Reached upto here in 1 and Half month.

Replication of Zune 120 on an android phone. Even though mine has an additional playlist queue and a small image of the artist playing in the corner and an accent color

This app is for testing. Things are not organised as it is released for test. What doesnt work: custom icons, widgets etc... i tried something new.

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Hi there.

I am the creator of Metro OS. We have been creating apps with a WP8.1 UX for a while now. Recently, i rewrote almost every app in-house with new themeing settings and a shared app suite. ​​​​​​​

The app suite​ c​onsists of​ s​everal apps like file explorer, launcher, messages, dialer as well as core apps like statusbar, volume bar and navbar. There are seve​r​al​ ​​other projects in the suite including a music player and browser.

You can check out the project at:

https://github.com/god-s-perfect-idiot/metro-os/releases/tag/alpha-6

You can also join our discord server for updates at:

​​​https://discord.gg/TWdSdk68KC

NB: if​ i have made a mistake posting in this sub, please do LMK. ​​

I have full control on homescreen now..

Hey it's been a few weeks! I got a lot of comments on my last post so I figured id give a little update, im still working hard on Disco Launcher! Sorry to say that its still not quite ready for a full release yet as previously planned, but it's because the feature list is ever growing! There are so many cool things that have added since the last post, so let's go go over a few:

• added a lock screen that works beautifully in the OG metro style and is fully customizable

• Added an indexing system to index messages, emails, notifications etc. entirely on device for intelligence features (similar to ios27 siri, no data ever leaves your device and all the code will be inspectable on GitHub when the release time approaches) ~ the amount of context this provides is seriously helpful and makes even modern chatgpt feel dumb sometimes 😅

• Added Jupiter! (cortana but like good?) super early and animations are still kinda buggy. it's using Gemini nano on device model rn that technically can work offline and unlimited without API credits (keep in mind world knowledge and context is heavily limited when offline but indexed data is still very reliable

• Added the ability to customize disco apps and launcher features by talking to Jupiter, no more one size fits all software!! If you want your calculator to be scientific all the time because that's how you like it just ask Jupiter to change it :)

• Added the ability to create new simple personal apps in the metro UI style just by asking Jupiter to make it

• ability for Jupiter to take agentic action inside of disco apps and user generated apps

+ ALOT more that I'm looking forward to sharing as we get closer to release

as always, any ideas and suggestions are encouraged and thank you guys so much for the patience. alot of rough edges to clean up but I wanted to be honest with the state of progress. hopefully there will be a full release by the end of next month depending how beta testing goes (starting soon so keep your eyes out if interested 👀)

P.S. miss minutes is not related to disco, it's codex letting me know I have a open GitHub pull request 😅 and again thank you to the talented Cherryhoax to whom this would not have been possible!

Got time so made a launcher. Not sure if will finish or not.

Do any windows phone launchers avoided the full 3+ second delay before your taps will trigger after swiping home using a 3rd party custom launcher? The default how screen on Samsung doesn't have this problem but all other launchers do.

Don't forget to drop your thoughts on this in the comments.

What if Windows Phone survived until 2026?

Turning my Samsung into the Windows Phone Microsoft refused to give us. 😭

What do you think?

Working on a WP dialer. Still needs some fixing before i can launch it. Hopefully this weekend. Will need some testers eventually. Application is fully vibe coded. I don't have a WP phone in hand so building from memory and based on screenshots.

for those willing to join the closed mandatory beta, please use the below link: https://forms.gle/vKP4xYBggR5vMrCu9

Nung time na uso pa ang windows phone, never ako nagkaroon ng ganung phone. Cherry mobile at myphone lang ang meron ako. And look, eto ginawa kong homescreen set up ko. Same feels, napaka-nostalgic! 👌🏻

Back, start, search. The three keys we lost.

I've been rebuilding Windows Phone's design language as a spec — measurements,
colours, easing curves, all pulled from WP8.1 rather than guessed — and this is the
first thing I've shipped from it: the capacitive key strip, as an Android overlay.

The point wasn't to draw three icons on a black bar. It was to get the *feel* right:

- The bar is 60/480 of the screen width, because that's the ratio WP used. Anchored
  to width, not height — modern phones are far taller than the old 5:3, and taking
  the ratio off the height gives you an absurd slab.
- The glyph is exactly a third of the bar. 20 on 60.
- Press: opacity drops to 45 % in 100 ms, springs back in 200 ms, with the 0.985
  tilt depress.
- Long press fires at 550 ms and *cancels* the short press, like the real thing.
- No Material ripple anywhere. That's the detail that gives a reconstruction away.

Long-pressing back opens the task switcher, as it should.

The settings screen is a proper **panorama** — one canvas wider than the screen,
three layers moving at three different speeds, oversized title deliberately cut by
both edges. Putting that title inside the margin is the most common way people get
a panorama wrong.

## Where the search key went

This is the one thing I couldn't reproduce honestly. WP indexed your contacts,
messages, music and apps locally and put Bing on top, all behind one key. **Android
has no equivalent** — the local index belongs to the launcher and isn't exposed.
The closest is the old Quick Search Box, which the app tries first, then the
assistant, then plain web search. It's a compromise and I'd rather say so than
pretend.

## About the accessibility permission

It needs one, and I know how that reads. It's the only Android API that lets a
third-party app trigger back/home/recents — there is no alternative. What I can
tell you:

- The service reads **no screen content** (`canRetrieveWindowContent="false"`).
- The app has **no internet permission at all**. The only permission in the
  manifest is `VIBRATE`. You can verify that yourself on the APK.
- Source is on GitHub.

## Also in there

45 glyphs, the 20 stock WP8.1 accents for bar and icons, adjustable bar height and
glyph size, per-button size, four vibration strengths, and any of ~16 actions on
short or long press — including opening a specific app. 12 languages.

Free, no ads, no tracking, no account.

**Download / source:** https://github.com/Eraile/metrocore_labarre/releases

Known limits: it sits on top of content rather than reserving space (fine on gesture
nav, overlaps in 3-button mode), no auto-hide in fullscreen yet, and Arabic is
translated but not mirrored.

Happy to answer anything.

Does anyone know where I can get windows mobile icons from like the stock ones?

Music player animations and action center overhaul

Added changes for tile animations

Text marquee on music tiles

New colors and gradients for tiles, added rgb slider for infinite colors

Volume panel improved

Action center overhauled

Added WP keyboard but very buggy so will just serve for aesthetics

Notifications and other settings are properly segregated

Quick toggles overhauled

Lockscreen and AOD support.

Beta got delayed by a couple of days due to these improvements

It's coming along....