In January Action Launcher introduced AdaptiveZoom, an innovative adaptive icon enhancement naturally animates an app icon to the center of the screen as an app loads.

With today’s v34 update, AdaptiveZoom is enhanced with an API that allows developers to control how their app launches. This is particularly handy for apps that use branded launch screens, allowing for a completely seamless transition from Action Launcher to the app.

And while we’re talking about zooming animations, v34 also sees the integration Android 8.1’s new zoomerrific folder animations. As luck would have it, these animations look fantastic when paired with AdaptiveZoom:

Zooming folder animations + AdaptiveZoom = 👌

Adaptive icon enhancements

Drag animations

When dragging an adaptive icon, the foreground animates with your finger.

Always adapting

Action Launcher’s companion app, AdaptivePack has long been the best way to get the most out of adaptive icons, both bringing full adaptive icon support to devices not yet running Oreo and providing Oreo users stock themed adaptive icons for apps that don’t currently offer them natively.

But until now, even when using AdaptivePack and Oreo, it was possible for some icons to not display in an adaptive shape. Action Launcher v34 changes that with two key enhancments:

A new “AdaptivePack Fallback” option is available for Oreo users. When enabled, Action Launcher will prioritize an app’s native adaptive icon if one exists. If one doesn’t, AdaptivePack’s stock themed variant will be used. For apps that both don’t provide an adaptive icon or are currently supported in AdaptivePack, a new “faux adaptive icon” mode has been added.

TL;DR: As of Action Launcher v34, all app icons will display in an adaptive style if you so desire!

Finally…

Action Launcher’s bundled calendar icons, which displays today’s date on the Google Calendar app icon, now use adaptive icons.

A customary round of memory usage optimizations, start up time improvements & bug fixes round out v34. See here for a detailed change log.