Super important for productivity. Sometimes I only want to see a select few work apps, sometimes I want to be in focus mode or have hobby related apps. I see a work page, hiking page, default, focus mode. I'll heavily consider buying the app if this is implemented.

Maybe you could create different presets of homescreens in the app

For people who dont want to use an automation app you can just use basic features like time and location to change the homescreen or use a button in the homescreen to select

For more advanced users you can just implement a possibility to change the preset via tasker

Since we’re trying to avoid duplicated posts, I’m making a comment here instead.

I have some few ideas on how to implement this. Mainly 2 ways of achieving this, since @mykohsu mentioned the idea of popup folders.

I believe that the homescreen switching is an extremely viable options and getting a MVP working seems doable. Just certain aspects need to be automated. There are probably more factors that I’m not considering, but hopefully the Niagara teams sees this.

My proposals are shown below.

Switching Homescreens

This is the best and in my opinion easiest to implement, because I believe that the foundation exists already. It can be done manually already, but just inconvenient and not elegant.

The backup/restore feature already has the ability to allow the changing of the homescreen. Is it clunky? Yes. Is it viable? Also yes.

Additionally, with the recent larger updates mainly focusing on the theming of the homescreen, allowing easy swapping of wallpapers/fonts/color/icons. It’s very similar to the kind of homescreen swapping that I envision, just with the addition of allowing a custom list of “favourites” per “profile” as well.

Additional Pop-up folders/ apps

System

This is difficult to implement fully considering the number of possible conditions that a user may want. I do not know what APIs that Android system provides to be able to read the state of the different modes.

From my current understanding, the Digital Wellbeing focus mode works and grays out apps that are selected. Similarly, Samsung’s focus mode also does this. Samsung also has their own automation tool called “Routines” but I do not know if they expose any sort of API and it can’t really be applied to everyone

Automation Apps

To allow complex conditions and events to be detected, the main work can be offloaded to an automation app such as Tasker or MacroDroid. However this would mean that the user would have to pay additional fees to achieve these detections.

cool!if this work I could switch when I outdoor page or when I am at home page

It could be a carrousel like the widget stack, and chance during the day based on when you use each favorites list.

If it was possible to link these to different ‘modes’ (work, sleep etc.) that would be amazing

On top of this, instead of a special Music folder, the ability to change folders based on which BT or type of BT device is connected