Test Review of 56 free Home Replacement Launcher Alternative Apps for Droid / Android phones: Best? Smallest? Fastest? SweeterHome SweeterHome is an odd duck.
It represents a totally different way of using or customizing a launcher. The result is both amazing, and frustrating. First of all, SweeterHome is NOT available in the Android Market. To get it, you have to download from their website, (and they do have versions for older Android OS, including 1.5 and 1.6, as well as 2.0 and later). Once you install it, you find that this program is WEIRD, as it shifts the design of home screens completely off the normal Android OS standard. The program also features "app tag syncing", which is a community-based app categorizer. Another feature of SweeterHome is called "SpringBoards", which basically are pop-up layers within a workspace. SweeterHome also does themes, and it does it in a very interesting manner.
For example, let's say the widget calls for Pure Calendar 4x3, which is a paid widget. The app shortcuts are the same way, except they won't even let you substitute something else. SwipePad - Android Market. WidgetPad - Android Market. SwipePad ist ein Launcher-Panel-Overlay.
Mit einer einzigen swipe Aktion können Sie alles aus jeder Anwendung heraus starten. Es ist außerordentlich einfach und intuitiv zu bedienen:1. Berühren Sie eine vorgegebene Stelle des Bildschirms;2. Bewegen Sie den Finger zur Mitte des Bildschirms um die Pads erscheinen zu lassen;3. Lassen Sie auf einem Slot los, um es zu starten. Das ist Alles! Einige Hinweise:★ Ein Pad kann eine beliebige Anwendung, Verknüpfung, Lesezeichen, Kontakt usw. sein Mit dem widgetpad Add-on, kann es sogar ein Widget von überall aus starten! ★ Dies ist keine Home app, die Funktion Ihrer Home-Taste bleibt erhalten (funktioniert mit allen 3rd-Party-Anwendungen wie Apex Launcher, Nova Launcher, ADW Launcher, Go Launcher EX etc.) ★ Die App unter SwipePad läuft weiter: keine Unterbrechung ★ Braucht wenig Speicher & Batterie ★ "DIRECTLY CALL PHONE NUMBERS" permission is required by Android system dialer shortcut.
Ideas and suggestions are welcomed:) MoreSpace: SwipePad add-on - Android Market. • Cuenta ya con más de 250 millones de usuarios y creciendo • Récord Guinness mundial: consigue escribir un mensaje en el menor tiempo posible • Disfruta del teclado Swype original que lo empezó todo: ¡no aceptes imitaciones!
ADWLauncher EX for Android. Highly customizable home replacement application ¿What's a home replacement application?
Is an normal android application that will run when you press your android device's HOME key. It's what usually people know as the "android desktop". ¿What makes ADW different? ADW Things. And once again, I add more bugs than I fix!
:P (v1.3.2 out) Sorry for the last update, there were 2 major bugs in there: Scrolling between desktops suddenly stopped in between screens when the desktop scrolling speed was set up very high.If you added a folder to the dock or dockbar, you got a nice FC loop :( So i’ve “kind of” fixed them and released v1.3.2… hopefully this one lasts a bit longer. On a side note, I think I’ve fixed a bug regarding some devices (like the dell streak one) where the “portrait orientation” was not being properly applied…. but as I don’t own such device the “fix” is unconfirmed.
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User voted best Android Launcher! Download it now to enjoy 10,000+ themes and experience the super speedy and smooth operation provided by powerful 3D core! As the best home screen replacement, it transforms your Android device into a great personal online user experience you can really control – it's up to you! Upgrade for 10+ new features? (Including No Advertising, Gorgeous Transitions, Security Lock, Gestures and Side Dock) Get Now ■ Testimonials. Multicon. Version 1.6.0 just got released, 2010-08-29 18:20 It took a bit longer then I expected but finally version 1.6.0 of Multicon is out on the market.
There is two things that you can't miss, a new setup window and more widget sizes. You can now add a widget that cover 1x1 (As the old one), 1x2, 1x3 and 1x4 blocks and customize how many icons you want to use there. Even if you can put 3 in a row it's not recommended if your finger are any thicker then a pencil, but I leave that up to you. And when you select applications it will cache what it finds so it will not take that long the next time you go there. With the new setup screen you can now also set all icons on a widget without leaving between every pick, hope that will speed up your work. On the HTC Wildfire there is a bug in there HTC Sense that made Multicon lose it's settings during reboot. I change the way icons are resized since sometimes they got cropped instead. Introducing Power Strip. N3xGen - custom launcher skin database. Android users like to customize their phones.
A lot. Not that there's anything wrong with that. And while the more obvious application of this customization fever is a community-authored ROM like CyanogenMod, a less drastic method of sprucing up your phone is a skin for your custom homescreen/launcher. Now there's an easy way to find new ones, with N3xGen Theme Manager. Homescreen themes themselves have been around for a long time, but they had to be either side-loaded from a MicroSD card or downloaded from the Android Market. The app supports both the free and paid themes from the Android Market, and its search tools can be broken down by platform, category (like Gingerbread-style themes) or even color.
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