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Go Launcher on the Nexus OK ?

I have heard that Go Launcher is frowned upon on the Nexus, saying its not an ICS launcher, should only use Apex...Nova...or CM9 launchers.
Is Go not optimized to work for ICS ?
I got pretty used to all the Go features on my last phone, would like to use again.
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then use it... no one's forcing you to use apex or nova.
apex or nova is preferred because it builds off of stock ICS launcher and improves on it for further customizations.
people just want to retain the "holo" look of ICS.

zephiK said:
then use it... no one's forcing you to use apex or nova.
apex or nova is preferred because it builds off of stock ICS launcher and improves on it for further customizations.
people just want to retain the "holo" look of ICS.
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Launchers wont send your device to the depths of hell. Use GO launcher and if it doesn't work right, go with stock or find something new.
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Thanks for advice. Will Go be updated to be more of a ICS base ? Or is it stuck as a Gingerbread launcher mainly ?
This is for my Brother actually, who just got the Nexus and installed all the Go stuff. I freaked on him, like Dude WTF you can't use Go on a Nexus.
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Y not?
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Only time will.
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Zorachus said:
Thanks for advice. Will Go be updated to be more of a ICS base ? Or is it stuck as a Gingerbread launcher mainly ?
This is for my Brother actually, who just got the Nexus and installed all the Go stuff. I freaked on him, like Dude WTF you can't use Go on a Nexus.
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They probably won't because I believe Apex/Nova requires Android 4.0+ and GO Launcher EX includes phones who are on pre-ICS.
If they were to do that, it'd be very similar to Apex / Nova so what's the point? ICS is only a small % of Android users for now. The vast community is on 2.3.X.
And yeah, he should just get Apex/Nova it should be FAR more superior than GO Launcher or LauncherPro or ADW EX. I won't go into the debate of Apex vs Nova because there's a whole thread for that. Both are similar, Apex is more popular and offers more features for FREE. Both paid versions for Nova & Apex cost $3.99 respectively.
I personally use Apex. But it's up to you.

And coincidentally after posting that, http://golauncher.goforandroid.com/2012/05/go-launcher-v3-00-beta/
GO Launcher 3.0 Beta

Whats your favorite launcher to replace TouchWiz?

I wanted to give TouchWiz a chance but I could only deal with it for about an hour. At first I replaced it with Holo Launcher since thats what I used on my SGS Vibrant but it was a bit buggy on the SGS3. I then installed Nova Launcher and its been pretty good.
Whats your favorite launcher to replace TouchWiz?

Apex Pro, no doubt!
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Agreed apex pro
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Nova Prime hands down.

Hands down after testing all of them the lightest and most customizable is adwlauncher ex.
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Madblaster6 said:
Hands down after testing all of them the lightest and most customizable is adwlauncher ex.
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You're kidding right ?

Hmm just for fun this should have been a poll hehe.
Apex pro for me so far is the best. It's fast, minimal, but feature packed. I used a bunch of other ones but they either too bloated, development is dead, or I noticed my battery starting to suffer. Apex pro is owning hard.

Does using an alternate launcher actually avoid loading touch wiz in the background? Asking because i see TW uses about 70 mb of ram and i don't really want two launchers taking up memory in the background.
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Go Launcher Ex all the way, just as fast as Nova or Apex but with more features. I have tried all 3 and I noticed Nova is a bit smoother than Go Launcher but I dont think its worth it to give up the customization that Goi Launcher offers

Nova Prime!

Apex pro without a doubt

Gotta agree with some of the others. Nova.

Apex pro here
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Tried them all, Go Launcher Ex is the best one I have used, they also have a lot of other apps, like Go SMS, Go Calender widget, that are integrated very nicely.
Give them a try and go with what suits your needs best, I did and I always went back to Go Launcher Ex.
They all copy from each other, Apex, Go, and ADW seem to have the same level of customization options, plus or minus one or two here and there.

Apex pro ftw. My girlfriend uses Nova and they are pretty much the same.
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Go launcher

androidmonkey said:
I wanted to give TouchWiz a chance but I could only deal with it for about an hour. At first I replaced it with Holo Launcher since thats what I used on my SGS Vibrant but it was a bit buggy on the SGS3. I then installed Nova Launcher and its been pretty good.
Whats your favorite launcher to replace TouchWiz?
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Apex pro, faster than the others. Never has f/c yet.

Threw APEX Pro on it soon as I got it.
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Nova......!

Go launcher ex is really nice and has a lot of cool features
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Which launcher do you use?

i know, i know, this has probably been asked a million times, but i'm directing this to S3 users here in our little corner of the world, please don't hate
i've been using the holo launcher hd pro now for some time and i truly love the way it works. its smooth, elegant, doesnt get in the way, and best off all, gives me an AOSP look and feel when running a non-AOSP rom. i also use the holo locker as well. i use this launcher on both my S3 and my Xoom tablet
it seems to me that the holo launcher doesnt get enough respect. i see many a custom rom that includes nova or apex, but not holo (or even adw or go launchers for that matter).
when i search for "launcher" on the play store the first five results are in order GO, ADW, Nova, Apex, and Launcher 7, with Nova Prime and Apex Pro 6th and 7th.
Holo is on the first page of results, but is second from the bottom. hardly respectable if you ask me. there are themes that show up higher in that search
anyway, so lets keep it civil and not bash on each others choice of launcher. i just want to get a feel for how popular these launchers are on the S3 or do you prefer the stock TouchWiz interface?
let your voice be heard and vote above!

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why do you think that? launchers are apps.

My favorite one is the one that gets launched when i press the home button

I use nova prime because of the folders in the app drawer. Go launcher is too heavy.
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Apex is very light, smoth and dont use alot resource therefor batt last longer.
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I'm debating on nova, next, or atom launcher.. I'm using nova atm and i love it but i love the visual features of next and atom is pretty sleek too
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RedJack117 said:
I'm debating on nova, next, or atom launcher.. I'm using nova atm and i love it but i love the visual features of next and atom is pretty sleek too
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i tried Nova prime, alot of features but sometime is lagging for me, Next use too much power, Apex dont have alot of features like all the other once beside that very good
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Ive become a huge fan of action launcher. Best new launcher I have used in a while.

jajaja ive tried them all..use to like golauncher but takes up to much ram.. nova lags to much when i add widgets on screen...next seems ok but you cant change icons on the ones that bring look awfull... atom is smooth but its not letting me add widgets only the one launcher brings...smart launcher is kinda boring...and action launchers is slow xD spb is to heavy to.... im using apex now... until i find another one to try out...lol
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Primo
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Nova prime is the best one I've found so far imo.
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I use the stock TouchWiz one, but when I root it I use LGUI3.0 It's so much better, and gives you alot more customization options than TouchWiz. I think TouchWiz is so bland...

I was surprised to see that the default launcher with CM10 doesn't have a back-up function. I switched back to ADW because I was familiar with it from CM7. I also missed the infinite scroll feature that's available in ADW (and some of the others).

Jose0726 said:
jajaja ive tried them all..use to like golauncher but takes up to much ram.. nova lags to much when i add widgets on screen...next seems ok but you cant change icons on the ones that bring look awfull... atom is smooth but its not letting me add widgets only the one launcher brings...smart launcher is kinda boring...and action launchers is slow xD spb is to heavy to.... im using apex now... until i find another one to try out...lol
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have you tried holo launcher at all? i just did a test and it does use about 59mg of ram where as apex shows as cached and ready when you need it, so from that, it seems that apex is much lighter on resources, but i still really love holo, you should try it
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I was surprised to see that the default launcher with CM10 doesn't have a back-up function. I switched back to ADW because I was familiar with it from CM7. I also missed the infinite scroll feature that's available in ADW (and some of the others).
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i should have added trebuchet to the list. it has a lot more than it used to

I used touchwiz for a while it was ok, then I tried atom launcher it was good and smooth except app drawer laggs little bit now using the latest sony home launcher from the xperia Z really smooth and packed whit good widgets..
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Moving to General, as I think that it will garner more votes/views/opinions as opposed to staying in the Themes/Apps section.

Touchwiz ... I purchased apex pro and nova prime and holo plus .. but I love touchwiz launcher
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Apex pro. Tis great
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Next launcher is the best....!!!!
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Launcher

What is the smoothest and lightest launcher for android?
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reza1995 said:
What is the smoothest and lightest launcher for android?
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Zeam launcher is light
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For GB zeam launcher is smoothest and very low RAM consume.,
But for ICS i think Nova launcher is best, costumizable, and smooth
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I'd say vire launcher. Cool transitions and works good on lower ram devices. Smooth on my g1
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smoothest one ive ever tried is launcher 8 https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lx.launcher8&hl=en its fast and simple but won't b interesting unless ur into windows phone 8 style

Lightning Launcher
The installer size is only 198 KiB.

If you can stand with just basic features, and you don't give a f**k with customization, then Lightning Launcher is your best choice. (Links in pep's post, just above mine). It is said that it is Super-customizable. (However when I used ssLauncher I realized a super-customizable launcher should be no grids so I can determine what's the best for my screen).
But if you give f**k to those and you want to express yourself (or just take some from MyColorScreen) then you may want to try ssLauncher, even if in an instructions he/she instructs to use any launcher.

Kreaz said:
If you can stand with just basic features, and you don't give a f**k with customization, then Lightning Launcher is your best choice. (Links in pep's post, just above mine). It is said that it is Super-customizable. (However when I used ssLauncher I realized a super-customizable launcher should be no grids so I can determine what's the best for my screen).
But if you give f**k to those and you want to express yourself (or just take some from MyColorScreen) then you may want to try ssLauncher, even if in an instructions he/she instructs to use any launcher.
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Well, LL is super-customizable alright... you can disable its grid, you can rotate icons and widgets, you can scroll any ways (left-right but also up-down), you can use labels instead of icons, and labels/icons can open a fully-customizable "surface" not just an icon-list folder...
What it doesn't have, is slick animations.
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Using stock launcher..trebuchet

i like stock launcher trebuchet 1.0 no problem for me so smooth and simple

reza1995 said:
What is the smoothest and lightest launcher for android?
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Checkout Holo Launcher as well as GO launcher. Both work well on my phone.

R: Launcher
Why don't we make a poll?
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rajprateekk said:
Checkout Holo Launcher as well as GO launcher. Both work well on my phone.
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GO Launcher is a bad choice for light launchers...
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Apex or Nova are nice and customizable. And light to although not as light as Zeam or lightning launcher.
But i think is the lightest launcher which offers a lot of customizable
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rajprateekk said:
Checkout Holo Launcher as well as GO launcher. Both work well on my phone.
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I think so... Holo launcher is good.

trebuchet IS THE BEST

FTL launcher is nice! You just need a Sense 4 clock
Too much flashing! I'm blinded on my Galaxy W!

with ics or jb i would prefer apex. with all the things mentioned above, i think it's somewhere in the middle, balanced.

So far I think next launcher is the smoothest, but its lack if costumization
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I do like launcher pro. Very simple, so don't have greatest "addons" in relation with the others. Very fast as well. I did like it between all I tried

Poll: which launcher do you use for the Optimus G Pro

This phone is a beast! And it has many features that other phones lack. So, a particular launcher for one phone might not be best for our phone.
So, which is it? Which one are you using?
(in no particular order)
GO
Nova
Apex
ADW
Smart
Action
NEXT
None
Unsure
Other: please list which one...
If you have a strong feeling for or against one or more, please tell why. And yes, I have read that one of those named above is possibly a spyware program for a non-US entity.

I have used NEXT, Apex and Nova but I keep going back to the stock launcher. Not a ton of extra features but has always been nice and snappy for me.

I like Nova. It's smooth and has great features. It's lacking in the scrolling effects though.
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Stock launcher. Haven't felt a need to convert since it has all the features I used on other launchers. Normally I'm switching between apex and nova launcher. Holo launcher used to be in the mix as well.
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Stock. I'll try an aftermarket launcher every once and awhile but always go back to stock. It just feels. Snappier.
When the f*ck did we get ice cream??

Stock...snappier and cleaner
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Stock...and lovin' it!
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Stock
Smooth, cool, rich

Nova Prime-I prefer the Vanilla Android look. It's also very responsive and lets me hide apps in the app drawer.
EDIT: Forgot to mention that I have the paid (Prime) version. Thanks @natienn for reminding me.

Nova Prime!!!!!!
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Stock ..very clean ..very snappy ..find it perfect for my needs..
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Nova Prime. I like downloadable icons packs and a vertically scrolling app drawer.
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I've always used the Apex launcher but the stock is so much better with this phone.

I use the Stock Launcher. While I do own both Apex and Nova paid versions, I really like the Stock widgets and that I can change the icons to whatever I want.

roa57 said:
I use the Stock Launcher. While I do own both Apex and Nova paid versions, I really like the Stock widgets and that I can change the icons to whatever I want.
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Speaking of changing the icons anyone know how to add more to the icon folder??
When the f*ck did we get ice cream??

First time I have stayed with stock launcher. Great job LG!
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Stock cover my needs. :good:

S4 touchwiz ui and its better on this than the s4 lol
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Jmaserang said:
S4 touchwiz ui and its better on this than the s4 lol
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LoL!
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Nova launcher Prime works flawlessy on this phone. Love that I can make the notification bar disappear along with shadow up top. Very customizable. Never any slowdown. I have everything set to lightning fast transitions.