I've been seeing a lot of requests recently on StackOverflow and the android-developers group for help with building and extending the Launcher2 from stock AOSP.
I've tried building the ICS launcher myself a while back (June 2012) and succeeded fairly well.
I open sourced my efforts here:
https://github.com/RaghavSood/CompilingLauncher2
What doesn't work:
Adding a widget to the homescreen crashes the app as it uses a system level permission. Installing via root into the same place as other system apps may fix this, but I haven't tried.
The app list is strangely magnified. I had this working correctly at some point of time, but then I changed something and it got all zoomed in. Widget list is normal sized though. I don't remember what I changed though, as it was back in June.
If someone is able to fix it, I'd welcome patches and bugfixes. If not, I'll be getting back to it after march, as I have exams right now. Just dropped in to share a mostly working and compiling version.
I've tried building the ICS launcher myself a while back (June 2012) and succeeded fairly well.
I open sourced my efforts here:
https://github.com/RaghavSood/CompilingLauncher2
What doesn't work:
Adding a widget to the homescreen crashes the app as it uses a system level permission. Installing via root into the same place as other system apps may fix this, but I haven't tried.
The app list is strangely magnified. I had this working correctly at some point of time, but then I changed something and it got all zoomed in. Widget list is normal sized though. I don't remember what I changed though, as it was back in June.
If someone is able to fix it, I'd welcome patches and bugfixes. If not, I'll be getting back to it after march, as I have exams right now. Just dropped in to share a mostly working and compiling version.