Nightly Release 2026.10.12

What's Changed

• Lang: Updated Language Files. by @CreativeCodeCat in #1107
• build(deps): Bump org.jetbrains.kotlin.plugin.compose from 2.4.20-378 to 2.4.21-433 in the all-gradle group by @dependabot[bot] in #1111
• Lang: Updated Language Files. by @CreativeCodeCat in #1112
• Lang: Updated Language Files. by @CreativeCodeCat in #1113

Full Changelog: 1.12.2.0...nightly-2026.10.12

1120200 (1.12.2.0) - Multi Launcher ‧ Home Screen

What's New in Multi Launcher 1.12.2 Build 0

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✨ Enhancements

• Filter out sleep mode alarms from Samsung and Google Clock
• Support pinned shortcuts from "Add to home screen" (#1104)
• Add is_play_store resource to differentiate installation source
• Add isInstalledFromGooglePlay helper function and update UI logic based on installation source

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Handle contact permission checks and observer lifecycle
• Adjust button margin and improve clearView formatting
• Correct wording in app-drawer alignment description
• Update Google Play badge URLs to use the correct endpoint

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📥 Installation Instructions

1. Download the APK.
2. Allow your browser/files app to install apps.
3. Install Multi Launcher.

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⚠️ Note for Double Tap to Lock Feature

Manually installed APKs may block accessibility settings needed for this feature. To enable:

1. Go to Settings → Apps → Multi Launcher.
2. Tap the three-dot menu at the top right.
3. Select Allow restricted settings.

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New Contributors

• @smrtkrft made their first contribution in #1104

Full Changelog: 1.12.0.1...1.12.2.0

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✅ Improvements in this build: Version 1.12.2.0 introduces support for pinned shortcuts created via "Add to home screen" and adapts UI logic dynamically based on whether the app was installed from Google Play. Additionally, this release fixes contact permission checks, refines app-drawer alignment text, and corrects Google Play badge URL endpoints.

1120001 (1.12.0.1) - Multi Launcher ‧ Home Screen

What's New in Multi Launcher 1.12.0 Build 1

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✨ Enhancements:

• Allow users to add and remove favorite apps (c49a91a2)
• Allow assigning home apps by clicking favorite items (f296a61c)

🐛 Bug Fixes:

• Update default browser intent to use Google and exclude Android package (f9c296d4)
• Update showSoftInput flag in ViewExtensions (b9a92651)

🔧 Code Quality:

• Modernize FavoriteFragment and improve lifecycle safety (8d3add50)

🧹 Maintenance & Cleanup:

• Enable translation and reorganize favorite management strings (1f0e70fc)
• Configure commit message template (cd11e8d2)

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📥 Installation Instructions

1. Download the APK.
2. Allow your browser/files app to install apps.
3. Install Multi Launcher.

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⚠️ Note for Double Tap to Lock Feature

Manually installed APKs may block accessibility settings needed for this feature. To enable:

1. Go to Settings → Apps → Multi Launcher.
2. Tap the three-dot menu at the top right.
3. Select Allow restricted settings.

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Full Changelog: 1.12.0.0...1.12.0.1

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✅ Improvements in this build: Version 1.12.0.1 introduces enhanced favorite app management—allowing users to easily add, remove, and assign home apps directly from favorites. It also fixes default browser intent handling, modernizes FavoriteFragment for better lifecycle safety, and includes various code quality and maintenance updates.

1120000 (1.12.0.0) - Multi Launcher ‧ Home Screen

What's New in Multi Launcher 1.12.0 Build 0

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✨ Enhancements

• Sort Chinese app labels by pinyin (#1053) (06215b2)
• Add Simplified Chinese localization (#1050) (f1bc9d7)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Correct Simplified Chinese translation typos (#1055) (19cfd97)
• Typos in French translation (#1048) (3e7bc99)

🔧 Code Quality

• Improve messaging app launch logic in ContextExtensions (c31d3f9)

🌐 Localization

• Updated Language Files. (#1049) (d29baf0)

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📥 Installation Instructions

1. Download the APK.
2. Allow your browser/files app to install apps.
3. Install Multi Launcher.

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⚠️ Note for Double Tap to Lock Feature

Manually installed APKs may block accessibility settings needed for this feature. To enable:

1. Go to Settings → Apps → Multi Launcher.
2. Tap the three-dot menu at the top right.
3. Select Allow restricted settings.

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Full Changelog: 1.11.4.3...1.12.0.0

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✅ Improvements in this build: Version 1.12.0.0 rolls out major localization updates, fully introducing Simplified Chinese support with proper Pinyin sorting for app labels. Alongside these language enhancements, this release patches translation typos in French and optimizes the internal launcher extension code for quicker messaging app deployment.

1110403 (1.11.4.3) - Multi Launcher ‧ Home Screen

What's New in Multi Launcher 1.11.4 Build 3

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✨ Enhancements:

• Day-of-year indicator: Added a new visual indicator [77/365] next to the date (e.g., 'Wed, Mar 18 [77/365]') for better yearly progress tracking.

🔧 Code Quality:

• Advanced Search Ranking: Enhanced the search logic with detailed scoring and deterministic ordering to ensure the most relevant apps appear exactly where you expect them.
• Stable Release Support: Improved the release fetching architecture to better handle and display multiple stable release versions.

🌐 Localization:

• Language Updates: Multiple updates to localization files to improve translation accuracy across various regions.

⏪ Reverts:

• Reverted Kurmanji Kurdish translation to address integration issues.

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📥 Installation Instructions

1. Download the APK.
2. Allow your browser/files app to install apps.
3. Install Multi Launcher.

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⚠️ Note for Double Tap to Lock Feature

Manually installed APKs may block accessibility settings needed for this feature. To enable:

1. Go to Settings → Apps → Multi Launcher.
2. Tap the three-dot menu at the top right.
3. Select Allow restricted settings.

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Full Changelog: 1.11.4.2...1.11.4.3

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✅ Improvements in this build: Version 1.11.4.3 refines the user interface with the new day-of-year tracker while significantly hardening the backend search logic. These updates ensure that whether you are looking at the date or searching for an app, the information presented is precise, organized, and reliable.

1110402 (1.11.4.2) - Multi Launcher ‧ Home Screen

What's New in Multi Launcher 1.11.4 Build 2

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✨ Enhancements:

• Prioritize app aliases for none fuzzy search (fe592f71)
• Prioritize app aliases for fuzzy search only (ed61269a)

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📥 Installation Instructions

1. Download the APK.
2. Allow your browser/files app to install apps.
3. Install Multi Launcher.

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⚠️ Note for Double Tap to Lock Feature

Manually installed APKs may block accessibility settings needed for this feature. To enable:

1. Go to Settings → Apps → Multi Launcher.
2. Tap the three-dot menu at the top right.
3. Select Allow restricted settings.

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Full Changelog: 1.11.3.5...1.11.4.2

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✅ Improvements in this build: Version 1.11.4.2 focuses on search precision. By prioritizing app aliases in both fuzzy and non-fuzzy search modes, users can find their renamed or aliased applications more reliably and quickly. This build ensures that your custom naming conventions take precedence over system labels during navigation.

1110305 (1.11.3.5) - Multi Launcher ‧ Home Screen

What's New in Multi Launcher 1.11.3 Build 5

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✨ Enhancements:

• Disable dependency metadata in builds (b4dbdc1d)
• Add unit tests for FuzzyFinder (5d311478)

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🐛 Bug Fixes:

• Update app rename condition to compare against preferences alias (a85cbdba)
• Resolve icon loading and sorting bugs (d04d371c)

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🔧 Code Quality:

• Centralize and simplify list filtering logic (f5d9184a)
• Implement advanced fuzzy search algorithm (0c113375)
• Refactor settings font and icon sizing logic (f70b7d67)
• Refactor BatteryReceiver to improve reliability and efficiency (99345c31)

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📥 Installation Instructions

1. Download the APK.
2. Allow your browser/files app to install apps.
3. Install Multi Launcher.

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⚠️ Note for Double Tap to Lock Feature

Manually installed APKs may block accessibility settings needed for this feature. To enable:

1. Go to Settings → Apps → Multi Launcher.
2. Tap the three-dot menu at the top right.
3. Select Allow restricted settings.

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Full Changelog: 1.11.3.4...1.11.3.5

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✅ Improvements in this build: Build 5 focuses on search precision and system reliability. It introduces an advanced fuzzy search algorithm with dedicated unit testing, refactors battery monitoring for better efficiency, and resolves critical bugs related to icon sorting and app renaming logic.

1110304 (1.11.3.4) - Multi Launcher ‧ Home Screen

What's New in Multi Launcher 1.11.3 Build 4

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✨ Enhancements:

• Add reset functionality to app renaming (8ec4f806)
• Introduce FontText composable for custom font support (5813f83c)
• Implement dynamic and accessible A–Z sidebar for improved app navigation (42c831fa)

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🐛 Bug Fixes:

• Fix keyboard handling issues and incorrect bottom margin behavior (6ced4384)

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🔧 Code Quality:

• Clean up and improve changelog generation script (27ed889e)
• Simplify app rename logic and UI (f76aaf98)
• Refactor rename UI in app drawer (d3d30f1b)
• Simplify app rename logic in AppDrawerAdapter (f5405c4b)
• Improve preference migration and build script variables (a4a27359)
• Use activityLabel directly, removing redundant customLabel and label logic (dc1a81f3)
• Use FontManager for font loading in SettingsComposable (54361a40)
• Adopt FontText in SettingsTextPreference (1355be5a)
• Remove redundant theme logic from SettingsFragment (f2ea3277)
• Improve app drawer context menu behavior and keyboard interactions (e09b4411)

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📥 Installation Instructions

1. Download the APK.
2. Allow your browser/files app to install apps.
3. Install Multi Launcher.

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⚠️ Note for Double Tap to Lock Feature

Manually installed APKs may block accessibility settings needed for this feature. To enable:

1. Go to Settings → Apps → Multi Launcher.
2. Tap the three-dot menu at the top right.
3. Select Allow restricted settings.

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Full Changelog: 1.11.3.3...1.11.3.4

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✅ Improvements in this build:
Build 4 enhances customization and accessibility with improved font handling, a dynamic A–Z app drawer sidebar, and reset support for app renaming. It also fixes keyboard-related issues and includes extensive internal refactoring to simplify logic, improve maintainability, and remove redundant code.

1110303 (1.11.3.3) - Multi Launcher ‧ Home Screen

What's New in Multi Launcher 1.11.3 Build 3

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✨ Enhancements:

• Add options to clear theme and WOTD data (fe5406f0)

🔧 Code Quality:

• Refactor language change implementation (2b7c7d77)
• Check for internet before showing crash dialog (c7cafa34)
• Adopt Gradle version catalog for plugins (42b75b56)

🐛 Bug Fixes:

• Capitalize Czech language name (639948c1)
• Improve reliability of opening the default SMS app (0aebba45)

🌐 Localization:

• Updated Language Files. (#977) (c7850232)
• Updated Language Files. (#976) (51970918)

🧹 Maintenance & Cleanup:

• Rename package from droidworksstudio to codeworkscreativehub (f6d7534d)

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📥 Installation Instructions

1. Download the APK.
2. Allow your browser/files app to install apps.
3. Install mLauncher.

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⚠️ Note for Double Tap to Lock Feature

Manually installed APKs may block accessibility settings needed for this feature. To enable:

1. Go to Settings → Apps → Multi Launcher.
2. Tap the three-dot menu at the top right.
3. Select Allow restricted settings.

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Full Changelog: 1.11.3.2 → 1.11.3.3

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✅ Improvements in this version:
This update introduces options to clear theme and WOTD data, refines language handling, enhances crash dialog reliability, adopts Gradle version catalog for plugins, fixes minor bugs, and updates localization files. Internal cleanup includes package renaming for consistency.

1110302 (1.11.3.2) - Multi Launcher ‧ Home Screen

What's New in Multi Launcher 1.11.3 Build 2

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✨ Enhancements:

• Relocate Expert Options easter egg to About section (2fdf9809)
• Add increment/decrement buttons to slider dialog (981f8d9f)
• Migrate UI to Material Design 3 (803c8444)

🔧 Code Quality:

• Improve crash report payload and reduce cooldown (b6604421)
• Migrate to AppCompatDelegate for language handling (9a196f64)
• Cache localized resources to improve performance (bf9999d9)
• Make AppViewHolder a static nested class (9ada91e9)
• Replace AndroidView with Compose Text (710ef168)
• Replace XML switch with Compose implementation (d35ddef9)

🧹 Maintenance & Cleanup:

• Rename package from droidworksstudio to codeworkscreativehub (f6d7534d)

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📥 Installation Instructions

1. Download the APK.
2. Allow your browser/files app to install apps.
3. Install mLauncher.

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⚠️ Note for Double Tap to Lock Feature

Manually installed APKs may block accessibility settings needed for this feature. To enable:

1. Go to Settings → Apps → Multi Launcher.
2. Tap the three-dot menu at the top right.
3. Select Allow restricted settings.

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Full Changelog: 1.11.3.1 → 1.11.3.2

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✅ Improvements in this version:
This update introduces a full migration to Material Design 3, improves slider usability with increment and decrement controls, refines language handling and performance through better resource caching, enhances crash reporting, and includes internal cleanup such as package renaming and Compose-based UI modernization.