So, I am working on a stripped, rooted 2.2.2 (nothing special, just a modded version of 2.2.2) and I have set the LCD density to 120. In the dell stage UI, designed specifically for 480x800 at 160dpi, it doesn't work too well.
I am looking for a launcher that will adapt the widget and application rows and columns to an appropriate number based on screen density, has a good UI (preferably Honeycomb or a 3D UI) and is well-polished, something people would use as an everyday UI. Any ideas?
bluesy_92 said:
So, I am working on a stripped, rooted 2.2.2 (nothing special, just a modded version of 2.2.2) and I have set the LCD density to 120. In the dell stage UI, designed specifically for 480x800 at 160dpi, it doesn't work too well.
I am looking for a launcher that will adapt the widget and application rows and columns to an appropriate number based on screen density, has a good UI (preferably Honeycomb or a 3D UI) and is well-polished, something people would use as an everyday UI. Any ideas?
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Try LauncherPro, there is a free version. It has the ability to change the number of rows and columns.
You may have tried it, but I know that with LauncherPro you can choose 5 or 6 columns or rows of icons.
I'm not sure how it works when you modify the dpi.
Zeam Launcher is my new favourite. You can set your rows/columns, as well. Smooth and quick, and I rarely get redraws (when I do, they render very quickly).
I've been hearing good stuff about those launchers, especially LaucnherPro. I'll look into them
VTL Launcher
I use VTL on my tablets. You can select the numbers of rows and columns to make widgets and icons fit to you liking.
The other beauty is that you can have up to 3 dock bars (left, right and bottom). You can vary the size, thickness, of these dock bars as well. This can be used to fine tune the spacing of widgets/icons.
You can also lock the desktop so once you have it the way you want it so nothing get dragged out of place.
No free version, but it's cheap. It's worth a look.
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I've got a bunch of launchers loaded on my EVO, but my favorite ones for the G-Tab are ADW.launcher and ZEAM (XDA developed launcher).
I like both of them because they're snappy and offer a high degree of customization (e.g. being able to specify the number of columns and rows for both the workspace and the apps).
ADW.launcher seems a bit more customizable since it supports themes, but Zeam is nice because it gives you an app bar on the workspace that you can load up to 8 quick apps.
I still have a soft spot for Launcher Pro. I know that ADW has themes, but LP is fast and does what I need it to do. I have not found a reason to change, yet.
+1 for launcher pro. I liked the themes on ADW but I like the customizable buttons, configurable columns and rows and the widgets with LP.
Perchance I will try Zeam at some point, but in general I am happy with Launcher Pro.
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zeam cause its lightweight.
Launcher Pro here too.
I'm still playing with Sweeter Home. I like to completely customize the screen layouts. It isn't flawless in operation, but it does provide me lots of time to fidget.
LauncherPro. I like the features and being able to save/load my screen layout/setup is fantastic after flashing ROMs and reinstalling apps.
I prefer GDE but can't get it to work properly (menu's pop up flaky) on the GTab so I'm using LauncherPro.
Launcher pro. Light weight and fast.
Allways been a fan of launcher pro on my android devices it just works how i like
Do any of the themes allow more than sixteen icons per page? There is a LOT of space that more icons could go in.
Is this one of those "phone & portrait" os design constraints?
i'm an ADW fan on my Droid 1 and i tried it on my gtab but i found zeam to be better. its faster and smoother, more lightweight, and actually resizes wallpaper properly. i love adw's themes but i rather go with speed than with custom icons. also love zeam's dock, has tons of space for icons. only thing i don't like about it is that you can't save your configuration.
launcher pro i never liked. probably cuz i can get most of that stuff for free on other launchers. gotta pay to resize a widget? cmon now. also live wallpaper is really sluggish for some reason on launcher pro. keeps stuttering when i turn on the screen, no matter what live wallpaper i try.
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'm an ADW fan on my Droid 1 and i tried it on my gtab but i found zeam to be better. its faster and smoother, more lightweight, and actually resizes wallpaper properly. i love adw's themes but i rather go with speed than with custom icons. also love zeam's dock, has tons of space for icons.
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Same here. Zeam Launcher + MultiPicture Livewallpaper.
thats really cool! The light effects of that background are live?
I like gde but no icons with all the the themes. But... +10 on launcher pro
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Iam I weird for not running a launcher? I always feel like they slow the system down a bit. I might have to start because all these cool looking home screens are making me jealous!
Launcher Pro... but I think I might try zeam after reading this thread.
I prefer Tap n' Tap for my launcher... OK, who am I kidding
Actually, I use Launcher Pro as well, but I also noticed the live wallpaper stuttering and always thought it was because every app seemed to want to reload itself upon wakeup. However, with all of the love out here for Zeam, I'm going to have to give that a try as well!
has anyone tried the go-launcher?
SInce there are several launchers around I'm curious what the pro's and con's are for each... I think tis thread is going a long way to that. Maybe once we managed to get all the info together we could start making a sticky with pros/cons for each launcher...
Just a thought
I just got a tweet about this and thought I would post it here the new ADW EX is out I'm going to get it and try it out on the G-tab to see if its any better that the current ADW.
Here are some of the changes listed on the site.
ADWLauncher EX is based on the ADW.Launcher opensource code with a lot of new additions and improvements, like for example:
* 5 different app drawer styles/behaviors
o 3D Nexus One like applications drawer
o 2 different plain vertical applications drawers styles, the “old one” and a new fast and smooth one
o 2 different Iphone-like horizontal applications drawers, a traditional paginated one and a new one with continuous fling
* Different desktop transitions (8 at the moment): new animations while navigating through your desktop screens. Try them all, they’re crazy!!!
* New Icons configurations/look and feel: Tweak your desktop icons, change its sizes, add coloured backgrounds, change font size, color, etc!
* New fast presets mode: Quickly change the whole desktop configuration by 1 click!
* Editable desktop icons for applications, shortcuts and folders!
* Lots of code improvements
* More, more more to come!!
Oh and a link to the site:
http://jbthemes.com/anderweb/
Enjoy
Well I bought this earlier on my D2 and love it. This would be great for my Gtab, but even w/ the market fix I can't get it to show up.
Cant get it to show either!
The new animations look awesome on the gtab. I bought it on my N1 last night and it showed up in the market on my gtab today when I checked
Yeah its great and rows can be 10 * 10 now
I got it on my gtab. .... this is Very nice Launcher I ever seen ,and the onlyone I will use for now on (till its up graded)
Agh I wish so much it had Widgets like launcher pro plus.
Loving the transitions and scroll effects on ADW EX.
Anyone have something similar to friendstream for sense? Only thing my evo does better
akodoreign said:
Loving the transitions and scroll effects on ADW EX.
Anyone have something similar to friendstream for sense? Only thing my evo does better
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Yeah that is my problem. Launcher pro plus does.
Hi,
I'm hanging up my life of lurking on XDA to give you all a tip. While the default Honeycomb launcher is great, ADWlauncherEX is amazing! With the 1100 overclock, I've never seen smoother or faster navigation, including stock, Eclair or Nookie Froyo. The only problem is that the icons are really small, and when you use LCD Density to set it to anything other than 140, you loose the nifty Honeycomb status bar softkeys To overcome this, go into ADW icon settings and up the icon size to around 150, than enable fancy backgrounds. This make the icons the "right size." The only downside to using ADW on Honeycomb is that you lose the awesome new UI for adding widgets, and wallpaper seems to act a little funny. Trust me though, this is golden, it really makes Honeycomb on EMMC my favorite nook configuration yet!
PS: Leave any other tips/tricks about ADW on Honeycomb you find.
I just saw this on the xda homepage:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1017451
Its a new tablet-centric launcher based off of the adw open-source code but removes the phone-like dock bar and ads launchers thatbare highly customizable and scrollable. It is also suppossed to add support for scrollable Widgets as well!
Here is the description:
This Launcher is designed with landscape tablets in mind! (that's not to say it doesn't also function well in portrait mode..... as it does)
First off this launcher is based HEAVILY on ADW.Launcher's Source code so I would like to thank anderweb for all the ground work.
What I have done is begun to remove the tired old Phone Like dock bar we are used to in just about every android launcher and replace it with a sleek Scrollable/Drag-able/Drop-able/Rearrangeable "ALONG the BOTTOM" (NOW WITH TOGGLEABLE SIDE DOCKS AS WELL!) Application and Shortcut Dock.
You can drag any Application, Shortcut, Browser Shortcut, Folder, etc. onto or off of and even drag them to different positions along the bar. Basically just about anything you can usually place on the desktop (except widgets, sorry that is not going to happen) you can place on the dock bar.
So feel free to fill your desktop with widgets and clocks and weather and that cool picture of your cat , because all your favorite apps are a fling away at the bottom.
So far scrolling widget support is fully functional. If an app complains/or warns that it doesn't detect a compatible launcher ignore it and continue they should work (as long as they are ADW Compliant).
This should work on virtually any device. Though non large screen devices may have issues with the layouts so you will have to play with the desktop column and row numbers etc.
UPDATE Info: -Fixed all Paddings to be dynamic with regard to which docks are visible. -Increased the Folder Columns by one for both Orientations. -Fixed Animations and Reflections for proper directions on all dockbars. -Added Toggle Setting to Show/Hide the dockbar when the app drawer is open. -Added Right-Hand Dockbar w/Toggle Setting. -Added Left-Hand Dockbar w/Toggle Setting. -Changed Dock Style to be be centered instead of left justified. -Fixed a fling issue when there were less icons than cells that would cause the icons to fing right and stick. -Changed the default setting of drawer type to the vertical scroll style as it is smoother. -Changed the default setting of drawer color to have a slight alpha to it so you can see your wallpaper a bit.
Latest screenshot shows the new side docks! ------------------------------------------------------------------------Project site: http://vegantab.gojimi.com/vt-labs/vtl-launcher
BETA 1.4 Download: http://vegantab.gojimi.com/download/Launcher.apk
I am not in any way affiliated with the author, just thought I should pass the information along.
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Here is a screenshot of my setup. The launcher is a little buggy but the concept is cool and if they can clean up the code, it could be a serious contender for the tablet launcher crown.
http://db.tt/6PeGchD
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PS. sorry about the crappy pic and link for pic. Screenshot er isn't working and tapatalk wont let me embed a pic from my xoom.
Cool - I'll give it a shot and post results!
I like the stock launcher better. The widgets are too small. Unless there is something similar with how the stock launcher transitions from screen to screen I will be set with the current setup.
It still feels very beta, the transitions seem "meh" however, it being a beta and all its expected. Uninstalled for now, but I'll be looking for updates soon.
Thanks.
Looks promising. I ran VEGAN on my G Tab and it was a nice alternative to stock. I will be interested to see how it turns out in the near future.
silly question...is there a home switcher that works with honeycomb? if not how are you switching back and forth between stock and this launcher?
Awesome, I was wondering when some tablet based launchers would emerge.
And also can you share that wallpaper
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silly question...is there a home switcher that works with honeycomb? if not how are you switching back and forth between stock and this launcher?
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Try homesmack from the market
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Updated to v1.6.2 here
does this work good on the xoom
I'm not very impressed with it. It was kind of slow and the app drawer interface leaves alot to be desired.
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I hope that this question hasn't already been asked. I have both of these launchers on my unrooted Samsung Note 5 and I noticed that the ZenUI's graphics appears to be somewhat better than Nova's. Is this possible?
Differences: It seems that the icons and the wallpaper with ZenUI are a little bit in terms of contrast. There seems to be a deeper color to them. On the other hand, Nova's colors seems a little washed out. (This is after I tried to get the size of the grid and icons exactly the same with the same exact wallpaper and icons.)
I had thought that the launchers simply rearrange a few things but the underlying launcher (TouchWiz) is what does the main work. Is it possible that ZenUI's graphics are indeed better?