Hiding app icon from launcher
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I think it would be nice if there was an option to hide the app's icon from the launcher drawer.
I really liked Google's standalone pdf viewer app because it stayed quiet and hidden, and gave you just the minimal functionality you needed to view pdf documents. But of course, Google, you know. Plus they took down their pdf viewer some time ago anyway.
This pdf viewer is the closest I've seen to what I want, the only thing missing would be the ability to hide the app from my launcher. I'll never need to launch the app from the drawer, if I need to open a PDF I'll just open it directly from file manager.
You can accomplish what you want by including all the apps you use on your home screens. This kind of feature is something that the launcher should be implementing. An app should have a launcher icon and shouldn't hide it. It's something that the OS should be enforcing in the future. We won't be adding this kind of feature to the app when it should be implemented in a generic way by a launcher. We wouldn't want this feature in the GrapheneOS launcher though. It reduces transparency of the OS when what should be happening is increasing it.