A long press on an Android 7.1.1
home screen icon offers a pop - up menu letting you jump directly to features in certain apps, such as searching for a video in YouTube, or starting a new chat on Google Messenger.
Not exact matches
Where Android 4.1's
home screen can seem cluttered with
icons, Kindle Fire HD's
home screen can be boiled down to a main menu across the top (with links to, naturally, Shop, Games, Apps, Books, Music, Videos, News Stand, Audiobooks, Web, Photos, Docs and
Offers), and the large carousel of
icons below that text - only row.
The
home screen offers nine
icons: The Daily, My Library, Shop, Reading Now, Games, Wi - Fi, Audio, Web, and Settings.
The phone's massive
screen allows you to place many rows of
icons and widgets on your
home screen, and the lock
screen offers a unique «put the puzzle piece into the puzzle» unlocking mechanism.
This theme
offers custom
icons, fonts, colors, backgrounds, small
home screen banner, and large custom clock on the
home screen for select devices.
Lenovo's skin takes away the app drawer, puts all your apps in endless
home screens, and
offers up brightly colored app
icons, much like iOS 8 does.
Some manufacturers set the launchers on their phones to
offer a more simplistic look that places all app
icons on the
home screen and doesn't
offer things like the app drawer, widgets, and the like — these come off more like the iPhone
home screen.
Tapping the
icon brings up a large window in the center of the
screen,
offering up basic functions for volume, power,
home,
screen capture and settings.
Once they are on the
screen, a central controller will
offer you a
Home icon that will create the pair shortcut and save it to your home scr
Home icon that will create the pair shortcut and save it to your
home scr
home screen.
The main difference between what iOS
offers and Android Oreo's feature is that Dots are interactive: long press on an
icon on your
home screen, and you'll be able to see the notifications tied to that app in a pop - up window above without having to pull down the shade.
The default
home screen is dominated by a large widget that
offers a couple rows of dynamically - changing app
icons.
Helping you avoid this less than impressive app selection option, a variety of
home screen - based widgets
offer instant access to a selection of details, with app
icons also able to be stored upfront to bypass the multiple clicks and sluggish menu access.
The headline feature in KitKat that you can't miss is the way that Android is using more of the display on the Nexus 5, losing the black
home screen bars that previously
offered the navigation and status
icons of the notifications bar.
After starting a call with Google Phone, pressing the
home button will reveal a circular phone
icon in the upper - left corner of your
home screen — not unlike what Facebook
offers with its Messenger Chat Heads feature.
It's quick and responsive, but brash and incohesive too: Oppo
offers two separate
home screens, called spaces, for accessing the camera and music player, but they use a compulsory wallpaper and a set of app
icons that are completely different to those shown on the
home screen.
As opposed to static
icons that are merely shortcuts to apps,
home screen widgets
offer a variety of additional functionality, namely access to zero - touch information that is updated automatically without any effort needed on the user's part.