Action Launcher v33 adds exclusive AdaptiveZoom feature and more

Chris Lacy
Action Launcher
Published in
2 min readJan 13, 2018

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Last September Action Launcher brought adaptive icons to all devices via its AdaptivePack companion app. In today’s v33 update, Action Launcher introduces a beta of a new and exclusive adaptive icon based feature called AdaptiveZoom.

With AdaptiveZoom, one simply taps an app and its icon naturally animates towards the center of the screen as the app loads.

We feel like this is a terrific feature that really highlights the dynamic capabilities of adaptive icons in a unique way. Hopefully you agree!

AdaptiveZoom requires adaptive icons. It will work out of the box if you’re running Oreo. If you’re on Nougat or earlier, you’ll need to grab AdaptivePack.

Thanks for the support

After a (humbling!) number of requests, Action Launcher’s annual Supporter program is back for 2018.

If we do say so ourselves, we think the 3 exclusive Action Launcher themed wallpapers that are gifted to 2018 supporters are absolutely fantastic…

And the rest

Also new in v33:

  • Android 8.1 style “bounce” animation in All Apps drawer.
  • Polish appearance and animations of home screen indicator.
  • Drag to delete the contents of an entire Home screen.
  • Allow use of empty home screens.
  • Re-enable usage of Android’s Accessibility APIs (with Google’s blessing), improving reliability of opening the notification shade and recents list.

A round of welcome memory usage improvements and bug fixes round out the v33 update. See here for a detailed change log.

Not to be left out…

AdaptivePack is today being updated to v4.0, bringing its supported app count to over 3500 and total icon count to over 1100.

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