nayash / smarter-launcher

An Android launcher which understands your usage patterns and updates the Home screen with a list of apps which are most likely to be used by you next.

smarter-launcher (WIP | Not production ready)

An Android launcher which understands your usage patterns and updates the Home screen with a list of apps which are most likely to be used by you next. This project uses the algorithm introduced in the paper titled "Mobile App Recommendation with Sequential App Usage Behavior Tracking" (link below).

How it works?

The app reads the system/context variables (like time of day, earphone plugged in or not, bluetooth & network status etc) and represents them as a real valued vector every time an app is launched. These vectors are stored as "history". On every new app launch KNN (K Nearest Neighbour) is performed to find the closest vectors and corresponding apps. The top most similar apps are suggested to the user.

More details are available on

See Smarter Launcher in action:

Note: The wallpaper is not part of the launcher. It's a Live Wallpaper I had developed last year. It's on PlayStore .

TODO (priority items)

• Support for adding widgets
• Restoring historical data in case of reinstall even if apps list has changed. (normal case where the apps are same is already supported)
• Large Margin Nearest Neighbour algorithm implementation
• capture app launches from "recent tasks" list (will support it only if I find a legitimate way supported by Android)

Credits

• The algorithm was introduced in the paper: https://jit.ndhu.edu.tw/article/viewFile/2061/2073

• App logo is designed by combining the logos from FlatIcons. Links to authors' page:

  https://www.flaticon.com/authors/smashicons

  https://www.flaticon.com/authors/prettycons

  Huge shoutout to the authors!

smarter-launcher's Issues

Beta? No. Alpha Preview at best

The concept sounds great, but opening the fist app should immediately add it to the homescreen. As other apps are opened, the algorithm should adapt from there.

You can't label a proof of concept release as Beta. That normally means it went through and Alpha stage and should be feature complete.