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Any home replacements that are REALLY smooth?

I'm talking iPhone 4 smooth. I played with it today. (No, I'm not a fanboy of either side, but I prefer Android!)
I'm usually using either Sense's Rosie, or when on froyo, LauncherPro.
I am a heavy widget user, and have either full screen or 2-3 widgets per screen.
The feel that you get when you launch an app on iPhone... just feels... like its popping up instead of zooming.
Anything you guys could recommend? Any specific ROM's?
ROM's I have tried:
Desire R22.1
RoDrIgUeZsTyLe
Stock 2.2

Launcher pro, or adw launcher. I personally prefer launcher pro, it also had some really nice extra features.
Sent from my Nexus One

Also regarding popping up instead of zooming if you are rooted, check out the spare parts app settings for the transition animations. Set them to fast if you wantt apps to pretty much pop instantly.
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ssj4vegita2002 said:
Also regarding popping up instead of zooming if you are rooted, check out the spare parts app settings for the transition animations. Set them to fast if you wantt apps to pretty much pop instantly.
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+1, what you're feeling is not related to the launcher, or the speed of the OS, it's just a design choice about the speed of the transitions. I agree with you so I made the transition speed about 30% faster [try to do that on an iPhone...]
I personally use Launcher Pro. It's absurdly fast. I've tried to get it to lag just to see what it would take but it's super responsive and won't miss a frame even if you want it to. The feature-set of Launcher Pro is quickly approaching that for ADW and it's much more polished.

I find both Launcher Pro and ADW.Launcher to be insanely fast too. I'm not sure about the OP, but if you are using a Live Wallpaper, try it with just a static one, then it is perfectly smooth while scrolling.

x986123 said:
I'm talking iPhone 4 smooth. I played with it today. (No, I'm not a fanboy of either side, but I prefer Android!)
I'm usually using either Sense's Rosie, or when on froyo, LauncherPro.
I am a heavy widget user, and have either full screen or 2-3 widgets per screen.
The feel that you get when you launch an app on iPhone... just feels... like its popping up instead of zooming.
Anything you guys could recommend? Any specific ROM's?
ROM's I have tried:
Desire R22.1
RoDrIgUeZsTyLe
Stock 2.2
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try cyanogen, can't get any smoother than that.
it comes with ADWLauncher which is nice too.

anstosa said:
+1, what you're feeling is not related to the launcher, or the speed of the OS, it's just a design choice about the speed of the transitions. I agree with you so I made the transition speed about 30% faster [try to do that on an iPhone...]
I personally use Launcher Pro. It's absurdly fast. I've tried to get it to lag just to see what it would take but it's super responsive and won't miss a frame even if you want it to. The feature-set of Launcher Pro is quickly approaching that for ADW and it's much more polished.
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My launcherPro lags when I have 2-3 widgets per page. I am using IntersectRaven's kernel, maybe it's that?

In Launcher Pro, set "memory usage" to "high".

HelixLauncher on 2.1 is the smoothest I've found. Unfortunately it doesn't work on 2.2 so I'm using ADW on Froyo.

Least RAM hungry launcher

Over the past month I have used the following launchers, tw launcher, android launcher, and adw.launcher -and adw.launcher is always using half the RAM of the other two
tw launcher ~ 34-35 MB
Android launcher ~29-30 MB
Adw.launcher ~14-15 MB
I was wondering if any of you ruining launcher pro could post how much RAM it is using on your phone and if anyone could confirm what I have found with the other three launchers. Feel free to post any other launchers RAM as well if you want.

LP
My LP is running at 11.6 Mb of ram with absolutly nothing on the screen, i mean no widgets no icons nothing!
Two launchers i would suggest to you are Zeam and Helix, they are both supposed to be low resource!

I use lp and it currently uses 13.4 with many widgets, five screens, there docks
Downloaded zeam for the heck if it and after throwing a few random widgets on it was just under 13
I got rid of tw and android launcher for just this reason....ram hogs
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Thanks for the info. At some point I wil def give lp a look, and probably zeam and helix as well.
While I am not surprised that samsung's tw launcher is resource heavy, I'm a little surprised that android launcher has need of that much more memory then adw or lp, as adw and lp are every bit as functional (even more functional actually).

My LauncherPro with many widgets and icons and custom PNGs is running at 16.7MB and smooth on 2.2 beta.

LauncherPro performance :(

Hi,
I just got my Nexus S, and so far so good.
I installed LauncherPro and unlocked the Plus version as well.
But, it seems I don't see smooth buttery scrolling of the home screen.
My LauncherPro settings:
- Keep in memory = checked
- Enable scrollable widget = checked
- Number of home screen = 5
- Number of dock = 1
- Use 4 rows and 4 columns
- Memory profile = High
- Elastic scrolling = No
- High quality scrolling = No
- Minimum scrolling speed = 50
It is fast though, but it just not smooth ...
Am I expecting too much?
Update:
I don't know how to explain it, but something like this:
I can still see the "steps" when scrolling home screen (I am not using transition effect).
Horizontal scrolling movement by positioning the x coordinate of screen-image:
x := x + 10 ... this is fast, but not smooth as you can see the 10 pixels movement steps
x := x + 1 ... this is smooth, but might not be fast
I am hoping the LauncherPro re-write will greatly improve this, or utilizing the GPU if possible (NOT!).

Launcher pro kinda sucks now. The Guy hasn't supported it for a while now. I would stick with the stock or adw
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I would give ADW a try later.
How do you deactivate LauncherPro?

Just go into apps manager, go to LauncherPro app and "clear defaults". Once you hit the home button again you'll be given a choice of which home launcher to launch.

LP is buttery smooth for me.

The guy who coded it says he's rewriting it from scratch as the current version is based on Google's stock launcher and what he wants todo is inefficient with google's code. It's why I don't use it since gingerbread.
Sent from my Nexus S

Lp plus is smooth as ever for me

gogol said:
I would give ADW a try later.
How do you deactivate LauncherPro?
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Adw launcher ex to be exact. Its different from the original version
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It's not as smooth as LP is on the Vibrant or Nexus One... that's a fact. It still is smoother than most launchers, but until he updates it for the Nexus S, it won't be as smooth. Although using an overclock kernel helps =)

LauncherPro+ had appalling stutter on my Nexus S (particularly during the leap animation), but I found it was fine after setting the Memory usage preset to Medium and changing the Homescreen cache type to Compressed.
Adjusting the ondemand CPU governor in SetCPU (Sampling rate 20000, Up Threshold 50) helped as well.

LauncherPro has always been very smooth for me. I prefer the features of ADW, but scrolling is a bit choppy on my nexus s (with cm7 rom). On LP, I use the 'low' memory usage setting with 5 homescreens & lots of Widgets
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launcher pro vs adw ex
I tried to use ADW ex and loved it just found myself going back to launcher pro plus because of the sense like widgets (bookmarks, twitter, facebook, calendar, friends). I know that I can find widgets separately but none have looked as good as these and been scrollable too. I like the transitions of ADW and all the customizations but yeah just not enough to get me away from launcher pro.

The one thing that bothers me about LP is how the 3D app effect is laggy.

Same here, my LauncherPro on my Nexus S isn't nearly as smooth as it was on my Nexus One. I've switched to ADW Launcher EX and then wasn't happy with the app drawer performance and now I'm using Go Launcher. Pretty satisfied with Go Launcher and it's free so whatever. But I really hope the LauncherPro rewrite solves all the problems with it being slow and such.

Stock launcher is lightweight and easy
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go launcher definitely feels smoother than LP.

Just be weary of GO Launcher's permission requests. Seems to be a whole lot.

lynkx said:
Just be weary of GO Launcher's permission requests. Seems to be a whole lot.
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Yeah that's one of three reasons I've not tried our yet. I find it strange for it to need all of them

Agree, it is even slower than on my HTC Desire ...
And I don't have much widgets on it ...
Yeah, I think this is just Nexus S ... smoothness is not one of it's features.
I can live with it, and the "waiting game" for an update from Google is nice
Especially if I can walk into all my Android friend owners who still stuck in 2.2 or less
dinan said:
It's not as smooth as LP is on the Vibrant or Nexus One... that's a fact. It still is smoother than most launchers, but until he updates it for the Nexus S, it won't be as smooth. Although using an overclock kernel helps =)
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lynkx said:
Just be weary of GO Launcher's permission requests. Seems to be a whole lot.
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Thanks for the warning... I uninstalled it and went back to LP.

[Q] Which launcher uses the least battery?

I've been trying different launchers on this Ace I got recently and it's kinda hard for me to really tell which one drains more battery. My experience with Go Launcher EX and Launcher Pro has been pretty good so far, and although I'm leaning more towards Go for the great weather widget, I still don't know which one to stick with battery-usage-wise.
What has been your experience with different launchers in this regard?

I love ADW Launcher EX the most ans it is the only that I purchased other than Titanium Backup Pro...
Respecting others never hurt, let's build a better XDA community.

360 launcher is also good very lightweight and fast doesn't consume much battery also

Holo Launcher, and it just came out from Beta! It's in the store

Zeam is really lightweight, can't imagine it would use much.
The touchwiz launcher isn't bad, its what I'm using on CM7
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I guess TW launcher is the lest battery consuming. Zeam launcher is great though. Try Nemus launcher too

im using sony home..u can download it on themes and apps section.. very smooth and has low ram usage
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Launcher Pro doesn't seem to drain the battery that much. I've been using Holo Launcher for the last few weeks which is nice & light, it's now available to download from Play Store!!

Holo launcher
Just switched to it
Really smooth and light weight
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zamuz27 said:
I've been trying different launchers on this Ace I got recently and it's kinda hard for me to really tell which one drains more battery. My experience with Go Launcher EX and Launcher Pro has been pretty good so far, and although I'm leaning more towards Go for the great weather widget, I still don't know which one to stick with battery-usage-wise.
What has been your experience with different launchers in this regard?
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ADW EX hands down.

Stock launcher
For me, the better launcher would be the stock one. I have tried ADW, EX, Go, etc. Now i'm using LEWA's, its smooth and freaking awesome yet Im battling with my battery which only lasts for 1 1/2 days(MAX). wew!

Zeam is not lightweight. It uses more ram than launcherpro.
Don't associate app size with resource consumption!

consegregate said:
Zeam is not lightweight. It uses more ram than launcherpro.
Don't associate app size with resource consumption!
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i'm not it uses very little ram on my phone according to memory usage app.
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I installed a lot of popular launchers and got there memory usage:
FTL Launcher = 29MB
Go Launcher EX = 33MB
Zeam Launcher = 23MB
ADW.Launcher = 24MB
Launcher Pro = 34MB
TwLauncher = 24MB
Holo Launcher = 23MB
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Zeam and Holo are joint winners for memory usage.
Note: this is for memory usage not battery life, it also depends how much of the CPU launcher is using.
If there is any more launchers you want me to add just say

You must try different launchers and compare ram usage of them. Which launcher is using little ram, that is lightweight and keeps your battery well...

msahin061 said:
You must try different launchers and compare ram usage of them. Which launcher is using little ram, that is lightweight and keeps your battery well...
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battery life isn't just related to memory usage, but in the previous post i have shown memory usage of various launchers.

Vote for zeam

tomb20 said:
battery life isn't just related to memory usage, but in the previous post i have shown memory usage of various launchers.
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In my opinion, battery life and stability is related to ram usage. Thank you

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harizraze said:
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Launchr 7 eats cpu + ram. Holo launcher uses only 13mb of my ram which is quite good.
Sent from my Galaxy S IV

abhibnl said:
Launchr 7 eats cpu + ram. Holo launcher uses only 13mb of my ram which is quite good.
Sent from my Galaxy S IV
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+1 Holo launcher
Xperia s launched is also lightweight.
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Will using a different launcher (Nova) consume more battery?

Just wondering, I don't dislike Sony's launcher but I feel there's too much wasted space and the icons are so big I feel like I have a toy phone.

I have been using Nova (prime) and have not seen any decrease in battery life.

No, nova consumes very little battery so you won't even notice any difference
Sent from my Xperia Z2

Nova is king for that AOSP look/feel but more feature rich. Highly recommend over stock... Which is good to be fair but too bold and didn't utilise the homescreen space to the best degree