Cross Launcher
Sony XMB-like Android Launcher, Mainly inspired by Sony PlayStation 3(TM) XMB.
Main Focus
This launcher is not really focused to Android touch-based devices, But for Android devices that naturally doesn't have a native touch interface like TV, PC, Laptop, and Emulators.
The launcher is still fairly usable on Phones. Just with a bit struggle if you have a lot of apps to navigate.
Memory Usage
On my test devices, Base memory usage (without items) is about 10MB. With about 500Kb~1MB per item since icons will be cached in memory.
18/11/2020: Icon bitmap loading is more dynamic now, but possibly caused hiccups when an icon is first drawn on screen after hidden before
20/03/2022: The launcher is currently very RAM demanding, in my phone which currently have around 75 launch-able icons. It requires almost 512-700MB even with a very tight bitmap lifecycling
Screenshots
Progress
see Main Project
Supported customizations
Releases
You can build it yourself, Or go to Release page for pre-built packages
Building
Prerequisites
- Android Studio with:
- Android SDK 29+
- NDK 21+
- CMake 3.8+
- .NET Scripting tool (Build script only, optional)
- .NET Core 3.1 (.NET 5.0 is recommended)
Steps
- Clone or Download this repository
- Open this project directory at Android Studio
- Build
To compile without the entire Android Studio package, please refer to this page : Build your app from the command line | Android Developers However, you would still need the Android SDK, NDK, CMake and optionally .NET Scripting tool.
.NET Scripting Tool is used to convert C++ resources to C++ source code, it's only used if you changes
resources file such as shader source file (frag and vert files), etc.
Contribution
Translations and fixes are welcome.
License
The main project is licensed under MIT License. Some build-helper tool files is licensed under CC0 Public Domain.