This is a personal fork of Omalauncher, created by Simon Schubert. The official app is on Google Play.
This fork follows upstream and adds its own changes: a feed left of the first home page, folders that open out of their tile, and backup & restore. Its APKs are published on this repository's releases and signed with a different key, so they are not the Google Play app: one can't be installed over the other, and the original author doesn't support this fork. Please don't report its problems upstream.
MIT licensed, like the original (LICENSE).
Swipe right on the first home page for Hacker News, recent posts from tech accounts on X, and headlines from tech and news sites, in the theme's colors. Settings › feed picks the sites, the X accounts, muted words and how often it refreshes (more).
An Android home screen with the look of Omarchy, and an optional Arch Linux ARM system next to your phone apps. Omalauncher runs the system under proot, without root, and is its Wayland compositor: every Linux window opens as its own Android task, with its own card in Recents.
- Themes: all 22 Omarchy themes, with their wallpapers, applied to the
launcher and to the Linux apps, plus the community themes from
omarchy.org/themes, or your own in
~/.config/omarchy/themes - Widgets written in OWL, a small declarative language you can edit on the phone, plus a widget store
- Linux, optional: pacman and the AUR, Linux apps in their own windows, terminal widgets, a file manager, and opt-in GPU acceleration on Mali and Adreno 6xx+ GPUs
- Coding agents: the bar at the bottom sends a prompt to Claude Code, Codex, Copilot, opencode and others, which open in a terminal
- Feed: swipe right from the first home page for Hacker News' top 50, tech accounts on X, and tech and news sites, in the theme's colors
- No account, no ads, no tracking
Needs an arm64 phone with Android 10 or newer. Without Linux, the launcher still has the themes, wallpapers, Android apps and the widgets that don't run commands.
The bar: the one input at the bottom of the home screen opens apps and asks
coding agents. Focusing it opens the list of Linux and Android apps; typing
narrows the list, and Enter opens the highlighted app or sends the text to the
agent. Short queries that name an app open it, sentences go to the agent; Tab
and the arrow keys move the highlight. Tap the agent's name to pick another
installed one; the choice is saved in ~/.config/omalauncher/agent. Hold the mic to talk and release to send, or tap it to dictate
into the field. Speech is recognized by Android (on the device when the phone
supports it), so only text reaches Linux.
The feed: swipe right on the first home page (or press Super+F) and a feed
slides in from the left, like Pixel's Discover: Hacker News, recent posts from
tech accounts on X, and headlines from tech and news sites, one tab each and all
of them together. Tap a story to open it, its [123] for the discussion; swipe
it back or press Back to close it. Long-press empty home space to turn it on or
off; settings › feed picks the sources, the X accounts, muted words and how
often it refreshes. X has no free API for reading, so its posts come through
FxTwitter's open API (api.fxtwitter.com), which now and then misses an account.
Backup: settings › backup & restore saves the home screen to a file you pick (pinned apps and folders, widgets with their data, where everything sits, the theme, style and gestures, the feed's settings) and restores it from one, showing what the file holds first and keeping what it replaces so the restore can be undone. It carries a home screen across an uninstall, a new signing key or a new phone; Linux itself isn't in it.
Icons: settings › icons picks an icon pack, from the ones installed (icon packs
from the Play Store and F-Droid work) or the ones your agents drew, shows how
many of your apps it covers, and puts the apps it has no icon for on its
backdrop. "+ new pack" has a coding agent draw a whole pack in the style you
describe, in your theme's colors, so it changes with the theme; pick which of
your installed agents draws under "drawn by", and later have it fill in the
icons for apps you installed since, or change the pack. Tap an app there, or
long-press it in the drawer or on home, to give it any pack's icon, a picture,
or one the agent draws. Packs are folders in ~/.config/omalauncher/icon-packs
and single apps' icons files in ~/.config/omalauncher/icons (apps.txt there
lists the name each app's file takes); SVGs use the theme's colors as
{{ accent }}, and icon-check shows an icon as the phone draws it. The pack
is icons.pack in style.toml.
Touch input in Linux windows: tap is a left click, long press is a right click, drag scrolls; apps with touch support (foot, GTK) get real touch. Hardware keyboard shortcuts: Super+Enter (terminal), Super+Space or Super+A (the bar), Super+1..9 (home pages), Super+F (the feed; inside it r, s, q, 1..5, j/k) on the home screen; Super+Enter and Super+W (close) in Linux windows.
scripts/dev.sh setup gets a machine ready (JDKs, SDK packages, proot, an
emulator) and scripts/dev.sh doctor says what's missing; see
docs/DEVELOPMENT.md. By hand:
./scripts/fetch-proot.sh # Termux's proot -> app/src/main/jniLibs (needs bsdtar)
./gradlew :app:installDebug
# optional: skip the 830 MB download on the device
adb push ArchLinuxARM-aarch64-latest.tar.gz /sdcard/Android/data/dev.omalauncher/files/Tests: ./gradlew :owl:test :app:testDebugUnitTest. ./gradlew :owl:owlJar
builds owl/build/cli/owl.jar, the checker the widget store's CI runs.
In debug builds you can launch guest commands with
adb shell am start -n dev.omalauncher/.MainActivity --es exec foot.
- docs/DEVELOPMENT.md: the dev environment, the emulator, what can be tested where, and syncing with upstream
- AGENTS.md: for coding agents working on the code
- docs/ARCHITECTURE.md: the compositor, rendering, GPU acceleration, and how updates reach existing installs
- docs/RELEASING.md: Play releases and store assets
- app/src/main/assets/widgets/README.md: the widget language
app/: the Android app (Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, and the JNI bridge insrc/main/cpp)owl/: the widget language and theowlcommand line, plain Kotlinart/: SVG masters for the app, agent and store iconsstore/: Play listing sources (screenshot frames, privacy policy)fastlane/: the Play listing and the upload lanesscripts/: fetching proot and theme colors, rendering icons, screenshots and widget previews
MIT, see LICENSE, for Omalauncher's own code and artwork. The coding agents' logos, the symbol font and Omarchy's theme colors are not covered; THIRD_PARTY.md lists them with their sources and licenses. The app also ships proot, talloc and libandroid-shmem (GPL-2.0, LGPL-3.0 and BSD-3-Clause, prebuilt by Termux), listed in the app under settings › licenses.
Omalauncher is an independent project and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Omarchy, Arch Linux, or the makers of the coding agents it installs.