Support setting Termux as home launcher

[xelxebar]

Overview

This addresses #206 (along with #482 and #880), but in a more canonical way than I suggested in the comments there.

As for launching applications, we can use am

am start --user 0 <intent>

Personally, I wrap these in aliases in my bashrc and it works quite well:

app_launch() {
        am start --user 0 "${1}"  >/dev/null
}

alias settings='app_launch "comm.android.settings/.Settings"'

Thoughts

Obviously, my method above requires manual curation. The most annying part is getting the intent uri for newly installed apps, but in #206 @thewisenerd demonstrates one method of easing that hurdle.

[myfreess]

https://www.coolapk.com/apk/com.tumuyan.fixedplay
A Chinese app,named AnyLauncher，can set termux as Android Launcher。 @xelxebar

[amsitlab]

I've TermuxLauncher , currently just generate shortcuts for valid bash script. You can launch app via command launch [app name] like launch whatsapp , if appname have [space] you can replace with dash "-" like launch google-play-store
Best regards.

[pulketo]

I've programmed a php script to execute those launcher commands with just a part of app's names
"x wh" to launch whatsapp or
"x cont" to launch contacts
https://github.com/pulketo/termux-cute-xcute

[justworks007]

Is there any hope that this feature will be merged?

[ghost]

@justworks007 No, this won't be merged. Don't forget that Termux is a terminal emulator and that's its only purpose.

I'm strongly against overloading it by unnecessary permissions, intents, etc.