Janus, a FOSS Android Launcher

The goal of Janus is to be a launcher that is:

1. Minimal
2. Made with Kotlin
3. Gesture based
4. Open source

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Prerequisite

Building Janus requires:

• git
• Android Studio Canary ("Android 3" as of 2017-08-05T06:25:29.933Z)
• python3, pip3, virtualenv, virtualenvwrapper (Check NOTE)

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Setup

1. The launcher module

   • Download and setup Android Studio Canary: link
   • Open the android studio project in /launcher

2. The model module

   • Setup tensorhack as described in NOTE
   • Play with stuffs in model

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Hacking

Setup git with ssh

Follow this guide: link

Contribution method

1. Fork the repo into your remote
2. Hack
3. Make a pull request here or the community driven organization repo.

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Announcements

• 2017-08-15T05:41:05.891Z: App filtering added
• 2017-08-13T02:36:29.212Z: Drawing pad added
• 2017-08-07T05:16:44.862Z: Initialize tensorflow project with readme and notes
• 2017-08-06T23:37:54.234Z: Refactor into a monorepo project with two module, one for launcher and one for the model.
• 2017-08-05T05:41:49.454Z: Launcher with apps initialized
• 2017-08-03T06:48:30.239Z: Initialize the project

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References:

• @mari-linhares's mnist-android-tensorflow
• @miyosuda's TensorFlowAndroidMNIST
• Keras Pull request on exporting a model
• Keras API guide
• Generate alphabet codegolf
• Deploying a tensorflow model to android
• Basic Painting with Views
• Creating a- deep learning ios-app with keras and tensorflow by @stratospark
• EMNIST github repository
• EMNIST paper
• Build a custom launcher on Android by Ashraff Hathibelagal
• How to Write Custom Launcher App in Android by Arnab Chakraborty
• Cohen, G., Afshar, S., Tapson, J., & van Schaik, A. (2017). EMNIST: an extension of MNIST to handwritten letters. Retrieved from http://arxiv.org/abs/1702.05373 (link is external)

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License:

MIT