Even
the home screen icon matches your dashboard logo!
One of them even has
home screen icon badges!
The nicest part about is that you can customize
the home screen icons as you please while a lot of newer premium themes out there just don't let you do it!
Since RIM first showed off BlackBerry 10 I was wondering what design aesthetic they were going with by making all of
the home screen icons into rectangles.
To hide
a Home screen icon, complete the following steps: Select an icon on the Home screen of the BlackBerry smartphone.
As this week is BlackBerry World 2012 I thought his rendering of the BlackBerry logo as
a home screen icon layout fits in perfectly.
Using this app, you can create custom
home screen icons and shortcuts for native, third - party, and system apps.
Yeah, you can turn off Touchwiz on the Sprint Epic 4G and get rid of the static
home screen icons and horizontal launcher.
There you can drag and drop your preferred
home screen icons so that they always appear under the «Choose Action» screen whenever you log in with your user account.
All you have to do is press
the home screen icon, then when the 3DS logo appears, hold «A», «B», «X», «Y» and follow the instructions.
The Badge Arcade is a free application which lets you earn badges that you can use and place on your Nintendo 3DS
home screen icons to decorate it through a crane game.
Users will see a new and improved
home screen icon and have the ability to edit contacts and calendar events.
The Silk Browser can't add
home screen icons for websites, so you'll have to go to the browser first.
With it, you can change and customize
home screen icons or set a custom grid size for a unique home screen layout.
In fact, the only way you can change the lock screen shortcuts is to change the docked
home screen icons.
With it, you can change and customize
home screen icons, set a custom action for the home button, hide apps from the app drawer, and so much more.
With the long - press features introduced with Pixel Launcher, you are able to do more with
home screen icons, and Notification Dots takes this a step further by allowing you to actually see the notification by long - pressing the icon.
From a user standpoint, this means that once apps get updated with Adaptive Icons, all of
your home screen icons will be of matching shapes.
But former iOS users will be happy to know that Android Oreo now has support for «Unread» badges on
home screen icons.
With the Pixel, Google introduced the concept of rounded
home screen icons.
If you'd rather not have these little dots overlaid on
your home screen icons, there's an easy way to disable and hide them.
Some visual options let you customize your app drawer and
home screen icons by selecting a few different geometric shapes.
It's not a major upgrade past 7.0, but I immediately noticed that all
the home screen icons were rendered as circles, not the hodgepodge of squares and other shapes per current Android convention.
If you're an Action Launcher user, you'll have a slightly harder time positioning
your home screen icons, but Quicktheme will make quick work of coloring the folders and app drawers.
Arrange
your home screen icons in a pyramid or honeycomb pattern in Nova Launcher.
Once installed,
a home screen icon will work like a toggle, automatically dimming your display when tapped.
Apple is including more support for this press gesture, and more app developers are adding menus to
home screen icons, but there's no differentiating these icons from apps which do not support the force press.
However, some developers are still using non-compliant
home screen icons, even though Material Design calls for specific padding, size, and layouts.
But unlike iOS, Android allows for custom
home screen icons, so inconsistently - sized icons can easily be replaced.
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One of the best parts about this is that it ensures consistent size and padding with all of
your home screen icons.
While not an actual photo of the device, this official press rendering gives us our first clean look at the Moto X-inspired phablet, which includes several new Material Design
home screen icons.
To give you some background, Android Oreo introduced a feature called Notifications Dots, which shows a small indicator on an app's
home screen icon when you have an unread notification.
Former iOS users will be happy to know that Android Oreo now has support for unread badges on
home screen icons.
Most notably, Evernote and Twitter, whose shortcuts would make great
home screen icons themselves.
With the Pixel phones, this includes features like a new set of rounded
home screen icons that you can't get anywhere else.
There's also a good chance that you don't need to open an app using
its home screen icon.
The iOS 10.3 update for the iPhone includes a feature that allows users to personalize an app's
home screen icon.
Pressing with a bit of force on
a home screen icon, for example, opens a contextual menu with shortcuts to key functions of that app.
Think of this as
your home screen icon within the messenger app, however it functions more like a chat with a friend.
iOS 10.3 gives app makers the ability to let users select their own
home screen icons.
Multiple tabs make the browser crunch and you'll often have to wait a few seconds for
the home screen icons to repopulate and appear when exiting an app.
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.
Nova Launcher lets you do things like change the size of
your home screen icons manually, as well as installing custom icon packs so you can change the way they look too.
A regular tap for everything, and a special press - and - hold to get
the Home screen icons jiggling and ready to rearrange.
I used subgrid positioning on Nova Launcher to arrange
my home screen icons in a gently slanted grid.
Simply long - press on the widget in question and tap the Remove from
home screen icon.
New gestures introduced with 3D Touch — Peek and Pop — let you view contextual - style menus from
your home screen icons, allowing access to the features within.
Everyone else can look forward to App Shortcuts, support for circular
home screen icons, image keyboards, and more.
You just press down on
home screen icons to quickly access features of a particular app.