# aradhyas8/Plume_Launcher

> A lightweight, ad-free, tracking-free launcher for Android TV and Google TV that replaces the stock home screen with an apps row and a Continue Watching list. The APK is only 0.4 MB with no third-party libraries or background services.

- Magnitude: 2.0 out of 10 — Cooling
- Stars: 118 total · +2 stars measured 2026-10-23, 00:37–04:10 UTC, ≈ 11 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Apps · Language: Kotlin · License: GPL-3.0 · Created: 2026-10-18 · Last push: 2026-10-23
- GitHub: https://github.com/aradhyas8/Plume_Launcher · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/aradhyas8/Plume_Launcher

## Useful for

- Replace the cluttered stock Google TV launcher with a minimal home screen
- Remap the Home button to open Plume and return quickly from apps
- Show HDMI inputs (e.g. PlayStation 5) as tiles for switching sources

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-23 (UTC), 00:37–04:10: 116 → 118 stars (+2). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +11 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- The repository is 5 days old and already has 118 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
- Top new repositories this week: #196.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 17
- Issues and pull requests: 59
- Watchers: 1
- Average over the last week: 22 per day
- Usual pace: too little history (under two weeks)
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 2
- Latest release: v1.4 (2026-10-21)

## Stars per day, last 6 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-10-18 … 2026-10-23: 16, 17, 49, 25, 11, 2

## Spotted in now

- Top new repositories this week: #196

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Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-10-23 04:16 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.