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Only 5 Home screens on ICS?

do i miss some thing ? the options to get - 7 and even more will be nice...

There are enough launchers in the market that will let you have as many homescreens as you like.
And with API 14 all of them should have hardware acceleration.
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omrij said:
There are enough launchers in the market that will let you have as many homescreens as you like.
And with API 14 all of them should have hardware acceleration.
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i know, but still its really Disappoint
BTW: hi Friend, long time no see (its you?)

Why is it so disappointing? Android launcher has never had more than 5 screens.

For me personally, i have a hard enough time filling 5 screens with functionality. 7 would be insane haha.

And how can you really need 7? i myself use 2 HS
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I only use 4 homescreens myself too. Still, once the ICS source is released, I'm sure many launcher replacements based on the ICS launcher will pop up with added features. It happened with Launcher Pro and ADW launcher, after all.

I use 7 screens as well.
If the 3rd party launchers do not work to my liking with ICS, I will learn to adjust.
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Tjotte said:
And how can you really need 7? i myself use 2 HS
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2 is plenty for me, I like clean an minimal. 2 weather Widgets on one screen and Google search and music widget on the other then my regularly used apps go into folders in adw dock. I hope we can reduce the amount of screens if anything to continue this set up on my nexus when it arrives.
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I use 4 homescreens but I'll probably only need 3 with ICS since I'll be using a few folders which I didn't do with gingerbread. I realized that when I was shortly on a miui rom and the folders were really helpful to categorize apps and the miui folders worked and looked like they supposed to, just like in ICS now.

I only use 3 but I can use 5 but the widgets to fill them up aren't as useful as if I just had 3
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The Gingerbread Man said:
2 is plenty for me, I like clean an minimal. 2 weather Widgets on one screen and Google search and music widget on the other then my regularly used apps go into folders in adw dock. I hope we can reduce the amount of screens if anything to continue this set up on my nexus when it arrives.
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You won't even need a Google search widget anymore
I use between 3 and 5 homescreens, depending on the ROM (power buttons included/not included in notification area for example) and my current theme. So 5 screens on ICS launcher will be perfect for me, although I'll probably get tired of the launcher and switch to a more customizable eventually

I only use 3 homescreen, enough for me.
Why do you want 7 when you (probably) wont use the 2 on each side much?

5 screens is more than enough, I have been fine with just 3 screens the last couple of years, going to 4th or 5th screen it too far away in my opinion, just easier to use the app drawer at that point.

matt2053 said:
Why is it so disappointing? Android launcher has never had more than 5 screens.
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this..
its a nexus aka pure google.
you people should have known this if you were planning to get the galaxy nexus.

Don't forget u can just drag like apps or whatever u want on top of each other and it automatically creates very functional folders!
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I only use 1 homescreen.
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I use 3 homescreens, and even with those 3 I don't even use 1/2 of the apps on a regular basis. With the new improved folder UI, I see myself being just fine with 2 or 3 homescreens.

I must admit I actually use 4 1/2 screens on my HD2. 2 of those screens are used by full screen widgets for twitter and facebook, my Homescreen is packed with various calendar, notes widgets and shortcuts adn the other 2 are just filled with junk.
With the new widgets that ICS brings I can condense all my calendar widgets into a single smaller widget and the new folder function will tidy ALOT of my various shortcuts into accessible groups.
5 screens is more than enough unless you have several full screen widgets you wish to use and even then with the pixel density and resizable widget function of ICS im sure you will cope
Just remember that the more widgets you have running on the Homescreen the more it will slow up the scrolling and overall speed, Why do you think apple never introduced widgets into IOS and look how smoothly that flows.
Mark.

by the time you get to the 7th screen it would have been faster to just open the app drawer.

launchers

which launchers are you guys using?
i use go launcher but just wondering what other people are using.
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Tried ADW but went back to stock.
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I'm using Go Launcher.

Was using ADW EX, but switched back to stock because of better formatting with honeycomb widgets (mainly landscape, portrait scaling) and a couple other tiny, but annoying graphical bugs.
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Launcher Pro. I like the sliding app drawer.
I was using ADW, but it started to force-close too often.

I tried SPB Shell 3D. Looks awesome and fluid, but (always a but), the launcher often has to load when coming out of an app. Takes about 3 secs but kills the experience. Went back to stock. Would like something Metro like, though.

i tried go launcher and launcher pro but nothing is as smooth as the stock one. i guess ill stick with the stock one for now until there's a better alternate.
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Stock is the best........ IMO
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I've tried Launcher Pro, Regina 3D, ADW and Go Launcher EX. I like Go Launcher EX best and I am still using it. Regina 3D was a bit wonky.

Just got my A100 yesterday and tried adw, launcher pro and go launcher ex and found I like go Pilcher the best.

salkiri said:
I like go Pilcher the best.
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Huh? Wuzzat?

jschall said:
Huh? Wuzzat?
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I believe he meant "go launcher" auto correct must not like him xD
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I get best results using stock launcher. I used ADW EX for a bit but went back to stock. As for everyone using Go Launcher, do you guys know whether or not the Go Team has disabled the data collecting feature on Go Launcher? There was a big fiasco concerning security a while ago due to that.
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I use Go Launcher. Is there a way but to share saved configurations to share with other ppl? Maybe make a thread about your creations.
I LOVE to tweak around, but mostly end up having the worst result a tech Dev would have to decrypt in order to set it back to default
Some have better luck in making epic launchers

neelz said:
I tried SPB Shell 3D. Looks awesome and fluid, but (always a but), the launcher often has to load when coming out of an app. Takes about 3 secs but kills the experience. Went back to stock. Would like something Metro like, though.
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I am one of the two people who created Windows Phone Android (getting decommissioned and maybe opensource soon). I have Metro Launcher running on my tablet. Yes I am pretty anal about exact look and feel and this one looks/feel like my Build Windows 8 tablet. I am not sure if I want to release it for public use though. WPA was great but too much diverse hardware made it very hard to support.

I use a old version of ADWLauncher EX. The new version is really great for my phones, but gives two menu icons for my A100. It gives tons of customization options while staying stock looking if you want
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seraph1024 said:
I am one of the two people who created Windows Phone Android (getting decommissioned and maybe opensource soon). I have Metro Launcher running on my tablet. Yes I am pretty anal about exact look and feel and this one looks/feel like my Build Windows 8 tablet. I am not sure if I want to release it for public use though. WPA was great but too much diverse hardware made it very hard to support.
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I would love to try it i have an hd7 and love metro ui
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I use go launcher I think it runs smoothly and the like hw my pictures look as wallpaper much better
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I like the stock launcher just fine. I haven't tried any others because I haven't seen anything in the descriptions that sounded like they did anything better.
Same with widgets. I have yet to find any widget packs that in the screen caps look nicer or do much of anything useful we cant already do. A few extra widgets I do use and like are the dictionary.com "word of the day", InTune, Dolphin HD bookmarks but those come with the specific apps.

Launcher pro

What is the best launcher?

I was looking around and I found nova and go launcher, I want to know if there are any other good ones
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Avery246813579 said:
I was looking around and I found nova and go launcher, I want to know if there are any other good ones
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personally i like go launcher ex,launcher pro, and adw launcher. just try it

i use apex launcher. based off jelly bean. really light weight. tons of customization. nova launcher is similar and works great as well.

Apex to the top
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It really depends on your preferences, I find stock the smoothest but Nova the most customisable.

Are there any launcher similar to go launcher's folder option within the drawer? That's something that I really like and have only found on go launcher.
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Nova launcher with Nova prime has something similar.

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Nova launcher with Nova prime has something similar.
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I'll try it
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I looked at it, the prime version has it. Thanks
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what about Chameloen?

Personally I don't like Chameleon, you can't add app short cuts on the home screen, widgets are limited and you can't create folders. Granted you can create your own widgets using HTML 5, however this doesn't solve the problem to people who don't know HTML 5. Neither can you use normal widgets as you would on a normal launcher. I suspect there will be more widgets in the future, but for 10usd it isn't worth it.

So Launcher 8 when it come.
Smexi-Nexi

I tried apex but it was way to complicated.
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Well I started out using Nova, then I went to Apex and now I am using Holo Launcher + which is much faster that the two previous launchers.

Holo was to dull to me
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I'm very satisfied with the holo launcher hd!
Dull? There are several options to personalize it..

Spb shell. Great launcher. Nova my second choice.,
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charlie-zulu said:
I'm very satisfied with the holo launcher hd!
Dull? There are several options to personalize it..
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Holo is a bit dull but Holo HD is on par with Apex/Nova but is much faster with less scrolling glitches. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mobint.hololauncher.hd
The HD version is made for JellyBean whereas the regular version is for ICS and lower.

I've been using nova prime and I'm pretty happy with it. I'm bummed that go launcher doesn't work well on the nexus 7. Hopefully they'll figure it out.
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Mysticdroid said:
I've been using nova prime and I'm pretty happy with it. I'm bummed that go launcher doesn't work well on the nexus 7. Hopefully they'll figure it out.
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because its phone based. go launcher hd, if you search itll say for tablet.

I tried go launcher HD and didn't dig the setup. I really like the phablet desktop, if I was using a larger tablet I think it would be perfect.
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What launcher are you guys using?

What's going on guys? Seeing as to how this phone is super fast and snappy, I thought I'd create the first "Themes and Apps" thread for the Razr M
Almost as soon as I got the phone, I downloaded and installed Go Launcher, Go sms, go calendar, go task, go note, and go switch because thats what I'm used to and those apps/widgets kick ass...
but I know that the "circles widget" is supposedly really cool and the stock launcher wasn't too bad...so I was wondering, what launchers are you guys having success/fun with? Go launcher runs super fast with all the animations and whatnot, so I can definitely imagine the other launchers probably run great too

Stock Moto Blur Jelly Bean launcher!!!
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A lot of people are either running with apex or nova these days. IMO they're pretty similar except the fact that apex has gestures included for free (which is one of the main reasons people use it) while as nova does not have gestures included. IMO I thought Nova was a little snappier but that's just one guys opinion. I recently switched back to the stock launcher because I missed the circles widget. Plus I might upgrade to jellybean soon but I'm waiting because there was a couple articles online that said the official version might be released this week! Prolly not... but better to have hope than none at all lol.
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Was using Nova for a while but am now using the stock launcher.
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I'm on Nova, the paid version. Smoother and snapper, and gives me the freedom I need to do what I need.
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Stock blur on jb fast.
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Stock launcher till now.
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Nova
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I'm just addicted to themed icons, I think that's why I'm stuck on go launcher
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Go launcher because of the themes also, but then went back to the stock because I also miss the circles widget.

I'm using Go Launcher also. Not really in love with the circle widgets, so that's no loss for me.

Personally, I'm not into themed icons at all. Or any theming for that matter. Prefer a stock (or close to) look. Using Nova Prime and the JB icon pack.

techfellow said:
Go launcher because of the themes also, but then went back to the stock because I also miss the circles widget.
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i know!! its so lame we cant use circles widget on 3rd party launchers.....itd be awesome if someone could create a hacked APK that if we sideloaded could let the widget be accessed by any app

+1 on hacked circle widget not a big fan of it personally, but good too have options
And I'm rooted on JB leak, debloated running blank all black lightning launcher with swipepad
Saves RAM saves battery works great no lock screen either

Nova Prime with JB leak. Pretty much installed that right away when I got the phone but I'm kind of curious to use the stock launcher, however I got Prime on sale and I love the gestures to add another 5 app launches from the dock.

I am using the razr m launcher in my inspire...

Launchers
scottjb said:
Was using Nova for a while but am now using the stock launcher.
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Hi,
I've just gone though the ROMS-CM 10 and Eclipse, but found that CM 10 has really bad speaker problems for incoming calls, which I could not, nor others users could not, work around. Although its the most interesting ROM and quite smooth, and allows for themes from Market. The Eclipse is very smooth and I think built better, but frankly boring. Neither of these allow for the Moto 3 rings, which I noticed nearly everyone in this string has missed or gone back to. Also, I'd hoped to be able to allow for the larger screen in a ROM, where the soft device tools at the bottom are eliminated (using changes in Build.Prop and the app: "Button Savior" as replacement-which is a fabulous app), and while CM 10 allows for their elimination, except for "menu" still the black area remains. Eclipse doesn't allow for this at all. Making the changes in Build.Prop works in CM 10 re: the screen but the speaker issue turned me away after awhile along with losing all notification alerts and signal strength meter.So back to stock moto and found that Nova launcher, with root, allows for, what seems, at least a %60 transparency on the bottom of the screen as well as the elimination of the top notification bar, but the alerts occur and incoming emails can be seen in the Lock screen-works well. So, I'm now back to stock w Nova, although the Moto 3 ring app cannot work on Nova.

Using Action Launcher. I love it.
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Stock most of the time but occasionally Nova prime. If it weren't for the ugly Motorola icons I could probably live with the stock launcher all the time. One more clock widget free is certainly close enough to the circle widget to live with (except the text messages not showing up in it) on Nova and I enjoy the options of Nova but the stock launcher performs as good as any and is pretty close to stock android save the left most quick settings I could take or leave.

Apex
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[Launcher] Discussion thread

Hey guys, i haven't seen a launcher thread, but everybody is using launchers
So let's discuss which launchers you use, and tell us why.
Say something about the costumization options, the performance and, if there is a big battery drain because of it, tell us that to
Also you can post your homescreens (but remember that there is a homescreen-thread too!)
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I'll just start with mine
At the time i am using the launcher coming with SlimLP (launcher3 , not SlimLauncher)
Sadly there is nothing special about it, but thats why i opened this thread, so that everybody can get inspired by the others
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Action Launcher 3
Great design and great features

GiluxVanAce said:
I'll just start with mine
At the time i am using the launcher coming with SlimLP (launcher3 , not SlimLauncher)
Sadly there is nothing special about it, but thats why i opened this thread, so that everybody can get inspired by the others
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How did you make that whatsapp icon blue?

Anndrey7 said:
How did you make that whatsapp icon blue?
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I've just changed it with the settings from whatsapp+
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I went with gel launcher as I find it easier to spot big icons.
Also Google now is something I use all the time.

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Action Launcher 3
Great design and great features
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+1 :good:
I'm using too

Action launcher 3 here. Love it.

I always go back to Nova.

Apex Launcher. Fast. Smooth. Plenty of customization.

Unconventional but for me Lollipop Launcher wins because of it's small footprint (both size and memory).

for me is nova launcher also for my phone/tablet. fast (ish on galaxy tab 2 when switching from portait to landscape due to widgets) but tone of customization. also love the backup to drive option(good when playing with different roms). for my android box (cheap oem Chinese android box) i use action launcher. in my opinion is the best and fastest way to find an app of the app drawer on the left using mouse scroll. i wouldn't change it for anything else, except maybe something tv ready??? and light/smooth. if someone has any recommendation for tv box launchers i am very intersted to hear it

Nova launcher my favorite!
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Anndrey7 said:
How did you make that whatsapp icon blue?
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its not Official WhatsApp but WhatsApp+