It also has a
new home screen launcher with clever tweaks like auto - arrange, a smarter and more feature - rich notification drawer, and offline voice typing.
This is one of the most popular
home screen launchers on the Play Store — to get a sense of all the cool things you can do with it, check out all of our Nova coverage at the link below.
Nova Launcher is one of the most
popular home screen launchers in the Android ecosystem, preferred by many for its stock feel and immensely diverse yet simple customizations.
Nova Launcher — our
favorite home screen launcher for Android — has some powerful and unique gesture features that will have your home screens cleaned up and more powerful than ever with just the swipe of a finger.
If you're still unhappy with the Android TV home screen — for instance, you don't like the Recommendations row, or don't want your games and apps separated, you can install an
alternative home screen launcher.
KitKat brought a new, lighter color scheme to Android, with flatter icons and (on the Nexus 5 only, at least at first) a
redesigned home screen launcher incorporating Google Now.
As of September 27, 2011, the Infuse was supplied with Android 2.2 Froyo customized with Samsung's TouchWiz 3.0 UI, with an
updated Home Screen Launcher application.
We recent reviewed the
top home screen launchers available on the Play Store, with each one offering an option to back up your arrangement and settings options.
LineageOS also includes a handful of its own apps, like the
Trebuchet home screen launcher, the clock home screen widget, a File Manager with root file access, a custom music player, and a terminal emulator.
Based on Android 7.0 Nougat, the Mate 9 features a simplified notification shade, a
better home screen launcher experience, with an optional app drawer, and far fewer extraneous features.
Action Launcher is one of the best launchers on Android today, and the Swiss
Army home screen launcher now has something big to celebrate: its fifth anniversary.
Expectedly, today's images, released by 9to5Google in collaboration with @evleaks, put the new «Facebook Home»
home screen launcher front and center.
Following «popularity with HTC users», company will bring its home screen reader to non-HTC phones «soon» Tucked away in a corner of HTC's new HTC One (M8) press release is a rather interesting nugget — the Taiwanese manufacturer plans to bring its
BlinkFeed home screen launcher to other Android phones «soon,» through the Google Play Store.
Nova Launcher, the popular Android
home screen launcher from developer TeslaCoil Software, has received an update to version 4.10.
Samsung's new
home screen launcher on the Galaxy S8 introduces many new features, but most notably it changes the way the app drawer works.
Using a
different home screen launcher will not only immediately make your phone look more like a stock device, but it will also make it react more like one, at least on the home screens.
Now, for those new to our little Android club, Nova Launcher is a highly popular and customizable third -
party home screen launcher.
BlinkFeed was one of the first attempts by an Android manufacturer to introduce a news / social reader feature directly into the
default home screen launcher, and the feature seems to have influenced major competitor Samsung and even Google, through its Google Now Launcher.
In addition, Samsung included extra customization options for the lock screen and
home screen launcher.
, Huawei's
home screen launcher hasn't changed a whole lot.
Reports from EE Times and the Android Central forums say that the update (finally) adds a landscape mode to the tablet's
home screen launcher, in among the usual bug fixes and performance enhancements.
Nova's quick ability to not only add new features but include additional functionality is one of the main reasons it made the top spot on
our home screen launcher comparison.
I'm often reluctant to use
a home screen launcher other than the stock one on my Android.
Nova Launcher continues to push the boundary of features available to
home screen launchers.
Action Launcher, however, is the rare instance of
a home screen launcher that is as quick as it is cunning, and white it does have limits, there's no doubt that Action is one of the best launchers you could come home to.
Nova continues to lead the charge with
its home screen launcher by adding the latest features of Android.
While many iOS influences remain in parts of EMUI, particularly in
the home screen launcher, the latest version feels much more like Android than previous versions.
One of the more noticeable aspects of non-stock devices is
the home screen launcher.
The home screen launcher still swipes over to Google Now, though you do lose the Pixel Launcher's long - press app functions, as well as the swipe up gesture to access the app drawer — there's the old - fashioned button taking up space in your dock instead.
A few examples of what we mean —
the home screen launcher on the S4 seemed more sensitive to background tasks, whereas the HTC One animated its home screen transitions flawlessly every time.
Only the Pixel Launcher package is allowed to use the weather widget on the home screen
Ready to try out some of the features from the Google Pixel's
home screen launcher (without sideloading a leaked APK that doesn't quite work right)?
Acer has added its own extra panel to
the home screen launcher, however, in what's essentially a clone of HTC BlinkFeed.
Changing
the home screen launcher is already more difficult on EMUI than anywhere else, but even once you've done so, all it takes is for your new launcher to receive an update from the Play Store, and the Mate 10 Pro defaults back to the Huawei Home for... some reason.
For the Canada Heart theme, we'll use the red variant icons in this pack, so you'll also need
a home screen launcher that supports individual custom icons, such as our favorite theming launchers.
Android apps have access to a full file system, can communicate each other via the Share feature, change
the home screen launcher, swap out your keyboard, set themselves as default apps, and do many, many other things.
The look and feel, particularly in
the home screen launcher, is closer to Xiaomi's MIUI or Apple's iOS than the typical Android UI, and that's something you'll either get used to, or something that'll drive you to put a custom launcher on the thing.
Google's
home screen launcher, which typically has been available to all Android - powered phones as the Google Now Launcher, is now a modified version exclusive to the Pixel.