100% Offline-First & Private Launcher

Your Android Home.
Completely Yours.

Ditch the bloated, telemetry-heavy default layouts. MurGoo App Launcher is a razor-sharp, lightweight, and private home replacement built entirely in Kotlin Jetpack Compose. Tailor your application grid on a localized pixel grid, lock apps away in private tabs, customize icon masks, and navigate with high-performance edge gestures.

No Analytics Super Lightweight Sandboxed Local Data
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Browser
Mail
Player
Chat
Sticky Note

Remember to finish the homescreen setup in configurations. Swipe down to trigger notification tray!

SLIP TO DRAWER

0% Analytics

Zero background connections, logs, Firebase crashlytics or analytics tracking. Your activity lists remain purely your own business.

Offline Native

Engineered to work strictly locally. No external web server relays. No remote database synchronize processes required.

Lightweight Fast

Minuscule APK memory size. Instant launch time, zero lag, and memory optimization targeting low-capacity smartphones.

Modern Compose UI

Exclusively utilizing Android Jetpack Compose declarative framework with Material Design 3 and Edge-to-Edge immersion.

Feature Checklist

Full-Spectrum Feature Mastery

Everything needed in a high-performance Android launcher, fine-tuned down to the exact Kotlin line count and package layout.

Dynamic Desktop Grid

Format layout boundaries from spacious 3x3 views to dense 8x8 setups. Tap vacant areas in edit mode to instantiate deep custom mappings, widgets, and dynamic configurations.

  • Custom row & column sizes
  • Drag and drop edit overlays

Intelligent Theme Engine

Switch directly between Pitch Dark styles on OLED layouts, Slate Light controls, or custom hardware background colors using hex values. Supports dynamic primary colors easily.

  • Hex color override support
  • System background bypass transparency

Advanced Icon Styling

Alter scale modifiers, top padding heights, icon text labels visibility, and apply tailored frame masking shapes such as Squircles, Rounded Squares, or Circles.

  • Themed visual tint overlays
  • Fine-grain scale configuration

Canvas Sticky Notes

Directly write local reminder cards onto any grid coordinates. Simple notes stay on the screen forever, storing layouts inside sandboxed shared storage systems safely.

  • Interactive modify controls
  • No sync lags or account login

Secure Hidden App Roster

Hide sensitive apps from the drawer with local isolation filters. Search applications incrementally, sort alphabetically, or organize lists based on company publishers.

  • Company groups category division
  • Incremental instant lookup indexing

Advanced Slide Gesture Modifiers

Drag down anywhere from the empty homescreen space to instantly pop open the phone’s status bar notification tray without reaching with your thumb to the topmost borders.

  • Fast execution reflection
  • Intuitive hand ergonomics scaling
Release Chronicles

What's New in Version 1.0

This is the first version of MurGoo App Launcher! Discover the foundational architectural features, visual enhancements, and robust utility toggles built to personalize and optimize your Android launcher experience.

Custom Categories Display

Take absolute control over your App Drawer tabs. Under the "Category & Tab Settings" section, we've integrated a dedicated system of Radio Buttons allowing you to selectively Show or Hide your hand-crafted custom app folders dynamically.

Interactive Preferences

Sleek Typography & Spacing

Highly tuned layout ergonomics with pristine spacing and clean background blocks. The Help & Instructions Tab and Legal & Privacy Cards have been crafted to fit a mathematically precise Material Design 3 grid.

Visual Performance Polish

Dynamic Launcher Widgetry

Full-fidelity details on all essential home parameters! Real-time localized weather alerts with live condition-specific descriptors, dynamic digital clock trackers, active system power battery reports, and coordinate-positioned sticky note widgets.

High-Fidelity UI Toolkit
Interactive Workspace

Tour the Application Ecosystem

Take a look at different sandboxed compartments designed inside our codebase. Toggle tabs on the left/right to visualize screen captures and core engineering descriptions.

HOMESCREEN WORKSPACE

Drag, Drop & Write Notes

Monday, June 15, 2026
Continuous Dynamic Clock Sync
CANVAS NOTES
Writable

Write reminder cards straight to your launcher's custom coordinates!

Gaming
Camera
Add Cell
⚡ Swipe Down anywhere to open Notification Pull-down tray
Filter 198 apps installed...
All Google System MurGoo
Calc
Clock
Compass
Contacts
Launcher
Gallery
Hold an icon to hide it from home or drawer
Launcher Preferences
Desktop Grid Layout
Columns: 5 columns Modify ↗
Custom Icon Shapes
Current: Squircle mask Adjust ↗
Wallpaper Canvas overrides
RGB Background colors code #0B0F19
Interaction Rules
Force portrait layout orientation Active
Restore Default Installation Grid Settings
Architecture Commitment

Why Offline-First Matters

Most modern Android interfaces serve as constant tracking ports, feeding application telemetry, notifications, and location trails back to large tech servers.

MurGoo App Launcher turns your device into a castle. By retaining coordinates in-memory and saving settings inside private sandboxed local files, your usage habits never cross the network.

SharedPreferences Sandbox

Data stays in your physical device memory container, isolated from other installed apps.

Query Package Permissions

Used exclusively in localized cycles to construct your App Drawer. Zero metadata is preserved.

No Advertising Kits

No advertisement SDKs, trackers, cookies, pixel containers, or third-party analytical models inside.

Clear Outbound Boundaries

Once you tap to enter external software from our interface drawer, standard system sandboxes activate.

SettingsRepository.kt
// Private isolated settings structure
object PreferencesKeys {
  val EULA_ACCEPTED = booleanPreferencesKey("eula_accepted")
  val THEME_MODE = stringPreferencesKey("theme_mode")
  val GRID_COLUMNS = intPreferencesKey("grid_columns")
  val HIDDEN_APPS = stringSetPreferencesKey("hidden_apps")
}

// Localized asynchronous file writes via Datastore
suspend fun saveEulaAccepted(accepted: Boolean) {
  context.dataStore.edit { preferences ->
    preferences[EULA_ACCEPTED] = accepted
  }
}

Our data infrastructure saves options within sandboxed local directories. Absolutely no information is sent to AWS, Google, or MurGoo servers.

METRIC CODE SETTINGS
Application Package Name com.example.launcher
Target Software API Level Android 14 (API Level 34)
Minimum Compatible Version Android 9 (API Level 28)
Jetpack Compose Libraries Material Design 3 (M3)
Storage Footprint < 10 MB APK Payload
Data Transit Encryption N/A (Fully Offline App)
Architecture Setup

Lightweight Android Architecture

Built for speed and longevity. Traditional launchers consume high CPU and RAM cycles tracking and parsing app installations continually. MurGoo App Launcher is written entirely using Kotlin Coroutines and asynchronous state flow streams to process lists on background threads.

Edge-To-Edge Immersive Views: Runs enableEdgeToEdge() in Android lifecycle loops to leverage status bar and navigational grid spaces.
Voluntary Donations Module: Houses complete Google Play Billing frameworks inside private partitions, enabling micro-donations to developers safely.
Built-in compliance checks: Integrated EULA screens prevent execution loops until safety policy parameters are accepted.
Got Questions?

Frequently Asked Questions

Find immediate answers to standard questions regarding platform compatibility, battery consumption parameters, and user interface customization constraints.

What versions of Android is MurGoo compatible with?

MurGoo App Launcher is fully compatible with Android devices running Android 9 (API Level 28) and above, up to latest stable Android 14 and experimental Android 15 releases. It utilizes Jetpack Compose and Material Design 3 features like dynamic accent colors on compatible modern devices while remaining highly performance-optimized on older legacy builds.

Does the launcher affect battery life or run in the background?

Quite the opposite—MurGoo is designed with an extremely lightweight footprint (<10 MB) and operates fully offline, completely avoiding energy-draining telemetry, background tracking servers, or analytical processing loops. To prevent dynamic widgets or the home screen live clock from being paused by aggressive manufacturer memory-killers, we recommend setting the application’s battery preference to "Unrestricted" in your system settings.

Are there any customization or system limitations?

As a third-party home screen launcher on modern Android, some interface elements are restricted by the core Android OS. Most notably, standard system-level gesture navigations (such as smooth animations when swiping home from custom applications) may display a minor system delay because Android reserves high-priority transition animations exclusively for pre-installed factory launcher systems. Additionally, customization is confined safely within our offline application framework (such as desktop matrices, dock configurations, search bars, and home widgets) to guarantee complete privacy.

Supporting Indie Devs

We Run on Micro-Donations

MurGoo App Launcher is 100% free, runs without advertisements, and never sells user preferences tracking data. Our continued optimization projects are supported exclusively through optional, voluntary user donations processed via safe and integrated Google Play Billing pipelines.

Toss small tip ($2.99)
Support a meal ($6.99)
Elite Contributor ($9.99)
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Experience True Interface Freedom

Unleash your device's full potential today. Download the launcher directly from the Google Play Store to enjoy automatic updates, seamless installation, and guaranteed protection.