Eden

A launcher that asks rather than assumes.

Eden is a revival of the classic AOSP Launcher3, rewritten in Kotlin for people who are tired of being told how their own home screen works. Every assumption — the grid, the drawer, which page is home, whether an empty page should stay — is a setting. It brings back the eleven AOSP live wallpapers too, rewritten against OpenGL ES because the originals were RenderScript and could not have been copied even in principle.

Version: 0.5.0
Platform: Android 10 and up
Licence: MIT
Network: Offline

Not "offline supported" — there is no network code in Eden, and no native code either. One APK for every device, about 830 KB.

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MIT for Eden. Portions derived from AOSP Launcher3 remain Apache 2.0.

In 0.5.0 · August 2026

Widgets, hosted properly — and a switch for people who want less launcher rather than more.

Every widget your phone provides, grouped by app, each one labelled with how many cells it takes on your grid rather than an assumed one. Anything that cannot fit is shown but not offered, instead of failing after you have already agreed to it. Drag the handles to resize in whole cells.
Simple mode turns Eden back into what it was at v0.2.0 — a home screen, a drawer, wallpapers and their settings. Nothing is deleted: your renames, your chosen icons and your placed widgets all come back the moment you switch it off.
The home screen no longer swings sideways because you set the phone down at an angle. Apps you open still rotate exactly as they did, and there is a setting if you disagree.
Deleting a page says how many things are on it and waits for an answer. An empty page still goes without ceremony.
Fixes: names are back under the apps in an open folder, blank tiles are gone from the icon browser, page dots are tappable, and the drawer closes if you pull it down from the top.

Still signed with a throwaway test key

Your device may warn about the installer source, which is expected. More importantly, a future release signed with a real key will not install over this one — you would have to uninstall first, and that clears your layout. If that matters to you, wait for a build with a stable key.

Screens

What it looks like

Every shot is Eden running on a Galaxy M31 (Android 16), captured off the device. The icons are themed by an icon pack the phone already had installed — nothing here is a mockup, and nothing was retouched. Tap any of them to see it full size.

Your grid, your dock
Tap the house to make it home
Drag anything, anywhere
Stack two icons for a folder
Vertical drawer
Or fixed pages
Search matches anywhere
The same menu everywhere
Every pack you have
Any icon, for any app
The whole pack, as a grid
Search the pack, not the app list
Eleven live wallpapers
Fall, Grass, Polar Clock
Phase Beam, running
Your own video, on a loop
Frame it against your screen
Home, lock, or both
Settings, with an Auto
Both off by default
The log, on the device

Features

What it does

Your home page, wherever you want it

Keep the middle page as home and have pages on both sides. Tap the house badge on any card in overview to move it. Stock Android has never let you do this; here it is one tap.

Empty pages stay empty

Eden does not delete a page just because you moved the last icon off it. A page you made deliberately empty is one you wanted, and it survives a reboot.

Two drawer modes

Fling through one continuous vertical grid, or swipe through fixed horizontal pages. Same apps, same search, your choice of gesture. The paging feel is the same as the workspace — the fling thresholds, the snap, the velocity scale.

Eleven live wallpapers, back from the dead

Phase Beam, Noise Field, Galaxy, Holo Spiral, Magic Smoke, Nexus, Fall, Grass, Polar Clock, Walkaround, Music Visualization. Nexus and Fall answer to a touch; Grass tracks your actual sky, hour by hour. Nothing draws while you are not looking at it.

Previews that cannot lose your place

Every thumbnail in the wallpaper picker is a still frame rendered offscreen, never a running service — so glancing at a wallpaper cannot be interrupted by a notification or a mis-tapped camera button.

Icon packs, and any icon for any app

Any pack you have installed, read the way every other launcher reads them. Long-press an app to pick from the whole pack in a searchable grid, or hand it a picture. A chosen icon outranks the pack, so switching packs never silently undoes it.

Widgets, sized in your cells

A provider only states its size in cells from Android 12 on; before that it states pixels, and Eden works back from that against the columns and rows you chose. The same widget is 4×1 on one grid and 3×1 on another, and it says so before you place it.

Your grid, your icons

Columns, rows, dock size, icon size, spacing, label gap — all adjustable, each with an Auto that just works if you would rather not think about it.

A log you can read on the device

The last 48 hours of what Eden did, kept locally, thrown away after that, and shared only if you press Share. A simpler launcher should not also be one you cannot file a bug against.

No OEM settings dependency

A launcher lifted out of AOSP has no host app to hang preferences off, and no two OEM Settings apps agree on where they should live. Eden ships its own, built from plain views.

Limits