayoutHorizontally(), mCountX, mCountY,
-                    appWidgetScale.x, appWidgetScale.y, mBorderSpace, dp.widgetPadding);
+                    appWidgetScale.x, appWidgetScale.y, mBorderSpace,
+                    // Flexera Launcher: the launcher's own widgets take their cells whole.
+                    app.flexera.widget.FlexeraWidgets.cellInset(child, dp.widgetPadding));
        } else if (isChildQsb(child)) {
            lp.setup(mCellWidth, mCellHeight, invertLayoutHorizontally(), mCountX, mCountY,
                    mBorderSpace);
@@ -372,6 +372,13 @@ public class Workspace<T extends View & PageIndicator> extends PagedView<T>

        setHapticFeedbackEnabled(false);
        initWorkspace();
+        // Flexera Launcher: quick launch. The stretch at either end of the pages doubles as a
+        // gesture that opens an app the owner has chosen (app.flexera.home.QuickLaunch). From
+        // Android 12, where that stretch is Android's own; before, Lawnchair draws one itself.
+        if (Utilities.ATLEAST_S) {
+            mEdgeGlowLeft = app.flexera.home.QuickLaunch.edgeEffect(this, mLauncher, true, mIsRtl);
+            mEdgeGlowRight = app.flexera.home.QuickLaunch.edgeEffect(this, mLauncher, false, mIsRtl);
+        }

        // Disable multitouch across the workspace/all apps/customize tray
        setMotionEventSplittingEnabled(true);
@@ -1476,7 +1483,10 @@ public class Workspace<T extends View & PageIndicator> extends PagedView<T>
    public void setLauncherOverlay(LauncherOverlayTouchProxy overlay) {
        final EdgeEffectCompat newEffect;
        if (overlay == null) {
-            newEffect = new EdgeEffectCompat(getContext());
+            // Flexera Launcher: without a feed, the first page's end is quick launch again.
+            newEffect = Utilities.ATLEAST_S
+                    ? app.flexera.home.QuickLaunch.edgeEffect(this, mLauncher, !mIsRtl, mIsRtl)
+                    : new EdgeEffectCompat(getContext());
            mOverlayEdgeEffect = null;
        } else {
            newEffect = mOverlayEdgeEffect = new OverlayEdgeEffect(getContext(), overlay);
@@ -81,6 +81,8 @@ class FolderAnimationSpringBuilderManager(
            val launcher = launcherDelegate.launcher ?: return
            val scrim = launcher.scrimView
            launcherDelegate.launcher?.depthController?.folderZoom?.value = 0f
+            // Flexera Launcher: the blur behind the folder goes with it.
+            launcherDelegate.launcher?.depthController?.folderBlur?.value = 0f
            if (!launcher.isInState(LauncherState.ALL_APPS)) {
                scrim.alpha = 1f
                scrim.setBackgroundColor(Color.TRANSPARENT)
@@ -57,6 +57,8 @@ class FolderScrimAnimationListener(
        // Folder.closeComplete's restore path, leaving workspace/hotseat visually dimmed/scaled.
        SCALE_PROPERTY.set(launcher.workspace, 1f)
        SCALE_PROPERTY.set(launcher.hotseat, 1f)
+        // Flexera Launcher: and the blur behind the folder, for the same reason.
+        launcher.depthController?.folderBlur?.value = 0f
        if (Utilities.ATLEAST_S && launcher.stateManager.state.getDepth(launcher) == 0f) {
            launcher.depthBlurTargets.forEach { it.setRenderEffect(null) }
        }
@@ -91,6 +91,12 @@ class FolderSpringAnimatorSet(val animatorSet: AnimatorSet) {
            launcherDelegate.launcher?.depthController?.folderZoom?.let {
                addWallpaperZoomAnimator(folder.context, animatorSet, folderAnimData.isOpening, it)
            }
+            addBackdropBlurAnimator(
+                folder.context,
+                animatorSet,
+                folderAnimData.isOpening,
+                launcherDelegate,
+            )
            iconAnimData.forEach { addContentIconAnimators(folder.context, animatorSet, it) }
            return FolderSpringAnimatorSet(animatorSet)
        }
@@ -258,6 +264,39 @@ class FolderSpringAnimatorSet(val animatorSet: AnimatorSet) {
            )
        }

+        /**
+         * Flexera Launcher: blurs the home screen behind the folder as it opens, and clears it
+         * again as it closes, in step with the dimming. Closing always plays, also when the
+         * setting has been switched off since the folder was opened.
+         */
+        private fun addBackdropBlurAnimator(
+            context: Context,
+            animatorSet: AnimatorSet,
+            isOpening: Boolean,
+            launcherDelegate: LauncherDelegate,
+        ) {
+            val launcher = launcherDelegate.launcher ?: return
+            // As with the dimming: a folder in the app list leaves the list as it is.
+            if (launcher.isInState(LauncherState.ALL_APPS)) return
+            val blur = launcher.depthController?.folderBlur ?: return
+            val wanted =
+                if (isOpening) app.flexera.home.FolderBlur.isOn(context) else blur.value > 0f
+            if (!wanted) return
+            playSpringAnimation(
+                context = context,
+                animatorSet = animatorSet,
+                isOpening = isOpening,
+                startDelay = 0,
+                stiffness = STIFFNESS_LAUNCHER_SCRIM,
+                damping = DAMPING_LAUNCHER_SCRIM,
+                startValue = 0f,
+                endValue = 1f,
+                minVisibleChange = MIN_VISIBLE_CHANGE_ALPHA,
+                property = MULTI_PROPERTY_VALUE,
+                view = blur,
+            )
+        }
+
        private fun addAlphaAndColorAnimators(
            folder: Folder,
            animatorSet: AnimatorSet,
@@ -40,4 +40,10 @@ interface BaseDepthController {
     * Property for folder expansion wallpaper zoom.
     */
    val folderZoom: MultiPropertyFactory<*>.MultiProperty?
+
+    /**
+     * Flexera Launcher: property for the blur of the home screen behind an open folder, from 0
+     * (none) to 1 (as strong as it gets).
+     */
+    val folderBlur: MultiPropertyFactory<*>.MultiProperty?
 }
@@ -87,6 +87,11 @@ public class LauncherAppWidgetHostView extends BaseLauncherAppWidgetHostView

    private boolean mTrackingWidgetUpdate = false;

+    // Flexera Launcher: the view that draws this widget when it is one of the launcher's own
+    // (app.flexera.widget.FlexeraWidgets); null for every ordinary widget.
+    @Nullable
+    private View mFlexeraOwnView;
+
    private int mFocusRectOutsets = 0;

    public LauncherAppWidgetHostView(Context context) {
@@ -131,6 +136,20 @@ public class LauncherAppWidgetHostView extends BaseLauncherAppWidgetHostView
        }
    }

+    // Flexera Launcher: Android puts a widget's stand-in layout (its initialLayout) into this
+    // view whenever a widget without views has its colours reapplied, which Launcher3 does to
+    // match the wallpaper. The launcher's own widget is drawn by mFlexeraOwnView and gets
+    // nothing in that place.
+    @Override
+    protected View getDefaultView() {
+        if (mFlexeraOwnView != null) {
+            View nothing = new View(getContext());
+            nothing.setVisibility(GONE);
+            return nothing;
+        }
+        return super.getDefaultView();
+    }
+
    @Override
    public boolean onLongClick(View view) {
        if (mIsScrollable) {
@@ -143,6 +162,12 @@ public class LauncherAppWidgetHostView extends BaseLauncherAppWidgetHostView
    @Override
    public void setAppWidget(int appWidgetId, AppWidgetProviderInfo info) {
        super.setAppWidget(appWidgetId, info);
+        // Flexera Launcher: the launcher's own widgets (pictures, clock) are drawn by a view of
+        // the launcher, not by views Android sends over; nothing more is loaded for them.
+        mFlexeraOwnView = app.flexera.widget.FlexeraWidgets.attachIfOwn(this, appWidgetId, info);
+        if (mFlexeraOwnView != null) {
+            return;
+        }
        if (!mTrackingWidgetUpdate && appWidgetId != -1) {
            mTrackingWidgetUpdate = true;
            Log.i(TAG, "App widget created with id: " + appWidgetId);
@@ -154,6 +179,10 @@ public class LauncherAppWidgetHostView extends BaseLauncherAppWidgetHostView

    @Override
    public void updateAppWidget(RemoteViews remoteViews) {
+        // Flexera Launcher: see setAppWidget.
+        if (mFlexeraOwnView != null) {
+            return;
+        }
        if (mTrackingWidgetUpdate && remoteViews != null) {
            Log.i(TAG, "App widget with id: " + getAppWidgetId() + " loaded");
            if (ATLEAST_Q) {
Author	SHA1	Message	Date
TMC	81c5c8914a	Release 0.12.0	2026-11-12 18:05:19 +01:00
TMCandClaude Fable 5.2	3b7388c473	Blur behind open folders; hide the icons of a switched-off dock Folder blur: while a folder is open on the home screen, what is behind it is blurred, icons and widgets through a RenderEffect and the wallpaper through the launcher surface's background blur. It is a new input of the depth controller (folderBlur, 0 to 1), because that controller already owns both kinds of blur and cleared anything set past it on every frame of the folder's wallpaper zoom. The folder's spring animation drives it in step with the dimming, and the places that reset the dimming reset it too. It works with the wallpaper depth effect switched off, without bringing the folder's wallpaper zoom along. Setting: Folders > Blur behind open folders, on by default (flexera_folder_blur). Folders in the app list are left as they were. Dock: with the dock switched off the hotseat has no height, but its icons were still drawn just below the screen edge, and the 97.5% zoom-out behind an open folder brought their tops into view. One more alpha channel on the icons hides them. Checked on the emulator (Android 17 image, window blur available): open, close by tap outside, Back and Home, an app started from the folder, sleep and wake, the setting off, and the depth effect off. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.2 <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-11-12 18:01:33 +01:00
TMC	4f687957fb	Release 0.11.0	2026-11-12 16:34:02 +01:00
TMCandClaude Fable 5.2	b79579a8dd	Clock widget: weather line, font weight, and centring in the widget's own frame Weather: a clock for which the owner picks a place shows a third line, the temperature and a word for the sky there. The place is looked up by name in the clock's options; the data comes from Open-Meteo, which needs no account. It is off until a place is picked, asks at most every 45 minutes while a clock with weather is in view, sends only the place's coordinates rounded to about a kilometre, and needs no location permission. The About screen's note on what goes online says so. Font weight: thin, light (as before), regular or bold figures. Centring: the text stood in the middle of the icons' box, which lies in the upper part of the widget's cells, so it looked too high inside the outline shown while editing. It now stands in the middle of the widget's own cells, measured on what is seen of the text. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.2 <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-11-12 16:33:49 +01:00
TMC	516c4efc56	Release 0.10.0	2026-11-12 15:58:08 +01:00
TMCandClaude Fable 5.2	8e6b737894	Clock widget: smaller by default, with a choice of alignment and size The first version filled its widget with the figures, which the owner found huge. The figures are now measured against the icons: small is half an icon tall, medium (the default) most of an icon, large taller than an icon, with the widget's own height and width as the limit. The owner chooses left, center or right and the size from the widget's edit button. The options are a sheet over the home screen, kept per widget, and each choice shows on the widget at once. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.2 <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-11-12 15:57:55 +01:00
TMCandClaude Fable 5.2	31ab0d52e1	Add the Clock widget; the QR code leads to the newest APK Clock is a second widget that comes with the launcher: the time in large light figures and the date under it, written onto the wallpaper in the colour of the icon labels. It follows the phone's 12 or 24 hour setting, updates with the minute, and a tap opens the phone's clock app. Like Pictures it is drawn by the launcher itself and keeps to the box of the icons in its cells. What Pictures and Clock share moved into two places: IconFrame works out that box, and FlexeraWidgets is where Launcher3's widget code asks about the launcher's own widgets. The QR code on the About screen now holds the address of the newest APK, so that scanning it starts the download; the release page's address stays under it for typing. For that address to work, the release script uploads each APK a second time under a name that does not change. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.2 <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-11-12 15:42:52 +01:00
TMCandClaude Fable 5.2	04e78205dd	Release script: do not take Android's own crash during an APK swap for the app's When the release build is the emulator's home app, Android restarts it while the files are still being replaced, and that start can fail inside ActivityThread.handleBindApplication. The start-up check now waits for the swap to settle, stops the app, and judges a fresh start. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.2 <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-11-12 14:57:49 +01:00
TMC	cef6929a41	Release 0.9.0	2026-11-12 14:36:21 +01:00
TMCandClaude Fable 5.2	fba65e091f	Add quick launch: a swipe past the first or last home page opens a chosen app Swiping on from the first home screen page, towards the page that is not there, now does what the owner chose under Settings, Gestures, Quick launch: open an app, or any other of the launcher's gesture actions. The last page has a choice of its own. The stretch the pages already show at either end is an edge effect; quick launch replaces it with one that also counts how far the finger has pulled. Lifting the finger after a pull of about a seventh of the screen, or after a flick, does the action; a short pull or one that is taken back does nothing. An app opens out of the screen edge the finger pulled from. From Android 12, where the stretch is Android's own. Infinite scrolling takes those swipes for itself, so the two do not combine. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.2 <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-11-12 14:36:03 +01:00
TMC	b696a376b2	Release 0.8.1	2026-11-12 13:52:28 +01:00
TMCandClaude Fable 5.2	bfc2a0ea36	Ask for local network access when the update server is on the phone's own network On Android 17 an app that targets it may not connect to devices on the local network without the new ACCESS_LOCAL_NETWORK permission; a blocked connection is dropped and ends as a timeout. At the owner's home the update server's name leads to its address on the home network, so the check for updates failed there with "did not answer" while the same server answered every other device. The updater now recognises this case before it connects (Android 17, permission not granted, server address inside one of the phone's own network ranges) and says so at once. A tap on that message asks for the permission and runs the check again; a refusal that Android no longer asks about leads to the app's page in the phone's settings. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.2 <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-11-12 13:52:16 +01:00
TMC	fd1c8b195e	Release 0.8.0	2026-11-12 13:04:44 +01:00
TMCandClaude Fable 5.2	5c4a6c346d	Add the Pictures widget and carry Smart Launcher's photo widget over Pictures is a widget that comes with the launcher: one picture, or several that take turns every 10 seconds with a cross-fade (a tap shows the next at once). Android knows it as an ordinary app widget, so it is added, moved, resized and removed like any other, but the launcher draws it itself. That lets its frame sit exactly on the outer edges of the icons of the cells it covers and take the corners of the icon shape in use. Pictures are chosen with Android's photo picker and copied, scaled down, into the launcher's own storage, one folder per widget, so no gallery permission is needed. The widget's edit button opens the picker again; removing the widget deletes its copies. Launcher3's widget host view shows the launcher's own view for this provider and skips the views Android would send, and the cell container gives the widget its cells without the usual inset. The Smart Launcher import now turns that launcher's photo widget into a Pictures widget in the same place. Its photo is taken from the backup and handed to the widget when the owner taps it to set it up. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.2 <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-11-12 13:04:34 +01:00
TMCandClaude Fable 5.2	d5a62cc6f5	Redraw every open copy of the launcher when a setting changes Opening the launcher like an app (the installer's "Open") and then making it the home app leaves two launcher activities in one process. A changed setting recreated whichever one LawnchairApp.launcher returned, which could be the one in the background, so the home screen kept its old look until a restart. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.2 <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-11-12 13:04:33 +01:00