Lawnchair 14 Beta 3 is here! This release works with QuickSwitch from Android 10 to Android 14 QPR3.
This release contains numerous improvements:
- UI improvements
- UI text refresh: all text is now Sentence case to match Material You guidelines (#4209)
- Proper tablet support: the launcher and settings UI now adjust accordingly to the larger width
- Color scheme improvements: Lawnchair now matches the Android 14 and Pixel Launcher colors
- Added support for predictive back when navigating in Settings
- Added support for Android 14's per-app language feature
- Added new fonts in font picker
- Search improvements
- Improved permission handling for contacts and files search settings
- Improved performance of search results
- Added the ability to switch search algorithms
- Added new web search providers: Google & DuckDuckGo
- Added new dock search bar providers: Yandex
- Added additional dock search bar customizations
- Added an option to use dock search provider actions for app drawer
- Recents screen improvements:
- Added the ability to reorganize the quick actions in Overview
- Added the ability to change transparency of the recents background
- Bug fixes
- Fixed crashes on One UI, ColorOS, and other Android OEMs
- Fixed crash when accessing settings with a wallpaper preview on Android 15
- Fixed Smartspacer left padding not working
- Other repository improvments:
Alongside that, this release contains the usual performance improvements, miscellaneous bug fixes, and new bugs & translations.
Thanks to our new contributors: @osm0sis, @t895, @berkekbgz, @JovannMC, @Susexe, @HarmfulBreeze, @sandstranger, @hotmule, and @nivlafx
Want to support Lawnchair's development? Visit our Open Collective page, or you can help by setting your search engine to Startpage. Alongside that, if you're a developer and want to work on Lawnchair, we're investigating how we want to do payouts for development work and bugfixes. If you have any ideas or want to contribute, please get in contact at our Telegram or Discord group!