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Escape is a minimalist home screen launcher replacement for android to help you with your phone addiction. It's simple and customizable design with a list of apps on the home screen and features like an optional clock with and widgets various other things, support for material ui colour schemes (Android 12+) and features such as hidden apps. It is also one of the ONLY launchers to support Android 15's private space.
Important
I am currently working on refactoring the code in the refactor branch so I am not currently accepting PRs, sorry.
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| Built In screen time tracking | One of the only android launchers to support Android 15 Private space | Countdown before opening distracting apps | Customisable Font | Manage your apps | Minimalist Home Screen with Clock, Screen Times, Date and more | Minimalist Apps List with Search and Private space support | And much more |
To install the app, you first need to download an apk for the app. This is the file that contains the app and can be opened to install the app on your phone. You can download one from the github releases page or the F-Droid page. If you go onto the github releases page, you will see two .apk files at the bottom: A FOSS version and a normal version. The FOSS version removes any non open source libraries (open source means the code is visible to the public for free online) such as the google fonts, and weather libraries which means theese features, along with a few others, will be missing. If you do not know what FOSS is and why you would want it, just use the normal version which includes all the features in a smaller download.
Once you have your file downloaded, open up your files app from your home screen. Go to downloads and click on the Escape Launcher file. It will ask you if you want to install it. Press install. If a popup shows saying the app was blocked by google play protect, you can disable play protect from within the google play store settings (just google how to do this if you don't know how). Make sure to enable play protect again afterwards though to prevent accidentally installing malware.
The app should now be installed, enjoy!
You can build Escape Launcher with default settings in Android Studio. You will not be able to build either of the Google variants without a firebase google-services.json file but by default the project is set to build the devDebugFOSS variant which doesn't include Firebase.
If you would like to contribute clone the repo and make your changes and then create a pull request, we'll get on it as fast as we can! In the projects section you can see a a roadmap with plans for the launcher. If you don't know what you want to contribute, you can check out the projects page.
At the moment, it is really just me working on this app. I love doing it but it takes alot of time. I would really appriciate it if you donated with github sponsors!
