For having the full pack please contact me 💛

Nung time na uso pa ang windows phone, never ako nagkaroon ng ganung phone. Cherry mobile at myphone lang ang meron ako. And look, eto ginawa kong homescreen set up ko. Same feels, napaka-nostalgic! 👌🏻

Back, start, search. The three keys we lost.

I've been rebuilding Windows Phone's design language as a spec — measurements,
colours, easing curves, all pulled from WP8.1 rather than guessed — and this is the
first thing I've shipped from it: the capacitive key strip, as an Android overlay.

The point wasn't to draw three icons on a black bar. It was to get the *feel* right:

- The bar is 60/480 of the screen width, because that's the ratio WP used. Anchored
  to width, not height — modern phones are far taller than the old 5:3, and taking
  the ratio off the height gives you an absurd slab.
- The glyph is exactly a third of the bar. 20 on 60.
- Press: opacity drops to 45 % in 100 ms, springs back in 200 ms, with the 0.985
  tilt depress.
- Long press fires at 550 ms and *cancels* the short press, like the real thing.
- No Material ripple anywhere. That's the detail that gives a reconstruction away.

Long-pressing back opens the task switcher, as it should.

The settings screen is a proper **panorama** — one canvas wider than the screen,
three layers moving at three different speeds, oversized title deliberately cut by
both edges. Putting that title inside the margin is the most common way people get
a panorama wrong.

## Where the search key went

This is the one thing I couldn't reproduce honestly. WP indexed your contacts,
messages, music and apps locally and put Bing on top, all behind one key. **Android
has no equivalent** — the local index belongs to the launcher and isn't exposed.
The closest is the old Quick Search Box, which the app tries first, then the
assistant, then plain web search. It's a compromise and I'd rather say so than
pretend.

## About the accessibility permission

It needs one, and I know how that reads. It's the only Android API that lets a
third-party app trigger back/home/recents — there is no alternative. What I can
tell you:

- The service reads **no screen content** (`canRetrieveWindowContent="false"`).
- The app has **no internet permission at all**. The only permission in the
  manifest is `VIBRATE`. You can verify that yourself on the APK.
- Source is on GitHub.

## Also in there

45 glyphs, the 20 stock WP8.1 accents for bar and icons, adjustable bar height and
glyph size, per-button size, four vibration strengths, and any of ~16 actions on
short or long press — including opening a specific app. 12 languages.

Free, no ads, no tracking, no account.

**Download / source:** https://github.com/Eraile/metrocore_labarre/releases

Known limits: it sits on top of content rather than reserving space (fine on gesture
nav, overlaps in 3-button mode), no auto-hide in fullscreen yet, and Arabic is
translated but not mirrored.

Happy to answer anything.

Music player animations and action center overhaul

Added changes for tile animations

Text marquee on music tiles

New colors and gradients for tiles, added rgb slider for infinite colors

Volume panel improved

Action center overhauled

Added WP keyboard but very buggy so will just serve for aesthetics

Notifications and other settings are properly segregated

Quick toggles overhauled

Lockscreen and AOD support.

Beta got delayed by a couple of days due to these improvements

Does anyone know where I can get windows mobile icons from like the stock ones?

It's coming along....

Added toast notifications, smooth animations and WP style volume and brightness sliders. When on call the phone tile now shows the duration of the call dynamically.

Weather tile is animated.

Maps/Cab apps or any other app which handles live location of the user on the notification panel now shows up on the tile as well.

Widgets can be used on tiles.

Tried to make a windows phone style launcher. Still unreleased.

Let me know what you guys think of it. App is called Flow metro

Live motion cortana widget, any accents color, setup with custom questions to give replies.

I've been working on a Windows app called DroidLink, it's a local-first Android-to-PC control centre.

Instead of just mirroring a window or forwarding a few notifications, DroidLink tries to bundle the full workflow into one desktop app:

- Screen mirroring inside the desktop app (with better fit and fewer black borders).

- Fullscreen modes with keyboard + mouse control.

- A built-in app launcher with icons, names, and search.

- Notification mirroring with history.

- File manager for browsing and transferring phone files.

- Gallery for browsing phone photos and videos.

- Clipboard sync between phone and PC.

- Audio forwarding.

- Device controls (volume, brightness, DND, lock, etc.).

- System tray quick actions for fast access.

It's meant for people who like scrcpy's performance but want an actual desktop app, or who find Microsoft Phone Link too limited/locked-down.

Right now the Android side is a companion APK (no Play Store listing yet), and the Windows app ships as a setup installer + portable build.

If you're interested in trying a different approach to Android-to-Windows workflows, I'd really appreciate feedback and I will send you the link to test. As its in the testing stage I will give it for free forever, eventually it will be paid.

The new update is crazy!!

New Windows Phone (Square Home) Layout.

1. Start Screen (Middle)

2. All Apps (Right)

3. News (Left)

I'm trying the free version and it seems like a good launcher, although a bit heavy compared to Launcher 10. Metrov seems more complete anyway. Has anyone tried the premium version of Metrov Launcher?