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Has anyone been able to get the stock launcher working? My test with an apk yanked off Google didn't work.
Don't tell me to use LauncherPro or ADW. I like stock launchers and the like, and have used and hated both before. Hence why I can't wait for an AOSP of this. Silver top bar ftw.
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Can someone tell me what the best launcher is to use? And does anyone know if someone is working on making a Galaxy Tab launcher? Because that'd be amazing!
iloveflynn said:
Can someone tell me what the best launcher is to use? And does anyone know if someone is working on making a Galaxy Tab launcher? Because that'd be amazing!
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Honestly Launchers are like cars, what works for me may not work for you... Personally I use, and love, ADW EX. That being said people swear by Launcher Pro.
Zeam has been great for me.
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I rather enjoy ADW myself. But I've got Zeam and LauncherPro that I use from time to time just for a change of pace.
I seem to be having trouble with shortccuts (adding) on launcherpro an dean,
I just get a quick black screen and then i'm dumped bcack to my main screen.
I do not have a crash. I uses autonooter to root my book.
Is it just a bad root and i should do it again from scratch?
Or is this a launcher/book issue?
Thanks
Robyn
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Sorry that was Zeam not dean (darn auto correct )
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Still trying to find the Launcher that allows a scrollable bottom dock bar, and/or the option to change the visual effects when swiping through home screens.
Anyone know which one I'm looking for
Coreym said:
Still trying to find the Launcher that allows a scrollable bottom dock bar, and/or the option to change the visual effects when swiping through home screens.
Anyone know which one I'm looking for
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LauncherPro does both of these excellently. I highly recommend trying it.
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Adw.ex
Coreym said:
Still trying to find the Launcher that allows a scrollable bottom dock bar, and/or the option to change the visual effects when swiping through home screens.
Anyone know which one I'm looking for
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I'm using awd ex, and I'm very happy with it. Recommend it for everyone. Prefer it over LP (used both alot)
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I personally prefer Zeam over ADW and launcher pro
ADW is the way to go. Always been happy with it...
I was using LauncherPro, then switched to ZEAM. However I recently revived an old OpenHome purchase for my old Behold 2. I dropped the Eris theme on to it and have not turned back. The bottom sliding drawer is a nice touch.
I hate the zeam app drawer. But it is the fastest one. I use adw ex
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I used to run Zeam, came pre-installed with one of the Auto-Nooter scripts or something, but recently switched to ADW. I use ADW EX on my Android phone and highly recommend like many otheres here (my girlfriend owns the Nook Color or would be running the EX version of it on the Nook too)
ADW EX ftw...
Go launcher vs launcher pro
What are the cons and pros
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launcher pro hasnt been updated in months... the widgets will not pull new posts either.
I would avoid it.
Send to work fine for me. I thought it looked better than go launcher, that's why I had posted.
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I prefer ADW or Go Launcher. I have LP Paid and it's a pain, support is slow to non existent.
Go launcher all the way!!
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Go launcher to me is a battery killer
I don't see how its much different
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Go launcher for sure
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Go Launcher.
Lots of customizability and animations which are totally awesome It is also super stable. Loved it on ny Droid 1 and now my Bionic.
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Adw. Go. Launch consumes to much resources.
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I say GO. I made the jump from LPP and love GO. I also use GOSMS and GOContacts. That team makes a great product!!!
I do wish they'd do a little more work on their widgets. This is something I'd pay for to get.
Launcher PRO PLUS is a must im using a older version which works great plus way to many features to list can resize widgets custom docks etc and I still can use Scrollable Widgets so i say Launcher PRO PLUS is YES.
I've used them all. GO has been my favorite as far as features, appearance, and customization options. Can't really say I noticed any difference as far as stability or battery usage.
However I've recently switched to a Windows Phone 7 style layout because I like to use Folder Organizer to group my apps and then create my own custom icons using Desktop Visualizer. Unfortunately Go currently doesn't support hiding the dock bar and auto sizing widgets, so I'm back to ADW.
Aside from that, if you're using the standard Android layout, here's how I rank them and why.
1) Go Launcher
- I like the dockbar icons, they're cleaner than the rest IMO.
- I like the ability to hide apps in the drawer - don't believe you can do this in ADW, not sure about LPP. Alternatively if you're rooted you have other options to remove bloatware.
- I like the tabbed drawer view: All Apps, Recent Apps, Running Apps. You can kill apps from the Running Apps view if you're into that.
- I really really like the ability to uninstall apps from the drawer by long-pressing and then selecting the red-X to uninstall
2) LPP
- I like the HTC Sense style widgets.
3) ADW
- I like the ability to hide my dock.
- Doesn't seem to be as customizable as the others.
I have used all and here is what I find.
#1 is ADW in terms of stability
#2 is the stock Launcher
#3 is Go Launcher
#4 is Launcher Pro.
Let me say that I LOOOOOVVVVE Go Launcher, without question it is my favorite but it is not the best! It has every feature of Launcher pro plus, custom backgrounds, the only one that can have nine homescreens, controllable animations, and more options for the app list management. But IMO it gets really laggy sometimes just like Launcher pro. ADW never seems to lag for me but the drop down shortcut bar sucks to me and their options aren't that extensive. They should adopt the scrolling shorcut bar like the other and then i may use it more often.
Go Launcher
-Motorola Droid
-Motorola Droid X²
-Motorola Droid Bionic
Well for me that I'm using a older version of Launcher Pro Plus cause I wanna keep scrollable widgets on my homescreen if I upgrade as the Dev said I'll loose it.
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I like ADW EX with the large osx style dock.
For some reason I don't trust go. They make a lot of apps that require a lot of permissions and they're all free. Why? Maybe I'm just being paranoid.
I use both LPP and ADW ex. LPP was the best IMO but the dev seems to have stopped updating it. There was supposed to be a major rewrite earlier this year that never happened. I'm slowly transitioning to ADW ex fully.
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Launcher Pro here.
I am using Launcher Pro. I was using ADW for a while but it felt laggy. When I went to Launcher Pro that was all resolved.
I have used a lot of launchers, I own SPB Shell 3D and Launcher Pro. I tried ADW on Cyanogen and also GO.
Go is nice because of the themes, there is a bunch of themes and some really good ones, plenty of free ones too. Nice widgets. The folder system is also useful. I will say that the transition effects on GO are slower then Launcher Pro. Go does have an extra transition setting when you get out of the app drawer you can make it do different things, like a spinning effect to the home screen etc.
Now as far as speed, Launcher Pro wins hands down, the transitions are super fast, app drawer is also really clean and smooth. I also noticed a significant speed increase on my droid 2 with launcher pro as well, it just has some really good programming for transitions.
They both have the sliding dockbar on the bottom which is customizable and I like that feature.
Also for the record, the Droid Bionic owns SPB shell 3D, pretty darn fast compared to my Droid 2.
So I have been using blur since the day I got it but wanted to see if there was any ics Fish stuff and there and I found this just kind of curious on if you guys ate using alternates or stick w stock launches I love it my self keep in mind its still in beta
https://market.android.com/details?id=net.qihoo.launcher.theme.JgvIfjiqLOyeLxg
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Go launcher, before that I used launcher pro plus
I've kind of stuck with the blur launcher actually, but I DO use the Go Launcher on my Tab 7, because it is way better than what Samsung was shipping...
Go's a great launcher, with some great plugins. I believe the underlying engine is ADW....
Give this one a whirl its still in Chinese to start but I really like this one used to like adw ex but after update it became dumb IMO after it loads it converts to English kind of a mix of miuu and adw and has custom lock screens built in
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If you want your phone to look like an iPhone, there is the espier launcher. Its not my every day launcher but I have it to show iPhone people that I can make my phone look just like there's but I'm not stuck with my phone looking like everyone else's excluding the wallpaper.
I personally use go launcher but used launcher pro and adw launcher in the past. I havent used a stock launcher in a very long time.
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Hello fellow SGN users,
Now that the official Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0 has been released to SGN users primarily in Europe, I would like to find out if there are any alternative launchers that is compatible with ICS or more importantly launchers that strictly run on ICS?
I've seen NOVA and APEX launchers and going to give them a try so i was just wondering if any of you know of any other alternatives?
those are the best ics ones
been testing them both on and off myself, not sure which one i like best, but i dont like that i cant use the s-widgets with them i really like s-planner calender any alternative to that?
I hear GO launcher works.
I bought both Nova and Apex Launcher. I like Apex the best but they are very similar and are hard to tell apart.
Do Apex or Nova allow you to hide the dock?
I'm using ADW EX on 2.3.6 and don't use a dock.
I'm hoping some of the random lagginess switching between screens will disappear once I upgrade to ICS, but if it doesn't I might have to look for another launcher.
Thanks,
Rich
Go launcher
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Hello fellow SGN users,
Now that the official Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0 has been released to SGN users primarily in Europe, I would like to find out if there are any alternative launchers that is compatible with ICS or more importantly launchers that strictly run on ICS?
I've seen NOVA and APEX launchers and going to give them a try so i was just wondering if any of you know of any other alternatives?
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Go launcher is my preference.
richlum said:
Do Apex or Nova allow you to hide the dock?
I'm using ADW EX on 2.3.6 and don't use a dock.
I'm hoping some of the random lagginess switching between screens will disappear once I upgrade to ICS, but if it doesn't I might have to look for another launcher.
Thanks,
Rich
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I am using ADW. I hate the "new" ADW EX. Flashed official ICS today. ADW ran awful. Very laggy. App drawer scroll kept hanging and the touchscreen was nearly unresponsive on the ADW screens. One widget kept failing to update as well.
Long story short, I flashed back to GB with Franco.kernel #10. Works flawlessly again!
I just don't see any improvement with ICS. Samsung's version looks like GB anyway.
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I use GoLauncher EX of the simple reason that it enables 8 rows with 10 columns. I can't get that with either Apex or Nova (they limit at 7 x 7 at most).
GL EX is also pretty similar to good ole LauncherPro and since that has been a trusty launcher for a long period of time, I certainly prefer to have that functionality intact.
But I will give Apex a new chance immediately when 8 x 10 is enabled for the home screen since it is good otherwise but just 7 rows destroys my layout.
Almost without exception, any launcher that works on GB will work in ICS.
i tried nova and apex.. and they are good..
but i don't like them since i can't make folders on the app drawer...
musashiro said:
i tried nova and apex.. and they are good..
but i don't like them since i can't make folders on the app drawer...
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Nova definitely has drawer folders..
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i am using TSF SHELL ! its more smooth and eye candy lol
Of the ICS themed launchers (tried Nova and Apex), I always go back to Nova cos it's smoother for me. Always notice slight jitters on Apex, which is a pity, cos I also quite like Apex's functionality.
(I'm using Nova Prime (paid)).
Apex Launcher as a system app. Damn good in here...
Download Apex Launcher, rename to Apexlauncher, copy to sd card. Use root explorer copy to system/app set permission to
permission: rw-r--r--
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krazman325 said:
I am using ADW. I hate the "new" ADW EX. Flashed official ICS today. ADW ran awful. Very laggy. App drawer scroll kept hanging and the touchscreen was nearly unresponsive on the ADW screens. One widget kept failing to update as well.
Long story short, I flashed back to GB with Franco.kernel #10. Works flawlessly again!
I just don't see any improvement with ICS. Samsung's version looks like GB anyway.
kraz
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Yes Apex can hide the dock ..
jbg1 said:
those are the best ics ones
been testing them both on and off myself, not sure which one i like best, but i dont like that i cant use the s-widgets with them i really like s-planner calender any alternative to that?
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calengoo is the best! https://play.google.com/store/search?q=calengoo
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thehackersz said:
Apex Launcher as a system app. Damn good in here...
Download Apex Launcher, rename to Apexlauncher, copy to sd card. Use root explorer copy to system/app set permission to
permission: rw-r--r--
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what's the difference between installing apex and your procedure?
Can any1 give me the link for the stock ics launcher? I don't want to have touchwiz or any other thing, just the pure android ics launcher
I am testing Miui Home Launcher, a lot of themes are avaible.
My favorite is Go Launcher ex and SS Launcher.
goofy584 said:
what's the difference between installing apex and your procedure?
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refer OP from Apex Launcher Dev
I've had the best experience so far with ADW Ex.
Apex launcher for me. I like it and it tons of option.