HomeBot, Customize home button

4.2
290 reviews
10K+
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Content rating
Everyone
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About this app

HomeBot enables you to change the behaviour of the home button on you smartphone.

You can set different actions to happen when you long press the home button:

- Open an app
- Open a web page
- Toggle the flashlight
- Open the recent apps screen
- Toggle brightness

The app doesn't need root but has to be set as your Assistant app in Settings > Apps > Advanced > Default apps > Assist & voice input

Currently only tested on Android 6.0
Updated on
Aug 13, 2016

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Ratings and reviews

4.2
286 reviews
A Google user
November 16, 2018
This is great! Google really dropped the ball when it began forcing users to use Assistant, at the expense of regular Google search. But unfortunately Assistant continually tries to set itself as the default assistant despite my manually setting it to this app, multiple times. I wonder if there's any fix for this, to somehow make this app more aggressive in keeping its default assistant status. Perhaps giving it system permissions with root access?
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A Google user
October 11, 2018
It works well when it's set up, but on Xiaomi MIUI 9/10 there is a bug where, every day I have to manually switch the Assistant setting from HomeBot to Google to make the Google Assistant work. Because the setting gets reset to HomeBot every time.
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A Google user
May 10, 2019
Works perfectly with stock Android 8+. Could use a built in lock screen function, but that can be launched as a standalone locking app, so no problem. I only wish there was an F-Droid version so I wouldn't have to pollute my devices with Google Store.
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What's new

- Added option to launch shortcut
- Added option to launch any activity within an app (voice search, google search)
- Fixed crashes

IMPORTANT: Please reset HomeBot as your assistant in the settings after this update or it may not work properly