House of Cards (Floating home)

House of Cards is the most innovative home screen replacement that floating!

★ Make it your home, anywhere!

Your "Home" is always a swipe away!

Learn more about Navigator »


★ Make it your home, anytime!

Your workspace will always be ready
matching your current activity.

Learn more about Smart Card »


★ Make it your home, anything!

Facebook home or Twitter home?
Everything home!!

Learn more about Extended Card »


House of Cards is aiming high -- to provide unified user experiences (UX) for Android™ by:
★ Unified card design
★ Unified one-handed operation
★ Unified multitasking
★ Unified home screen and sidebar
★ Unified UX for portrait and landscape

Though based on the same KitKat code base with Google Now Launcher, we innovate and go deeper with well-thought-out designs instead of bloated customizations.

KEY FEATURES:
» Navigator: Always at your fingertips.
∇ Swipe ⇒ Spread gesture: open/close House of Cards
∇ Swipe ⇓ Home gesture: simulate HOME key for House of Cards
∇ Swipe ⇑ Switch gesture: quickly switch between last used apps.
∇ Swipe ⇓ ⇓ Expand notification tray
∇ Swipe ⇒⇒ Recents (Labs)
∇ Swipe ⇑ ⇑ Expand quick settings (Labs)


» Smart Card
Actually, it is just as smart as you. Your are the one knows best about your needs, not yet another machine learning magic. You can pin any of your workspace card to current running activity by dog-ear the left-top corner while House of Cards is spread. After that, the pinned workspace will pop-up firstly once you perform the spread gesture.

Tip: for quick dial, a workspace card with family direct dials may be pinned to a dialer app.


» Extended Card:
A placeholder for quick accessing to a predetermined app while providing a logical extension to House of Cards.

∇ Swipe right at the leftmost workspace card to enter Extended Card . (Default: Google Now)
∇ Swipe back: utilize Navigator's switch gesture or home gesture.
∇ Assign to stock launchers: TouchWiz, Sense BlinkFeed, Optimus UI, Evolution UI etc. (Labs)
∇ Assign to Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard, My Magazine or Chrome or any browser. (Labs)


» User Interface Enhancements
∇ Customized status bar
∇ Customized quick settings (Signal strength not working; Torch on work on OmniROM)
∇ App Card: Sort options
∇ App Card: Hide apps
∇ Scroll effects
∇ Icon packs (Labs)
∇ More to come ...


» Labs features (Only available in House of Cards for Fans)
∇ Shake to change handedness
∇ Keep in memory (Tweaks for use case of non-default home screen, BUT NOT a no-brainer)
∇ More to come ...


» Permissions
∇ Draw over other apps: That's how House of Cards is unique and ubiquitous.
∇ Retrieve Running Apps: For task switching gesture and Smart Card.
∇ Call phone/Read phone status: Direct call shortcuts / fine tune user experience accordingly.
∇ Access Widget Data: This is mandatory for launcher to display a widget and its data for you.
∇ Internet/Network/Wifi/BlueTooth: customized status bar.
∇ Wallpaper/Vibrate/Status Bar/Choose Widgets: Standard Launcher functions.


This is in Beta, if you have feedback, we’d love to hear from you!
Thank you for trying out House of Cards! We hope you love it just like us.
Bug report and discussion on http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2749164

Please help to spread the world, and press g+1 to support our development, thanks.

Credits: AOSP, CyanogenMod, Paranoid Android, OmniROM (and more)

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