Themes / Apps / Mods SamSprung TooUI - Cover Screen Home (FREE)

[twistedumbrella]

Welcome to the original Z Flip 3 launcher.
A complete home experience on the cover screen.

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This is the next innovation in cover screen apps. After pioneering the widget launcher, this app has evolved into a full parallel launcher and continues to revolutionize the cover screen.

This launcher adds cover screen support for full notifications with actions, apps, widgets, quick toggles, voice launch, custom screen timeouts, animated wallpapers, and more.

TooUI began and remains the only cover screen app to fully integrate with the stock launcher, bypassing the limitations of the widget interface or attempting to replace the existing home functionality.

Releases · SamSprung/SamSprung-TooUI

A complete home experience on the cover screen. Contribute to SamSprung/SamSprung-TooUI development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

SamSprung TooUI - Apps on Google Play

A complete home experience on the cover screen.

play.google.com

The Android 12 version is backward compatible, but the widget is not compatible with Android 12


Samsung Health replacement widget (Android 11) -

Releases · SamSprung/SamSprung-Widget

Use your cover like a second screen, not a Galaxy Watch. - SamSprung/SamSprung-Widget

github.com

Thanks @CarudiBu for discovering the workaround to load a custom widget.

See the GitHub README for setup and usage information​

Home · SamSprung/SamSprung-TooUI Wiki

A complete home experience on the cover screen. Contribute to SamSprung/SamSprung-TooUI development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

If a picture is worth 1000 words, it would take hundreds to match the code being written.




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[M4-NOOB]

I think I'm a bit stupid, but I can't find the apk? I see the build and the 7.29MB ZFlip-Launcher-dee2c10 but no way to download

 

[twistedumbrella]

I think I'm a bit stupid, but I can't find the apk? I see the build and the 7.29MB ZFlip-Launcher-dee2c10 but no way to download

Click it. May want to wait for "Fix loading friendly labels for installed apps" to finish building. That's the fully functional version.

 

[M4-NOOB]

Click it. May want to wait for "Fix loading friendly labels for installed apps" to finish building. That's the fully functional version.

Can't click anything there https://streamable.com/28ccyk

 

[twistedumbrella]

Can't click anything there https://streamable.com/28ccyk

It should be under Artifacts. It's highlighted in blue in the image. It's a zip archive and the apk is inside it. Github packages them.

Might have still been uploading when you opened it.

 

[M4-NOOB]

It should be under Artifacts. It's highlighted in blue in the image. It's a zip archive and the apk is inside it. Github packages them.

Might have still been uploading when you opened it.

Had to login, now I got it. Without login it doesn't let you

 

[twistedumbrella]

Had to login, now I got it. Without login it doesn't let you

Never knew that. Things they should really include in the docs...

 

[twistedumbrella]

I have to fix an issue where launching the app on the cover screen requires you to kill it in the recent apps before it will launch again with the phone open.

Repository may look a bit ugly until I squash code written in the phone browser.

 

[ione2380]

This sounds great. Too bad I really need s-health.

 

[twistedumbrella]

This sounds great. Too bad I really need s-health.

Working on that.

 

[M4-NOOB]

Which apps have you gotten to work so far? Weirdly enough for me it was only the camera (with tiny cutout of the app, but it starts). No settings/gallery/contacts/maps/gmail/whatsapp and many other apps I tried. When tapping on them it just freezes and I have to press the power button the turn off the cover screen again. I do see them in the recent apps though, they just don't show on the cover screen. Just updated to the latest build, but same results besides not seeing them in recent apps anymore

 

[twistedumbrella]

Basically all my apps work, but I have to kill / click them in recents when opening the screen to launch them again. Still trying to resolve that.

 

[HDCowboy]

Interesting, just got my Flip a couple days ago and although I would hate too uninstall Samsung Health, I'm curious if you would be able to watch a little mini Youtube video on the cover screen with this app, has anyone tried it?

 

[M4-NOOB]

Basically all my apps work, but I have to kill / click them in recents when opening the screen to launch them again. Still trying to resolve that.

Weird I can't get any I try to work (besides camera). The list just freezes (can't scroll up/down/left/right) when trying to start them

 

[twistedumbrella]

I updated the limitations list to document some of the current issues and how to work around them.
Until there is a proper API for cover widgets, some of them may be unavoidable (ie. keyboard)

Interesting, just got my Flip a couple days ago and although I would hate too uninstall Samsung Health, I'm curious if you would be able to watch a little mini Youtube video on the cover screen with this app, has anyone tried it?

Yes, videos do appear to work in the YouTube app, sound and all.

 

[twistedumbrella]

Edit: FIXED. (Mostly)

If you open the screen with an app running on the cover, it will resume. If you tap power while running an app on the cover, it will add the app to recent tasks and resume it normally when opening the screen.

Some apps still burn out (ie Firefox) and don't always launch. It's rare, but still worth looking into to avoid the inconvenience.

 

[twistedumbrella]

For those who installed a previous version ("Remove unused activities and resources" or earlier):

You may need to uninstall to install the newest version. This is part of an effort to get this widget running alongside the Samsung Health app (or a slightly modified version of it).

In theory, using a 'sharedUserId' will allow two apps to exist with shared resources, as long as they are signed with the same signature. Since Samsung Health can be uninstalled (making it a user app), it should be possible to use the signature from this widget and the sharedUserId to make a modified version of the app without the widget that will run alongside it.

 

[twistedumbrella]

Had to login, now I got it. Without login it doesn't let you

Builds are now mirrored to releases, so hopefully that removes the login requirement

 

[M4-NOOB]

Not sure why, but I can't start any app, it's just freezing the cover screen when tapping on an app. No app worked. Restarted the phone then the camera was working (as in previous versions), sadly no other app still.. Also reinstalled and rebooted but no help.

 

[CarudiBu]

From what I've seen testing launching some apps on the cover screen, apps need the

<meta-data android:name="com.samsung.android.activity.showWhenLocked" android:value="true"/>

manifest attribute in each of the activities you want to launch to allow them to be launched while the phone is locked. Otherwise, any activities launched while the phone is closed are queued to open on the main screen once the phone is unlocked.