ARK-launcher

A reliability update: steadier long-press and drag, widgets that stay drawn, and a home screen that cleans up after itself. Updating keeps your layout, widgets and settings.

Fixed

• Widgets flashing empty: after switching pages (often right after unlocking) a widget could show an empty space for a moment. The launcher kept re-sending each widget its unchanged size — at times dozens of times a second — and some widgets redrew from scratch every time. A widget now hears about its size only when the size really changes.
• Long-press on icons (home screen, dock and app drawer): the menu now opens even if your finger moves a little while you hold, and an icon starts moving only when you really drag it. Before, the smallest wobble could nudge an icon into the next cell.
• Dragging to the screen edge now waits a moment before turning the page, like dragging a widget, and the drop lands on the page you see. The long-press menu also opens without a stutter.
• One drag at a time: a second finger can no longer take over an icon you are already dragging, and pressing Home ends a drag cleanly.
• Leftovers cleaned up: duplicate copies of the same app on the home screen, icons of apps that changed their launcher entry, a folder whose apps are all gone (it can now be dragged to Remove), widgets of an app you uninstalled, and a few cases where a hidden icon, an edit frame or the app drawer could stay stuck.
• Backup and restore: restoring puts apps and settings back only into the profile they belong to, keeps your pinned shortcuts pinned, and writes the settings before the layout so an interrupted restore leaves a usable home screen.

Changed

• Place name next to the weather: it now comes from your phone's own location service. Looking it up from BigDataCloud (for phones that have no such service) is a new setting, Place name from the internet in Settings > Home, off by default. The privacy policy and the store description describe the weather's network use.
• The page arrows in the widget edit frame are gone; drag a widget to the screen edge to move it to another page.

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SHA-256 ARK-launcher-0.8.3.apk: a58f112c4802ef57f6c689505ca89d826fcd84cee58469de58a0fb8d373a2edb