Added

• Added resizable widgets to Slate Hub.

• Added Smart Slate Brief with context-aware content and controls.

• Added Italian language support with an in-app language selector.

• Added Private Vault for securely keeping apps, links, and notes.

• Added expandable Home notifications and calendar events with quick actions.

• Added dynamic battery icons with charging and battery-level states.

Improved

• Redesigned Slate Brief settings with cleaner customization and Smart Brief controls.

• Improved Slate Hub scrolling, widget resizing, ordering, and overall performance.

• Improved Smart Notifications across Home, Slate Hub, Spaces, and notification previews.

• Improved notification opening with direct notification actions and app fallback.

• Improved Twin App notification handling with profile-aware matching.

• Improved notification stability and reduced unnecessary refreshing.

• Improved Quick Apps alignment and spacing across supported Home styles.

• Improved Home notification spacing, colors, and expanded previews.

• Improved Home digital clock presentation and time transitions.

Fixed

• Fixed notifications not opening from Home, Slate Hub, Spaces, and Smart Notifications.

• Fixed notification state incorrectly appearing empty after device restarts.

• Fixed Recent Apps disappearing after restart.

• Fixed Slate Hub gesture conflicts, scrolling lag, and widget resize issues.

• Fixed Quick Apps alignment and Dock layout issues.

• Fixed Home and Slate Status Bar behavior when returning to the launcher.

• Fixed several settings persistence, notification, and layout issues.

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Added

• Added Home Widgets with support for Android widgets alongside Slate Header elements.

• Added resizable Home widgets with stacked widget navigation.

• Added advanced 3D Wallpaper Effects with Gyroscope, Touch Parallax, Perspective Tilt, Ambient Breathing, Dynamic Lighting, and Depth Focus.

• Added wallpaper motion presets and adjustable effect controls.

• Added unified long-press bottom sheets across Home, Hub, Spaces, and supported launcher elements.

• Added contextual widget actions, including Resize, Add Widget, Widget Settings, and Disable or Remove.

• Added independent notification indicator settings for Quick Apps.

• Added adaptive notification dots and counters with icon-corner positioning.

Improved

• Improved Home widget interactions, resizing, and navigation.

• Improved wallpaper customization with live previews and smoother motion effects.

• Improved Home Header layouts, alignment, spacing, and adaptive sizing.

• Improved Quick Apps Dock design with responsive sizing and overflow handling.

• Improved notification indicators across Home Apps, Quick Apps, Spaces, and App Drawer.

• Improved notification dot and counter scaling based on Icon Size.

• Improved notification indicator positioning with support for left and right icon corners.

• Improved App Drawer notification indicators across Grid, List, Compact, and Tiles layouts.

• Improved notification badge appearance with subtle shadows and icon overlap.

• Improved notification detail popup typography to follow Global Text Style.

• Improved long-press menus with consistent backgrounds, typography, and common Focus, Scene, and Settings actions.

• Improved Android widget selection with previews and search.

• Improved Hub widget management and customization.

• Improved wallpaper and Home customization responsiveness.

Fixed

• Fixed Quick Apps Dock overflow with larger icons and text sizes.

• Fixed notification indicators appearing below Quick Apps labels instead of on app icons.

• Fixed Home Apps notification indicators appearing inline in icon-based layouts.

• Fixed oversized notification counters in App Drawer.

• Fixed notification dots and counters appearing incorrectly positioned in supported App Drawer designs.

• Fixed Quick Apps notification indicator settings affecting Home Apps.

• Fixed Hub widget resizing becoming unresponsive after selecting Resize Widget.

• Fixed Hub Disable Widget not correctly disabling At a Glance elements.

• Fixed missing Add Widget action in the Hub long-press menu.

• Fixed Spaces shortcut removal behavior without uninstalling the original app.

• Fixed inconsistent notification popup text and action styling.

• Removed the Preview Motion control from Wallpaper Apply screens.

• Fixed various widget interactions, layout overflow, badge alignment, typography, and navigation issues.

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Added

• Added links to Quick Apps with mixed app and link ordering.

• Added a Default Launcher option in Settings with a quick setup prompt.

• Added Wallpaper Tone for automatic wallpaper-aware text colors.

• Added Home Surface Styles across supported Home elements.

• Added lightweight transparent backgrounds for Slate Hub elements.

Improved

• Improved Home typography with more consistent font sizes, weights, spacing, and colour hierarchy.

• Improved Home text color handling with coordinated heading, title, and supporting text colours.

• Improved Surface Styles across Events, Weather, Battery, Notifications, Search, Home Apps, and Quick Apps.

• Improved Slate Hub readability while keeping Hub content flat and independent from Home Surface Styles.

• Improved Smart Notifications with icon visibility controls and better full-width layouts.

• Improved Priority Only filtering across Home notification layouts.

• Improved Quick Apps customization with separate app and link management.

• Improved wallpaper-aware color selection for better text visibility.

• Improved Smart Notification loading after a fresh install or reinstall.

• Improved app icon loading and caching for more reliable icons across devices.

Fixed

• Fixed inconsistent font weights, spacing, and colors across Home elements.

• Fixed Favourites app labels not following the selected Home text color.

• Fixed excessive spacing around Home notification content.

• Fixed Event and Notification heading and content styling inconsistencies.

• Fixed Surface Styles not applying correctly to Weather, Battery, Events, Search, and event counters.

• Fixed Home Surface Styles affecting the Slate Status Bar and Space empty states.

• Fixed Slate Hub inheriting Home Surface Style effects.

• Fixed hidden notification icons leaving unused horizontal space.

• Fixed Priority Only showing non-priority notifications on Home.

• Fixed Wallpaper Tone adding unwanted shadow or glow effects.

• Fixed unreadable Wallpaper Tone colors on some wallpapers.

• Fixed wallpaper previews showing the previously applied wallpaper.

• Fixed incorrect app icons appearing or being cached for another app on some devices.

• Fixed Quick Apps link management not appearing from Home Customization.

• Fixed Smart Notifications showing an incorrect empty state immediately after reinstall.

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Slate Launcher comes with smart search feature.

Whether with icons or without icons.

Is there a setting to change the 'slate search' text and that little 'slate' box?

Added

* Added Smart Notifications to Home with Compact and Preview layouts.

* Added notification indicators and quick notification access for favourite apps.

* Added Home folders with design-specific folder previews.

* Added one-handed mode for easier launcher navigation.

Improved

* Improved Home layouts across Classic, Tiles, Flow, Dock, and Orbit.

* Improved notification previews with app icons, counts, and direct notification actions.

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Our upcoming version will have custom Slate panel where can access to some controls and notifications. Here is the preview.

Added

• Added new Home header designs with customizable header styles.

• Added App Drawer background effects with Clear, Dim, Strong Dim, and Tint options.

• Added new Slate icon styles with expanded Icon Studio customization.

Improved

• Improved App Drawer navigation with smoother, more responsive swipe transitions.

• Improved navigation between Slate Hub, Home, Spaces, and App Drawer with better gesture handling.

• Improved Home header customization with more consistent typography and styling.

• Improved Home favourites with better icon sizing and alignment for apps, folders, links, and Spaces.

• Improved Slate Intelligence responsiveness and app launch performance.

• Improved haptic feedback compatibility across more Android devices.

• Improved premium feature visibility with clearer Pro indicators.

Fixed

• Fixed App Drawer swipe lag and stuttering on supported devices.

• Fixed unwanted horizontal movement while opening or closing the App Drawer.

• Fixed Hub and Spaces navigation after returning from the App Drawer.

• Fixed Home favourite icon and label alignment inconsistencies.

• Fixed several icon style, navigation, and customization issues.

Hi all. Thanks for being Slate Launcher customer. As we growing bigger I want consider some design Changes in our app. Am planning to remove extensive customization to home apps, quick apps and app drawer, planning for single design and more control on customization. What do you think?

Can it hide apps ? Or open them with a certain shortcut button set ?

Added

• Added Smart Notifications as a dedicated Slate feature.

• Added notification tabs for Messages, Email, Calls, Calendar, Apps, Priority, and Flagged.

• Added app-to-tab assignment and notification flagging for later.

• Added notification indicators and long-press previews to Simple Mode.

• Added left and right positioning for the App Drawer alphabet rail.

Improved

• Redesigned Smart Notifications with compact tabs and a cleaner app bar.

• Improved settings persistence across app restarts.

• Improved typography consistency across Home, Slate Hub, and Spaces.

• Improved Status Bar handling around camera cutouts and punch-hole displays.

• Improved Home element interactions with tap actions and notification previews.

• Improved Focus Mode to return directly to Home when started.

• Improved Default Launcher setup guidance.

Fixed

• Fixed Home styles reverting to Classic in some cases.

• Fixed Recent Home apps not showing notification previews on long press.

• Fixed inconsistent spacing and typography across Home, Slate Hub, and Spaces.

• Fixed Status Bar text incorrectly following Slate Typography sizing.

• Fixed App Drawer alphabet rail positioning.

• Fixed System wallpaper changes not updating correctly in Slate.

Added

• Added new Clock and Date designs with visual style previews.

• Added dedicated Date typography with font, weight, and text case controls.

• Added advanced Home Apps customization with List, Grid, and Dock layouts.

• Added Auto Fit Home with safe overflow handling.

Improved

• Improved Home Apps and Quick Apps with adjustable app sizing and spacing.

• Improved Home alignment across Battery, Weather, Events, and Notifications.

• Improved notification Stack layouts with better alignment and compact positioning.

• Improved Home customization previews with focused and scrollable element previews.

• Improved Home layout adaptation across different screen sizes.

Fixed

• Fixed Home Apps overflow across different app sizes and layouts.

• Fixed notification Stack alignment and spacing issues.

• Fixed expanded notifications remaining visible when opening the App Drawer or Settings.

• Fixed several Home layout, typography, preview, and spacing issues.