Polaris Launcher

About Polaris Launcher Android App

Polaris Launcher is an Android Home & Launcher replacement created to give users the most comprehensive set of features to personalize their device.

Compatible with any phone, large phones (phablets), and tablets.
 
For an explanation of the required permissions, please look at the end.
 
Features:
• Home screen pages, drawer and applications custom animations
• Switch between AOSP and Google Experience styles
• Google Now™ integration (voice activation, and accessible as the first page in home screen)
• Unlocked icon, folders and widget positioning, and free widget resizing
• Gestures detection engine allowing you to execute fully configurable actions
• Themes support
• Change individual app icon and label
• Notifications showing missed calls and unread SMS/emails, with fully configurable appearance (color, size, style, position)
• A system monitoring service with a floating window with real-time graphical representation of key system component's state and usage (CPU & memory load, network traffic...) You can select what is displayed in the window, lock it or resize and move it around
• Premium: A launchpad displayed on top of any other applications, allowing to quickly open any application you can add to it (without limits) and that can move around and dims itself when unused
• Graphical home screen arranger, where it is possible to add, remove and re-order home screen pages
• Dynamically adjustable grid size for landscape and portrait orientation (if you're not using free positioning) for both home screen and application drawer
• Change and lock orientation on all devices
• Graphically add, swap or remove pages in the home
• 3D wallpaper parallax effect (gives a sense of depth to the home screen by scrolling the wallpaper accordingly to the device's movements). Wallpaper movements can be reversed, too.
• Hide applications from the applications drawer
• Hide or move the position of individual desktop elements (search bar, dock, page indicator)
• Change icons and icon labels size or hide icon labels (either in the home screen or in the application drawer, with different settings for each one)
• Change the home screen margins to maximize screen real estate utilization (and show outlines if needed)
• Application dock with pages (swipe between pages in the dock like in the home screen)
• Change application drawer and dock background color & transparency
• Choose application drawer's button style and position in the dock
• Change dock's icon size
• Choose folder's appearance between pre-4.4 and 4.4 style, along with folders' icon style
• Adapt folder transparency

The application also comes with famous/well known/iconic wallpapers embedded in a bundled image selector which can be invoked by any other app/launcher to change your current wallpaper.

The Theming engine supports any ADW Launcher compatible themes. However some theme may not be fully rendered to avoid breaking graphical elements.

Polaris Launcher allows you to use any icon pack installed to customize any installed app icons with the ones of your choice.

Used permissions:
• Find account on the device: used by the notification subsystem to identify your Gmail account to count unread messages. Doesn't access sender/recipient email addresses.
• Read your text messages: used by the notification subsystem to count unread SMS/MMS. Doesn't read actual content of your messages nor sender/recipient phone numbers.
• Read call log: used by the notification subsystem to count missed/unanswered calls. Doesn't access sender/recipient phone numbers.
• Files storage access: used to store caching and configurations.

Please note that this app has no Internet access nor Phone/Texting permissions, preventing the app to send device or personal datas over the Internet or the cellular network and thus respects your privacy.