Smart Launcher 5.2

When we announced Smart Launcher 5, we mentioned a new modular architecture. Today Smart Launcher 5.2 brings that concept to maturity.

Modular page system

Smart Launcher 5.2 introduces the possibility to rearrange the “pages” which compose your home screen. This allows more customization and gives to the users the choice to enable or disable certain components depending on their needs.

News page

One of the new components introduced with Smart Launcher 5.2 is the News page. The news feed is customizable with specific interests and with different layouts: large, compact or only text. Like any other page in SL5.2, the news page is movable on one of the four sides of the screen. By default, its position is on the top for users coming from SL 5.1 or previous, on the left for new users.

Blur mode

The Ambient Theme is now even more complete thanks to the new blur mode, a complex system of different overlays that creates a perfect blend between UI and wallpaper and guarantee text readability avoiding darkening the background.

Redesigned Menus

We worked on our community feedback and we redesigned every menu to be more consistent and intuitive.

Automatic app page cleaning

As Marie Kondo says “finish discarding first”. Enabling the option Hide unused Icons in Preferences → App Page, Smart Launcher will automatically hide icons of apps never used. Nothing will be uninstalled, everything will be accessible from the Hidden apps menu, but your app collection will look much slimmer!

Tools to detect malware

During the last year, we collected many reports of users seeing popup ads and experiencing other unwanted behaviors during the usage of their device. The worse is that many people thought that ads were showed by the app running at that moment. This harms us and other apps, so we decided to take action and introduce some simple tools that can help users identify suspicious apps. The tools are available in Preferences → Smart Fix.