Folio LauncherRoadmap
Where Folio is headed. Plans can change with feedback, and Android doesn't allow everything iOS does.
This is the file inside the app, the one Settings › Help › Roadmap shows, read straight from the repository when the site is built. If it changes there, it changes here.
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Planned
Language in Settings
Choose Folio's language in Settings › General.
Being built
Supporter codes
Redeem a Ko-fi code in Settings to try new features early. Folio's core stays free, and a code is checked on your phone, offline, with no account.
Planned
Edit Layout on Home
Adjust icons, rows, spacing, the dock and the status right on your Home Screen.
Planned
Cleaner widget picker
Find a widget without scrolling past one app's hundreds: a row of app icons narrows the gallery to the one you want, and each app shows a single row until you ask for more.
Planned
More dock apps
Up to six apps in the dock.
Planned
Custom app icons
Pick any app's icon from an icon pack or a photo.
Planned
Clear badges when opened
Optionally hide an app's badge once you open it.
Planned
Weather widget
A glass widget with the hourly forecast. Off until you turn it on, since it needs a weather service.
Planned
The Folio app
A Sileo-style app for tweaks, themes and updates, with Settings as one tab. The Tweak Library is the first piece.
Planned
Home grid columns
Four, five or six columns on Home.
Planned
Layout History
Out of beta: go back to how Home looked before a big change.
Planned
Back Tap
Double or triple tap the back of your phone to run an action. Inspired by RegiStar.
Planned
Page Effects
3D effects when you swipe between Home pages. Inspired by Barrel.
Planned
StandBy without the fold
StandBy as a screen saver, so it turns on while the phone charges instead of only when it is set down half open. Chosen in Android’s Settings › Display › Screen saver.
Planned
Faster Folio
Quicker start, smoother swipes and less memory, on every phone.
Planned
Simple Mode
Large, clear buttons with labels, a Home that can't be moved by accident, and only the settings you need.
Later
Planned
Notification Rules
Choose per app where notifications show.
Planned
Dock Drawer
Swipe in on the dock for recent apps and Now Playing.
Planned
Complications
A second time zone, sunset and your next alarm on the Lock Cover and StandBy.
Planned
More privacy controls
Private Space support, and more ways to keep what's on your screen private, planned for 0.8.0.
Planned
Custom Today View
Arrange Today View your way, with a news feed like the page left of Android's Home.
Planned
Corners everywhere
Rounded screen corners over every app, not just Home.
Planned
Lock Designer
Design your own Lock Cover and StandBy for each screen.
Planned
Folio website
Downloads, docs, the Market and the roadmap on the web.
Planned
Folio account
Optional, never required: sign in to keep supporter perks, Discord and Google in one place.
Planned
Apps in the Market
Icon packs and themes from Play Store, F-Droid and Obtainium, plus layouts from other launchers, all from the Folio Market.
Exploring
Exploring
Enhanced Fold Tracking
Samsung's precise hinge angle for a smoother fold, set up once with Wireless Debugging. Based on research by ZFoldDuo.
Exploring
Keyd
A keyboard that reads the window: it splits around the crease of a fold, every key can answer a swipe, and it asks for no internet permission. Supporters with a keyboard code see it first.
Exploring
Community themes
Browse and add themes shared on GitHub, right from Folio.
Exploring
Folio Tweaks
Tweaks made by the community, if it can be done safely.
Exploring
Apple services
Join FaceTime links and open Find Devices from Folio. Deeper options only as optional integrations.
Already shipped
What each release actually landed, in the roadmap's own words.
Folio 0.6.7 · not released yet
- Supporters, and a badge that lasts. Back Folio with $15 or more for a Folio Supporter badge that stays, and your name in Settings › Supporters if you want it.
- Folio Beta in the Market. Supporters update Folio to the newest beta from the Market, checked against Folio's signing key.
- Panes that fit the screen. The Market and Settings use two panes on a Fold's inner screen, like iPad, and never leave one empty.
- Double tap on Home. Your Double Tap action works again on an empty spot, whatever size your grid is.
- The dock steps aside. Swipe to Today View and the dock leaves, so it can't sit over the widgets or take their taps.
- Icons follow your theme. A theme that changes app icons shows straight away, and Icons & Side Bar has Refresh Icons for the rest.
- No more smeared pages. Choosing Android's wallpaper draws cleanly instead of leaving every swipe painted over the last.
- A cheaper background. Home's dunes are drawn once and reused, so a swipe costs the GPU about a third less.
- A way back in Settings. Every page has a way back, and the Preview bar no longer covers the App Library.
Folio 0.6.6
- Folio Market. A Sileo-style store for themes, tweaks and layouts, with Featured, Sources, Packages, Installed and Settings.
- Community sources. Add sources from GitHub. Every source is signed, and nothing is downloaded unless you add it.
- Privacy labels. See what a package can use before you get it.
- Make your own tweaks. A package format, sample and tools so anyone can publish themes and tweaks.
- Your language. Folio follows your phone's language, and on Android 13 and later you can pick one just for Folio.
- Simplified Chinese. Folio in 简体中文, from setup to the Market, with Traditional Chinese to follow.
- Search in pinyin. Find apps by pinyin or initials, and without typing accents.
- Help translate. A public way to add a language or fix a translation on GitHub.
Folio 0.6.5
- Better bug reports. Folio notes freezes and unexpected restarts, and Report a Bug can copy diagnostics for you.
- Status spacing. Bring the time and date closer, and turn off the status background.
- Folder fixes. No duplicate folders when unfolded, and folders move again.
- Automatic updates. Updates install while your phone is idle, with release notes, Update Now and Update Tonight.
- Clear icons. Frosted glass icons with white symbols, like iOS.
- Big Clock. A large clock on Home with the date, next event and alarm.
- Folder badges. Folders show how many notifications their apps have.
- Dock and status position. Choose the Side Bar or the bottom for the dock, and move the status to the top, on each screen.
- Try Folio first. Open Folio from your current Home Screen to try it before making it your Home app.
- More rows. Home adds rows where your screen has room, the same on both screens of a foldable.
- Layout sliders. Space between rows, columns and dock apps, widget size and status spacing, and Home shows each change as you drag.
- Small cover screens. A focused Home for tiny flip-phone cover screens.
- Fold-aware Home. Pages, the dock and the status stay off the hinge when you half fold.
Folio 0.6.0
- Tweak Library. Get the tweaks you want; only those show in Settings.
- Software Update. Update Folio from GitHub, with optional notifications.
- Island notifications. Other apps' notifications in the Dynamic Island, for the apps you choose.
- Status styles. Rings and Ring with Percentage in the Side Bar, and a Silent mode icon.
- Rounded corners. Optional iPhone Duo-style corners on Home.
- Badge styles. iOS, Classic or Glass badges in three sizes.
- Headphones card. An iPhone-style card when headphones or a speaker connects.
Ask for something
Folio is built from what people ask for as much as what I want. If something here matters to you, or something missing does, say so and it gets weighed.