The Updates section of About is now a card with the status on top and the next step as a full-width filled button: Check for updates, Download and install, Install now, or Try again. Before, each step was a plain settings row that looked like every other row. Download and install hands the APK to Android's installer as soon as the download is done, without another tap. If Android first wants this app to be allowed to install apps, its setting opens, and the installer follows by itself when the owner comes back having allowed it. The request is kept on disk for 30 minutes, so it survives Android ending the process in between but does not pop an installer up hours later. Tested on the emulator with a release build numbered 0.12.9: check, download with progress, the Install unknown apps setting, the installer opening by itself on return, and the update to 0.13.0 from the server. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Lawnchair 16
Lawnchair is a free, open-source home app for Android. Taking Launcher3—Android’s default home app—as a starting point, it ports Pixel Launcher features and introduces rich customization options.
This branch houses the codebase of Lawnchair 16, which is currently in development and is based on Launcher3 from Android 16. For Lawnchair 9 to 15, see the branches with the 9- to 15- prefixes, respectively.
Features
- Material 3 Expressive theming that follows your wallpaper and system colors.
- At a Glance widget support, with integration for Smartspacer.
- QuickSwitch support for Android Recents integration on Android 15-16 (root required).
- Global search for apps, contacts, and web results from the home screen.
- Customization options for icon packs, fonts, and color settings.
Download
Lawnchair on Play Store will install as a different app compared to other sources. Features may be restricted to comply with Google Play’s publishing rules.
You can also verify your installation to check if you have installed an official build.
Development builds
Interested in keeping yourself up-to-date with every Lawnchair development? Try our development builds!
These builds offer the latest features and bug fixes at a cost of performance and additional issues. Make backups before installing.
Download: Obtainium • GitHub • nightly.link
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