what does everyone think is the best "CM10/JB" Home Launcher
Ex: Features/Whyy?
Pros/Cons: Why Not
Just a lil This A Lil That
Wait for it.... wait for it.... GO!!
CondemnedSoul said:
Wait for it.... wait for it.... GO!!
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Translated nicely: Please move this thread to Q&A instead of development...
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Now that that is taken care of...
I like Apex. I used Nova when it was built into some roms, but apex seems to have a few more options. It's been a while since I used Nova, so I can't remember the specifics. I like using swipe gestures in Apex to launch the app drawer and Google search. I don't remember if you can do that in Nova. Performance wise they seemed about the same to me. I can't really think of any cons.
Horizontal.
Oh, I thought this was a "what position is the best for your Xbox 360" thread.
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Now that that is taken care of...
I like Apex. I used Nova when it was built into some roms, but apex seems to have a few more options. It's been a while since I used Nova, so I can't remember the specifics. I like using swipe gestures in Apex to launch the app drawer and Google search. I don't remember if you can do that in Nova. Performance wise they seemed about the same to me. I can't really think of any cons.
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I like Nova. It also has all of those features but I forget if they are part of the prime package which I purchased..... I feel like they are in the free version also with additional gestures in prime.
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I got apex pro, I'll go back and forth between that and sense launched.
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Hands down Apex Launcher, I used Nova when I first put ICS on my phone but then the developers created a paid version and put all of the good stuff into the paid only. Apex has all those same features in the free version and offers only some neat little additions in their paid version that won't sway the people that don't want to buy it. It's also very quick.
Used to use Go Launcher on CM7, but now I'm torn. I trying out Apex now.
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Used to use Go Launcher on CM7, but now I'm torn. I trying out Apex now.
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Go launcher seems to lag a bit, reminds me of how Apple takes over a computer lol
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I'm still on stock with this phone but the 360 launcher is one of my favorite and a very smooth launcher that I've used on a few different phones and custom roms as well.
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I use launcher pro, but I was wondering other people's opinion because I don't. Know what makes one better than the other. Performance speed.and things like that. I just know I hate touch wiz.... thanks in advance.....
use the search dude!
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I use launcher pro, but I was wondering other people's opinion because I don't. Know what makes one better than the other. Performance speed.and things like that. I just know I hate touch wiz.... thanks in advance.....
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happy with go launcher.
Go launcher. I was a LPP user for years. I use APW Widgets with go launcher. Basically the same Widgets as lpp.
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Yeah go launcher for sure, i had launcher pro for a lil while, then i switched to adw. Adw was great and i thought i would never replace it, but then i tried go launcher and never looked back. Have tried others but always end up coming back to go.
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elflip88 said:
Yeah go launcher for sure, i had launcher pro for a lil while, then i switched to adw. Adw was great and i thought i would never replace it, but then i tried go launcher and never looked back. Have tried others but always end up coming back to go.
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Agreed, golauncher does it for me, but the apk is rather bloated and after reviewing has a lot of useless features that make it sumwat battery unfriendly.. would b nice to have an alternitave with similar features without all the unnecessary extras
Adw is great
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ADW works great for me.
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I've paid for and used Launcher Pro and ADW EX each for months, then I saw saw the thread here on sslauncher. Free, and amazing. I'm never going back to the others.
Launcher Pro was my favorite, but it is becoming outdated due to lack of updates. GO Launcher EX has great features and is free. ADW EX is also good but it is a paid app. I would go with GO Launcher EX. Its fast, lots of customization, and its free.
I actually like TW compared to the others I tried (which is about all of them). I like to be able to touch the dots to change screens instead of swiping. I can go from homescreen 1 to 5 with just one touch. Same with the app drawer. I have 12 pages of apps. I don't need to keep swiping from one page to the other to get through them all, or if I have it on continuous, I don't have to scroll from top to bottom. If I'm on page 1, and I need page 10, I just tap that dot.
I like Go better than all the rest. I like the ease of being able to long press an icon and then being able to delete from screen, change the icon, or add a gesture on the homescreen.
I also like the fact that in the app drawer you can hide apps from showing without having to freeze them using titanium backup. I use this to keep my app drawer organized. I hide all the apps in the app drawer that i have in my dock. No point in having them show up in 2 places.
Also with Go you can have up to 3 docks. you just swipe left or right to get to more apps on the dock. I use this to keep my homescreen as clean looking as possible.
ADW Launcher EX is great! But on ICS I use APEX, Nova Prime, and sometimes Trebuchet, but I only have ICS on my Kindle Fire right now so I can't get the full experience on my phone. ADW Launcher EX can be themed in multiple ways, I use the ICS theme on my phone. So basically use ADW!
tdj's modified touchwiz 5x4 launcher ftw
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I use launcher pro, but I was wondering other people's opinion because I don't. Know what makes one better than the other. Performance speed.and things like that. I just know I hate touch wiz.... thanks in advance.....
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Go launcher is so good, it makes all the others look like a project gone bad
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Go launcher is so good, it makes all the others look like a project gone bad
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Go is ok. I see so many people love it, but it always seems to have the most lag fir me.
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I always used LPP for the widgets, but now use ADW EX with APW.
Worth mentioning that I used the default ICS launcher on my Nexus S and was a big fan.
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I actually like TW compared to the others I tried (which is about all of them). I like to be able to touch the dots to change screens instead of swiping. I can go from homescreen 1 to 5 with just one touch. Same with the app drawer. I have 12 pages of apps. I don't need to keep swiping from one page to the other to get through them all, or if I have it on continuous, I don't have to scroll from top to bottom. If I'm on page 1, and I need page 10, I just tap that dot.
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I use QQ... same people that madr MIUI. Does the same thing and is faster/less CPU drain. I currently have mine setup with the iPhone theme and love it
Fast..simple...sick
I like Go Launcher, why?
1. Free
2. Calendar widget
3. Customizable
4. Frequent updates
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Go launcher does the work for me...
Lots of customization, Ice cream sandwich themes, go widgets and free
I was wondering what launchers everyone was using besides stock TW. Just kinda of getting bored with it and seeing what else is out there. So basically, any recomendations?
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I use Apex. I have tried Go, Nova, and Apex. Prefer that one.
A lot of people love Nova though too so really you need to try them out yourself and see what fits you best. But I'd start with apex, nova, go, etc. they are the main ones.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1635930
enjoy. find hwat works best for you
apex
I've tried Nova, Apex, Go...Go was my favorite as it handles scrolling widgets and have all the features I wanted/needed baked in, I just couldn't get it as fast and fluid as TW. Nova was my second favorite but you have to pay for the Pro version that has the gesture features, among others, it also doesn't support scrolling widgets. Nova was pretty fast and fluid though so long as I had power saving mode off and it set to "faster than light", but that drained battery. So for the time being, i'm back to TW.
always used adwex, i still find it snappier than nova, apex, etc.
Apex for me is the best outta the ics launchers
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LG Home or Trebuchet for me
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I have found the cause of the issue I was experiencing above, I was only changing the animation speed...there is also a scrolling speed to adjust as well. I changed both to "fast as light" and it's all good now.
I've found that no matter what android I an on one of the first t things I download is Zeam launcher droid, nook color ,nook tablet ,HTC flyer, hero, epic, etc4g and now s3. Only thing it forest have for me is folders as icons.
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I was using Go for a while until I came across Nova. For me it seemed like Go was using a lot of resources. That doesn't matter now with this phone. I like the small things about Nova. Pay for prime, well worth the money imo.
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I was using Go for a while until I came across Nova. For me it seemed like Go was using a lot of resources. That doesn't matter now with this phone. I like the small things about Nova. Pay for prime, well worth the money imo.
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I agree. They also have been adding features. I like the unread count add-on as well.
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OhioDroid80 said:
I was using Go for a while until I came across Nova. For me it seemed like Go was using a lot of resources. That doesn't matter now with this phone. I like the small things about Nova. Pay for prime, well worth the money imo.
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Same here! Nova Prime is lovely
via Galaxy S III
I tried lots and I always come back to ADW EX, I use the same on my TF201 tablet they go well but I'm still searching
adwex has been the best launcher for me. Everything about it is great.
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Launcher 7 is all I care to use. Once I used it, I realized, Android makes it too difficult to find/touch the simple things.
I love apex launcher.. that 5x5
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Launcher 7 is all I care to use. Once I used it, I realized, Android makes it too difficult to find/touch the simple things.
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blackte4 said:
I love apex launcher.. that 5x5
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Nova goes up to 7x7
Nova prime
Nova prime
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Vote for your primary launcher of choice.
Just thought I'd create a quick poll of the most popular Launchers to accompany the other "Daily Launcher" thread that should've had a poll to begin with
Poll options also listed here with links:
Nova
Trebuchet (CM9 & CM10 default; old default was ADW)
ADW
Apex
GO Launcher EX
SPB Shell 3D
TSF Shell
LauncherPro (abandoned: no updates since May 2011)
Samsung TouchWhiz
HTC Sense
Motorola Motoblur
Other
If I'm missing any poll options, sorry, but polls can't be changed once created, so vote "Other".
TOUCHWIZ 4 LYFE
lol jk I run Apex Pro on KyanROM 1.5 and I'm as satisfied as could be on ICS
Hah. Oh yeah - I guess I did speel TouchWiz wrong. Force of habit.
Apex pro on cm10 nightly. Love it, have loved it for a year now.
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Hah. Oh yeah - I guess I did speel TouchWiz wrong. Force of habit.
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Yes you did "speel" it wrong.
Nova prime. Not as many bells and whistles but sure is smooth
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Apex free at first then moved to Nova Prime
was using the free version of Apex, since Nova didn't have the free gestures found in Apex. But, when Nova Prime went on sale for 25 cents, I made the switch and haven't looked back.
Touchwiz. Tried nova and apex and didn't like them.
Launcher Pro is not abandoned (Fede has an update in the works) It simply hasn't needed any updates in a long time. FYI.
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Launcher Pro is not abandoned (Fede has an update in the works) It simply hasn't needed any updates in a long time. FYI.
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Not holding my breath on the long-promised rewrite
whats with all the love for nova? i've always thought apex was smoother, and has more features. i really like the sorting app drawer sorting by install date and apex is really the only one that has that on aosp.
Voting other for holo hd.
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Not holding my breath on the long-promised rewrite
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As I said - it hasn't 'needed' a re-write... Even as it stands now, its still more customizable than anything else out there, and smoother... what 'needs' changed?
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Voting other for holo hd.
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Same here.
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As I said - it hasn't 'needed' a re-write... Even as it stands now, its still more customizable than anything else out there, and smoother... what 'needs' changed?
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I'm just saying that it doesn't inspire confidence when the promised LauncherPro re-write was over a year and half ago, and both it and the dev's other main app -- UberMusic -- haven't seen updates in over a year. Some had even speculated that when Federico vanished without word he was either retired or dead ...
As far as what it 'needs': not much. Just updates to support ICS & Jellybean's new capabilities, and to fix the gmail notifications that broke when Google changed the Gmail api a loooong time ago.
I'm not dissing LauncherPro. It used to be the must-have launcher and I used it for about a year after I got my SGS1. It works great, but it's dated and stale (and broken in some ways), and there's better alternatives now IMO.
I used to use Launcher Pro all the time, but lately it seems like there is no support for it. I switched to Apex and I really like it. Go Launcher is pretty nice too.
Nova launcher pro. Although I'm not sure if this kills battery. My battery sucks. Could barely last the day..
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Nova Launcher PRIME.
Nova wins, for now...
I had been using Apex Pro for the past few months. About. 3 weeks ago I switched to Nova Prime and I liked its faster screen transitions but it doesn't have all the features of Apex so today I switched backfire Apex with Flat Icons.
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Go Launcher. Is there any other launchers with such an organized app drawer, like Go Launcher's?
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Go Launcher. Is there any other launchers with such an organized app drawer, like Go Launcher's?
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Next launcher
TSF Shell launcher
Tried both of those and went back to Go Launcher...
Next Launcher is still too BETA to me and lacking a lot of stuff that Go has, you'd think they'd combined the two... Hopefully they do eventually.
Tried TSF Once and it felt too much like SPB with SPB Features taken outta it.
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Go Launcher to me IDK Seems like it isn't meant for ICS or JB.
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Tried both of those and went back to Go Launcher...
Next Launcher is still too BETA to me and lacking a lot of stuff that Go has, you'd think they'd combined the two... Hopefully they do eventually.
Tried TSF Once and it felt too much like SPB with SPB Features taken outta it.
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Go Launcher to me IDK Seems like it isn't meant for ICS or JB.
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What about Nova and apex launcher?
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What about Nova and apex launcher?
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LoL! The only reasons I drew back away from them was cause of the lack of a better app drawer. I'm stuck inbetween a rock and a hard place! Grrr
I liked that they had the widgets panel on the app draw but they didn't have the recent apps and running apps panel like Go does.
Same could be said said for ADW.
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Trying Next to see if they changed anything in the last couple weeks since I tried it.
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Try atom launcher.
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Try atom launcher.
OG Note ii running JDevil
Team ZODIAC
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Hrmm Atom has me pretty intrigued.
Try SS launcher.
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On a side note Go's Next Launcher 3D is looking a lil better since I last used it. I could prolly see paying that much for it, only thing I dislike is that stupid ugly OS X looking dock bar, if they had a way to rid of that then I'd pay for it most certainly. Still a lil room left for improvement, also I WISHED They'd incorporate Go Launcher Widgets into Next Launcher. Those are still my only 2 draw backs about it.
try holo launcher
try adw ex. Using with JB 4.1.2 now
hahahh. You will see all suggestions from all launchers in the market
ADW Ex and Holo have the unorganized app drawer, where gotta create ya own individual labels and how would have a go about creating labels/tabs for "running" and "recent" if it was possible?
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Went ahead and bought neXt Launcher 3D.
I'll prolly keep it installed in the background, so I can keep updated on it. But it's still not worth 16 bucks IMO.
They've still gotta long ways to go with it.
Hey n1nj4Lo, Leland from the Atom Launcher team here. How did you like Atom?
We are aiming to get absolute cutting-edge-screaming speed out of the launcher while keeping the customization and easy theming/usability. Would love your feedback and comments here and on our Facebook community (Atom Launcher search should bring you there - I cannot post a link as a new user).
Try NoLauncher.
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LoL! The only reasons I drew back away from them was cause of the lack of a better app drawer. I'm stuck inbetween a rock and a hard place! Grrr
I liked that they had the widgets panel on the app draw but they didn't have the recent apps and running apps panel like Go does.
Same could be said said for ADW.
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Hey friend.... Just wanted to let you know that. "recents" is very easily added in the apex app drawer. Nothing for running apps yet though. Good luck
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Action launcher
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Hey n1nj4Lo, Leland from the Atom Launcher team here. How did you like Atom?
We are aiming to get absolute cutting-edge-screaming speed out of the launcher while keeping the customization and easy theming/usability. Would love your feedback and comments here and on our Facebook community (Atom Launcher search should bring you there - I cannot post a link as a new user).
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Well the only thing that bugged me was I couldn't find a way to change the Atom Bar (I think it's called) font color, maybe I'm missing an option somewhere IDK but I think thats really important to me due to wallpapers. Everything else was really nice and I liked the App Drawer second to Go Launchers, it was very customizable and organized, didn't really have any other problems with the whole launcher itself. If I didn't use Go Launcher a lot I could see substituting this for it.
Ohh and in Transition effect if ya added a random or shuffled option of all transitions.
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Hey friend.... Just wanted to let you know that. "recents" is very easily added in the apex app drawer. Nothing for running apps yet though. Good luck
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Maybe that was the one I liked Apex, Nova, Holo and ADW all look the same though, it just looks like the only thing different about them is the names they're all very very eerily similar. LoL
How do ya do that though?
MissyKoneko said:
Try NoLauncher.
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Couldn't find it found MoLauncher.
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Action launcher
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Tried Action Launcher loved it's all in one app drawer bar widget just hated the vertical scrolling app drawer list.
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Hey n1nj4Lo, Leland from the Atom Launcher team here. How did you like Atom?
We are aiming to get absolute cutting-edge-screaming speed out of the launcher while keeping the customization and easy theming/usability. Would love your feedback and comments here and on our Facebook community (Atom Launcher search should bring you there - I cannot post a link as a new user).
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Found Atom launcher because of this thread. Been using it ever since. Great on ram and battery. Very smooth, never had lag or stutter. Options are good, would love to see more added. Overall the best I've used so far. Love how it is still simple yet has all the things I need, along side good speed.
Hi everybody,
The Launcher plays a huge role in a smartphone experience. It can enhance it or break it. There is a multitude of new Launchers out there and of course I haven' try them all. I've been using Nova Prime as my home screen launcher for quite some time now. I tried Apex, Go Launcher, SPB Shell and more but I always come back to Nova. I just love the gesture and speed this lightweight launcher can give.
So what is your preferred launcher and WHY? Which one do you think should be called the KING of Launcher?
Also
Battle of the Music Players - Neutron Vs The Others
Battle of the Web Browser - Is Dolphin Unbeatable?
Nova. It's fast, it's clean, it's well laid out and easy to use.
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Nova. It's fast, it's clean, it's well laid out and easy to use.
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Looks like you and I have a lot in common. lol
Nova was never the king. Apex is. It has more features. It's lighter and costs less.
I use next launcher its smooth and efffects r very attractive!!
Nova, hands down. And I've tried Apex - it's alright, but never really liked it. Hated Go Launcher.
Next Launcher
Try this and you never go back to other launchers !
Listener launcher
hes_luckey said:
Next Launcher
Try this and you never go back to other launchers !
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For some reasons I can't install it.
I've tried a few different launchers but find Nova to be the best, so much so that i bought it.
Not really sure the difference between paid versions of Nova or Apex though as the free versions seem very similar. Any big difference between the two??
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I also agree tha nova is the best, I've tried several launchers and always come back yo it.
For me is the launcher that should come with Android by default and I'm using the free version...
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Kremata said:
Looks like you and I have a lot in common. lol
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Apparently we are both blue aliens.
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Apparently we are both blue aliens.
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Okay, let's diversitate. I use Ra3al's Xperia launcher Z ! (No widgets, just the launcher!)
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Never tried it before just having a play with it now. It looks quite good but is it worth the price upgrading to the full version? Not to sure what extras there are
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I've tried a few different launchers but find Nova to be the best, so much so that i bought it.
Not really sure the difference between paid versions of Nova or Apex though as the free versions seem very similar. Any big difference between the two??
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In the Play Store at the bottom of the description of the free version they'll tell you what you get if you get the Prime (paid) version.
TT Launcher is good also http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=37696403
Used Go for a long time .tried Next, Apex and found a home with Nova. Tried some of the more graphical launchers but the simplicity of Nova draws me back.
+1 for Nova
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hes_luckey said:
Next Launcher
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Tried Next Launcher and went back to Nova. :cyclops: Frankly nothing special about it for me.
TSF shell have some cool widgets and can have some unconventional nice layout IF they could only come out with a bugless version.
Now using Launcher 8, kinda cool and different. Really like it for now.
Nova is still the most stable and smooth for me. Its always installed while i try other launchers.
Just noticed that Holo Launcher HD is smoother than Nova, in case of scrolling through home screens and app drawer, for me.
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