FastMedia Launcher Web Portal
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Welcome to the FastMedia Launcher Web Portal - your complete guide to replacing the default Android home screen with a customizable desktop optimized for car head units, dedicated tablet photo frames, Android TV boxes, and display devices.
🌟 Desktop Launcher Capabilities
FastMedia Launcher transforms any Android device into an organized, media-focused desktop. Instead of a cluttered app grid, you get a clean desktop displaying your custom folder shortcuts, live clock, weather updates, and media player controls.
🚗 In-Car Android Head Units & Tablets
- Touch-Friendly Dashboard: Large, high-contrast shortcut tiles for quick access to your music, offline playlists, and network drives while driving.
- Steering Wheel Button Integration: Seamless track skipping and volume adjustment via car steering wheel controls and physical knobs.
- Sticky Streams Radio Bar: Listen to internet radio stations directly on your head unit dashboard with continuous ICY track info display.
- Auto-Start on Ignition: Launches directly into your custom desktop as soon as the car ignition powers on the Android stereo.
🖼️ Dedicated Photo Frame Tablets
- Always-On Digital Frame: Turn old budget tablets into interactive photo frames streaming photos from home NAS (SMB) or cloud storage.
- Background Music Support: Enjoy photo slideshows accompanied by your favorite background music tracks.
- Clock & Weather Overlay: Displays ambient time, date, and local weather forecasts alongside photo slideshows.
📺 Android TV Boxes & Media Centers
- Full D-Pad & Remote Control Support: Navigate folders and media using standard TV remotes, Bluetooth controllers, or air-mice.
- Color-Coded Remote Shortcuts: Red, Green, Yellow, and Blue remote buttons map directly to file operations (Delete, Copy, Move, Rename).
- Big-Screen Cinema Mode: Stream 4K movies and series directly from home servers without local storage limits.
📸 Desktop Layout & Structure
FastMedia Launcher gives you full control over your device’s home screen layout:
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| [ 12:45 PM | ☀️ 22°C ] [ ⚙️ Settings ] |
|---------------------------------------------------------|
| .-------------. .-------------. .---------------. |
| | 📁 Dash Cam | | 🎵 Car Music| | 🖼️ Photo Frame| |
| | (Local SD) | | (NAS SMB) | | (Cloud Sync) | |
| '-------------' '-------------' '---------------' |
|---------------------------------------------------------|
| [ 📻 Internet Radio ] [ 📱 App Drawer ] [ 🧹 Sort ] |
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- Custom Folder Shortcuts: One-tap shortcuts to local folders, USB drives, NAS shares, or cloud storage.
- Built-in Application Drawer: Quickly open any installed Android application directly from the launcher taskbar.
- Taskbar Recents: Hold a recent taskbar icon to open it, pin it, or remove it from the recent list.
- Section Reordering: While editing the desktop, hold a section header and drag it: the whole section moves with everything inside it. With a keyboard, remote or screen reader, open the section menu and choose Move up or Move down. Portrait and landscape keep their own order.
- Desktop Locking: Lock desktop editing to prevent accidental changes during daily driving or photo frame operation.
- Clock Display Gestures: On the Clock widget, swipe right to hide seconds and left to show them. Swipe up for a random readable clock colour and a new time font, or down to restore the standard theme colour. The date keeps its font, shares the colour, and the choices stay after restarting the launcher.
- Live Camera Background: Set the desktop wallpaper to a live frame from one of the device’s cameras. The entry appears in the wallpaper list only on devices that have a camera; choosing it asks for the camera permission and then lets you pick which lens to use. The stream stops the moment the desktop leaves the screen, so nothing runs in the background, and a device without a camera or with the permission refused keeps the branded wallpaper instead of a black screen.
- Wallpaper Control Screen: Desktop wallpaper has a screen of its own, opened from the wallpaper row in launcher settings or straight from the desktop’s Wallpaper action. Every mode is listed with a sentence saying what it does, the chosen picture or camera lens is shown as a preview, and the branded waves gain sliders for brightness, animation speed and particle density next to the colour palette. A battery block explains when the animation stops by itself and shows what it is doing right now.
- Stream Window Tile: Put one internet channel on the desktop and pick it when you add the tile. A radio channel gets a small tile with its name, its icon and a play button. A video channel gets a larger tile with the picture playing inside it; tap to stop, and the tile keeps the last frame instead of going blank. Nothing starts playing until you press play.
- Wi-Fi Hotspot Indicator: A small icon in the taskbar tray, right next to the network-type icon, shows whether the phone is sharing its internet over Wi-Fi. Turn it off on its own from launcher settings without touching any other tray icon, or pick it as a desktop tile or a home-screen widget from the same list as the other network monitor indicators - the network monitor’s Wi-Fi section spells the same state out in words. Tap any of them to jump straight to Android’s own hotspot screen, since turning sharing on or off is something only Android can do. Where the state cannot be read, the indicator just stays hidden instead of guessing.
📥 Downloads & App Stores
FastMediaSorter with Launcher Mode is available across major channels:
Application Packages
Google Play Store - Official Google Play Store download.
F-Droid Open Source - Open-source builds for Android phones, tablets, and head units.
Direct APK Release - Direct APK downloads for phone, tablet, and car head unit sideloading.
📚 Step-by-Step Scenario Guides
- Use the App as Your Home Screen - Step-by-step setup guide for Launcher Mode.
- In-Car Music Player Guide - Configure music playback and steering wheel controls for car head units.
- Digital Photo Frame Guide - Turn any old tablet into an always-on photo frame.
- Connect to NAS / Windows Share - Connect your desktop shortcuts directly to home NAS drives.