So an update for everyone since everyone is curious of what's next in GCA. The focus right now is performance and reliability. I'm working on Of course the new search interface separating app search and internet search. Eventually, id love to integrate global search but we are a ways out on that. I'm still designing and Polishing the search interface and will of course get feedback on you guys once it rolls out and i can design it better for how we use it. Internet search will be triggered by tapping the shelf searchbar. The Shelf searchbar will also have a trigger for left and right swipe gestures. The desktop will have more gestures at your disposal for app shortcuts (i will add actions for hardware probably in the future like double tap to sleep, flashlight, ect). App search is garbage atm as we can all agree so I'm doing 2 things for this. I'm building a custom view to handle Apps in the Drawer, Recents and Shelf Favorites. Instead of the drawer handling multiple views and deciding what sizes they are, what icons they get and mask, I'm making the custom view handle that while the drawer is just responsible to spit out the custom view which should make things smoother and faster. Instead of the list asking the adapter (I need an icon, title, volor, shape, drawable, textsize, text style, app icon size, etc), I'll be asking it to present a title, icon and color with the main view. Launcher3 (Pixel Launcher) uses a similar method. That launcher uses a custom view called a Bubbletextview which is just a heavily modified text to show themed icons above the app titles respective to screen size and themes by the os. I have created a similar view which is responsible for the same actions but a tad different. Just built for what we need it to do. App search will be rebuilt against this new view so it operates the way we want it to and that is to work. Once Gestures, search and this new view is completed, I'll publish the update which this could take at the most to finish 2 weeks.
The feedback the user base have sent my way has been very helpful and with each update,I'm trying to prioritize bug fixes and feature request. My free time to code is starting to be limited as I get older but all i can ask is patience and that effort to inform me of new ideas and possibilities for this project.