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 options for customization. This branch houses the codebase of Lawnchair 11, currently in alpha and based on Launcher3 from Android 11. For Lawnchair 9 and 10, see the branches with the 9-
and 10-
prefixes, respectively.
Whether you’ve fixed a bug or introduced a new feature, we welcome pull requests! (If you’d like to make a larger change and check with us first, you can do so via Lawnchair’s Telegram group chat.) To help translate Lawnchair 11 instead, please see “Translate.”
You can use Git to clone this repository:
git clone https://github.com/LawnchairLauncher/lawnchair.git
Lawnchair 11 uses Jetpack Compose; we suggest using a version of Android Studio that supports Compose tooling, such as Arctic Fox (2020.3.1). To build the app, select the lawnWithQuickstepDebug
build type.
Here are a few contribution tips:
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The
lawnchair
package houses Lawnchair’s own code, whereas thesrc
package includes a clone of the Launcher3 codebase with modifications. Generally, place new files in the former, keeping changes to the latter to a minimum. -
You can use either Java or, preferably, Kotlin.
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Make sure your code is logical and well formatted. If using Kotlin, see “Coding conventions” in the Kotlin documentation.
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Set
11-dev
as the base branch for pull requests.
You can help translate Lawnchair 11 on Crowdin. Here are a few tips:
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When using quotation marks, insert the symbols specific to the target language, as listed in this table.
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Lawnchair uses title case for some English UI text. Title case isn’t used in other languages; opt for sentence case instead.
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Some English terminology may have no commonly-used equivalents in other languages. In such cases, use short descriptive phrases — for example, the equivalent of bottom row for dock.