Ox Shell
A launcher that recreates the feel of a classic video game system
| AppID: | com.OxGames.OxShell |
| Author: | Oxters Wyzgowski |
| License: | GPL-3.0-only |
| Donation: | |
| InRepoSince: | 2023-03-21 |
| LastRepoUpdate: | 2024-01-11 |
| LastAppUpdate: | 2024-01-11 |
| LastVersion: | 1.3.2 |
| Categories: | Theming, System |
| APK source: | Github |
| Google Play: | Check if it's there |
Introducing Ox Shell for Android, a sleek and intuitive home screen experience inspired by the iconic look of a classic video game system. With Ox Shell, you can enjoy easy access to all your favorite apps and games, all while enjoying a visually stunning interface that’s sure to impress.
Ox Shell features a horizontal scrolling menu that allows you to quickly navigate through your apps and games. You can easily customize your home screen with your favorite apps and emulators, and the launcher’s intuitive design ensures that everything is easy to find and access.
One of the core features of Ox Shell is its ability to be navigated through with a gamepad. You can even open the app switcher using a gamepad (accessibility permission must be enabled for this feature). The launcher also supports intuitive touch controls.
Ox Shell can be used as a live wallpaper service. It allows you to pick from a couple of built-in options or even to set up your own shaders as your device’s background. On top of that Ox Shell also doubles as a file explorer. Allowing you to copy, cut, rename files, and more.
So if you’re looking for a home screen experience that’s both beautiful and functional, Ox Shell is the perfect choice. With its sleek design, customizable options, and powerful performance, it’s the perfect way to take your Android experience to the next level.
While you can download the APKs here directly, you should preferably use an F-Droid client so the app stays up-to-date on your device. Some clients have this repo enabled by default, e.g. Neo Store, Droid-ify, or, of course, the IzzyOnDroid client by Sunil. With others (like the official client) you'll have to add this repo manually (see the hint on top of the package list for how to do that).
Packages
Version 1.3.2 (2024-01-11) 
Android Versions:
- Target: 13.0
- MinVer: 8.0
Signing Blocks
Signing Block Blobs:
- 0x504b4453 (DEPENDENCY_INFO_BLOCK; GOOGLE)
App Configuration & Special Access
:
- none
Sensitive Intent Filters:
android.accessibilityservice.AccessibilityService: needed for the feature to open the app switcher using a gamepad
Permissions:
- ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE
- FOREGROUND_SERVICE
- MANAGE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE (needed by file managers with more recent Android versions)
- POST_NOTIFICATIONS
- QUERY_ALL_PACKAGES (needed to list the apps for you to launch them)
- READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE (needed by the integrated file exlorer to browse all directories)
- REQUEST_DELETE_PACKAGES (needed to let you uninstall apps)
- REQUEST_INSTALL_PACKAGES (includes a file explorer, so this allows you to install APKs)
- SET_WALLPAPER
- WAKE_LOCK
- WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE
- DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION
Features:
- None
Malware-Check:Passed
47 Libraries detected:
Libraries:
- Android Support v4 (Development Framework)
The Android Support Library is not actually a single library, but rather a collection of libraries that can roughly be divided into two groups: compatibility and component libraries. For details, please see Understanding the Android Support Library.
- AndroidX Activity (Utility)
provides the base Activity subclass and the relevant hooks to build a composable structure on top.
- Android Jetpack Annotations (Utility)
library that contains the annotations for Android Jetpack.
- Arch (Utility)
helper for other arch dependencies, including JUnit test rules that can be used with LiveData.
- AppCompat (Utility)
support newer Android features on older Android versions.
- Cardview (UI Component)
AndroidX library to implement the Material Design card pattern with round corners and drop shadows.
- Android Support Library collections (Utility)
standalone efficient collections.
- Concurrent (Utility)
AndroidX library to help move tasks off the main thread with coroutines and take advantage of ListenableFuture.
- Constraint Layout Library (Utility)
library to reduce the number of nested views needed.
- Coordinatorlayout (UI Component)
AndroidX library to position top-level application widgets, such as AppBarLayout and FloatingActionButton.
- Androidx Core (Utility)
a static library that you can add to your Android application in order to use APIs that are either not available for older platform versions or utility APIs that aren't a part of the framework APIs.
- AndroidX Cursor Adapter (Utility)
static library support version of the framework's CursorAdapter.
- Android Support Library Custom View (UI Component)
a module to implement custom views. Part of the Android Support Library.
- Documentfile (UI Component)
a library to view a file document.
- Drawerlayout (UI Component)
AndroidX library to implement a Material Design drawer widget.
- Dynamicanimation (UI Component)
create smooth animations with a physics-based animation API.
- Android Emoji2 Compat (UI Component)
core library to enable emoji compatibility in Kitkat and newer devices to avoid the empty emoji characters.
- AndroidX Fragment (UI Component)
AndroidX library to encapsulate part of the user interface or behavior into reusable components.
- Interpolator (UI Component)
AndroidX library to use animation interpolators on older platforms.
- androidx.legacy (Utility)
a static library that you can add to your Android application in order to use APIs that are either not available for older platform versions or utility APIs that aren't a part of the framework APIs.
- Lifecycle (Utility)
perform actions in response to a change in the lifecycle status of another component, such as activities and fragments.
- Loader (Utility)
library to load data for your UI that survives configuration changes.
- AndroidX Local Broadcast Manager (Utility)
an application-wide event bus and embraces layer violations in your app: any component may listen events from any other.
- AndroidX Media (Utility)
share media contents and controls with other apps.
- AndroidX Media3 (Utility)
share media contents and controls with other apps.
- Print (Utility)
a library to print photos, docs, and other graphics and images.
- ResourceInspection (Development Aid)
AndroidX library to surface the attributes of custom views in Android Studio’s Live Layout Inspector.
- Recyclerview (Utility)
display large sets of data in your UI while minimizing memory usage.
- Android Activity Saved State (Utility)
provides the base Activity subclass and the relevant hooks to build a composable structure on top.
- Startup (Utility)
AndroidX library to implement a straightforward, performant way to initialize components at app startup.
- Tracing (Utility)
AndroidX library to write trace events to the system trace buffer.
- Transition (UI Component)
animates motion in the UI with starting and ending layouts.
- Vectordrawable (UI Component)
AndroidX library to render vector graphics.
- Android Jetpack VersionedParcelable (Utility)
Provides a stable but relatively compact binary serialization format that can be passed across processes or persisted safely.
- Viewpager (UI Component)
AndroidX library to display Views or Fragments in a swipeable format.
- AndroidX Widget ViewPager2 (UI Component)
replaces AndroidX ViewPager, addressing most of its predecessor’s pain-points, including right-to-left layout support, vertical orientation, modifiable Fragment collections, etc.
- ShaderView (UI Component)
an Android View that makes it easy to use GLSL shaders for your app. It's the modern way to use shaders for Android instead of RenderScript.
- FasterXML Jackson (Utility)
a fast and compliant streaming JSON parser/writer with a StAX-like API and support for marshalling/unmarshalling POJOs via annotations.
- Google Material Design (Utility)
library to help with material design guidelines.
- Google Core Libraries for Java 6+ (Utility)
a set of core libraries that includes new collection types (such as multimap and multiset), immutable collections, a graph library, functional types, an in-memory cache, and APIs/utilities for concurrency, I/O, hashing, primitives, reflection, string processing, and much more.
- Error Prone (Utility)
a static analysis tool for Java that catches common programming mistakes at compile-time.
- Javassist (Utility)
Java bytecode engineering toolkit.
- Kotlin (Utility)
The Kotlin Programming Language
- kotlinx.coroutines (Utility)
library support for Kotlin coroutines.
- IntelliJ IDEA (Utility)
development helper: integration for the IntelliJ IDEA IDE.
- fast-serialization (Utility)
fast java serialization drop in-replacement.
- Objenesis (Utility)
a library dedicated to bypass the constructor when creating an object.
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Version 1.3.1 (2023-08-28)
Android Versions:
- Target: 13.0
- MinVer: 8.0
Signing Blocks
Signing Block Blobs:
- 0x504b4453 (DEPENDENCY_INFO_BLOCK; GOOGLE)
App Configuration & Special Access
:
- none
Sensitive Intent Filters:
android.accessibilityservice.AccessibilityService: needed for the feature to open the app switcher using a gamepad
Permissions:
- ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE
- FOREGROUND_SERVICE
- MANAGE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE (needed by file managers with more recent Android versions)
- POST_NOTIFICATIONS
- QUERY_ALL_PACKAGES (needed to list the apps for you to launch them)
- READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE (needed by the integrated file exlorer to browse all directories)
- REQUEST_DELETE_PACKAGES (needed to let you uninstall apps)
- REQUEST_INSTALL_PACKAGES (includes a file explorer, so this allows you to install APKs)
- SET_WALLPAPER
- WAKE_LOCK
- WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE
- DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION
Features:
- None
Malware-Check:Passed
47 Libraries detected:
Libraries:
- Android Support v4 (Development Framework)
The Android Support Library is not actually a single library, but rather a collection of libraries that can roughly be divided into two groups: compatibility and component libraries. For details, please see Understanding the Android Support Library.
- AndroidX Activity (Utility)
provides the base Activity subclass and the relevant hooks to build a composable structure on top.
- Android Jetpack Annotations (Utility)
library that contains the annotations for Android Jetpack.
- Arch (Utility)
helper for other arch dependencies, including JUnit test rules that can be used with LiveData.
- AppCompat (Utility)
support newer Android features on older Android versions.
- Cardview (UI Component)
AndroidX library to implement the Material Design card pattern with round corners and drop shadows.
- Android Support Library collections (Utility)
standalone efficient collections.
- Concurrent (Utility)
AndroidX library to help move tasks off the main thread with coroutines and take advantage of ListenableFuture.
- Constraint Layout Library (Utility)
library to reduce the number of nested views needed.
- Coordinatorlayout (UI Component)
AndroidX library to position top-level application widgets, such as AppBarLayout and FloatingActionButton.
- Androidx Core (Utility)
a static library that you can add to your Android application in order to use APIs that are either not available for older platform versions or utility APIs that aren't a part of the framework APIs.
- AndroidX Cursor Adapter (Utility)
static library support version of the framework's CursorAdapter.
- Android Support Library Custom View (UI Component)
a module to implement custom views. Part of the Android Support Library.
- Documentfile (UI Component)
a library to view a file document.
- Drawerlayout (UI Component)
AndroidX library to implement a Material Design drawer widget.
- Dynamicanimation (UI Component)
create smooth animations with a physics-based animation API.
- Android Emoji2 Compat (UI Component)
core library to enable emoji compatibility in Kitkat and newer devices to avoid the empty emoji characters.
- AndroidX Fragment (UI Component)
AndroidX library to encapsulate part of the user interface or behavior into reusable components.
- Interpolator (UI Component)
AndroidX library to use animation interpolators on older platforms.
- androidx.legacy (Utility)
a static library that you can add to your Android application in order to use APIs that are either not available for older platform versions or utility APIs that aren't a part of the framework APIs.
- Lifecycle (Utility)
perform actions in response to a change in the lifecycle status of another component, such as activities and fragments.
- Loader (Utility)
library to load data for your UI that survives configuration changes.
- AndroidX Local Broadcast Manager (Utility)
an application-wide event bus and embraces layer violations in your app: any component may listen events from any other.
- AndroidX Media (Utility)
share media contents and controls with other apps.
- AndroidX Media3 (Utility)
share media contents and controls with other apps.
- Print (Utility)
a library to print photos, docs, and other graphics and images.
- ResourceInspection (Development Aid)
AndroidX library to surface the attributes of custom views in Android Studio’s Live Layout Inspector.
- Recyclerview (Utility)
display large sets of data in your UI while minimizing memory usage.
- Android Activity Saved State (Utility)
provides the base Activity subclass and the relevant hooks to build a composable structure on top.
- Startup (Utility)
AndroidX library to implement a straightforward, performant way to initialize components at app startup.
- Tracing (Utility)
AndroidX library to write trace events to the system trace buffer.
- Transition (UI Component)
animates motion in the UI with starting and ending layouts.
- Vectordrawable (UI Component)
AndroidX library to render vector graphics.
- Android Jetpack VersionedParcelable (Utility)
Provides a stable but relatively compact binary serialization format that can be passed across processes or persisted safely.
- Viewpager (UI Component)
AndroidX library to display Views or Fragments in a swipeable format.
- AndroidX Widget ViewPager2 (UI Component)
replaces AndroidX ViewPager, addressing most of its predecessor’s pain-points, including right-to-left layout support, vertical orientation, modifiable Fragment collections, etc.
- ShaderView (UI Component)
an Android View that makes it easy to use GLSL shaders for your app. It's the modern way to use shaders for Android instead of RenderScript.
- FasterXML Jackson (Utility)
a fast and compliant streaming JSON parser/writer with a StAX-like API and support for marshalling/unmarshalling POJOs via annotations.
- Google Material Design (Utility)
library to help with material design guidelines.
- Google Core Libraries for Java 6+ (Utility)
a set of core libraries that includes new collection types (such as multimap and multiset), immutable collections, a graph library, functional types, an in-memory cache, and APIs/utilities for concurrency, I/O, hashing, primitives, reflection, string processing, and much more.
- Error Prone (Utility)
a static analysis tool for Java that catches common programming mistakes at compile-time.
- Javassist (Utility)
Java bytecode engineering toolkit.
- Kotlin (Utility)
The Kotlin Programming Language
- kotlinx.coroutines (Utility)
library support for Kotlin coroutines.
- IntelliJ IDEA (Utility)
development helper: integration for the IntelliJ IDEA IDE.
- fast-serialization (Utility)
fast java serialization drop in-replacement.
- Objenesis (Utility)
a library dedicated to bypass the constructor when creating an object.
Payment Modules:
- None found
a library dedicated to bypass the constructor when creating an object.
Ads & Analytics:
- None found
a library dedicated to bypass the constructor when creating an object.
Download (16 M)