App Name: MindPADD_Launcher

What it does: What it does: An Android launcher for people who want to use their phone less. Get your information quickly without going through many menus and apps. It surfaces the handful of things you actually check, notifications, music, habits, places nearby.

Key Features:

• Your unread notifications and media controls right on the home screen, no app-hopping
• A "what's around me" finder that lists parks, cafes, libraries, bars and ATMs by distance with one-tap navigation (i call it grindr for places)
• Habit tracker with interstitial journaling, plus a widgets panel

Goal: Testing (closed testing on Google Play, looking for feedback)

Giveaway: N/A - it's free

Link: I need to pre-add your Play Store email to the testers list, so please send me through DM. Then you can download through: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.maruverse.mindpadd

Maybe some of you already know me from the discord server. I made some different apps for the MindOne one of which a camera app. And i also made a launcher that works great on the device, and is adapted now to work on any.

So after receiving my mindone i started working on a non-minimalist launcher for android for digital minimalists like myself. this sounds like a contraduction but i've build a type of field gear that makes it possible to go back to life outside my smartphone.

I find some stuff important myself: not having to go through many apps, not spending much time on notifications and maybe most importantly not spending a lot of time looking for places around when i look for something specific in a place ive never been.

I called the concept MindPADD (based on Personal Access Display Devices from startrek :')). I've been using the app for many months now myself and did some incremental updates to stuff that didnt work well. I would like other to be able to use it, so i'm applying for some playstore testing (android). and I would love to hear what you all think or would add or remove

what it has till now: notifications on homescreen, media player/controls, something i call grindr for places (parks, bars, culture, book shops and libraries, atms etc close to you with quick navigation), habit tracker and interstitial journaling, widgets

I need some testers for the Play Store, so let me know if you would like to test it, since then i can add your to the tester list 🙃

I now set the switch to airplane mode

Made a little app that shows daily/weekly/monthly quests when you loose reception or turn on airplane mode. The notification tray will show a button saying 'pauze for 10 minutes' when you need your phone.

Made this since the motion app is forced back to the less complete version, and I'm not able to get LocoMoments working any longer since the system keeps the button trigger hidden now..

Fairphone killed the 'switch' broadcast with the new update. which means i can only trigger LocoMoments by binding it at all times to a certain setting on the phone.

Maybe i can connect it to the set mode on the switch settings. but this means that it will also swtich when the switch is not pulled but. i.e. the battery saver turns on of the phone..

What would you prefer as the new trigger for the app?

edit: they also made it impossible to read the current setting for other apps. only through adb can i read it at that specific moment.. tf

What it adds over stock Moments

• Three-axis triggers: each Moment can be bound on place, day, and time, independently. When you flip the switch on, LocoMoments activates the Moment whose conditions match right now (most specific wins). Location is read only on the flip — no background tracking, no Google Play Services.
• Home-button routing: set as your default launcher, the home button shows the Moment while the switch is on, and a launcher you choose while it's off.
• No telemetry — Firebase Analytics and Crashlytics removed entirely; nothing 'phones home', and the project builds without any google-services.json
• /e/os compatible

Edit:

0.2.2 adds:

• import existing DND profiles
• cross delete DND <> LocoMoments
• app reordering (tap and drag in 'visible apps' app menu)

⚠️ important: set 'switch' settings to Battery Saver
set LocoMoments as your default launcher