Action Launcher handles the dock search bar a little better because of its heavy investment in the Quickbar already, while Nova Launcher's implementation
of Adaptive icons is a little cleaner and more adaptive to legacy icons.
However, not many devices are running Android Oreo yet, so it'll be quite some time before older devices get to take advantage
of adaptive icons.
Action Launcher is preparing for the world
of Adaptive Icons and post-Lollipop era material design with a brand new look that encapsulates the Action Launcher of today and tomorrow:
Action Launcher's companion app, AdaptivePack has long been the best way to get the most out
of adaptive icons, both bringing full adaptive icon support to devices not yet running Oreo and providing Oreo users stock themed adaptive icons for apps that don't currently offer them natively.
Action Launcher's latest version does the opposite, launching a paid icon pack called AdaptivePack that promises to build a bevy
of Adaptive Icon - supported icons for popular apps.
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icon in the side mirror casings when other cars were in the lanes next to the TLX, and
adaptive cruise control, relying on forward - looking radar to slow down from my set speed to the speed
of traffic ahead.
As Google isn't expecting that all developers who ever released an Android app that's still available for download will be able to update their software with support for
adaptive icons for a number
of reasons, the new feature won't break the
icons of incompatible apps.
The feature is a part
of Google's recently announced
adaptive icons and developers will have to modify their
icons in order for their apps to be compatible with the newly uncovered functionality
of Android O.
This is the second year in a row that Google has refocused efforts to standardize and fix app
icons in a new version of Android, but what exactly are these new Adaptive I
icons in a new version
of Android, but what exactly are these new
Adaptive IconsIcons?
Your app drawer on Android can look like a bit
of a design style melting pot, and with Android Oreo's
Adaptive Icons, Google wants to fix it — again.
But lets be honest: it'll be years before most devices are both running Oreo, and all your apps have been updated with
Adaptive Icons of their own.
AdaptivePack approaches the problem differently, with the goal
of re-creating the look and feel
of the
icons that are most likely to live on your home screen as proper Adaptive I
icons that are most likely to live on your home screen as proper
Adaptive IconsIcons.
Unlike most
icon packs, AdaptivePack's icons are intentionally designed not to have a style or theme, but rather to offer Adaptive Icon variants of your most popular apps that look and feel as if the original app developer made t
icon packs, AdaptivePack's
icons are intentionally designed not to have a style or theme, but rather to offer
Adaptive Icon variants of your most popular apps that look and feel as if the original app developer made t
Icon variants
of your most popular apps that look and feel as if the original app developer made them.
An Android application, that when installed, will allow Action Launcher to offer one
of Android Oreo's signature features,
Adaptive Icons, to all devices running Lollipop and above.
In today's v33 update, Action Launcher introduces a beta
of a new and exclusive
adaptive icon based feature called AdaptiveZoom.
Unlike most
icon packs, the icons are intentionally designed not to have a style or theme, but rather to offer Adaptive Icon variants of your most popular apps that look and feel as if the original app developer made t
icon packs, the
icons are intentionally designed not to have a style or theme, but rather to offer
Adaptive Icon variants of your most popular apps that look and feel as if the original app developer made t
Icon variants
of your most popular apps that look and feel as if the original app developer made them.
Adaptive Icons are a new way of formatting and submitting app icons so that they can be cut down into a variety of shapes depending on the device or launcher a person is u
Icons are a new way
of formatting and submitting app
icons so that they can be cut down into a variety of shapes depending on the device or launcher a person is u
icons so that they can be cut down into a variety
of shapes depending on the device or launcher a person is using.
Adaptive Icons have the potential to shake up Android home screens, app drawers, and Android theming in a lot
of really fun ways.
Check out Google's explainer for a full breakdown, but in short,
Adaptive Icons split the foreground and background
of an
icon into two separate images, which are combined to form a single app
icon.
Like the Nexus before it, the Pixel is Google's showcase for stock Android, so the Pixel 2 is running the freshest version
of Oreo, bringing features like notification dots, picture in picture, and
adaptive icons.
In January Action Launcher introduced AdaptiveZoom, an innovative
adaptive icon enhancement naturally animates an app
icon to the center
of the screen as an app loads.
Action Launcher's v33 update introduced AdaptiveZoom, an enhancement for
adaptive icon that sees an app
icon naturally animate towards the center
of the screen as the app loads:
Android O offers
of a slew
of new features including background limits, notification channels and dots, Autofill APIs, Picture in Picture, XML font resources, downloadable fonts, emoji compatibility, autosizing textview,
adaptive icons, Webview enhancements, AAudio API, high - quality Bluetooth audio codecs, wide - gamut color for apps, and Google Play Protect, as well as Java 8 APIs and runtime optimizations.
The Samsung Experience 9.0 launcher implements support for Android Oreo's Notification Dots and
Adaptive Icons, and a new color picker that lets you tweak the appearance
of folders.
For instance, Google has finally started bringing a sense
of order to app
icons, with the new «
adaptive icons» feature.
LineageOS 15.1 removes some unmentioned redundant features, all while adding new useful ones such as
icon packs,
adaptive app
icons, and the ability to select an
icon shape from a handful
of designs including circle, super ellipse, teardrop, and the so - called squircle.
Visually, Android Go takes advantage
of Oreo's
Adaptive Icons with apps using a rounded square
icon that appends «Go» in the actual
icon.
One
of the more user - facing features available in Android 8.0 Oreo is support for
adaptive icons, which allow the shape
of launcher
icons to be changed across the whole operating system.
Android Oreo offers
of a slew
of new features including background limits, notification channels and dots, Autofill APIs, Picture in Picture (see two apps at once), XML font resources, downloadable fonts, emoji compatibility, autosizing textview,
adaptive icons, Webview enhancements, AAudio API, Google Play Protect, high - quality Bluetooth audio codecs, wide - gamut color for apps, security status in settings, and tighter app install controls, as well as Java 8 APIs and runtime optimizations.
From a user standpoint, this means that once apps get updated with
Adaptive Icons, all of your home screen icons will be of matching sh
Icons, all
of your home screen
icons will be of matching sh
icons will be
of matching shapes.
Speaking
of the update, along side bringing all the usual Android Oreo features such as Picture - in - Picture mode, notification channels, stricter background limits,
adaptive icons and more, this update also comes loaded with Sony's own additions.
Android O also brings
adaptive icons which can now display a variety
of shapes across different devices and models.
A lot
of nice changes are coming to phones in Android O including the ability to video picture in picture for videos so that you can continue to use other apps while videos are playing and
adaptive icons that fit in OEM's custom UI without looking pixelated or wrongly positioned.
Not only did they add the customize widgets into the docks, but they updated the sub-menu to match the look found in Android 8.1 Oreo and added
Adaptive icons to the stable version
of Nova (these features were previously found in the beta version).
With their most recent versions, popular third - party launchers Action Launcher and Nova Launcher are approaching the implementation
of Google's
Adaptive Icons in different ways.
Nova Launcher was also one
of the first launchers to add notification badges, and they were quick to add
Adaptive Icons — both features exclusive to Pixel and Nexus devices at the time
of their implementation.
Just like how
adaptive icons change the shape
of all your app
icons to create for a more cohesive look,
adaptive folders allow your app folders to match the shape
of whatever your current
adaptive icon style is set to.
Nova Launcher is widely considered to be one
of the best launchers around, and the recent update to v5.5 adds a lot
of long - awaited features — including
adaptive icons, the ability to put the Google search bar in your dock, and much more.
There are also some user - facing additions such as
adaptive notification dots, wider support for picture - in - picture mode, over 60 new emoji, a new look for media notifications and the quick settings menu, a redesigned settings menu,
adaptive icons, notification channels, and,
of course, the Octopus Easter egg.
The EMUI 8 is Huawei's custom skin and users will also receive lots
of Android 8.0 features like PiP mode,
adaptive icons, and circular emojis bringing it on par with Google's Pixel 2 smartphones.
It is worth noting that this will not work for all apps, as a number
of Google apps use
Adaptive icons that are their traditional logo on a white background.
Adaptive icons have a lot
of potential to jazz up our app drawers while keeping things consistent and beautiful, but that's not happening until app developers update their
icons to the new standards.
One
of the best new features in Android Oreo is the new
Adaptive Icons system.
Icon packs are compatible with more launchers than
Adaptive icons right now and compatible with more versions
of Android, too.
While
Adaptive Icons doesn't eliminate physical clutter, it does reduce the visual disorder
of an unbalanced home screen.
Nova Launcher uses the same method behind their color - matching notification badges to tint the background
of legacy
icons to better match their
icons, and for some large square
icons, Nova will simply enlarge the
icon to fill the
Adaptive icon mask entirely.