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Lawnchair 14 Beta 3 is here! This release works with QuickSwitch from Android 10 to Android 14 QPR3.

This release contains numerous improvements:

UI improvements
- UI text refresh: all text is now Sentence case to match Material You guidelines (#4209)
- Proper tablet support: the launcher and settings UI now adjust accordingly to the larger width
- Color scheme improvements: Lawnchair now matches the Android 14 and Pixel Launcher colors
- Added support for predictive back when navigating in Settings
- Added support for Android 14's per-app language feature
- Added new fonts in font picker
Search improvements
- Improved permission handling for contacts and files search settings
- Improved performance of search results
- Added the ability to switch search algorithms
- Added new web search providers: Google & DuckDuckGo
- Added new dock search bar providers: Yandex
- Added additional dock search bar customizations
- Added an option to use dock search provider actions for app drawer
Recents screen improvements:
- Added the ability to reorganize the quick actions in Overview
- Added the ability to change transparency of the recents background
Bug fixes
- Fixed crashes on One UI, ColorOS, and other Android OEMs
- Fixed crash when accessing settings with a wallpaper preview on Android 15
- Fixed Smartspacer left padding not working
Other repository improvments:
- Improved docs and README of Lawnchair (#4370)
- Added nightly releases (#4264); do note that these are built differently from normal builds, and can be buggy and less optimized.

Alongside that, this release contains the usual performance improvements, miscellaneous bug fixes, and new bugs & translations.

Thanks to our new contributors: @osm0sis, @t895, @berkekbgz, @JovannMC, @Susexe, @HarmfulBreeze, @sandstranger, @hotmule, and @nivlafx

Want to support Lawnchair's development? Visit our Open Collective page, or you can help by setting your search engine to Startpage. Alongside that, if you're a developer and want to work on Lawnchair, we're investigating how we want to do payouts for development work and bugfixes. If you have any ideas or want to contribute, please get in contact at our Telegram or Discord group!

Warning

We highly recommend to skip this version and use Lawnchair 14 Beta 2 instead as this version uses the Play Store apk name.

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Want a deep dive? See the announcement on our website.

Lawnchair 14 is here! Based on Launcher3 from Android 14, this release works with QuickSwitch from Android 10 to Android 14.
It includes the following features:

GestureNavContract for no-root app closing animations;
No-root Global Search: search your contacts, files, settings, and the web;
Startpage as the new default search engine (read more on the blog above);
Smartspacer support, a At a Glance alternative by @KieronQuinn;
Custom icon shapes, alongside new predefined ones;
Additional fonts support;
Improved icon pack/themed icons picker by @naveenccmsd;
More color, padding, and font customization options;
Custom Home Feed support;
Hide Dock support, and;
Improved Settings UI with announcements section.

This release also fixes the bug where adding widgets with setup screens will crash Lawnchair.
It also includes miscellaneous bug fixes, new translations, and performance improvements.

As an added note, we would like to give a shout-out to @MrSluffy for doing the AOSP 13/14 merge to Lawnchair and reviving Lawnchair's development.
You may have known that Lawnchair development stalled into a hiatus after Patryk left and after we published 12.1 Alpha 4.
Thankfully, with them joining our team, they merged AOSP, added many new features, and fixed many issues with the app.

We’d like to give thanks to the following new contributors: @dhruvmaindola227, @Darkstar085 , @Fox2Code, @zjunior06, @AngelofVerdant, @MwMxdev.