Not exact matches
It's an entirely new experience for the
home screen which swaps out the
usual app
icons and widgets in favour of tiled content pulled from the Web.
Most standard Android devices also have the ability to run a «custom launcher» — that's an app that runs instead of your
usual home screen and allows you to change the look and feel of your device, from something as simple as the look of your app
icons, all the way to deciding how your app drawer scrolls and how many
icons fit onto one screen.
Seen above, the
usual iOS
home screen has been redesigned with a customizable collage of small circular app
icons surrounding a small clock.
From Aussie developer Chris Lacy, Action Launcher, erm, launched in October 2012 and shifted the
usual Android launcher paradigm — the
home screens for app
icons, folders and widgets, and a separate app drawer full of
icons — to a far - left (and extremely speedy) list view for apps.
You'll be able to move Quick Tiles around as
usual, but you can also drag them up to the top and throw them away like you do
icons on your
home screen.