I did know going in the Pixel XL is a small phone.
I am hoping I can find away to add more rows icons.
The Default seems to be 4 rows of icons I want 5 rows of icons.
Use a launcher.
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I'm using the launcher that came with it. Under settings there are 2 different settings, 1 is for "fonts" and another for the size of everything else on screen (text bubbles, icons etc.) reduce the 2nd setting and you'll get 5 to fit.
What yankeesfan714 was saying is if you use a third party launcher such as Nova, you can easily adjust the number of rows. You can't do anything more with the stock launcher than what you mentioned.
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I have been using launcher pro and adw for awhile and really like the ability to do 5x5 on the home screens.
When skyraider went to 5x4 I was excited to see that then he reverted back.
Why hasn't anyone tried to do a 5x5 sense and lower the lcd density in the buildprop to use the space better on our phones?
The 4x4 with giant icons keeps me from using sense for too long. My gf has an eris and she picked my phone up the other day and said my icons looked like they were magnified like the calculators for senior citizens.
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I use the stock sense rom and run a widget called multi icon. This allows me to put 4 icons in a single icon location. My main homescreen is packed with icons now.
http://www.appbrain.com/app/multicon-widget/com.h9kdroid.multicon
another app you may want to look at is "Launch X Pro". if you make the backgrounds for the widgets transparent it'll just look like smaller icons with more per screen. it'll allow you to do up to 7 icons per row.
http://www.appbrain.com/app/launch-x-pro/net.yuvalsharon.android.launchx.pro
I just changed my rom from Beast to Jug. And i find that the widges in the application section is relatively bigger than the Beast's.
Is there a way to change that to make them smaller??
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in Go Launcher EX you can resize any widgets you like to any size you like
but in the stock TWlauncher you can only change the size of the widgets to what the widget itself allows
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in Go Launcher EX you can resize any widgets you like to any size you like
but in the stock TWlauncher you can only change the size of the widgets to what the widget itself allows
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Sorry. I was wrong about the widget... What i meant was the icon size in the application page... Do u know how to make them smaller so that more icons will fit in a page?
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that is known as Rows & Columns in Android
Most 3rd party launchers in Android will let you pick configurations of 4x4 (default) to any other combination like 5x5, or 4x5, 5x4, 6x6, etc
don't ever try to set it to less than 3x3 else most widgets wont fit
and you'll only get like 3 rows by 3 columns
the more rows x columns the more icons you can fit
i use 5x5 anything more than 6x6 gets tooo busy for a finger touch, obviously with some launchers you can do 7x7 or even 8x8 but chances are you'll launch the wrong App/Game because they are stuck so close together
Hi,
in the last few months I really start to like the theme with a static wallpaper (or multi wallpaper) where there is just everything and you use uccw/transparent icon on the phone.
I'm then having problem because often is hard to understand where a widget will be really positioned or is hard to put an icon in the right position (maybe you want to add a counter to it and the counter is not matching the icon in the wallpaper).
I'm using nova launcher (not sure why I choosed that, apex was a little bit laggy scrolling wallpaper and...ss launcher I didn't know about it but right now I love it but because I purchased nova, let's keep nova).
What I'm then wondering is if there are template with line where you can exactly understand where the grid of nova are (7x7, 6x7 and so on) or if someone has some suggestion on how to do that.
I already tried to just craete a pics in photoshop with the resolution of the htc one x and splitting it in 7x7 grid but, not sure why, my grid isn't matching the real grid of the nova homescreen (maybe because there is no notification bar on the top?? don't know).
Any suggesiton or premaded template around (tried to google it but without any good result).
Thanks,
Massimiliano
What you could do I guess, is filling each grid with random apps, screenshot it and open it up in Photoshop and draw a grid based on that. And I think grid size changes if you enable/disable statusbar and dockrow.
And in nova homescreen settings there is width and hight marginal options witch affect grid size aswell.
Perhaps u can make two full size icons with different colours and place out, might make it easier drawing the grid if icons have straight edges.
Edit: take a screenshot while moving a widget, that will show the grid.
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Good idea, I'll try it thanks
I've tried the new pixel launcher and I like it. I'm sure once my new pixel xl arrives the launcher will even get better. I've since gotten rid of the pixel launcher and have setup my Nova launcher to imitate the pixel close enough and still keep the ability to modify it. This is my point. Why hasn't Google of all companies made a launcher that unless I've missed something lacks the ability for even minor modifications. I'm not asking for Nova types of mods, maybe little basic like being able to change icons or adding dock pages. I hate having my pages littered with icons or even folders. I usually add dock pages and keep my folders in there leaving a clean looking phone. So for me anyway if whatever launcher won't allow me to do those couple things I won't use it. I'd anyone else out there that would love just the ability to do little modifications?
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I've tried the new pixel launcher and I like it. I'm sure once my new pixel xl arrives the launcher will even get better. I've since gotten rid of the pixel launcher and have setup my Nova launcher to imitate the pixel close enough and still keep the ability to modify it. This is my point. Why hasn't Google of all companies made a launcher that unless I've missed something lacks the ability for even minor modifications. I'm not asking for Nova types of mods, maybe little basic like being able to change icons or adding dock pages. I hate having my pages littered with icons or even folders. I usually add dock pages and keep my folders in there leaving a clean looking phone. So for me anyway if whatever launcher won't allow me to do those couple things I won't use it. I'd anyone else out there that would love just the ability to do little modifications?
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Exactly my concern as well. I'm a long time Nova Launcher user like you are, but you'll probably get a truer Pixel Launcher experience with Action Launcher. Pixel widgets, app drawer, folders and quick pop up menus that you see in Pixel Launcher also work in the latest version of Action Launcher.
Not only that, but Action Launcher sizes the Pixel Launcher wallpapers correctly, which is a big reason I'm using it right now.
Back to your point... I'm hoping that Google will finally allow the same customization with Pixel Launcher as they do with the Google keyboard nowadays (changing themes, etc...). I don't want to lose any of the features that are exclusive to Pixel Launcher by using something else, but I also need that customization.
I've been using Nova launcher for many years, but I really like the simplicity and speed of the stock launcher of this handset. Is there a way to apply icon themes to it? If not, which custom launcher resembles it the most? I like having google now one swipe to the right away, access to the app drawer with little arrow in the middle/top of home icon row, the small footprint and how responsive and fast it is. Tia!
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Got Action Launcher. So far, I like it a lot :good:
I've been using lightning pro for years. Its pretty complicated on initial setup but once you figure it out it's the most customizable launcher I've used.
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