Dikciz Launcher

Dikciz Launcher

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Dikciz is a programmable Android home screen. Build pages from HTML widgets, native app shortcuts and Android widgets, write Lua automations, and control your phone through WebSocket, MCP or HTTP over USB, Wi-Fi or Tailscale.

Your home lives in editable files under /sdcard/Dikciz/. The signed release includes scripting, inspection and remote control. Ordinary launcher control needs neither a debug build nor root. Android permissions govern access to the rest of the phone.

Install it

Download the signed dikciz-launcher-vX.Y.Z.apk from GitHub Releases, or add https://github.com/psyb0t/dikciz-launcher to Obtainium for updates. On the phone, open obtainium://add/https://github.com/psyb0t/dikciz-launcher to add it directly. Dikciz is not published through Google Play.

1. Install the APK and open Dikciz. For an ADB installation, use adb install -r dikciz-launcher-vX.Y.Z.apk.
2. Choose Dikciz as Android's default Home app.
3. Tap Grant file access, allow shared-storage access in Android, and return to Dikciz. It creates the starter home in /sdcard/Dikciz/.
4. Open Settings, Automation, Set up full device access for features that need additional Android access. You choose which permissions and special access to grant. Cross-app UI control needs Dikciz cross-app automation enabled in Android Accessibility settings.

Dikciz reopens after an APK update when it is the default Home app or has Draw over other apps access. If Android prevents automatic reopening, tap the Dikciz updated notification or open the app. This also restarts the remote listeners. See update recovery.

Release packages use eu.psyb0t.dikciz.launcher; debug packages use eu.psyb0t.dikciz.launcher.debug and install alongside them. Updates signed with the same key retain app data. Each release includes an APK checksum. Verify the signer with apksigner verify --print-certs dikciz-launcher-vX.Y.Z.apk; its certificate SHA-256 fingerprint is:

5F:A2:02:5D:F9:B8:31:C3:56:3E:8D:44:00:88:7A:77:61:86:F1:F6:F4:69:4E:4E:41:04:EF:CF:0E:20:75:15

What the home supports

• Native pages arranged across two axes, each with a fixed grid, stable identity and configurable layout.
• Local HTML, CSS and JavaScript widgets with persistent state, events and the window.dikciz bridge.
• Native app shortcuts, app groups and third-party Android AppWidget providers.
• Lua scripts with event subscriptions, typed actions, owner command access and a native script dashboard. Enable only trusted scripts; their command access includes files and shell.
• Themes, fonts, wallpaper, widget appearance, editing locks and a chosen Android Home destination.
• Semantic UI inspection, screenshots, logs, configuration editing and device actions through the remote APIs.

The starter has two pages with four independent HTML widgets: Home pairs time/weather with agenda; Tools pairs voice notes with device status. Each occupies half a page and can be edited, resized or removed separately. The HTML library offers complete editable WebView templates, including system metrics and BTC/USD with economic news. Save customized documents to reuse them. Three useful Lua examples start disabled. See the starter home guide.

Navigate and manage the home

Tap the Dikciz mark beside the bottom page rail for the app drawer, widgets, page management and Settings. Swipe up from that rail to open the app drawer. Tap the magnifier to find a page by name or address. A full page refuses another widget rather than overlapping existing items.

The illustrated user guide walks through pages, apps, groups, provider widgets, moving and resizing items, appearance, scripts and recovery.

Configure it

/sdcard/Dikciz/config.json is the root of the public configuration. Pages, widgets, scripts, automation policies, themes, fonts, wallpapers, HTML packages, control settings and logs have their own paths. Valid home and rendering-asset edits reload automatically. Listener address or port changes automatically restart both control planes, including while another Android app is in front.

Use the configuration guide for file formats and validation. The scripting tutorial explains Lua events, HTML bridge calls, persistent state and typed actions. Android owns permissions, special access, roles and root approval; an automation policy does not grant Android access.

Inspect and control it remotely

WebSocket carries commands and persistent events. Streamable HTTP MCP exposes the same command target as tools. Plain HTTP accepts JSON commands at /v1/automation on the MCP port. Both default to 127.0.0.1 on the phone, reachable by phone apps and ADB forwarding. For direct access without USB:

1. Connect the phone and controlling computer to the same reachable private network or Tailscale network. Its access policy must allow computer to phone traffic on TCP 19001 and 19002. Being online or answering a Tailscale tunnel ping does not prove application access.
2. On the phone, open Settings, Automation, Configure remote bearer authentication. Set and enable a password. The client reads it from DIKCIZ_REMOTE_BEARER_TOKEN; keep it in your secret environment, outside command arguments.
3. Open Configure control ports, set Listen address to 0.0.0.0, and save. The public configuration file offers the same setting. Both listeners restart automatically when their endpoints change.
4. Connect from the controlling computer using the phone's reachable hostname or IP and its device ports. 0.0.0.0 is a bind address, not a client destination.

The supplied Python client has no third-party dependencies. Run it from a checkout, replacing phone.example with your phone's hostname or IP:

python3 scripts/dikciz-control.py websocket controlStatus --host phone.example --port 19001 --pretty
python3 scripts/dikciz-control.py mcp-tools --host phone.example --port 19002 --pretty
python3 scripts/dikciz-control.py mcp dikciz_snapshot --host phone.example --port 19002 --pretty

Connection	WebSocket	Streamable HTTP MCP	HTTP commands
Direct private network	ws://phone.example:19001/v1/automation	http://phone.example:19002/mcp	http://phone.example:19002/v1/automation
Lab ADB forwards after make dikciz-run	ws://127.0.0.1:19101/v1/automation	http://127.0.0.1:19102/mcp	http://127.0.0.1:19102/v1/automation

Configure your MCP client's Streamable HTTP URL and bearer header, then discover the server and list tools. Read dikciz://docs/index through MCP resources for short guides and task recipes, fetched one section at a time. The resource guide covers discovery and CLI reads. Direct access needs no USB, ADB or emulator. The endpoints do not provide TLS themselves; use a trusted private network or an encrypted VPN. 0.0.0.0 listens on all IPv4 interfaces, including Wi-Fi, subject to network routing and filtering.

The connection walkthrough covers setup, troubleshooting and ADB alternatives. Both protocols reject browser origins outside HTTP or HTTPS loopback pages. Native clients can omit Origin. Network access, bearer authentication and Android permissions are separate checks. Shell commands request root by default; pass root: false for Dikciz's app sandbox. Commands accept autoRequestPermissions: true to show owner review when Android access is missing. Use requestDeviceAccess or MCP dikciz_request_device_access to ask for one capability directly; responses report permission state, notification delivery and instructions. See permission requests.

Browse and transfer any files Android lets Dikciz access, upload standalone APKs and request installation, or run Android shell commands and read their output and exit status. Shell commands default to a 30-second timeout and accept per-request timeout and output-size options. Android controls installation permission and confirmation. The files, APKs and shell guide covers commands, binary transfers and final installation status.

Inspect the actual serving package and version with deviceInfo, inspect another installed package with packageInfo, and use restart for an acknowledged launcher restart that preserves configuration and reconnects without killing the process. launcherHandoff switches between installed release and debug controllers after checking target access. displayScreenshot captures other apps through enabled Accessibility on Android 11+. The remote device guide covers these controls, port-conflict recovery and which operations require Android access or root.

Use direct Android data commands for contact lookup and edits, SMS history and tracked sends, calendars, call history, SIM selection, clipboard, current location, notifications, media sessions and device state. They call Android APIs without navigating other apps. Discover resources and grants with nativeDataStatus; Android still enforces permissions and app roles.

Android capabilities

Direct commands cover sensors, location/geocoding, JPEG capture, microphone recording and live PCM streaming, audio playback, speech synthesis/recognition, torch, vibration and selected settings. Bluetooth supports discovery, pairing requests, RFCOMM and GATT transactions; NFC supports tag discovery, NDEF and raw transactions; USB supports owner access and transfers. Wi-Fi supports cached and requested scans with freshness metadata. File management, notification replies and durable jobs use the same command target. All ordinary bindings share the same executor and Android access. Hardware controls, speech recognition and the command reference document fields and results. The Android access reference maps features to grants and execution limits. The coverage table states partial features and remaining work; Dikciz does not expose every Android SDK method.

Logs and failure reporting

Dikciz writes daily UTC JSON Lines files under /sdcard/Dikciz/logs/. Settings, Configure logging selects DEBUG, INFO, WARN or ERROR and retention from 1 to 90 days. Defaults are INFO and seven days; changes apply immediately. Successful app launches stay in the logs without a popup. Read script results and failures in the dashboard, Settings log viewer, WebSocket scriptLogs or MCP dikciz_script_logs. A queued event does not prove an action succeeded. The logging reference covers redaction, limits and failure notifications.

Run it

Source development uses Docker, Make and Git. Clone this repository and run commands from its root. The Makefile pins Android Lab, which provides the Docker build tools and private Android emulator. If its images are missing, read the Android SDK license before accepting it for the local build:

ANDROID_LAB_ACCEPT_ANDROID_LICENSES=yes make build
make dikciz-run

Open the shared emulator at http://127.0.0.1:61326/vnc.html?autoconnect=true&resize=scale. make dikciz-run installs the debug package, grants file access on that isolated emulator, selects it as Home and preserves existing configuration. make dikciz-reset clears only Dikciz and its public files there. Keep .android-lab/, which holds the emulator disk, cache, signing identity and artifacts.

make help lists supported operations. make status inspects the stack; make stop stops it while preserving its saved phone. Tool containers use up to 10 host CPUs. Override ANDROID_LAB_TOOL_CPU_LIMIT and ANDROID_LAB_GRADLE_MAX_WORKERS for a smaller build budget. Images are built locally with the pinned installer after SDK license acceptance.

Fossify source updates

The complete Fossify source remains the maintained Android base. Dikciz code lives under app/src/dikciz/ and combined source sets. Use make dikciz-upstream-compare, then make dikciz-upstream-refresh-dry-run, with DIKCIZ_UPSTREAM_DIR set to the selected upstream checkout. Replacement requires DIKCIZ_UPSTREAM_REFRESH=1, a newer upstream marker and a verified backup. The Fossify integration map owns the full procedure and source boundaries.

Verification

Use make lint for script checks and Android lint on minified Dikciz, make gradle GRADLE_TASK=:app:assembleDikcizDebug for a focused build and the relevant target from the test guide for live behavior. make dikciz-test runs the broad shared-emulator suite. make dikciz-test-minified-lua verifies Lua execution and failure reporting with release shrinking enabled. Tests leave the shared emulator on the current bundled starter home.

Main pushes and ready pull requests run the build, Android lint and tooling tests. Version tags wait for the same commit's main push pipeline to succeed instead of repeating those checks. A failed or missing main run blocks publication. The minified lint task checks the Dikciz source set. make app-lint separately checks the upstream-compatible core.

After that gate passes, a version tag builds the signed APK and checksum in CI through make release-apk. Manual runs on a tag use the same gate. That target verifies the published signing certificate and the version from VERSION. Its keystore and signing secrets stay outside tracked source. The release history records user-visible changes.

Documentation

Start with the documentation index for every guide and the coverage table for implemented and remaining capabilities.

Guide	Covers
User guide	Installation, Android access, navigation and native editing, with screenshots.
Configuration	Public files, validation, reload behavior, themes and logs.
Scripting	Lua, HTML, events, policies and typed actions.
Automation control	Direct connections, ADB forwarding, authentication, WebSocket, MCP and HTTP.
Files, APKs and shell	Browse, upload, download, install APKs and read CLI results.
Dikciz source	Product architecture and implementation boundaries.
Scripts, tests, contributing	Build tooling, verification and change boundaries.

Agent integrations

The Dikciz Launcher skill covers installation and operation. Claude Code and Codex manifests under .agents/ package those instructions. The server runs in your installed Android APK; supply its reachable /mcp URL and bearer password. Connect Codex directly, or load the local Claude plugin from this checkout:

codex mcp add dikciz --url http://phone.example:19002/mcp --bearer-token-env-var DIKCIZ_REMOTE_BEARER_TOKEN
claude --plugin-dir .agents

The agent integration guide covers client setup, secrets and plugin configuration. The Android Lab skill covers source builds and emulator work. After APK release, tag publishing selects only the operating skill for ClawHub. Marketplace listing is separate from the phone connection.

Upstream

Dikciz is based on Fossify Launcher and distributed under the GNU General Public License v3.0.